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Syfy to Air "Documentary" about Ancient Aliens on the Moon and Their Threat to Earth

7/11/2014

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This week the Syfy channel announced that it plans to broadcast Aliens on the Moon: The Truth Exposed, a two-hour documentary from Robert Kiviat, the executive producer of the hoax documentary Alien Autopsy, that will explore whether ancient astronauts left structures on the moon and other solar system bodies. According to a press release, the special intends to challenge the “official” story of the moon by asking “what haven’t we been told about Earth’s closest neighbor?”

According to the press release, the special will assert the “undeniable existence of what look like installations, factories, saucers, hangers and huge satellite dishes, possibly trained directly on planet Earth.” Paradoxically, these dishes trained directly on the earth are also located “on the far side of our Moon,” according to the very next sentence. The special also intends to have plasma physicist Dr. John Brandenburg (identified here as a Defense Department expert even though the claim doesn’t appear in his biography) assert that the structures are threatening and that a military response is needed to protect earth from an imminent alien invasion.
The special also plans to rehash Buzz Aldrin’s 2005 claim to have seen a UFO while traveling to the moon in 1969. I’m not sure that there is time for the special to backtrack in light of Aldrin’s explanation, made on Reddit this week, for what he believes he really saw:
There were many explanations of what that could be, other than another spacecraft from another country or another world -- it was either the rocket we had separated from, or the 4 panels that moved away when we extracted the lander from the rocket and we were nose to nose with the two spacecraft.
More to my particular area of interest, the special will delve into the ancient astronaut theory, according to Syfy’s publicity materials:
Also, a lunar “pyramid” photographed by NASA that’s almost identical to those found in ancient Iraq will be analyzed, as will the possibility the same alien race that might have helped ancient cultures advance could be the ones who erected structures on the Moon and are monitoring mankind for some unknown purpose.
How, pray tell, might a Mesopotamian mud brick ziggurat be “almost identical” to anything on the moon? Well, that’s one of Richard Hoagland’s claims, later adopted by Mike Bara—and we know he’s an ancient astronaut theorists. According to a recent analysis, the photo of the alleged ziggurat is a hoax, as this comparison image of Hoagland’s “enhanced” image with the original raw NASA photograph made by Stuart Robbins quite clearly shows.
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But the enhanced version does not resemble a ziggurat, even if we take it at face value! It looks more like a Tibetan monastery to me.

So why do I mention all of this? Glad you asked. It’s my policy not to discuss specific projects, networks, and producers I’ve talked to while their show is in production. But since Syfy chose not to ever call me back, I’m happy to report to you right now that the producers of this ancient astronaut extravaganza asked me to appear on it. Since they obviously went a different direction, I’ll share with you some of what they said.

On February 13, a Syfy producer named David (I’ll withhold his last name) wrote me an email saying “We’re interested in finding persons with experience in the field to review some photographs of alleged extraterrestrial structures. From your bio this seems to be your expertise.” It’s not. But I said I was game, and I asked the producer for more information about the program: “What exactly would you be interested in having me do? How do you intend to portray exoarchaeology? I ask because cable TV programs in general, and Syfy in particular, have not historically been particularly fair to those who have skeptical viewpoints, and I’ve been burned more than once by producers who didn’t notice that I am not a believer in fringe science.”

At this point, David asked me to agree to the show without knowing what I would be discussing or what the show would be about: “I can’t offer any particulars except that the show concerns exoarchaeology.” He told me that he would put me on the list of interviewees “for Syfy to approve.” Here was the clincher: “I’ve been told the network wants skeptical voices, but we won't know exactly how skeptical until the big wigs chime in.” Truth? Facts? Of course not! Syfy wants the right (i.e., low) level of skepticism to avoid driving away true believers. At least their network has the right name for that kind of manipulative distortion of truth: science fiction.

David finished by telling me he would be in touch once the production team heard back from the network’s executive suite about how fair and accurate they were allowed to be. I never heard from him again. And now we know how scientific the show will be.
33 Comments
Pacal
7/11/2014 05:16:50 am

“I’ve been told the network wants skeptical voices, but we won't know exactly how skeptical until the big wigs chime in.”

In other words too much skepticism might drive away the believers in woo and promoting woo will attract viewers and make us money. Also reality is just so boring compared to a 5 year olds view of the world so we must have woo.

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EP
7/11/2014 05:30:38 am

Reality got nothing on this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py_IndUbcxc

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Duke of URL
7/13/2014 09:55:00 am

THANK you for mentioning that! I'd never heard of Iron Sky - looked at the trailer. MUST rent it from Amazon - Two bucks is cheap for some entertainment that looks so good.

Gregor
7/11/2014 07:54:17 am

Pretty much. I suppose the irony is that SyFy, the channel that's *built* from this kind of nonsense, took so long to actively get in on the AA / Bigfoot / Howe / von Daniken / Star Brothers idiocy. I can just imagine some poor executive over at the main office crying: "Wait, so we had to spend 3 months trying to think of something as stupid as Sharknado...and this junk has been in print all over for DECADES?!"

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EP
7/11/2014 08:22:00 am

Funny thing is, even Sharknado is possibly partially inspired by the very common legends of the sky raining animals...

Graham
7/11/2014 05:25:31 am

For anyone who is interested here is Stuarts original video on the Lunar Ziggurat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_C4bFfATGY

Feel free to spread the link as widely as possible.

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Graham
7/14/2014 07:03:53 am

The Exposing PseudoAstronomy Podcast on:

1. Iapetus Claims by Woo-Meisters.

http://podcast.sjrdesign.net/media/podcasts/PseudoAstro_072.mp3

2. Some of Brandenbergs Claims about Mars

http://podcast.sjrdesign.net/media/podcasts/PseudoAstro_086.mp3

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Jim
7/11/2014 07:27:43 am

The 2011 movie Transformers: Dark of the Moon already explained why we went to the moon and the ancient alien technology that we found there. Just a smashed-up dusty old Cybertronian spaceship and autobots- no ziggurats.

Also, I think you meant to use rehash instead of rehearse in the first sentence of the third paragraph ("The special also plans to rehearse Buzz Aldrin’s 2005 claim...")

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Jason Colavito link
7/11/2014 07:47:25 am

Obviously proofreading is not my strong suit. I fixed it above. Thanks.

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An Over-Educated Grunt
7/11/2014 08:28:49 am

I'd love to see them rehearsing the claim. Buzz Aldrin's a cranky old man who punched a guy in the face for claiming he didn't walk on the Moon.

"Okay, Buzz, one more time, take it from the top. 'I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens...'"

"Shut up, you cretin! BUZZ SMASH!"

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Gregor
7/11/2014 09:12:35 am

I already respected Buzz Aldrin for the things he's done (and for how well he engages with the public). That bit about him punching a (I'm assuming) conspiracy nut? If true (not doubting you), it makes him a goddamn legend.

EP
7/11/2014 09:24:19 am

It is true. The fact that according to the police Aldrin's response was justifiable is icing on the cake :)

Gregor
7/11/2014 07:50:09 am

"You want me to discus the as-yet completely imaginary field of "Exo-Archaeology" on your program, *and* do so sight-unseen? I'll do it on one condition: I get to punch Hoagland and Bara in their respective throats".

Personally, sometimes I wonder if Mike Bara doesn't actually suffer from some sort of schizo-affective disorder. You see him on Ancient Aliens playing the "hey, could be? I certainly won't judge!" schill... then on nonsense like "Uncovering Aliens" playing the (totally bullshit) "Skeptic"... and then you see stuff like his personal blog / facebook page where he's a raving jackass mocking genuine science (and scientists) and making irrational, drama-filled claims like we're all back in junior high.

I find it disturbing that I get nostalgic about the "good old days" when only SyFy (Sci-Fi) could be considered tabloid-level idiocy. Now it's every channel in the A&E and Discovery Channel stables.

(side note: I swear when they announced the Sci-Fi --> SyFy change on April 1st, I refused to believe it was an actual thing. Surely, I thought, no one could be that stupid.)

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EP
7/11/2014 08:18:46 am

Nah, just a narcissistic moron...

Also, why is it that seemingly everyone who tries their hand at junk physics is so infatuated with spin as the answer to everything?

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charlie
7/11/2014 11:50:43 am

EP, as to your "why" question, my take is the old; "if you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, blind them with bulls**t." See? Easy as pie and twice as old. Just my opinion, yours may vary.

EP
7/11/2014 01:03:43 pm

Oh, I get *that*! I'm curous about why spin of all things is such a fertile source of physics quackery...

jim
7/11/2014 09:00:59 am

Regarding the name change from Sci-Fi to SyFy, I believe this was a rational decision driven purely from economics.

The name change saves 2 key strokes. Key Level Mapping shows that this should result in a 0.4 second reduction in time to type the name. SyFy is owned by NBC Universal, which employs approximately 30,000 people. If each of their employees types the network name twice a year then that is a total of 24,000 seconds, or 6.66 hours, saved (side note: the 6.66 hours may indicate some demonic influences, this needs to be investigated later). According to the US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average US employee hourly rate as of May 2014 is $24.38.

$24.38 / hour * 6.66 hours = $162.54 total annual savings to NBC Universal.

This change occurred in 2009, so they have been realizing this savings for 5 years for a grand total of over $800!

While this is a truly impressive savings, it pales in comparison to their first name change. Recall that when the network launched in 1992 it was called "Sci-Fi Network". In 2000 they changed their name to Sci-Fi, an 8 character reduction including the space between words. Using the same methodology above, this resulted in an annual savings of $650.14. The realized this initial savings for 8 years (1992 - 2000) for a total savings of $5,201.07. If we add the recent name change savings then it is over $6,000!

Of course, this pales in comparison to 2011 rebranding of History International to H2, resulting in a net reduction of 20 characters!

The good news for us is that these networks have obviously decided to reinvest these savings into quality programming.

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JaredMithrandir link
7/11/2014 08:33:22 am

I notice the Iapetus theories have not yet been given any attention on Mainstream TV shows dealing with "Fringe" Alien theories.

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EP
7/11/2014 01:17:34 pm

You mean the theory that Iapetus is a gigantic spaceship?

It's actually the latest version of a tired old story. Such claims have been made about Moon and Phobos (one of the moons of Mars) since at least 1950s.

I just googled "Iapetus aliens" and the source - I'm not making this up! - uses as evidence the fact that Iapetus, a Klerksdrop Sphere and Death Star from Star Wars sorta kinda look the same.

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7/11/2014 02:47:28 pm

I obviously don't believe everything about it. But it does seem to be true that it's not emitting as much Gravity as it's apparently size says it should. Which makes me thing it could be Hollow.

Some Fundamentalist Christians with a Christina variant on these types of theories, have suggested Iapetus cold be The Abyss.

The term "Bottomless Pit" I find scientifically interesting, as far as those who insist even the New Testament written in Greco_Roman times must have assumed a Flat Earth Model. Because it's only possible to take that term Literally is you assume both a Round Earth and the Law of Gravity.

Gregor
7/11/2014 03:23:57 pm

@JaredMithrandir

"But it does seem to be true that it's not emitting as much Gravity as it's apparently size says it should".

I'm assuming "it" refers to Iapetus? If so, I'm going to need some scientific data / sources on that claim... especially since it's apparently based on the concept that gravity should scale with size (and even then, I'm assuming you meant mass). As examples...Luna (our moon) has 0.16x Terra's surface gravity... but Terra is 81x more massive... and Jupiter is ~317x more massive than Terra... but has a surface gravity that is only 2.5x stronger.

In any case, I could be wrong...but to the best of my knowledge there hasn't been any definitive measurements of Iapetus's size / mass / gravitational pull...just a few fly-bys.

JaredMithrandir link
7/11/2014 03:34:47 pm

@Gregor

The Evidence for it has allot to do with that the Moon's shape isn't perfectly Spherical. It looks at first Spherical, but ti's really more like a bunch of Hexagons crammed together.

I'm afraid I can't remember exactly were I read this information right now, I think it was on a Wikipedia Talk page.

EP
7/11/2014 03:59:49 pm

@ JaredMithrandir

Sounds like you're vaguely recalling the same sources I mentioned above. The people who compare Iapetus to the Death Star...

Anyway, they seem to think that the fact that you can photoshop some hexagonal patterns onto photographs of Iapetus and make them roughly coincide with craters on its surface is evidence for it being an artificial construct.

Regardless, shape has no more to do with gravitational pull do than spatial dimensions :)

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7/11/2014 09:24:19 pm

What I recall is the theory of Iapetus being hollow was being said by a Skeptic of the whole "Death Star" theory, to explain it's odd shape.

The Hexagonal nature of it's shape is apparent to me even from the most official and standard pics of Iapetus.

I find more interesting to read are the Christian variants of the theory, but guys like Thom Horn.

Gregor
7/12/2014 05:18:30 am

@JaredMithrandir

A large portion of the celestial bodies in our solar system aren't "perfectly spherical" - including our own planet. There are several moons that are 'artificial', but only in that they appear to be captured asteroids or planetoids, rather than formed of the same materials as the rest of our system. What's more, many of the Gas Giant moons have incredible gravitational forces pulling at them, resulting in pseudo-tectonic shifts, flexion and equatorial ridges

There's nothing "hexagonal" about Iapetus - the only traits I see are (as mentioned above) an equatorial ridge, and a large impact crater on the reverse that makes it look *vaguely* like the "Death Star" as seen here:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/moons/images/PIA08384-br500.jpg

There's no evidence of it being "a bunch of hexagons crammed together". I do find it interesting, however, that you've effectively described how a sphere (or spheroid) would be generated using CGI...but simply because a roughly spheroid shape can be generated using a sufficiently large number of connected hexagons, that is absolutely not evidence that they exist in the real object.

Lastly, I would recommend *not* taking "Wikipedia Talk pages" as evidence of any sort.

JaredMithrandir link
7/12/2014 07:25:54 am

But normally ones as large as Iapetus as much closer to being perfectly Spherical then it is.

EP
7/12/2014 07:32:57 am

You must have missed the part where Gregor just wrote "many of the Gas Giant moons have incredible gravitational forces pulling at them, resulting in pseudo-tectonic shifts, flexion and equatorial ridges"

Paul Cargile
7/15/2014 02:06:39 am

"I obviously don't believe everything about it. But it does seem to be true that it's not emitting as much Gravity as it's apparently size says it should."

Your source has that backwards. By using the gravitational constant, it is the gravitational influence of the planet (distance from the planet and orbital speed) that determine the mass of the moon. Historically, once the Earth's (approximate) mass was figured, they were able to calculate the Sun's mass, and then the mass of the other planets, and then the masses of the moons, etc. It's unlikely for it's mass to be figured some other way and its orbit around Saturn to be found abnormal to what orbital mechanics would calculate.

Iapetus has a density near water, so that should tell you it's mostly ice. Low density planets or moons will be larger in size than higher density planets or moons of the same mass. Size alone can't be used to determine mass, and gravity isn't effected by size, only mass.

So in respects to AAT, Iapetus is morely to be an alien ice sculpture. (hehe)

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Titus pullo
7/12/2014 02:34:03 pm

Arthur c Clarke already did this topic in his original short story the sentinel and 2001 which also had Iapetus as the home of the monolith.

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Kal
7/12/2014 06:16:19 pm

OMG they must have seen Iron Sky! That's the cheesy but hilarious Moon Nazi movie from two years back. Or as someone said, Transformers 3. We didn't go back to the moon because it is expensive to go there, and we have to bring our own habitat. Someday we'll go back, but we are not going to find alien bases there.

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EP
7/13/2014 08:41:12 am

"plasma physicist Dr. John Brandenburg (identified here as a Defense Department expert even though the claim doesn’t appear in his biography)"

That means it's classified, which just bolsters his credentials! :)

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Mark L
7/15/2014 12:43:24 am

I really didn't like "Iron Sky", thought it was a lot less funny than it thought it was, and way too heavy-handed (and a bit racist).

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will link
10/5/2014 02:52:28 pm

Wake up people they are already here watching us.This is like a bug getting swuashed by a giant.Be prepared get ready. We will be prepared run to the hills when you see them coming.

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