Volume 16 Archive
THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 1 • December 29, 2019 •
It’s been a busy few weeks in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Happy New Year! As we get ready to begin yet another year of outrageous and bizarre claims about history, I invite you to finish your 2019 by taking a look back at the past year in fringe history with my year in review blog post. This was an eventful year, led by a bumper crop of cable TV shows making unsupportable, false, or misleading claims about history. The only good news is that most of them were quite low-rated, playing to audiences for fewer than 500,000 people.
Also of note, this past Sunday’s episode of Unexplained + Unexplored drew fewer than 350,000 viewers, continuing the show’s downward slide in the ratings. It has lost about 100,000 viewers over the past month.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of December 16-29:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 1 • December 29, 2019 •
It’s been a busy few weeks in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Happy New Year! As we get ready to begin yet another year of outrageous and bizarre claims about history, I invite you to finish your 2019 by taking a look back at the past year in fringe history with my year in review blog post. This was an eventful year, led by a bumper crop of cable TV shows making unsupportable, false, or misleading claims about history. The only good news is that most of them were quite low-rated, playing to audiences for fewer than 500,000 people.
Also of note, this past Sunday’s episode of Unexplained + Unexplored drew fewer than 350,000 viewers, continuing the show’s downward slide in the ratings. It has lost about 100,000 viewers over the past month.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of December 16-29:
- Review of Unexplained + Unexplored S01E06 “Mystery of the American Maya”
- Review of Unexplained + Unexplored S01E07: “Egypt's Land of the Gods”
- Jacques Vallée Claims to Have Proof CIA Faked Alien Abductions as “Psychological Warfare,” Refuses to Let Anyone See It
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 2 • January 5, 2020 •
It’s been a (not so) busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
The new year break made for a slow week, and not a whole lot actually happened. It seems that Unexplained + Unexplored has ended its run. Although some online listings said that there would be nine episodes, there is no episode scheduled after last week’s eighth and presumably final airing. I can’t say I will miss the show, but its sheer incompetence made it quick and easy to write about. Let’s hope that its cratering ratings will have it join the Travel Channel’s not-so-dearly departed America Unearthed on the cancellation heap. Maybe there really is a limit to how awful a show can be before people stop watching.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of December 30-January 5:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 2 • January 5, 2020 •
It’s been a (not so) busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
The new year break made for a slow week, and not a whole lot actually happened. It seems that Unexplained + Unexplored has ended its run. Although some online listings said that there would be nine episodes, there is no episode scheduled after last week’s eighth and presumably final airing. I can’t say I will miss the show, but its sheer incompetence made it quick and easy to write about. Let’s hope that its cratering ratings will have it join the Travel Channel’s not-so-dearly departed America Unearthed on the cancellation heap. Maybe there really is a limit to how awful a show can be before people stop watching.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of December 30-January 5:
- Review of Unexplained + Unexplored S01E08: “Finding the Fountain of Youth”
- Scott Wolter: Travel Channel Cancels America Unearthed
- Review of The Return of Holy Russia by Gary Lachman
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 3 • January 12, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Late on Friday, the Twitter account of D. W. Pasulka, the author of American Cosmic, tweeted out a number of strange claims, including allegations that Tom DeLonge’s To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science is a U.S. government “psy op,” that Tom DeLonge is a Freemason who could “destroy” her with “bots,” that she and not he has access to true Templar secrets at the Vatican, and that she would quit public discussion of UFOs and work exclusively with scientists who believe in UFOs, mostly those associated with Jacques Vallée. Late Saturday, Pasulka issued an official statement in which she said that her email and social media had been hacked and that she did not write the material. However, she conceded that some of the postings contained material taken from her private emails expressing thoughts she would not otherwise have said publicly. She did not say which of the many inflammatory claims were hers.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of January 6-12:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 3 • January 12, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Late on Friday, the Twitter account of D. W. Pasulka, the author of American Cosmic, tweeted out a number of strange claims, including allegations that Tom DeLonge’s To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science is a U.S. government “psy op,” that Tom DeLonge is a Freemason who could “destroy” her with “bots,” that she and not he has access to true Templar secrets at the Vatican, and that she would quit public discussion of UFOs and work exclusively with scientists who believe in UFOs, mostly those associated with Jacques Vallée. Late Saturday, Pasulka issued an official statement in which she said that her email and social media had been hacked and that she did not write the material. However, she conceded that some of the postings contained material taken from her private emails expressing thoughts she would not otherwise have said publicly. She did not say which of the many inflammatory claims were hers.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of January 6-12:
- Archaeological Institute of America Takes Cash from Cable Purveyor of Pseudoarchaeology Shows and Helps Make Josh Gates Look Good
- Geologist Robert Schoch Claims to Be Able to “Translate” Alleged “Writing” at Göbekli Tepe
- Review of Twice Upon a Time (ARTE/Netflix)
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 4 • January 19, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I’m not sure what to think about the bizarre circumstance of Luis Elizondo badmouthing the Pentagon as a viper’s nest of conspirators who must be purged while simultaneously pursuing a research agreement with them to share in an investigation of the so-called “alien” metal fragments his organization, To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science, have been promoting. If the Pentagon routinely lies and can’t be trusted with the “truth” about Elizondo or aliens, why are they trustworthy enough to honestly report the “truth” about “alien” metal? I guess I am simply too dense to understand the high level theatrics of To the Stars and its hangers-on.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of January 13-19:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 4 • January 19, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I’m not sure what to think about the bizarre circumstance of Luis Elizondo badmouthing the Pentagon as a viper’s nest of conspirators who must be purged while simultaneously pursuing a research agreement with them to share in an investigation of the so-called “alien” metal fragments his organization, To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science, have been promoting. If the Pentagon routinely lies and can’t be trusted with the “truth” about Elizondo or aliens, why are they trustworthy enough to honestly report the “truth” about “alien” metal? I guess I am simply too dense to understand the high level theatrics of To the Stars and its hangers-on.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of January 13-19:
- Josh Gates Launches New Show, Same as Old Show
- Luis Elizondo Gives The Black Vault an Unsatisfying, Obfuscating Interview
- Roger Bacon and the Medieval Airplane
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 5 • January 26, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This weekend, Ancient Aliens returns for another season, on a new night. The first episode explored the city of Nan Madol, which the show has featured regularly since its first season. Giorgio Tsoukalos and David Childress scammed a free vacation to Ponape to shoot scenes for the episode, so someone got something out of it. Because the show now airs on Saturdays at 10 PM, when I am not available to watch it live, my review will run when I have time to watch it, presumably later on Sunday or Monday.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of January 20-26:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 5 • January 26, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This weekend, Ancient Aliens returns for another season, on a new night. The first episode explored the city of Nan Madol, which the show has featured regularly since its first season. Giorgio Tsoukalos and David Childress scammed a free vacation to Ponape to shoot scenes for the episode, so someone got something out of it. Because the show now airs on Saturdays at 10 PM, when I am not available to watch it live, my review will run when I have time to watch it, presumably later on Sunday or Monday.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of January 20-26:
- Review of Mysteries of the Tayos Caves by Alex Chionetti
- Scott Wolter Embraces Atlantis, Claims Newly Translated Papers Document “Templar” Construction of the Newport Tower
- Tom DeLonge on Instagram: Angels Might Be Aliens from Atlantis
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 6 • February 2, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This weekend, Punk Rock and UFOs ran an interview with UFO lobbyist and author Leslie Kean, most recently famous for cowriting the New York Times articles about To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science and the Pentagon UFO program. In the interview, Kean said that she had moved on to a new area of research, psychical phenomena. She claimed that hunting for the afterlife and reincarnation was the “logical extension” of her quest for UFOs, though she stressed that they were not directly linked. Kean endorsed a range of dubious claims about psychical research, including the idea that ectoplasm is real but can’t be studied because it is “sensitive to light.” She claimed that no “real” psychic would try to prove his or her powers because of the overwhelming stress and harassment caused by skepticism. Kean’s new interest, by total coincidence, happens to be the hobbyhorse of To the Stars executive Hal Puthoff, a longtime believer in debunked psychic phenomena. Naturally enough, she’s working on a book about this with Jeffrey J. Kirpal, the ancient astronaut theorist and professor of religion at Rice University who believes consciousness is the result of the brain receiving psychic signals from another dimension—because it’s all just Theosophy under a new name.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of January 27-February 2:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 6 • February 2, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This weekend, Punk Rock and UFOs ran an interview with UFO lobbyist and author Leslie Kean, most recently famous for cowriting the New York Times articles about To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science and the Pentagon UFO program. In the interview, Kean said that she had moved on to a new area of research, psychical phenomena. She claimed that hunting for the afterlife and reincarnation was the “logical extension” of her quest for UFOs, though she stressed that they were not directly linked. Kean endorsed a range of dubious claims about psychical research, including the idea that ectoplasm is real but can’t be studied because it is “sensitive to light.” She claimed that no “real” psychic would try to prove his or her powers because of the overwhelming stress and harassment caused by skepticism. Kean’s new interest, by total coincidence, happens to be the hobbyhorse of To the Stars executive Hal Puthoff, a longtime believer in debunked psychic phenomena. Naturally enough, she’s working on a book about this with Jeffrey J. Kirpal, the ancient astronaut theorist and professor of religion at Rice University who believes consciousness is the result of the brain receiving psychic signals from another dimension—because it’s all just Theosophy under a new name.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of January 27-February 2:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S15E01 The Mystery of Nan Madol
- History Channel Defends Alien-Themed Programs as an “Iconic Story”
- Faking a Massachusetts Nephilim Giant: A Case of Deceptive Editing
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 7 • February 9, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I less than two weeks, my new book, The Mound Builder Myth, is scheduled to be published, and I have no idea what is happening with it. I have received no information from the publisher, nor have I seen the finished product. My attempts to contact the publisher, the University of Oklahoma Press, have gone unanswered. It’s hard to plan a book launch and promotional efforts with no way of knowing whether there will be a book to promote. I will keep you updated as I get information.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week February 3-9:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 7 • February 9, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I less than two weeks, my new book, The Mound Builder Myth, is scheduled to be published, and I have no idea what is happening with it. I have received no information from the publisher, nor have I seen the finished product. My attempts to contact the publisher, the University of Oklahoma Press, have gone unanswered. It’s hard to plan a book launch and promotional efforts with no way of knowing whether there will be a book to promote. I will keep you updated as I get information.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week February 3-9:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S15E02: “The Relics of Roswell”
- Scott Wolter Claims His Research Will Reshape American Culture, Plans Trips to “Templar” Treasure Sites in America
- Deep Prasad Probes Magnesium Metamaterials in Project Serpo and To the Stars
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 8 • February 16, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
On Friday, Tim McMillan published an overblown article in Popular Mechanics which detailed the involvement of the Bigelow/To the Stars crew in pushing the Pentagon to study UFOs. Although the author seems convinced that he stumbled onto UFO revelations, the resulting info dump—confusing I am sure for anyone not intimately familiar with the past 40 years of government psychical and ufological research—only reconfirmed what we already knew. It showed that the Pentagon continues to have a small group who remain dedicated to Hal Puthoff’s hunt for the paranormal and have continued to support him through his many incarnations as a government contractor, a Bigelow subcontractor, and a To the Stars executive. McMillan strategically omitted problematic aspects of the Pentagon programs he documents, including their infiltration by believers in remote viewing, psychic powers, space poltergeists, and the like in order to make a boondoggle seem like a key element of the national security state. Given that the program wasn’t even classified, I doubt it was all that serious.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week February 10-16:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 8 • February 16, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
On Friday, Tim McMillan published an overblown article in Popular Mechanics which detailed the involvement of the Bigelow/To the Stars crew in pushing the Pentagon to study UFOs. Although the author seems convinced that he stumbled onto UFO revelations, the resulting info dump—confusing I am sure for anyone not intimately familiar with the past 40 years of government psychical and ufological research—only reconfirmed what we already knew. It showed that the Pentagon continues to have a small group who remain dedicated to Hal Puthoff’s hunt for the paranormal and have continued to support him through his many incarnations as a government contractor, a Bigelow subcontractor, and a To the Stars executive. McMillan strategically omitted problematic aspects of the Pentagon programs he documents, including their infiltration by believers in remote viewing, psychic powers, space poltergeists, and the like in order to make a boondoggle seem like a key element of the national security state. Given that the program wasn’t even classified, I doubt it was all that serious.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week February 10-16:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S15E03: “Destination Chile”
- Hal Puthoff Discusses Metamaterials, Flying Saucers, and More in West Virginia
- Geologist Suggests Aboriginal Oral Tradition Is the World’s Oldest Story
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 9 • February 23, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
My new book, The Myth of the Mound Builders, is now available! (Description and purchase links here.) This disturbing account of the century-long effort by white Americans to create a myth of a lost white race who occupied the Americas before the Native Americans offers rich and fascinating historical information about the intersection of science, pseudoscience, and power politics in the service of racism and white nationalism. Be sure to read the book that archaeologist Ken Feder calls “the new definitive work on the mound builder myth”!
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week February 17-23:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 9 • February 23, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
My new book, The Myth of the Mound Builders, is now available! (Description and purchase links here.) This disturbing account of the century-long effort by white Americans to create a myth of a lost white race who occupied the Americas before the Native Americans offers rich and fascinating historical information about the intersection of science, pseudoscience, and power politics in the service of racism and white nationalism. Be sure to read the book that archaeologist Ken Feder calls “the new definitive work on the mound builder myth”!
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week February 17-23:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S15E04 “The Real Men in Black”
- New Zealand Giant Hunters Spend Four Years Digging for Giants, Find Moa Bone
- Ken Ham Complains PBS Documentary Focuses Too Much on Stupid Parts of Ark Encounter and Creationism
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 10 • March 1, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, the History Channel moved Ancient Aliens back an hour to 9 PM ET to make room for the return of William Shatner’s The UnXplained, which has also been demoted to Saturday nights. What makes this situation all the stranger is that History isn’t using the shows’ vacated Friday timeslots to air new programming, but rather to air reruns of the same shows that just decamped to Saturdays. Not that it makes a hill of beans difference to me, but it is odd that in the age of DVRs evergreen wallpaper like Ancient Aliens actually sees significant changes in ratings based on which dead-zone weekend night it airs on. I wonder if the same will happen with Shatner.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week February 24-March 1:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 10 • March 1, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, the History Channel moved Ancient Aliens back an hour to 9 PM ET to make room for the return of William Shatner’s The UnXplained, which has also been demoted to Saturday nights. What makes this situation all the stranger is that History isn’t using the shows’ vacated Friday timeslots to air new programming, but rather to air reruns of the same shows that just decamped to Saturdays. Not that it makes a hill of beans difference to me, but it is odd that in the age of DVRs evergreen wallpaper like Ancient Aliens actually sees significant changes in ratings based on which dead-zone weekend night it airs on. I wonder if the same will happen with Shatner.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week February 24-March 1:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S15E06: “The World Before Time”
- Review of Ancient Aliens S15E05 “The Mystery of the Stone Giants”
- Scott Wolter Claims America’s Founding Fathers Were “All Knights Templar”
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 11 • March 8, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Rice University plans a glitzy gala to inaugurate the new Jacques Vallée and Whitley Strieber papers collection, which they are dubbing “Archives of the Impossible.” In attendance will be Vallée, Strieber, Diana Pasulka, and other UFO glitterati. To demonstrate the archive’s commitment to solving “impossible” mysteries, the Vallée papers will remain sealed for at least seven years. The project is the brainchild of ancient astronaut believer and Rice University professor Jeffrey Kripal. While the archival project has value for historical research, Rice’s celebration of ufology as an important field of study is sad and somewhat disturbing. According to Mike Damante, there are already doctoral student archivists planning scholarly investigations of the “fantastic” using these papers.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week March 2-8:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 11 • March 8, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Rice University plans a glitzy gala to inaugurate the new Jacques Vallée and Whitley Strieber papers collection, which they are dubbing “Archives of the Impossible.” In attendance will be Vallée, Strieber, Diana Pasulka, and other UFO glitterati. To demonstrate the archive’s commitment to solving “impossible” mysteries, the Vallée papers will remain sealed for at least seven years. The project is the brainchild of ancient astronaut believer and Rice University professor Jeffrey Kripal. While the archival project has value for historical research, Rice’s celebration of ufology as an important field of study is sad and somewhat disturbing. According to Mike Damante, there are already doctoral student archivists planning scholarly investigations of the “fantastic” using these papers.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week March 2-8:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S15E07: “They Came from the Pleiades”
- Diana Pasulka Says "Ancient Aliens" Is a “Medium of the Divine” for the Non-Religious
- The Atlantic Asks If Netflix Teen Dramas “Reject Modernity.” They Don’t.
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 12 • March 15, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week I recorded an appearance on the Hero Paranormal podcast to promote my book, The Mound Builder Myth, and to discuss the mound builder myth and its toxic effects on American culture. The podcast should be available soon, and I’ll post a link on my blog as soon as it is available.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week March 9-15:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 12 • March 15, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week I recorded an appearance on the Hero Paranormal podcast to promote my book, The Mound Builder Myth, and to discuss the mound builder myth and its toxic effects on American culture. The podcast should be available soon, and I’ll post a link on my blog as soon as it is available.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week March 9-15:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S15E08 “The Immortality Machine”
- Review of Rob Riggle: Global Investigator S01E06: “The Atlantis Case”
- Rob Riggle’s Pseudohistory Show Tanks in Sunday Ratings with 650K Viewers
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 13 • March 22, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
My Hero Paranormal podcast interview is now available! It’s a great way to spend an hour while you are socially distancing this week. You can listen on YouTube as I discuss the myth of the mound builders, its consequences for science and society, and my new book.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week March 16-22:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 13 • March 22, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
My Hero Paranormal podcast interview is now available! It’s a great way to spend an hour while you are socially distancing this week. You can listen on YouTube as I discuss the myth of the mound builders, its consequences for science and society, and my new book.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week March 16-22:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S15E09: “The Shapeshifters”
- Review of Rob Riggle: Global Investigator S01E02: “The Holiest of Grails”
- Review of Toy Boy (Netflix)
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 14 • March 29, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
In anticipation of the upcoming premiere this week of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, in which the producers of Ancient Aliens and Curse of Oak Island turn their attention to the imagined mysteries of a ranch in Utah, Travis Taylor, who has appeared or will appear on all three shows, began teasing on social media his belief that the evidence presented on Skinwalker will change the world because it indicates a non-human intelligence at work. He’s the same guy who claimed Oak Island was intended to reflect the constellation Taurus and that the moon has ancient alien structures on its dark side. So, I wouldn’t really put too much stock in his paid promotion for a TV reality show.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week March 23-29:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 14 • March 29, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
In anticipation of the upcoming premiere this week of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, in which the producers of Ancient Aliens and Curse of Oak Island turn their attention to the imagined mysteries of a ranch in Utah, Travis Taylor, who has appeared or will appear on all three shows, began teasing on social media his belief that the evidence presented on Skinwalker will change the world because it indicates a non-human intelligence at work. He’s the same guy who claimed Oak Island was intended to reflect the constellation Taurus and that the moon has ancient alien structures on its dark side. So, I wouldn’t really put too much stock in his paid promotion for a TV reality show.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week March 23-29:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S15E10 “The Mystery of Skinwalker Ranch”
- Scott Wolter Gives New Interview, Suggests Second Kensington Runestone Exists
- Jack Sarfatti Claims UFOs Are Time Machines Powered by Metamaterials
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 15 • April 5, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week saw the History channel launch its Curse of Oak Island clone The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. Most investigative shows try to spark viewer interest by starting off with the most important and impressive findings from their research. This one started off with a dead cow. If a dead cow is the best they can come up with, then we have nothing to fear from the ranch’s supposed space poltergeists. I mean, come on: Americans kill 39 million cows just for beef each year. The space poltergeists got just one? Visit a factory farm, E.T. You’re behind the curve.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week March 30-April 5:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 15 • April 5, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week saw the History channel launch its Curse of Oak Island clone The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. Most investigative shows try to spark viewer interest by starting off with the most important and impressive findings from their research. This one started off with a dead cow. If a dead cow is the best they can come up with, then we have nothing to fear from the ranch’s supposed space poltergeists. I mean, come on: Americans kill 39 million cows just for beef each year. The space poltergeists got just one? Visit a factory farm, E.T. You’re behind the curve.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week March 30-April 5:
- Review of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch S01E01
- Review of Rob Riggle: Global Investigator S01E01/E03 “Pirate Booty”
- Young Viewers Tune Out Secret of Skinwalker Ranch; Plus: The Return of Rob Riggle: Global Investigator Delivers Humiliating Ratings
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 16 • April 12, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week on Twitter the owner of Skinwalker Ranch invited me to visit the Utah property to experience its alleged wonders for myself. I certainly appreciate the offer, but I can’t imagine what I would get from the trip. I imagine it would fall somewhere between the boredom I experienced gazing on Hill Cumorah to no angelic rapture and the disappointment of visiting America’s Stonehenge to wonder that the stones barely came up to my waist. I just kept thinking how much time and effort it would take to go stand in the desert just to stare at rocks and weeds.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week April 6-11:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 16 • April 12, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week on Twitter the owner of Skinwalker Ranch invited me to visit the Utah property to experience its alleged wonders for myself. I certainly appreciate the offer, but I can’t imagine what I would get from the trip. I imagine it would fall somewhere between the boredom I experienced gazing on Hill Cumorah to no angelic rapture and the disappointment of visiting America’s Stonehenge to wonder that the stones barely came up to my waist. I just kept thinking how much time and effort it would take to go stand in the desert just to stare at rocks and weeds.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week April 6-11:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S15E11: “The Ultimate Guide to UFOs”
- Review of Rob Riggle: Global Investigator S01E04: “The Mystery of the O.K. Corral”
- Review of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch S01E02; Plus: Did the Akhbar al-zaman Predict Coronavirus?
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 17 • April 19, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Yesterday was my birthday, but I soldiered on and wrote a newsletter anyway. What else does one do in quarantine? I should highlight the complete failure of Rob Riggle: Global Investigator, which the Discovery Channel moved out of prime time into a late-night timeslot due to its incredibly low ratings. Here’s how bad it is: Forbidden History, airing against much stiffer competition at 10 PM on Sunday on the little-watched Science Channel had 352,000 viewers, almost one-third more than Riggle’s embarrassing 271,000 11 PM Thursday viewership on the flagship Discovery Channel, both owned by Discovery Communications. Riggle’s under-49 viewership fell again this week and tied Forbidden History’s.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week April 12-19:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 17 • April 19, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Yesterday was my birthday, but I soldiered on and wrote a newsletter anyway. What else does one do in quarantine? I should highlight the complete failure of Rob Riggle: Global Investigator, which the Discovery Channel moved out of prime time into a late-night timeslot due to its incredibly low ratings. Here’s how bad it is: Forbidden History, airing against much stiffer competition at 10 PM on Sunday on the little-watched Science Channel had 352,000 viewers, almost one-third more than Riggle’s embarrassing 271,000 11 PM Thursday viewership on the flagship Discovery Channel, both owned by Discovery Communications. Riggle’s under-49 viewership fell again this week and tied Forbidden History’s.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week April 12-19:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S15E12: “Aliens and the Presidents”
- Review of Rob Riggle: Global Investigator S01E05: “The Mysterious Disappearance of the Lost Legion”
- Review of Dark Fleet by Len Kasten
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 18 • April 26, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Currently, no more new episodes of Ancient Aliens are listed on the History Channel’s schedule, which makes me wonder if perhaps we have finally run out of the store of episodes that executive producer Kevin Burns rushed to finish as Hollywood shut down in March. Regardless, I will be enjoying the time off. If the hiatus last more than three weeks, it will be the longest break I’ve had from reviewing this show since History upped the episode order and instituted its year-round Ancient Aliens scheduling a few years ago. … This week we also lost Rob Riggle: Global Investigator. I’m not sad that it’s over, but I will give the failed series this: It was consistently awful in more interesting ways, which gave me meatier bad ideas to dig into than Ancient Aliens’ slapdash approach to flinging spaghetti against the wall.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week April 20-26:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 18 • April 26, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Currently, no more new episodes of Ancient Aliens are listed on the History Channel’s schedule, which makes me wonder if perhaps we have finally run out of the store of episodes that executive producer Kevin Burns rushed to finish as Hollywood shut down in March. Regardless, I will be enjoying the time off. If the hiatus last more than three weeks, it will be the longest break I’ve had from reviewing this show since History upped the episode order and instituted its year-round Ancient Aliens scheduling a few years ago. … This week we also lost Rob Riggle: Global Investigator. I’m not sad that it’s over, but I will give the failed series this: It was consistently awful in more interesting ways, which gave me meatier bad ideas to dig into than Ancient Aliens’ slapdash approach to flinging spaghetti against the wall.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week April 20-26:
- Review of Rob Riggle: Global Investigator S01E06: “Really Close Encounters”
- David Wilcock Says Democrats Should Love Baphomet: “He’s a Trans. He Has Boobs.”
- Ancient Origins Praises Genocidal Hohenzollern Dynasty, Dismisses Democracy
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 19 • May 3, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It’s the same-old, same-old as the weeks of quarantine gradually deplete the storehouse of pseudo-history content. With Secret of Skinwalker Ranch off the air, History replaced it with a show hunting for The Lost Gold of World War II. It delivered 1.67 million viewers, less than Skinwalker but in line with the long-term average for whatever crap they throw on after Oak Island.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week April 27-May 3:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 19 • May 3, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It’s the same-old, same-old as the weeks of quarantine gradually deplete the storehouse of pseudo-history content. With Secret of Skinwalker Ranch off the air, History replaced it with a show hunting for The Lost Gold of World War II. It delivered 1.67 million viewers, less than Skinwalker but in line with the long-term average for whatever crap they throw on after Oak Island.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week April 27-May 3:
- Scott Wolter Appears on Freemason Podcast, Talks Goddess-Worship and “Bling”
- Israeli Researchers Claim Hidden Geometry and Secret Symbolism at Göbekli Tepe
- Deep Prasad Alleges Multiple Alien Species Visit Earth, Meet with U.S. Officials
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 20 • May 10, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Over the past decade, I’ve spent an incalculable number of words exploring the medieval legends of the Egyptian pyramids. It’s still surprising when it turns out to still be a going concern. Last month, Egypt’s former Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa earned a rebuke from archaeologist Zahi Hawass after Gomaa claimed that the prophet Idris (identified in Islam with Enoch and Hermes Trismegistus) taught the Egyptians how to build the pyramids and that the Sphinx was built in his honor. Gomaa relied on medieval legends and mistaken nineteenth century archaeological notions and broadcast that old material to all of Egypt in a splashy TV documentary. Hawass told him to stick to religion, though there is a degree of irony that the medieval stories were originally intended as a way to marry history and religion.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week May 4-10:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 20 • May 10, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Over the past decade, I’ve spent an incalculable number of words exploring the medieval legends of the Egyptian pyramids. It’s still surprising when it turns out to still be a going concern. Last month, Egypt’s former Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa earned a rebuke from archaeologist Zahi Hawass after Gomaa claimed that the prophet Idris (identified in Islam with Enoch and Hermes Trismegistus) taught the Egyptians how to build the pyramids and that the Sphinx was built in his honor. Gomaa relied on medieval legends and mistaken nineteenth century archaeological notions and broadcast that old material to all of Egypt in a splashy TV documentary. Hawass told him to stick to religion, though there is a degree of irony that the medieval stories were originally intended as a way to marry history and religion.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week May 4-10:
- Celebrating Ten Years of My Blog
- Whitley Strieber Claims Visit to Parallel World, Begs “The Energy” to Let Him Return
- Basking in the Glow of the Silver Screen: Reviews of Hollywood and Summertime
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 21 • May 17, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I appreciate that my readers have expectations about what they will read on my blog, but I must admit to being dumbfounded by how rigid my audience’s expectations can be. It was disappointing to see that my reviews of drama and comedy TV shows and movies receive much lower readership, but it was painful to see that when I reviewed the gay-themed Hollywood, a full one-third of my readers left and, a week later, did not return. Only after a full week did the daily readership start to tick upward, though still down 20% over my monthly and yearly average. That is the single biggest drop I have ever experienced—astonishing considering my numbers rarely budge more than a few percent. I guess it tells me something about the kinds of readers who are attracted to material about space aliens and lost civilizations.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week May 11-17:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 21 • May 17, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I appreciate that my readers have expectations about what they will read on my blog, but I must admit to being dumbfounded by how rigid my audience’s expectations can be. It was disappointing to see that my reviews of drama and comedy TV shows and movies receive much lower readership, but it was painful to see that when I reviewed the gay-themed Hollywood, a full one-third of my readers left and, a week later, did not return. Only after a full week did the daily readership start to tick upward, though still down 20% over my monthly and yearly average. That is the single biggest drop I have ever experienced—astonishing considering my numbers rarely budge more than a few percent. I guess it tells me something about the kinds of readers who are attracted to material about space aliens and lost civilizations.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week May 11-17:
- BONUS POST: Review of Forbidden History S06E06 “The Pyramid Code”
- Scott Wolter: Ancient Freemasons from Göbekli Tepe May Have Built U.S. Mounds
- Did the Vikings Bring Danish Dogs to the Inca Empire in the Middle Ages?
- Review of The Hollow Season 2: An Accidental Adventure in Existential Horror
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 22 • May 24, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, I reached another blogging milestone. After ten years, I have now written 3,000 blog posts. My posts average about 1,200 words per post, which means that my blog by itself represents somewhere around 3.6 million words, not counting my books, articles, and translations. That’s an astonishing volume, and I’m sure it’s more words than anyone would ever want to read about pseudohistory, weird fiction, and the intersection of science and the bizarre.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week May 18-24:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 22 • May 24, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, I reached another blogging milestone. After ten years, I have now written 3,000 blog posts. My posts average about 1,200 words per post, which means that my blog by itself represents somewhere around 3.6 million words, not counting my books, articles, and translations. That’s an astonishing volume, and I’m sure it’s more words than anyone would ever want to read about pseudohistory, weird fiction, and the intersection of science and the bizarre.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week May 18-24:
- Review of Forbidden History S06E05: “Search for Noah’s Ark”
- Review of Forbidden History S06E07: “Hitler’s Occult Conspiracy”
- A New (to Me) Medieval Legend of the Giza Pyramids
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 23 • May 31, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This weekend, I watched the new Amazon Studios movie The Vast of Night, now streaming on Amazon Prime. The film follows an eerie night in the lives of a radio host and a switchboard operator in 1957 when they begin to suspect that something otherworldly has arrived in their small New Mexico town. The low-budget film contains clever references and allusions to real and imaginary midcentury icons like The Twilight Zone and the Roswell incident, and maintains an uncanny tone almost until the end. While a more ambiguous ending might have made the story more powerful, and the director’s stylistic tricks to paper over the small budget can be a bit distracting, it is a fun watch for a summer night.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week May 25-31:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 23 • May 31, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This weekend, I watched the new Amazon Studios movie The Vast of Night, now streaming on Amazon Prime. The film follows an eerie night in the lives of a radio host and a switchboard operator in 1957 when they begin to suspect that something otherworldly has arrived in their small New Mexico town. The low-budget film contains clever references and allusions to real and imaginary midcentury icons like The Twilight Zone and the Roswell incident, and maintains an uncanny tone almost until the end. While a more ambiguous ending might have made the story more powerful, and the director’s stylistic tricks to paper over the small budget can be a bit distracting, it is a fun watch for a summer night.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week May 25-31:
- Review of Forbidden History S06E08: “The Vatican’s Book of Secrets”
- Janet Wolter and Alan Butler Make False Claims about Templars, Pyramids, Gothic Architecture, and More in Podcast Interview
- Review of Control Z (Netflix)
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 24 • June 7, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
In a week dominated by continuing protests over police brutality and systemic racism, corporations raced to show their support for the Black community. This included the History Channel, which claimed to stand against racism. Hundreds of archaeologists, historians, skeptics, and others took to social media to decry the network’s hypocrisy for standing against racism while airing programs like Ancient Aliens, which promote nineteenth-century racist, colonialist, and imperialist ideas. The History Channel, of course, made no move to align its programming with its supposed values.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of June 1-7:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 24 • June 7, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
In a week dominated by continuing protests over police brutality and systemic racism, corporations raced to show their support for the Black community. This included the History Channel, which claimed to stand against racism. Hundreds of archaeologists, historians, skeptics, and others took to social media to decry the network’s hypocrisy for standing against racism while airing programs like Ancient Aliens, which promote nineteenth-century racist, colonialist, and imperialist ideas. The History Channel, of course, made no move to align its programming with its supposed values.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of June 1-7:
- Review of Forbidden History S06E09 “Mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle”
- History Channel Claims to Stand Against Racism, Hasn't Watched Own Shows
- New Analysis of History Channel Viewer Data Finds Pseudohistory Viewers Follow Fake History Across the Dial
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 16 • Issue 25 • June 14, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Considering that the cable TV crew of pseudo-history extremists are so adamant on-air that they have the “truth” about how white people were really the first Americans, occupied Atlantis, built the globe’s ancient structures, and gave culture to all the benighted nonwhite peoples of the world, you’d think that this would be their moment to stand up and advocate vigorously for their views. Yet, in the face of an ongoing global reckoning over race relations and the beheading and destruction of statues of historic racists, they have somehow lost the courage of their convictions. Somehow, this week they’ve even stopped talking about how divine aliens bestowed Hitler with the superpower of racism.
One reminder: As per my tradition, I will be taking next week off from writing a newsletter for summer break.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of June 8-14:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 16 • Issue 25 • June 14, 2020 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Considering that the cable TV crew of pseudo-history extremists are so adamant on-air that they have the “truth” about how white people were really the first Americans, occupied Atlantis, built the globe’s ancient structures, and gave culture to all the benighted nonwhite peoples of the world, you’d think that this would be their moment to stand up and advocate vigorously for their views. Yet, in the face of an ongoing global reckoning over race relations and the beheading and destruction of statues of historic racists, they have somehow lost the courage of their convictions. Somehow, this week they’ve even stopped talking about how divine aliens bestowed Hitler with the superpower of racism.
One reminder: As per my tradition, I will be taking next week off from writing a newsletter for summer break.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of June 8-14:
- The Two Faces of Columbus: How a Genocidal Tyrant Became an Anti-Discrimination Icon for Italian-Americans
- Review of Forbidden History S06E10 “The Secret Life of Moses”
- Fixing 13 Reasons Why Season 4: What You Saw Never Happened
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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