Smithsonian Magazine described this presentation style as a Gish gallop.
After a particular claim is explored in some detail, the narration cuts away with: “Perhaps more evidence can be found…” Another location, archeological find, or event, with a hypothetical connection to the previous claim, is introduced. Chariots of the Gods? used similar framing device. The narration frames responses to claims as a rhetorical question, which is answered as: “ancient alien theorists say yes,” or a variation thereof.
ANCIENT ALIENS SEASON 1 EPISODE 5 SERIES
The series presents all claims made by guests in an uncritical format. Such claims are explored within the context of the ancient astronauts cosmology, in addition to panspermia, and human space exploration both ancient and recent. UFO conspiracy theories and alien abduction claims, feature prominently in many episodes, in addition to claims related to the Roswell and Rendlesham Forest incidents. Claims that anatomically modern humans were the result of genetic modification and or are somehow biologically descended from the ancient aliens-a hypothesis also popularized by von Däniken and Sitchin-are the focus of many episodes. Many of the interviewed guest, who are introduced as ancient alien theorists or researchers, support these claims, either in their own work-creating a shared cosmology-or via statements made on-camera. The hypothesis also purports ancient visitations left etymological remnants in many of the world’s languages, such as the root words for “Dagon”, “dragon”, “dog”, and “Danann”, or the frequent occurrence of the word “anu” meaning friend or visitor. Remnants of said visitations are found in religious texts, ancient myth and legendary histories, and in the spiritual systems of many of the world’s religions-such as Hinduism, Ancient Egyptian religion, Gnostic Christianity, and Mormonism. Many, if not all, of ancient man’s achievements in language, mathematics, science, technology and stone construction, such as Egyptian pyramids, Pumapunku, and Stonehenge, are attributed to ancient man acting under the influence of extra-terrestrials.
The premise of the series is based on and inspired by the pseudoscientific ancient astronauts hypothesis previously popularized in Chariots of the Gods? by Erich von Däniken, and The 12th Planet, by Zecharia Sitchin, which purports extra-terrestrial beings visited the Earth in antiquity or prehistoric times and introduced civilization, architecture, and high-technology, to primitive humans. Did intelligent beings from outer space visit Earth thousands of years ago? From the age of the dinosaurs to ancient Egypt, from early cave drawings to continued mass sightings in the US, each episode gives historic depth to the questions, speculations, provocative controversies, first-hand accounts and grounded theories surrounding this age old debate.
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