#Ancient aliens season 1 the visitors series

This episode suggests that alien encounters have been documented in various historical texts, citing as evidence, the 13th-century book Otia Imperialia which describes an incident in Bristol, England ascribed to UFOs the log entries of Christopher Columbus that report lights in the sky stories of cigar-shaped craft allegedly seen over Europe during the Black Plague and Medieval art that supposedly depicts disc-shaped objects floating in the heavens. This episode proposes that extraterrestrials have a mission plan for Earth and mankind, and cites as evidence, Sumerian tablets that allegedly describe the Anunnaki as a race of creatures who came to Earth to mine gold the purpose of cattle mutilations the mile-long ' band of holes' near Pisco, Peru Egyptian hieroglyphs that are said to depict hybrid creatures that are part man/part animal and crystal skulls and crop circles that are said to contain messages from aliens. The episode proposes that alien visitations have occurred around the globe, and cites as evidence, claims that the Dogon people were given galactic knowledge by a star god the Hopi and Zuni celebrations of Kachinas (or 'gods from the sky') who are symbolized with headdress that are said to resemble modern space helmets and that the Chinese Huangdi was a Han leader who came to Earth on a yellow dragon which is suggested to have been a metaphor for a spaceship. This episode suggests that aliens made contact with primitive humans, and cites as evidence, Indian Sanskrit texts that are suggested to describe flying machines called Vimanas Egyptian megaliths that are said to show precision cutting work thought to be too advanced for the time and Jewish Zohar writings that are said to describe a 'manna machine' similar to chlorella algae processing of today.

The pilot presents the views of author Erich von Däniken who theorized that advanced beings from another world visited primitive humans, gave them the knowledge of the solar system, concepts of engineering and mathematics, and became the basis for their religions and cultures, evidenced (as he claims) by many ancient monuments around the world, such as the Nazca Lines, the Pyramids of Giza and the Moai statues of Easter Island. Īs of January 2022, 204 episodes of Ancient Aliens have aired.Įpisodes Pilot (2009) Title

#Ancient aliens season 1 the visitors series

The series continued with its sixteenth season in November 2020. In 2015, the series returned to History after H2 was relaunched as Vice on TV. Seasons 4 to 7 aired on H2, with frequent re-airings of episodes on History and other A&E services. The series began as a two-hour documentary special in 2009, and continued for three seasons as a flagship series on History. Producer Giorgio Tsoukalos and writer David Childress are featured guests. The works of Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval, Brinsley Le Poer Trench, Charles Hapgood, and Edgar Cayce, are also referenced in many episodes. The series is based on and inspired by the works of Erich von Däniken and Zecharia Sitchin, among other writers. Produced by Prometheus Entertainment, the series has aired on History and other A&E Networks since 2010. Episodes, narrated by Robert Clotworthy, begin and end with rhetorical questions. Ancient Aliens is an American television series that explores the ancient astronauts hypothesis, past human- extraterrestrial contact, UFOs, government conspiracies, and related pseudoscientific topics, such as remote viewing and psychic phenomena, in a non-critical, documentary format.