In a bit of a sequel to our look at The Nine, we’re going to examine The Stargate Conspiracy by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince. This 1999 book dove into the connections between those who promoted ancient alien theories, the “face” on Mars, and the so-called “New Egyptology” and determined that something sinister might be afoot…
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I watched the History Channel through my childhood and witnesses its descent from the Jesus-and-Hitler era into conspiracy. (It was, in fact, next to the SciFi-not-yet-SyFy channel, HGTV and the Food network in our satellite menu… The Binge Zone.) Biblical archaeology was already a strong presence even before it took an Dan Brown bent.
Ancient Aliens was a guilty pleasure for longer than I should admit to, me and my mom liked to riff it and try to anticipate how they would link X concept to aliens. “Earth is a penal colony for Bigfoot” got a good bit of mileage as a a household meme. But when you watch 100+ episodes of Ancient Aliens, you begin to notice patterns, and honestly it taught me a lot about noticing misleading editing.
History Channel in general LOVES recycling footage from other documentaries (there’s one they did about Thermopylae where the CGI battle simulation has this yellow filter to make it “look like 300” and they trot out bits of it all the time) and after a while you notice the real historians who don’t say anything about aliens, who give normal background about [Ancient Egypt, Colonial America, Napoleon, etc.] and then disappear for the conspiracy theorists to take the stage. I’m sure their contracts contained provisions for just such reuse, but I wonder how many of them have no idea where their interview footage ultimately ended up.
An important moment to my memory was also when Giorgio Tsoukalos (I don’t respect him enough to check the spelling) appeared on an episode if Food Network Challenge to judge UFO themed cakes, and he was fully out of character and not pretending to be either a believer or an academic.
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