
Originally broadcast March 8, 2009, the special was re-run several times and is now packaged with the series as its pilot episode. The series was launched as a two-hour documentary special for the History Channel. Scott Littleton served as a producing consultant during the series development until his death in 2010. Giorgio Tsoukalos serves as consulting producer, and is a permanent guest, appearing in every episode. The executive producer of Ancient Aliens is Kevin Burns, who also directed and wrote the pilot episode. Brian Dunning debunked the series as "a slap in the face to the ingenuity of the human race". The series has been criticized by the Smithsonian, among others, for overwhelming the viewer with "fictions and distortions" by using a Gish gallop. He later told Inverse that he "was dubious about the whole thing", adding, "something's going on". William Shatner, who narrated the 1976 documentary Mysteries of the Gods, appeared in the Season 16 episode "William Shatner Meets Ancient Aliens ". Action Bronson has reacted to the series in two seasons of Vice's Action Bronson Watches Ancient Aliens. The series was parodied in the 2011 South Park episode " A History Channel Thanksgiving". An eighteenth season began airing in January 2022. The series continued with its sixteenth season in November 2020. Due to COVID-19 disrupting production, the season ended after only 12 episodes, however only 10 episodes aired. 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. The series has been a target for criticism of History's channel drift, and for promoting unorthodox or unproven hypotheses as fact.

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. The official order has changed multiple times, and no one source agrees with another ** You May Also Like.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. ** Please Note: the schedule for Ancient Aliens is a 'best fit'. It is a balanced investigation into a theory some believe cannot be true, but many agree cannot be ignored. Produced with the exclusive cooperation of von Daniken himself, Ancient Aliens launches all-new expeditions to seek out and evaluate this evidence, with a concentration on the latest discoveries of the last 30 years, including unusual DNA findings on man's evolution and newly decoded artefacts from Egypt to Syria to South America. Ancient cave drawings of strange creatures, remains of landing strips in Peru, and Indian texts that describe the "flying machines of the gods" were just a few of the odd archaeological artefacts cited by von Daniken as proof that ancient astronauts were well known to our ancestors. Presented in the 1968 bestselling book Chariots of the Gods by Erich von Daniken, the theory of "ancient aliens" rocked people's beliefs in mankind's progress. s03e16 - Aliens and the Creation of Man.s03e11 - Aliens and the Founding Fathers.s03e04 - Aliens and the Temples of Gold.

Season 3 Episode 1 of Ancient Aliens resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic. Corral, cowboys claimed to have shot at a giant, metallic bird Are these simply campfire tales, or did the cowboys and native people of America's Wild West actually come in contact with alien beings from another - much more distant - frontier? Episode Viewers and Ratings And even in Tombstone, Arizona, the home of Wyatt Earp and the site of the gunfight at the O.K. In southern California, 19th century ranchers reported seeing an otherworldly creature emerge from Elizabeth Lake. In Utah, petroglyphs depict strange beings wearing what look like space suits. If so, might we find evidence of this even in the stories of America's Old West? In Aurora, Texas, the local cemetery claims to hold the body of an alien whose ship crashed there in 1897. Ancient Astronaut theorists believe aliens have been visiting earth for thousands of years.
