ancient astronauts
Aliens influenced civilization
Ancient astronauts are hypothetical extraterrestrial beings who supposedly visited Earth in prehistoric times and influenced early human civilizations.
Proponents claim that ancient monuments, religious texts, and archaeological mysteries are evidence of alien contact.
The idea is rejected by mainstream science and archaeology but remains popular in fringe theories and entertainment: That documentary about ancient astronauts building the pyramids.
- pseudoscienceBogus methodology posing as factual
- cargo cultsWorship imitating foreign technology
- AtlantisMythical sunken island
- crop circlesPatterns in flattened grain
- aliensBeings from other worlds
UFOs · astronautics · Area 51 · sacred geometry · Quetzalcoatl · spaceship · interventionism · theorists · technosignatures · Fermi paradox · lost civilizations · alternative history · pyramids · creation myths · flying saucers · monoliths · cave paintings · interstellar travel
- aliensE.T., grey alien, aliens, grey aliens, grays
- originsbeginning, birth, creation, source, roots
- Ancient Aliensextraterrestrial contact, alien gods, sky people, sky gods, alien artifacts
- UFO LoreUFOs, flying saucers, alien abduction, alien abductions, close encounters
- Earth Mysteriesley lines, alignments, Nazca Lines, power points, power spots
- Fringe Sciencecold fusion, perpetual motion, alchemy, astrology, phrenology
ancient astronautsscientific consensus
Prevailing expert judgment
scholarly consensus · empirical research · scientific method
ancient astronautscultural evolution
Nongenetic inheritance of practices
ancient, antique, ancestor, ancestry, ancestral, antiquity, astronauts, ancients, antiquarians