Just watched the second episode. I was shocked that the history channel would fund such garbage. Where was the archeologist's balance?
Before watching the "Ancient Alien" series I had never heard of this theory, or I may have but not remembered it. I generally like to keep an open mind about many things, well as long as they make sense. I do believe there is life beyond our Earth and I do not deny the possibility of space faring civilizations simply because discounting self annihilation that is what our own future is looking like, but it is also entirely possible that we are also the most advanced civilization in our galaxy too. After watching these episodes which continuously degraded in quality and referencing; going from it's possible that advanced civilizations have visited us to such things as: slave labor, mating, conquest, aerial battles, power plants and etc. The latest episode "The Mission" explored the reasons why the aliens would come here These "Ancient Astronaut theorists" seemed OK in the first two episodes, but when they started giving their reasoning as to why even a hyper advanced galactic civilization would want to interact with us I got a little bit angry - they are delusional and completely out of touch with what is real science and evolution of technology.. my opinion.
I am not against the fact that an advanced civilization may have visited us, but I think it would have been a curious endeavor and not more than a probe for long term observation where the level of actual interaction and disturbance is kept to the absolute minimum. I ordered "the chariots of the gods"..lol
