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Heather Lynn Is Upset with Me

7/17/2026

Not many of you read my recent piece analyzing H Files creator Heather Lynn’s conspiracy theory about Zecharia Sitchin, Jeffrey Epstein, and an alleged Israeli effort to use ancient astronaut theory for propaganda purposes. But Lynn did, and last night she appeared in a 5-hour X Spaces conversation in which she complained not about my criticisms of her poor scholarship but rather about how offended she felt that I mentioned the undertones of antisemitism in her conspiracy theory. The irony was rich because Lynn—who uses a pseudonym—did this in the X Space of a social media personality who goes by the name Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum’s character from Jurassic Park) and who (ironically, given his handle) focuses on promoting conspiracy theories about Jewish influence in media and politics.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S22E12: “Hidden Messages” (Special Edition)

7/17/2026

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Oh, look: It’s another “special edition” of Ancient Aliens recycling segments from past shows. Last season, there were six clip shows across seventeen episodes, but they aired consecutively. This season, we have had five clip shows across the first twelve episodes, spread out in between new outings. As I believe most of you know, clip shows used to air under their own spin-off titles and were not counted as part of the mothership (ha!) series’ episode numbering. However, starting in 2023, Ancient Aliens began producing a different line of clip shows—billed as “Top Ten” episodes—that were officially part of the season. This allowed them to fill out a supersized 20-episode season with just 15 original episodes. Once they set the precedent, the number of Top Ten episodes increased even as the per-season episode order declined. This season, they gave entirely on the Top Ten conceit, and the official in-season clip shows are now indistinguishable from the clip shows that air as spin-off series and specials.

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"Now Voyager" Publishes Joint Profile of Graham Hancock and Flint Dibble

7/14/2026

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Now Voyager, a new magazine for longform journalism, published a new 8,000-word story about Graham Hancock’s and Flint Dibble’s 4.5-hour-long debate on The Joe Rogan Experience in 2024. “Bones of Contention,” by freelance culture and entertainment journalist Chantel Tattoli, who frequently writes for the New York Times, provides biographies of both men, a brief account of their debate, and short coda about the new projects both men undertook afterward. I feel like, given the length of the story and the convoluted path it took to publication (it is believed to be the story that compelled Hancock to appear on a recent podcast to defend himself), there should be more to say about it. But there is nothing new in the story, certainly nothing to justify spending $160 for an annual subscription to Now Voyager, or even $7 for the article. Far from the devastating portrait Hancock feared, it’s a fairly straightforward recital of what most of my readers already know.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S22E11: “Alien A.I.”

7/10/2026

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I suppose it was inevitable that Ancient Aliens would eventually get around to artificial intelligence. It’s a bit surprising that it took this long, but it takes time for the lazy producers at Prometheus Entertainment to wait around until they can rip their copy from online articles without having to do any real work. The conceit of this episode is that the A.I. tools that archaeologists and historians have begun to use to analyze artifacts and data might also be used to identify evidence of an extraterrestrial presence on Earth. But most of the show is devoted to discussing recent A.I. analysis of archaeological sites without any real alien connection until the end of the episode. It’s a fine line Ancient Aliens needs to walk in this episode since it might encourage its audience to ask ChatGPT about the show and discover it is B.S., which makes it all the stranger that Ancient Aliens doesn’t bother to distinguish between ChatGPT-style large language models and machine learning—or just “computers,” for that matter.

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Lue Elizondo Claims NASA Has Photos of Alien Monoliths on the Moon

7/8/2026

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In a live interview with former and current Japanese government officials on a Japanese podcast yesterday, UFO proponent Lue Elizondo claimed that the U.S. government has photographs of monolithic extraterrestrial towers on the moon and that these photos may be released soon. “There’s also photographs that I don’t believe have been made public yet that show on the lunar surface what appear to be large monolithic structures with right-angle cuts that appear to be on the lunar surface,” he said. “And I believe those photographs, if they have not been released yet, may be released soon.” One wonders why he does not know, but it is almost certainly because he is repeating secondhand information he gleaned from a different podcast rather than anything he saw firsthand.

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Unpacking Heather Lynn's Bizarre Zecharia Sitchin and Jefferey Epstein Conspiracy

7/7/2026

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For the past few days, I’ve been thinking about a piece by H Files creator and occasional Ancient Aliens talking head Heather Lynn, and I confess to finding it difficult to find a way to discuss this without running headlong into deeply uncomfortable territory. Lynn asserts that Zecharia Sitchin’s claim that the Anunnaki are space aliens is actually part of an Israeli propaganda campaign to support the state of Israel and combat Western intelligence agencies’ antisemitic efforts to control ancient history and deny the legitimacy of the Jewish god. Along the way, Lynn buts up against antisemitic stereotypes in positing a vast Jewish conspiracy to perform a hostile takeover of ancient history that somehow involves control of academic and Jeffrey Epstein, and the interpretations she places on the facts tend to spin increasingly far from the evidence.

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Avi Loeb Alleges Lockheed Martin Executive Confirmed Crash Retrievals

7/4/2026

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The head of Donald Trump's UAP Science Advisory Council, Harvard astronomer turned ufologist Avi Loeb, claimed that a former Lockheed Martin executive confirmed the recovery of crashed flying saucers. Speaking on the Fresh Freedom podcast of Congressional UFO enthusiast Rep. Eric Burlison, Loeb claimed that the revelation occurred when the former executive visited Loeb's house for a casual UFO chat, as one does. “I had a [former] high level executive from Lockheed Martin visit my home and I asked him, ‘Is there any truth to these claims?’ And he said ‘It’s not wrong,'” Loeb told Burlison. Of course, that is no proof, and we already know from declassified documents that the Department of Defense and defense contractors had programs that worked to retrieve crashed Soviet technology, so it is entirely possible that the ex-Lockheed official was merely referring to these efforts rather than alien spaceships. Loeb did not name the former executive, of course, because that might have led to accountability and action, and we cannot have that.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S22E10: UFO Sightings (Special Edition)

7/2/2026

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I’ll confess that I have nothing to say here. “UFO Sightings” as a title is Ancient Aliens giving up completely: a mish-mash of previously aired UFO segments without even the half-hearted framework of “The UFO Conspiracy” from 2018, “The Ultimate Guide to UFOs” in 2020, “The UFO Investigations” of 2022, or even the last time the show revisited sightings, in “UFO Hot Spots,” a similar clip show that aired earlier this season. So, instead I will point you to the open letter archaeologist Flint Dibble published challenging Ancient Aliens’ star Giorgio Tsoukalos to a debate after Tsoukalos lashed out at Dibble on X following Dibble’s YouTube video (which complimented Tsoukalos!), writing “Fuck you and your cuntish demeanor” and questioning Dibble’s sexual prowess. Dibble wrote that “I am assuming you will decline this offer after seeing my performance against Graham Hancock.” Giorgio Tsoukalos has never done any original research and has never published a book. Everything he says on Ancient Aliens he has borrowed from his mentor Erich von Däniken. He likely won't agree to a debate because he doesn't have the knowledge to go beyond glib generalizations.

The segments from past episodes that aired include:

The first segment from “The UFO Conspiracy” (2018) on government UFO investigations.
The second segment from “Aliens in Our Midst” (2025) on the “jellyfish” UFO over Iraq.
The second segment from “The Glowing Orb Phenomenon” (2025) on foo fighters.
The fourth segment from “The Time Benders” (2022) on the Rendlesham Forest UFO encounter.
A clip from the first segment of “Aliens in Our Airspace” (2023) on commercial airline UFO sightings.
A clip from the first segment of “The Ultimate Guide to UFOs” (2020) on the Nuremberg sighting of 1561.

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Ross Coulthart Accuses Lue Elizondo of Being a Front Man for the UFO Coverup

6/28/2026

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In his NewsNation Reality Check show, Ross Coulthart accused Lue Elizondo of being a part of the conspiracy to suppress the truth about UFOs. Coulthart alleged, without evidence, that sources in the UFO crash retrieval legacy program (which, of course, has no evidence proving its existence) identified Elizondo as a part of the crash retrieval program specifically chosen by former United States Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to serve as a front man for Clapper's effort to suppress the truth about UFOs.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S22E09 “The Wars of the Gods”

6/26/2026

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Do you remember last week’s Ancient Aliens? Well, the show sure hopes you don’t, since they repeat a chunk of last week’s episode in this one, rehashing the same material about Vedic texts and nuclear bombs from last week. In fact, most of this episode is made up of repeats, rehashes, and outtakes from previous episodes, sometimes featuring dead people and sometimes strung together so poorly that Giorgio Tsoukalos occasionally changes clothes and his age while he talks! If putatively the topic is the “wars of the gods,” it is treated as nothing more than a vague theme, with “war” taken to be anything from an all-out nuclear battle to two beings having a disagreement to popping a balloon. One gets the feeling that the producers needed an extra episode and decided to construct one out of leftovers.

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Heather Lynn Is Upset with Me

Review of Ancient Aliens S22E12: “Hidden Messages” (Special Edition)

"Now Voyager" Publishes Joint Profile of Graham Hancock and Flint Dibble

Review of Ancient Aliens S22E11: “Alien A.I.”

Lue Elizondo Claims NASA Has Photos of Alien Monoliths on the Moon

Unpacking Heather Lynn's Bizarre Zecharia Sitchin and Jefferey Epstein Conspiracy

Avi Loeb Alleges Lockheed Martin Executive Confirmed Crash Retrievals

Review of Ancient Aliens S22E10: UFO Sightings (Special Edition)

Ross Coulthart Accuses Lue Elizondo of Being a Front Man for the UFO Coverup

Review of Ancient Aliens S22E09 “The Wars of the Gods”

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