We have been visited by aliens before.

[whitewolfdemon99]

Well there is a show on the History channel talking about ancient astronaunts and some of the pictographes on the Aztec, Mayan, and Incan citie's walls show somethin that looked like a person on a ship of some kind that had fire shooting out from the bottom of it and it looked like it was ascending into the sky.

[Golden Dysprosium]

whitewolfdemon99

Well there is a show on the History channel talking about ancient astronaunts and some of the pictographes on the Aztec, Mayan, and Incan citie's walls show somethin that looked like a person on a ship of some kind that had fire shooting out from the bottom of it and it looked like it was ascending into the sky.

Oooooo ancient pictionary. Because clearly the idea of it being a sun god in a cloud shining light down is nowhere near likely. rolleyes
Show me a helipad in an dense, ancient jungle large enough to land a spaceship the size of a swimming pool on in the middle of a city and take the intense pressure from thrusters strong enough to propell it through space at hundreds of thousands of miles/s with lights on the pad so they could land at night and I'll take a second or two to re-think the highly implausible nature of it.

[Catharia]

old reliable

Some of these theories suggest that deities from most—if not all—religions are actually extraterrestrials, and their technologies were taken as evidence of their divine status.

Kree Jaffa, I'm sorry, I thought for a minute there I was IN stargate.

I think the tendency for archaelogists and anthropologists to read abit too far into ancient pictographs is rather disturbing.
Sure, this [insert pictograph of choice] could look like a helicopter, a spacesuit or a ufo. Who knows it could just be some punk kid (if indeed they had punk kids) scribbling on a wall. Who's to say they didn't have imaginations too (I'm pretty sure they did, mythology can be kooky), and that wasn't graffiti or an ad for some ancient form of viagra.

In essense sometimes interpretation of something as abstract as pictographs can be rather more subjective than usual scientific discipline requires, and most if not all may without even knowing it, squew what they see to fit their own beliefs, or the popular belief at the time.

[Golden Dysprosium]

Catharia

old reliable

Some of these theories suggest that deities from most—if not all—religions are actually extraterrestrials, and their technologies were taken as evidence of their divine status.

I think the tendency for archaelogists and anthropologists to read abit too far into ancient pictographs is rather disturbing. In essense sometimes interpretation of something as abstract as pictographs can be rather more subjective than usual scientific discipline requires, and most if not all may without even knowing it, squew what they see to fit their own beliefs, or the popular belief at the time.

But the most prominant ones aren't scientists. Like, at all. Most of them are just authors looking to make a quick buck from some stupid, starry-eyed people looking to believe in something magical. Guys like Erich von Däniken (Chariots of the Gods) has a long history of fraud.