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Originally Posted by golfing eagles

I don't know GG, I think the revelation of proof of extraterrestrial visitation would be so disruptive to our religious institutions and social order that it probably would need to be kept secret, at least until society could acclimate to the possibility. Hollywood and the media have been producing movies that do this for 70 years, both good and bad aliens. I'm at a point that I would not be surprised if an alien ship landed in my backyard. When enough people feel the same way, maybe we'll have a big revelation, maybe not.

There are about a zillion things about our ancient history that we don't know, and I'm pretty convinced that the timeline of man's activity on this planet is flat out wrong. Why does that Hawasi guy continue to insist the great pyramid was built as a tomb for Khufu over a 20 year span around 2470 BC? It fit the traditional timeline of man just starting to form permanent settlements and switching from hunter-gatherers to agrarian settlements around 4-5000 BC. However, discovery of megalithic sites such as Gobeckli Teppe dating to 12,000 BC should pretty much dispel the traditional timeline, but so far it hasn't.

The ancient alien theorists can spin a lot of evidence and mysteries to make their case, but none of it is anywhere near conclusive. My main problem with it is threefold:

1) You have to be able to travel much faster than light, and then find us at a time that we had no electromagnetic footprint to follow

2) With all their advanced knowledge and technology, which would included extensive knowledge of material sciences, why would they choose to build structures out of 50 ton slabs of stone? I doubt they built their spaceships out of stone.

3) We are asked to believe that an alien race that can navigate the stars at FTL speeds, avoid stars, planets, nebulae, black holes and God knows what else, would come to Earth and have dozens of UFO crashes, a safety record worse than US Air.

The testing of the atomic bomb and the like could have drawn their attention as another poster pointed out. And they may be studying us by taking samples rather often of our DNA and the like.

Who knows about the pyramids and the like. Better to just train some of the ancient Egyptians in this science and then leave. But why? They would probably have ten thousand year plans or more though if they are very advanced.