8.9/1021 votesLoading...#1 - Resurrecting Puma Punku
Season 20 Episode 20 - Aired 9/13/2024
Puma Punku in Bolivia features stone blocks, each carved with precision; the blocks lie scattered across the landscape, confusing archaeologists as to what the ancient site might have been.
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8.8/1033 votesLoading...#2 - Mysteries of the Maya
Season 20 Episode 11 - Aired 6/28/2024
Considered by many to be the greatest civilization in the history of the Americas, the Maya thrived for more than 2,000 years. Now, new evidence is being discovered that completely upends our understanding of this ancient culture... and might provide evidence that the Maya came in contact with extraterrestrial visitors.
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8.6/1026 votesLoading...#3 - The Linda Moulton Howe Files
Season 20 Episode 18 - Aired 8/30/2024
For more than four decades, award-winning journalist Linda Moulton Howe has covered the most mysterious phenomena on Earth. Could her investigations on everything from bizarre animal deaths to crop formations and alien abductions lead us to a profound new reality?
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8.5/1025 votesLoading...#4 - Egypt's Giant Tombs
Season 20 Episode 17 - Aired 8/23/2024
Deep beneath the sands of Egypt lie 24 enormous sarcophagi, and every one of them is empty; discussing what purpose those giant tombs had served.
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8.4/1027 votesLoading...#5 - The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Season 20 Episode 14 - Aired 7/19/2024
For thousands of years, humankind has attempted to make contact with beings from beyond Earth; now, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is ramping up, with new technologies allowing individuals to explore the universe.
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8.4/1026 votesLoading...#6 - Jacques Vallée: UFO Pioneer
Season 20 Episode 15 - Aired 8/9/2024
Dr. Jacques Vallée has many scientific degrees, is a best-selling author and is regarded as one of the internet's founding fathers. But he is best renowned for his groundbreaking work on the subject of UFOs, where his bold theories call into question our understanding of alien life.
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8.3/1032 votesLoading...#7 - Unlocking the Stargates
Season 20 Episode 12 - Aired 7/5/2024
For thousands of years, cultures around the world have held a belief in stargates through which beings have traveled to Earth from distant points in the universe and even other dimensions. Could such portals truly exist? And if we obtain the key to unlocking the stargates, will we find a cosmos teaming with life?
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8.2/1047 votesLoading...#8 - Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet
Season 19 Episode 15 - Aired 8/4/2023
In the early 1900s, a modern-day prophet from the hills of Kentucky became a worldwide sensation: Edgar Cayce. He claimed to receive visions of both the past and the future while in a trance, he healed the sick, and alleged to have encounters with otherworldly beings. Could it be that Edgar Cayce was a vessel used to carry out an alien agenda?
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8.2/1028 votesLoading...#9 - The Whistleblowers
Season 20 Episode 13 - Aired 7/12/2024
For decades, incredible claims have been made about an extraterrestrial presence on Earth, and the government has gone to great lengths to discredit them.
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8.1/1067 votesLoading...#10 - Mystery of the Lost Civilization
Season 19 Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/2023
The discovery of the ancient megalithic site of Karahan Tepe in southern Turkey turned the world of archaeology on its head, displaying engineering skills far beyond what the people of the time were thought to be capable of. But could new evidence reveal that this more than 11,000-year-old complex was built not by humans…but giants?
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8.0/10111 votesLoading...#11 - The Alien Architects
Season 12 Episode 4 - Aired 5/19/2017
Many of the architectural marvels of the ancient world bear striking similarities to one another, even though they were built by civilizations that were separated by thousands of miles and are believed to have had no contact with one another. Separated by more than 7500 miles, the Giza pyramid complex in Giza, Egypt and the Avenue of the Dead in Teotihuacan, Mexico contain pyramids that are aligned with the constellation of Orion's belt. An ancient pyramid temple in Cambodia known as Baksei Chamkrong is an almost identical match for the Temple of the Jaguar in Guatemala. Many structures built using stone slabs that weighed over a hundred tons. But how did primitive people achieve such extraordinary feats? And why do we see such similarities? Could these sites have all been designed by alien architects?
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8.0/1054 votesLoading...#12 - Aliens in our Airspace
Season 19 Episode 9 - Aired 3/10/2023
Terrifying encounters at 40,000 feet. Pilot accounts of UFOs taking control of their aircraft. Entire jumbo jets disappearing into thin air. Since the dawn of aviation, pilots have experienced unexplainable events in the sky. Could they have witnessed aliens in our airspace?
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8.0/1024 votesLoading...#13 - The Teachers
Season 20 Episode 16 - Aired 8/16/2024
Stories of god-like beings providing instruction to early humans, helping establish the first civilizations; exploring if mysterious figures who appear throughout history provide evidence that these otherworldly teachers have been here all along.
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7.9/10195 votesLoading...#14 - The Mystery of Puma Punku
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 3/16/2012
At nearly 14,000 years old, the ruins of Puma Punku are the oldest and most baffling on the face of the Earth. No one knows who designed and built this complex of sophisticated inter-locking blocks, and then vanished. Researchers investigate the ruins on-location in Peru and present new computer analyses. Forensic evidence on the ground, together with local myths and legends, suggest this site may have been designed and even once inhabited by a species of extraterrestrials.
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7.9/10124 votesLoading...#15 - Space Station Moon
Season 11 Episode 11 - Aired 7/29/2016
It was mankind's finest hour, the greatest technological achievement of the 20th Century--the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. But the Apollo program was short-lived, and after Apollo 17 in 1972, we never went back. Could it be that we encountered something--or someone--on the Moon? Did the Apollo astronauts witness more than NASA wants us to know? The Moon is the most visible celestial body in the night sky and is essential to life on Earth. But what if the Moon is not the natural object we believe it to be? Unidentified lunar objects in NASA photography may point to extraterrestrial structures on the moon, and possibly evidence of what lies beneath the surface. Some Ancient Astronaut theorists have even suggested that the Moon is actually an artificial object, placed in its current position by otherworldly beings thousands of years ago.
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7.9/10131 votesLoading...#16 - The Mystery of Nan Madol
Season 15 Episode 1 - Aired 1/25/2020
Giorgio Tsoukalos and David Childress explore the mysterious chain of manmade islets in Micronesia's Nan Madol; built from 250 million tons of volcanic rock, there are local legends that strange visitors floated the massive rocks through the air.
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7.9/10117 votesLoading...#17 - William Shatner Meets Ancient Aliens
Season 16 Episode 6 - Aired 2/12/2021
In this extraordinary two-hour special, Shatner will bring thought-provoking questions to the leading experts of the show. Ancient Astronaut theorists Giorgio Tsoukalos, Erich von D niken, David Childress, William Henry and Linda Moulton Howe will be joined by former British Ministry of Defense investigator Nick Pope, rocket scientist Dr. Travis Taylor, theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku, and religious history experts Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok and Reverend Michael Carter. They will explore everything from human origins to groundbreaking archaeological finds, new understandings of the cosmos and the profound possibility that we are not alone in the universe.
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7.9/1093 votesLoading...#18 - Impossible Artifacts
Season 16 Episode 7 - Aired 2/19/2021
Throughout the world, ancient objects have been found that leave archaeologists at a loss. Could these impossible artifacts suggest that advanced--and perhaps even extraterrestrial--civilizations existed on Earth thousands of years before our own?
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7.9/1062 votesLoading...#19 - Return of the Egyptian Gods
Season 18 Episode 20 - Aired 9/16/2022
In the 20th century, a mysterious British woman who claimed to be the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian priestess shocked Egyptologists by accurately locating countless structures and artifacts in the Nile Valley. Could it be that she was carrying out an otherworldly agenda–and preparing for the return of the Egyptian gods?
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7.9/1055 votesLoading...#20 - The Top Ten Pyramid Sites
Season 19 Episode 11 - Aired 6/30/2023
Ancient Aliens is counting down the world’s top ten pyramid sites, from a valley in Peru with over 250 hidden pyramids to an ancient Greek city with mysterious 4800-year-old ruins to Egypt’s famous Giza Plateau. Could the extraordinary structures that stand at these sites provide evidence of extraterrestrial visitation?
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7.9/1040 votesLoading...#21 - The New UFO Hunters
Season 19 Episode 17 - Aired 8/18/2023
In the 21st century, UFOs have gone from fringe science to mainstream obsession. A new generation of UFO hunters is employing incredible technology, and Unidentified Flying Objects are being openly investigated by the government. Are we closer than ever to understanding the strange events happening in our skies?
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7.9/1045 votesLoading...#22 - Secrets Of The Sumerians
Season 20 Episode 7 - Aired 2/23/2024
More than 7,000 years ago, the ancient Sumerians established what is considered the world's first civilization and they credited their extraordinary achievements to their gods, the Anunnaki. But is it possible that these powerful beings were, in fact, extraterrestrial visitors to Earth?
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7.8/10136 votesLoading...#23 - Pyramids of Antarctica
Season 11 Episode 1 - Aired 5/6/2016
Is there evidence of ancient technology buried beneath the ice of the most southern continent?
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7.8/10125 votesLoading...#24 - Destination Mars
Season 11 Episode 2 - Aired 5/13/2016
Within 20 years, we are expecting to send the first colonizers to the Red Planet. Astronauts will brave the six-month journey to become the first extraterrestrials visitors to Mars--where they are expected to live and die there, never to return to Earth. But why have we always had a strange fascination with this particular planet? The latest NASA research has revealed that not only is there evidence of liquid water on the planet, but that life on Earth was most likely seeded on Mars. Ancient Astronaut theorists even suggest that the development of life on Earth may have similarities to how scientists are currently planning to keep humans alive on the red planet. Could extraterrestrials from Mars have colonized Earth in our remote past? Could our voyage to Mars not only unlock the mysteries of our ancient, extraterrestrial origins--but also be the key to the long-term survival of the human species?
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7.8/10114 votesLoading...#25 - The Majestic Twelve
Season 12 Episode 9 - Aired 7/7/2017
In 1984, a roll of 35mm film surfaced from an anonymous source that contained pictures of what is now known as the Eisenhower Briefing Document. This document is purported to be a memo sent from the director of the CIA in 1952 to president-elect Dwight Eisenhower, informing him of the existence of a top-secret group within the US government called "The Majestic Twelve." Composed of top scientists, government officials, and military elite, this group's mission was to investigate reports of unidentified flying objects--and to examine crashed extraterrestrial craft. And more recently, in 2002, a major computer hack into Pentagon and NASA computers appears to reveal hard evidence that not only are the Majestic Twelve documents real, but that the government's interaction with extraterrestrials has led to the creation of a secret space program, that has already established bases on the moon, Mars, and other celestial bodies.
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The Best Episodes of Ancient Aliens
Every episode of Ancient Aliens ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Ancient Aliens!
Did intelligent beings from outer space visit Earth thousands of years ago? From the age of the dinosaurs to ancient Egypt, from early cave drawings...
Genres:DocumentaryMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:History
Best Episodes Summary
"Resurrecting Puma Punku" is the best rated episode of "Ancient Aliens". It scored 8.9/10 based on 21 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/13/2024. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Mysteries of the Maya".