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Ancient Aliens Debunked is for the most part a proper step-by-step debunking. The 'Ancient Aliens' History Channel show makes many ridiculous claims which are carefully taken apart and refuted.

Although the film is rather long, at 3 hours, this is understandable as there is a lot of material to cover. It's clearly structured making it easy to watch the subject you're interested in.

Be warned though. The director, Chris White, is a fundamentalist Christian and this unfortunately colors his perception on subjects related to biblical events. I was quite surprised to hear him suddenly make leaps of logic that would not have looked out of place on the 'Ancient Aliens' show. It boggles my mind how someone can analyze and debunk that show so logically and lucidly, while apparently being unable to apply that skill to his own beliefs.

Still, I would say 90% of the material presented is worthwhile and interesting. Just don't take White too seriously when he deals with claims involving biblical events.

Watching Ancient Aliens Debunked, the 2012 response to the popular series about the "ancient astronaut theory", is like visiting a Wikipedia page for a paper. As actual scientific inquiry, it doesn't fully hold up, but the film does a really good job at supplying you with the proper resources and directions you need to do your own research, or entertain you if you just want to see some decent bashing of the popular series.

As the latter, it's not that spectacular for the full three hours. It's a long sit, and although some sections hold up fine as pieces of documentary, watching the whole thing in one go does get pretty boring. It seems unfair to judge it for this, however, because unlike Ancient Aliens itself, it is nobly devoted to the truth, boring as it may be.

What does seem fair to judge it on, is its bias towards some Christian beliefs, in the sections about ancient texts on great floods and the nephilim, and its making the same argumentative mistakes as Ancient Aliens itself. In these sections, producer and narrator Chris White spills a lot of the credibility he built up in the preceding hours. He compensates this well by encouraging viewers to do their own research and form their own opinions. As is stressed in the film, one should only accept authority if what the authority says is true can in principle be discovered to be true. This is what ultimately makes the project worthwhile, although showing from the continued existence (and popularity) of the Ancient Aliens series, much work remains to be done...

The delivery of the audio speech is quite boring, honestly, but the data and debunking are on point, which is what matters in this age of countering so much B.S.

The diagrams and pictures of ancient manuscripts are very well thought-out and the author's writing in the script reads like a quality research paper.

Well done, Sir, I salute you!

Keep up the good debunking work, may we ever seek the truth, though it is most often shrouded.

~ Everett from Seattle, Washington, USA

This documentary is well research and Chris White does a fantastic job debunking many of the popular claims make by ancient astronaut "theorists". I would recommend this to any one who is interested in archaeology. It is a shame that debunks of pseudoscience has to be uploaded as a YouTube video rather than released as a tv series. I wish Chris all the best and would love to see a sequel in the future after 8 years.

As quite many a reviewer here tries to bolster their credulity by pointing to claimed reasonably existing questionmarks within the subject at hand (spoiler: in the commonly shared reality there are none), this genre of documentary isn't really needed if produced for the unity of the scientifically honest and reasonable, since they already know all about of what this has got to offer.

Having said that, it's simultaneously pointless to be released among the plethora of the deeply indoctrinated, be it alien abductees, conspiracy theorists, scientologists, creationists, cryptozoologists or what have you individuals detached from the idea of proper use of their cognitive resources.

Either way, for honest people on the brink of stepping out of their delusions and actually willing to do it, this can come in quite handy.

I agree with everything except the cutting of granite. The copper saws with sand still doesn't explain some of work done by our ancestors. We've forgotten skills.

Excellent i've been watching aliens for a number of years and often found their facts disturbingly easy to debunk with my own limited knowledge, what this documentary has done was to fill in a lot of the blanks left open by the series own so called experts. What an absolute sham This show is , and the "experts" nothing more then snake oil salesman!! The history channel does a disservice to its audience by promoting such farcical nonsense , TMBolli a former fan of the history channel,