Experts present their evidence of ancient aliens roaming Earth at Contact in the Desert

The world is full of unanswered questions. And while it’s alright to admit if you don’t have an answer, the questions still need to be asked.

At least that was the consensus of experts and attendees at Contact in the Desert, an annual conference devoted to all things extraterrestrial. Hundreds of people gathered in at the Renaissance Resort and Spa in Indian Wells over the weekend, bound together by the belief that there’s something more to our world and the universe than many people realize or believe.

The meeting, normally held in nearby Joshua Tree—an altogether more eclectic town than Indian Wells—was moved to the resort because the increasing number of attendees were looking for a little more luxury than they were finding in the high desert, organizers told The Desert Sun before the event.

While the subject of aliens, specifically contact with extraterrestrials and their presence on earth, has often drawn mocking and charges of pseudoscience, Contact in the Desert featured a lineup that boasted PhDs, a former congressman, a Naval pilot, a man who researched UFOs for the British government and a former NASA employee who worked on the Apollo moon missions, among others.

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Conference-goers were treated to lectures and workshops on everything from UFO sightings, crop circles, the influence of aliens on ancient human societies and the relationship between military forces and extraterrestrial beings.

One of Sunday’s featured speakers, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, famous for being the guy with the wild hair on the History Channel program “Ancient Aliens,” spoke about what he said were examples of the contact between ancient peoples of Earth and extraterrestrial beings.

He also cleared up some burning questions. Yes, aliens need space suits. YouTube is no longer a bearer of truth. No, the Earth is not flat.

“If the alien guy says that the Earth is round, trust me, it’s round,” Tsoukalos said.

In his two-hour talk, he stressed his belief that technological developments brought to ancient people by aliens have been misrepresented as those ancient peoples’ belief in magic or spirituality, and he was dismissive of many modern scientists, “gods” and religion.

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“The reason that we’re in the crap that we’re in today is because of misunderstood technology,” he said. “The reason we have religions today is because of misunderstood visits of extraterrestrials.”

However, he did make the point that extraterrestrials, and those who believe in their existence, can still be spiritual and “wonder about God and who she is.”

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Tsoukalos’ discussion, and the entire theory of ancient aliens, boils down to one thing: misunderstood technology. He said examples of ancient technology, including the pyramids in Giza or Central America, and ancient art and literature pointed to signs of alien contact with Earth-dwellers and their sharing technology with less advanced societies.

He read from ancient texts to illustrate his point, including a 12th century Sanskrit manuscript, which had a passage that appeared to describe seeing an airplane fly overhead, hearing the sound and seeing the contrails. He also showed examples of artwork or sculptures that depicted airplanes or beings in spacesuits.

Tsoukalos said that while some archaeologists and historians were doing great work, they often dismissed artwork depicting possible extraterrestrials as being beliefs in gods or magic or depictions of animals, which he said was an insult to the intelligence of older civilizations. He also said many failed to dig deeper and ask questions about how ancient sites that required tools for construction came to be and why.

“We, people like us, are at least entertaining the question ‘where did it all come from?’,” he said to those attending his talk.

Eventually, he speculated, humans would become the deep space explorers, and share agriculture and engineering with alien societies less technologically advanced than those on Earth.

A line from early on in Tsoukalos’ workshop summed up the message of Contact in the Desert. He told the crowd that there were more galaxies in the universe than grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth.

“And you have to ask yourself in that scenario, are we the only ones out there? No.”

Corinne Kennedy covers the west valley for The Desert Sun. She can be reached at Corinne.Kennedy@DesertSun.com or on Twitter @CorinneSKennedy