"Alien Artifacts" was one of my favorite episodes of the season for a number of reasons. Not the least of which was the incredible C-14 dates on the adhesive used to make some of the artifacts. Those mind-boggling dates beg the obvious question: Are they really that old or did someone figure out a way to make a glue that dates to eight thousand years before present and older! In pondering this question in the days after we filmed that final scene, I have come up with possible ways to make a glue that would date that far back and I hope to have the opportunity to test my idea. Setting the artifacts might not be as old as the testing says, what if they really are that old? If so, then we have to seriously consider the possibility that ancient cultures in MesoAmerica did interact with extraterrestrial beings as my friend Giorgio Tsoukalos of "Ancient Aliens" fame has been telling us for the past two decades. I've never given the idea aliens visiting us from other planets a serious thought. That is, until now... I'm not ready to jump on the bandwagon yet, but until we get to the bottom of how old these artifacts really are, who made them, and if the obvious reference to aliens, spaceships and the interaction of apparent aliens with early native cultures, we must maintain an open mind to these possibilities. Irronically, the week before the episode aired, curious articles like this one appeared on news feeds:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/navy-ufos-reporting-guidelines-updated-202515828.html Was this a coincidence, or something else? What do you think about these artifacts possibly being many thousands of years old?
Brendon Harris (left), Brandon Bouley (middle) and Janey Klebe (right with flashlight), prepare to film a scene inside a large circular cave with numerous interesting carvings deep in the jungle near Veracruz, Mexico.
Three "alien" artifacts the JAC Detectors showed me they said they found in the cave we explored in the jungle. The one on the lower right was clearly a fake with the cleverly carved letters "UFO". The one on the left has a phallic shape with amateur-looking carvings that included marks consistent with being made with a hand held rotary tool.
Thankfully, this species was NOT poisonous!
Just east of Mexico City we drove by the active volcano spewing steam into the atmosphere as we made our way to Veracruz to meet with the JAC Detectors.
Mark Russell watches as I examine one of his alien artifacts in my laboratory for areas with glue to test for age using the Carbon-14 method.
The front side of the artifact tested.
The back side of the artifact tested.
Janet Wolter and executive producer of America Unearthed, Andy Awes, behind the scenes during filming of the "Alien Artifacts" lab scenes.
This artifact of an elongated head that looks like an aliens is covered with scenes that include spaceships, planets, designs and numerous inlays of stone. This glue used in this artifact was C-14 tested and the result was 8620 years before present.
