That "ancient alien" theory finally fell apart for me after one dig in Utah

I used to watch those History Channel shows and think yeah, maybe there's something to it. Then I spent a week on a site near Moab last fall where a guy found a set of markings that supposedly looked like Egyptian hieroglyphs. We mapped them out and it turned out to be natural weathering over about 800 years. The guy running the dig showed me how the sand and wind just carve parallel lines if the rock is layered right. Felt pretty dumb for buying into it so long. Anyone else have a moment where a popular theory just crumbled once you saw the actual evidence?

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matthewross29d ago

Watched a whole season of that show before I realized the "alien carvings" in my backyard were just from my neighbor's sprinkler runoff. Ngl, we all want to believe something cool is out there.

bell.emma28d ago

@matthewross Did you actually try to dig them up to see if they were something, or just watch from the window? Because I feel like the moment you go outside with a shovel is when the neighbor starts waving angrily from their porch. Maybe the real alien artifact is the sprinkler system burying itself over time.