Dwapara Yuga - Ancient Aliens - landing for 3rd series

At the end of July, the third series of this popular history channel show began airing again.

The subject matter and much of the evidence portrayed in the show are fascinating although the analysis is always the same, the only explanation given is "well... the aliens did it!"

The Yugas similarly explain many of the same phenomena, without recourse to "aliens".    It would be closed minded to be dogmatic in these matters, rather to consider the evidence and take some of the material with a pinch of salt.   The author is a fan of Ockham's Razor, preferring the most simple explanations over more fantastical ones, although even fantastical ones have their place and almost always contain elements of truth -- for example almost anything named the "devil's this or that" is likely worth investigating.  The same logic applies to controversial religious leaders, have they truly done wrong, or does their mission provoke a backlash from reactionary or negative forces?

After all the status quo is for people to remain dormant seeds of their true selves, going through life working for others (typically more awakened but materialistic) , paying taxes and being exploited to greater or lesser degrees for their intellectual or physical labor, never really growing much spiritually, creatively or culturally.  Those who do have such growth are the Yogananda's, the Warhol's or the Bezos' of the world -- as Yogananda put it "architects of their own destinies."  Yogananda's own Autobiography is dedicated to a pioneer Agricultural businessman, Luther Burbank.

Obviously, any television program has a primary mission to entertain and be profitable, although much of that is achieved by the Greek presenter who resembles the front man of a 1980s hair band and delivers the "aliens did it" punchline with aplomb.   It's good to see the Swiss Erick Von Daniken too, although his own showmanship and willingness to change facts to meet his narrative lead to serving time for fraud and embezzlement in the past.  

One particularly interesting episode revisits Joseph Smith, a figure important to both the Mormon Church and Self Realization Fellowship (a very large percentage of the church's US founders were converts) proposing an audacious and interesting hybrid of prophets and "aliens".

The same episode details an 1897 UFO crash site near Fort Worth, TX (right at the dawn of Dwapara Yuga) that even has its own State of Texas historical marker.   Fort Worth is where the 1947 Roswell Crash remains were moved to and sitings continue to the present day.   The area develops the world's most advanced fighter jets and historically has tested many experimental aircraft and space vehicles, so conventional explanations are very likely for many.   Just in this past week Amazon.com's own space vehicle crashed in Texas.   Operation Paperclip in 1945 first brought Nazi scientists to Texas to develop military and later commercial technologies so even the most fantastical conspiracy theories have grains of truth.

The area is regularly overflown by all varieties of helicopters, black or otherwise.   Much wealth was created in the 1960s and 1970s especially during the Vietnam War when the helicopter replaced the trucks of the WWII and Korean eras.