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ancient astronauts

pseudoscientific claims of past alien contact
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ancient astronauts

Summary

ancient astronauts ranks in the top 0.32% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,330 views/month, #247 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • ancient astronauts is a type of pseudoscience[2].
  • ancient astronauts is a type of conspiracy theory[3].
  • ancient astronauts's Commons category is recorded as Ancient astronauts[4].
  • ancient astronauts's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ancient astronaut speculation[5].
  • ancient astronauts's different from is recorded as Lost Cosmonauts[6].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include pseudoscience[2] and conspiracy theory[3].

Why It Matters

ancient astronauts ranks in the top 0.32% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,330 views/month, #247 of 77,819).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[7] It is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[8]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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