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ancient astronauts

pseudoscientific claims of past alien contact
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Summary

ancient astronauts ranks in the top 0.32% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,922 views/month, #247 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: pseudoscience[2], conspiracy theory[3]
  • Commons category: Ancient astronauts[4]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Ancient astronaut speculation[5]
  • Different from: Lost Cosmonauts[6]

Why It Matters

ancient astronauts has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[7] It is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[8]

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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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