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Haha! I went to college with that guy. He was all about the aliens when he was just 18 years old in my intro to archaeology class. The professor got really tired of him saying the aliens answer in class about so many things. I wonder if his first word was aliens when he was a child?
To my one downvoter, I really did go to college with this guy and my testimony is true. It was the 1990s. It was Ithaca College. Later in life, the Ancient Aliens documentaries came out. My partner decided to watch them religiously. When I watched an episode with my partner and I saw my former college classmate, I said, "Holy shit! I went to college with this guy!" I have respect for him because, wow, he was a student at the School of Communications and he was doing any of his electives possible in our department in the School of Humanities, Anthropology. He didn't mind the impatience with him the Anthro profs expressed to him, which was blatant. I even ate lunch a lot with him in the Terraces Dining Hall and asked him lots of questions and got to know him. He was very certain about what he was going to do with his life. I often tried to talk him out of it because it sounded insane to me. And look at him now. Famous and in the media. So famous and in the media we've got old memes with his pic. He was from a family with money and I guess he came to the USA to study at Ithaca College's School of Communications because he thought it was a good fit for him. You know, he was on target and knew what he wanted to do with himself from a very young age. His idea, to me, are ridiculous. But he set out to do what he wanted to do in the media and he did it, with enormous success. Doesn't mean I think he's credible. He truly does believe in his theories and ideas, though. He always has, since he and I were 18 years old having lunch in the Terrace Dining Hall. That deserves major respect.