Kind of an old idea. Authur C. Clark’s old scifi book “Childhood’s End” has that as a premise (though in his case the aliens were our visual model for devils—wings, tails, horns, redish complexion...)
Probably because even the ancient aliens guy with the hair (read: the Bayes-uninitiated, the epistemically lenient etc) intuits that it would be extremely unlikely for ancient gods and UFO aliens to be unrelated. The astronomers of the Air Force’s old Project Blue Book converged on the same solution space. Lovecraft was early once again!
Kind of an old idea. Authur C. Clark’s old scifi book “Childhood’s End” has that as a premise (though in his case the aliens were our visual model for devils—wings, tails, horns, redish complexion...)
Probably because even the ancient aliens guy with the hair (read: the Bayes-uninitiated, the epistemically lenient etc) intuits that it would be extremely unlikely for ancient gods and UFO aliens to be unrelated. The astronomers of the Air Force’s old Project Blue Book converged on the same solution space. Lovecraft was early once again!