I am Giorgio A. Tsoukalos from ANCIENT ALIENS, Ask Me Anything.

What's up with that hairstyle? Do you still have it?

What hair?

Who do you get most recognized as? The expert from Ancient Aliens or that guy from the memes?

I think it's both, about 50/50.

How do you feel about the trucker that accidentally drove through/over the nazca lines a few months ago?

When i came across that news story, I actually screamed out loud at my screen...What?! To this day, I cannot imagine what that guy was thinking and how he ever ended up in the sand with his truck.

Do you own a shirt with your face on it?

Yes, I sell them.

What is your best evidence of aliens existing?

I don't think that there is one single piece of evidence that I prefer as the best; however, it is a collection of all the circumstantial evidence that the ancient astronaut theory has collected over the past decades.

If you were abducted by aliens, what would you most like to ask them?

Before asking my first question, I would thank them for finally showing up in public.

Hey Giorgio, thanks for doing an AMA! How did you feel when you first found out you had been made into a meme?

I love the meme. I had nothing to do with it, but I think it’s great and it illustrates the love and enthusiasm that people worldwide have for the show and the topic. I find it all hysterical. The meme grew very organically. I love that people use it whenever something mysterious happens or there are open questions or something bizarre happens --even though I have to say I have never publicly said that the answer to all open-ended question is aliens. The words of the main tagline of the meme have never crossed my lips. (laughs)

What made you believe in aliens?

When I was a little boy, my Grandmother who was a devout Catholic thought it was a great idea to read different bedtime stories to me and from time to time she would read Edgar Cayce's "Atlantis" and also "Chariots of the Gods." And then, about six to eight years later, I rediscovered the books by Erich von Daniken and I devoured his books and I was very intrigued by his ideas and concepts. So, I have to thank my Grandmother for planting the initial seed.

How long have you been working in the field of “aliens”?

I have been interested in and explored the extraterrestrial question since my early teens, and I began publishing my magazine Legendary Times in 1998, so I have followed this path for quite a while now.

Do you believe time travel is possible? Can humans achieve time travel?

Great question! While I do think that in the far and distant future time travel may be possible, one issue that is rarely discussed when talking about time travel is the question of energy requirements. It is a statistical fact that the energy requirements for fueling a spaceship that can travel from star to star is infinitely less than the fuel requirements needed for powering up a time travel machine. Therefore, personally, I think that before we will master time travel, we will have long colonized the rest of our galaxy.

Love your show, never missed an episode, but I admit half is informative and half is entertainment, and all is taken with a more than healthy dose of skepticism.

I love finding out more about places like Pumapunku and Göbekli Tepe, things like elongated skulls and interesting artifacts, as well as investigating religious views from a different lens, but some of the stuff seems far less credible (crystal skulls, Bolivia’s hidden pyramids).

I appreciate your stance of questioning mainstream archaeology, but do you ever feel like you’re doing more harm than good for your cause when you go off the rails with some of these things?

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Our team goes through great lengths to make sure that the topics presented on Ancient Aliens are thoroughly vetted, and the one thing that sets Ancient Aliens apart from many other shows is that the opinions of various experts are not edited to follow a specific agenda. Therefore, I encourage the viewers themselves to go out there and conduct their own research by reading books and other materials so that everyone can form their own opinions.

Star Trek or Star Wars?

Star Wars all the way (and the prequels do not exist in my universe).

Do you believe "aliens" permeate our galaxy today ?

No question! Because statistically speaking, when you take into consideration the Drake equation, even if you were to enter the worst parameters you will still end up with at least 10,000 civilizations in our galaxy alone. Imagine this for a moment: there are more galaxies in the universe than there are grains of sand in all the beaches of our planet combined.

What’s the most alien thing you have seen in person?

That would be the UFO I saw together with 28 other witnesses in August of 2014.

I know you have visited many ancient sites over the years such as Puma Punka/Tiwanaku, Nazca, Delphi, etc. I would like to know of all the places you have visited which one did you feel the most "energy" or that gut feeling of there is somethinf more than meets the eye here?

Puma Punku, Bolivia.

If our ancestors had some sort of communication with other worldly beings, how come today everything is different from the past?

Because our technological frame of reference today is different than the technological frame of reference of our ancestors. Today, if and when the proverbial spaceship lands on the White House lawn, we would recognize the pilots of that UFO as extraterrestrials. However, many thousands of years ago, our ancestors had no technological reference point for what a UFO actually is. So, it all boils down to misunderstood technology.

Why do aliens visit earth?

Because according to the ancient astronaut theory, aliens helped jumpstart civilization here on earth many, many thousands of years ago. And, even though some of these aliens were here thousands of years ago because we are their offspring, some of them may have been here the entire time to observe the progress our planet has made since their arrival in the far and distant past.

Do you ever wonder if we've disappointed them?

That’s a great question and I think the answer is obvious. However more often than not, in the end, parents do forgive their children.

Do you believe they still exist on Earth? If so, in what form?

Clearly, there is something going on up in the sky, with the modern UFO phenomenon. So one has to ask the question, are these ariel sightings of human origin, or are they perhaps from elsewhere?

Which was your favourite episode of Ancient Aliens?

That is a very difficult question since I’ve been intimately involved in every episode since the beginning.

What's your favorite band?

My favorite band is Marillion and they are from England. If you want to go check out their tunes, please head over to marillion.com

What's your favorite alien story?

There are too many floating around in my head and it would be a disservice to only mention one, because the ancient astronaut theory only works when you look at all the ancient stories collectively.

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I think because the information that we explore on "Ancient Aliens" is in the public domain and it addresses interesting alternative ideas about humanities origins.

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This is exactly what makes this research fun. Because imagine if we were given all the answers without hesitation? Where would the fun be in continuing our search?

Do you believe that clairvoyants could cross the dimensions to speak to aliens? What do you think about conversations with aliens, thought to be spirit?

Your guess is as good as mine.

Hey man huge fan, I was wondering Do you personally think aliens provided us with knowledge and technology and if so what do you think their end goal is ?

I think the most valuable thing in the universe is the transfer of knowledge. So it is almost self-explanatory that once we as a human species travel to another planet that we pass on our knowledge to a lesser technologically advanced society. So the end game throughout the universe is the transfer and expansion of knowledge.

Thanks for all the great questions. This was a lot of fun. Enjoy watching tonight's new episode, please tell your friends about Ancient Aliens and keep tuning in.