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Cowboy UFO lore gives HISTORY a different Wild West

Ancient Aliens supplies the week's most-watched upload, while American Pickers finds more earthly treasures in Arizona.

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Close Encounters in the American West | Ancient Aliens

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0:00An 1890 Tombstone newspaper story supplies the opening account of a giant winged creature reportedly shot by cowboys.
5:31A Montana trapper's reported 1865 encounter introduces a glowing object and an inscribed hollow stone.
8:48Commentators interpret spiral-patterned petroglyphs at Nevada's Winnemucca Lake through the show's ancient-astronaut theory.
18:14The compilation turns to the 2004 USS Nimitz encounter and military UFO footage.
36:26Giorgio Tsoukalos interviews Erich von Däniken at AlienCon about the legacy of Chariots of the Gods?.
39:37At UC Irvine, John Southon demonstrates how nuclear fallout can affect radiocarbon dating.

Arizona offers two very different kinds of discoveries in HISTORY's latest lineup: strange objects in the sky and collectible finds on a picker's property.

The larger audience went to "Close Encounters in the American West | Ancient Aliens," which has reached roughly 850,000 views. The compilation opens with an 1890 newspaper account of cowboys shooting a giant winged creature near Tombstone, then moves through reported sightings, Indigenous traditions and Nevada petroglyphs. These are presented through Ancient Aliens' extraterrestrial theories, rather than as established explanations.

Giorgio A. Tsoukalos joins the familiar cast of commentators, and later interviews Chariots of the Gods? author Erich von Däniken at AlienCon. Viewers are making the obvious movie connection: Cowboys & Aliens keeps coming up in the comments. Others focus on how people in different eras describe unfamiliar things using the language available to them.

HISTORY posted sixteen videos altogether. "A Wild West Picker's Paradise | American Pickers (S4, E3) | Full Episode" brings Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz to Arizona for antiques rather than aerial mysteries. Elsewhere, Rick and Marty Lagina explore possible origins of Oak Island's supposed hidden treasure, while an Antarctic Ancient Aliens marathon asks whether an advanced civilization could lie beneath the ice.

The subscriber total stayed unchanged, and daily views are slightly below the channel's usual level. Nearby in size, BBC and Dropout are also drawing fewer daily views than usual, while Comedy Central is close to its normal rhythm. Within HISTORY's own catalog, the American West compilation, Oak Island theories and Antarctic marathon are the three uploads attracting the most views each day.

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So the Cowboys vs Aliens movie wasn’t entirely fiction…
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Giorgio, why do you think they made the movie *"Cowboys & Aliens?"*
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One of my favorite series. Very entertaining ❤🏛👽
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