Ancient Aliens

Is it a bird or is it a plane?

Could be a fish?

thats what i thought
it's a fish

Chinese stealth fighter in disguise

If it was a fish, why doesn't it have a dorsal fin? I'd have said more a bird.
Here's another from the same batch.

Is it an eagle or a horse?

Neither. It's a hippogriff.

HoratioTarr wrote:Neither.  It's a hippogriff.

Again. Pearls before swine, I tell you.

Ben Reilly wrote:

Is it an eagle or a horse?

as HT said Ben it's a hippogriff

And Shut up tommy the picture is not photoshop

Argh ... my point is that ancient people dreamed up weird creatures! There's always a non-alien explanation

HoratioTarr wrote:If it was a fish, why doesn't it have a dorsal fin?  I'd have said more a bird.
Here's another from the same batch.

Pokemon

veya_victaous wrote:

HoratioTarr wrote:If it was a fish, why doesn't it have a dorsal fin?  I'd have said more a bird.
Here's another from the same batch.

Pokemon

aahaa!!!

Inca artifact proven to be a replica of an ancient… aircraft!

In the 1950s, North American scholars became aware of a series of 1.000 years old Inca aircraft-like gold artifacts, sent by Colombian government to further analysis in the USA. The conclusion of mainstream archeologists was that the artifacts were nothing but “stylized ceremonial birds“. These small gold figurines are approximately two inches in length and
estimated to date between 500 and 800 BCE from the civilization nerve, Chimu, or Mochica.  Some archaeologists have suggested that the figures depict animals, however, this seems most unlikely…

In the 1970s, maybe compelled by Erich Von Dänniken’s theory of the “Ancient Astronauts“, the biologist-zoologist Ivan T. Sanderson did new analysis in such objects and concluded that they were models of a high-speed aircraft with, at least, a thousand years old. He was supported by Dr. Arthur Poyslee, of the Aeronautical Institute of New York, that stated the objects represented no winged animal.

http://www.grandemisterios.com/2012/01/inca-artifact-proven-to-be-a-replica-of-an-ancient-aircraft/

There's more in the link provided. Seems a bit far-fetched but you never know. Something must have inspired someone to make a mould in that shape. Perhaps they saw something or got a visit from somewhere else. They are in the Gold Museum in Bogota.

Who knows?

veya_victaous wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:

Is it an eagle or a horse?

as HT said Ben it's a hippogriff

And Shut up tommy the picture is not photoshop

LOOKS LIKE a prop from the Xena and Hercules TV series, in that photo' there, veya ???

harry potter wolfie...thats where its from.....

HoratioTarr wrote:Is it a bird or is it a plane?

Inca winged god?

Lord Foul wrote:harry potter wolfie...thats where its from.....

More like it's from Virgil May have predated the Hellenic period in Greece.

They are Ancient artefacts.

In 1968, the Swiss author Erich von Däniken remarked in his world bestseller Chariots of the Gods? that, in his opinion, an artefact recovered from Columbia was nothing short of a prehistoric airplane. The statement was controversial, as archaeologists had catalogued the artefact as an insect. True, there is a difference in scale between an insect and an airplane, but what both had been studying was a small golden artefact, on display in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. Its explanation states: “gold artefact, a stylised insect, from the Quimbaya culture, Antioquia province, Columbia, ca. 1000-1500 AD.” Von Däniken was on a mission to try and find evidence of a prehistoric, high technological civilisation. Not content with making more out of the Atlantis molehill than had already occurred, his main interest were artefacts or buildings that were visible to each and all – but which he felt had been misinterpreted. This, von Däniken felt, was one such artefact: an airplane, not an insect.

In 1994, three Germans, Algund Eenboom, Peter Belting and Conrad Lübbers, decided to create a scale model of the “airplane”. They wanted to experiment with its flight capabilities. At the same time, they began to draw parallels between the features of this artefact and other similar artefacts – as well as insects, and airplanes.
The trio soon realised that the people of South America were always able depict insects and other flying animals anatomically correct. If this gold artefact was indeed an insect, than it was still an anomaly, as this “insect” was not depicted anatomically correct. The wings were at the bottom of the body, not the top; all insects have their wings at the top of the body. Still, even some planes do; in fact, most propeller planes do; only the more modern jet engine planes have their wings attached to the bottom of the body.
Eenboom, Beltung and Lübbers concluded this could therefore not be an insect. The design of the artefact nevertheless corresponded perfectly with the design of aircraft – and even the space shuttle and the supersonic Concorde.

By 1996, Peter Belting had created a scale model – an area he was well-versed in, so much so that his interest in the field of scale models had led to his decision to study the Columbian artefact. The scale model was baptised “Goldflyer I”. Built at a scale of 16:1, the plane measured 90 cm long, with a wingspan of approx. 1 metre. It weighed 750 gram. A propeller was added to the nose of the plane and the wings were equipped with the necessary flaps and rolls.
Early test flights were a success.

http://philipcoppens.com/bbl_plane.html