The RockArtBlog 2025 Certifiable Rock Art Prevarication Award goes to the purveyors of nonsense on the internet claiming that rock art at a site in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, India, illustrate ancient alien visitors to earth 10,000 years ago (this also applies to any other examples of such felgercarb).
My own experience with this sillyness goes back in the early 1980s. After a trip to Dinosaur National Monument I showed this photograph of the above anthropomorphic petroglyphs to a coworker who said “see, you can’t tell me that Earth hasn’t been visited by aliens from outer space.” Well, I am trying to tell you now!
More recently, reports in the Times of India have been circulating that are identified as images of aliens by so-called archeologists there. “An archaeologist of India found 10,000 year old paintings depicting Aliens and UFOs in a cave near Chhattisgarh, India. According to archaeologist J.R. Bhagat, these paintings have depicted aliens like those shown in Hollywood and Bollywood flicks and say they may serve as evidence that earth was once visited by an advanced alien civilization.” (archaeologynewsnetwork.com 2022) Now J.R., doesn’t the fact that they do look like depictions from Bollywood give you reason to question them?
The Times of India continues, “According to archaeologists these ancient rock carvings represent 10,000-year-old depictions of ancient aliens and UFOs. Scientists are now trying to unravel the mystery behind the curious paintings and seek help from NASA, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) and other archaeologists in order to learn more about the origin of these carvings. The rock paintings were discovered in caves located about 130 kilometers from Raipur, the capital city of the state of Chhattisgarh, India. According to the Times of India, archaeologist J.R. Bhagat says these paintings depict aliens in spacesuits.” (thearchaeologist.org 2025) One question Mr. Bhagat, if an alien has the advanced technology to travel all the way to earth do you really think he would need to wear a baggy spacesuit like our astronauts do? Wouldn’t he be more likely to wear a portable force-field generator, or just beam down from orbit like on Star Trek?
The people who disseminate this kind of nonsense apparently seem to strenuously avoid actually thinking these things through. Maybe there is a dearth of intelligent life on this planet. This leads to the disseminators of these reports as the proud recipients of the RockArtBlog 2026 C.R.A.P Award. Thank you for your contributions.
REFERENCES:
Anonymous, 2022, 10,000-year-old cave paintings depicting aliens found in India, 25 April 2022, archaeologynewsnetwork.com. Accessed online 21 December 2025.
The Archaeologist, 2024, 10,000-Year-Old Rock Paintings In Chhattisgarh Hint At Ancient Encounters With “Aliens” And “UFOs”, 5 November 2024, thearchaeologist.org. Accessed online 21 December 2025.
Drolia, Rashmi, 2014, 10,000-year-old rock paintings depicting aliens and UFOs found in
Chhattisgarh, 15 July 2014, The Times of India. Accessed online 21 December
2025.
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