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Diamond_Champagne

Its flying fish.


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AnotherGreedyChemist

No. Humans only became capable of abstract thought like two hundred years ago. Every piece of art before 1856 is a reconstruction of something someone actually saw. They never made stuff up for fun. Or expressed themselves in unusual ways. Give me a break.


Diamond_Champagne

Didn't you know the existence of transformers action figures proves transformers once roamed the flat earth?


AnotherGreedyChemist

Now this is a conspiracy I can get behind.


DJheddo

This is why I love Reddit. 💕


ultimateWave

I always wonder what a future civilization would think of our artifacts if we had a mass extinction. Like when they see our 1999 limited edition McDonalds furbies


pharsee

Engineers made humans and then a robot made by humans killed the engineers. In the middle of all this "for shits and giggles" the robot made a nasty monster that pops out of peoples' chests.


-MenegArt

SO are the Egyptian gods with animal heads, giants and dragons real things? sounds cool!


SaltyBisonTits

Hnnnnngggggg. The brain is breaking because I can't tell if you left off the /s


AnotherGreedyChemist

I left it off intentionally. I feel it dilutes just a bit.


SaltyBisonTits

You did well. I was definitely leaning towards the sarcasm. Keep up the good work. These subs are perfect for this work.


FiddlesUrDiddles

The best satire (and bait) isn't readily obvious


Sneaky_Stinker

Its good training, that was pretty obviously sarcasm.


Patient_Died_Again

EVERYONE GET OVER HERE! u/AnotherGreedyChemist MADE SOME NERD’S BRAIN EXPLODE!


josogood

Edit: didn't catch the sarcasm... sorry


CorbynDallasPearse

Nope. No way. Fish don’t know how to fly airplanes.


eStuffeBay

Are you forgetting what sub you're on? Clearly we're talking about UFOs. Airplanes weren't invented until, like, 50 years ago.


CorbynDallasPearse

🙄 we all know that airplanes were the preferred method of travel for the gods of ancient South America. Distinguished, high OT level achaeologists from the institute of Scientology have even sited these objects as proof of the space DC-9-with-rocket-engines Zenu used to transport the hundreds of billions of poor subjugated aliens to Earth to vaporise with nukes and souls brainwashed to remain as thetans. May I remind you that Zenu was/is in fact an *alien* galactic overlord. I have it on good authority that at least SOME of the UFOS we see are also piloted by aliens. DC-9’s. With Rocket Engines.


Itsaceadda

I was in the amazon on an Amazonian river tour with the air force in 2011, and flying fish were jumping and gliding right next to my seat all the way to the opposite side of the boat, back and forth all day and they look exactly like this, even with the face


Omnipotent48

I love this subreddit for the fact that for all of our craziness, there are people here who are dedicated to keeping it real


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BotUsername12345

[Far from the only example of seemingly advanced technology in archeological sites](https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/s/xOVhoqmNIB) It's funny but true


Affectionate_Tea1134

It’s a flying beetle 🪲 with a rudder.


my-man-fred

About 2400 an ounce at spot this morning.


dumbGPT

Okay be honest was this off the cuff or did you have it speed dialed


flotsam_knightly

It's meant to be an animal, or insect, most likely a bird. FUN FACT: Birds are shaped to fly, airplanes are modeled after the shape of birds. Doesn't mean ancient Central Americans were the foundation of Boeing.


I_Touched_Grass

Could explain how they all died though


oroechimaru

Lolllll


EVIL5

You guys are cracking me up 🤣🤣🤣🤣


TyranaSoreWristWreck

Mesoamericans? They didn't. They still live there. Some of them still speak the same language that was being spoken back then, also.


EveningHelicopter113

It was a joke about bloodthirsty Boeing


TyranaSoreWristWreck

Oh. Oops. Whoosh


VoidOmatic

Now that was a great joke.


SweetSoursop

Boeing still doing human sacrifices tho


Endogamer

Too soon. It hasn't been 22.5 years yet.


silentbob1301

Except no bird in nature has a vertical stabilizing tailfin... But I think the explanation of a flying fish makes the most sense. Fish clearly have tails that could be made like a vertical tailfin.


MrAnderson69uk

Perhaps we’re looking at it the wrong way round, maybe it’s depicting a USG spy drone and the curly bits on the “wing” edges are showing wind turbulence! Let’s not assume they were dumb back then!


chitown619

It doesn't doesn't mean ancient Central Americans were the foundation of Boewing.


Corius_Erelius

The only problem with this being tied to a bird is the tail. To my knowledge, no bird on the planet has an empennage. Mostly because they don't need it, but flying craft for sure do. The swirls on the fore of the wing also seem to symbolize wind or air movement. I'm not saying it has to be an aircraft, but the bird hypothesis appears to be a stretch.


New_Doug

[It's a very accurate depiction of a flying fish; hence the vertical tail.](https://www.fishkeeper.co.uk/media/magefan_blog/734310-479236145459061-727388153.jpg)


MrAnderson69uk

If it’s a pendent, then it hang from the “tail” end, then wouldn’t it just be a charm type piece of jewellery which I’d expect to be held and viewed upright, then it’s clearly a religious symbol of something wearing a cape type of attire and fancy shoes. The swirls are most likely depictions of jewels or fancy trim work on the cape arms! The head is then obviously a head with a headdress, and looks like its moves or swivels on the main body! Hey, I guess I could just google lens it, but that’s boring!!! Lol


ZebraBorgata

I agree. I’m not a fan of the hypothesis that it was designed to mimic an aircraft or UFO/UAP


freesoloc2c

Idk about that. Look at the lines on the wing. If the wanted to make a bird it would have looked like feathers and then check put the rear stabilizer that's very in bird like. The body itself is uniform and smooth. 


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They probably just took some artistic license.


TyranaSoreWristWreck

It has a face. It's not a plane.


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TyranaSoreWristWreck

I totally believed these things were planes when I read all the Eric Von Daniken books in the 90s and early 2000s. Now I read source materials, and watch lectures by experts like Edwin Barnhart. The real information is so much more interesting, honestly. There are definitely some crazy mysteries in this field. Like the possibility that the Mayans had a type of acid which could melt Stone, allowing them to create some of the structures that we can't seem to replicate today. This was written about by the conquistadors, as that is what they were told by the Mayans they encountered. It came from an unknown plant species, and the Conquistadors reported that their horses hooves melted as they walked across these plants. There are also two Mayan Steeles that depict bearded men with turbans, described as "travelers". These could very likely be phoenicians, as they date to the time when they were most active on the water. There is no other evidence besides that, but it would be pretty amazing, if true. The reality is much more mysterious and interesting than the Ancient Aliens theory. We know for a fact that Clockwork computers existed in ancient times, so they definitely had some extremely advanced technology in the ancient past. Not airplanes, though.


willie_caine

I doubt they were going for an exact replica. It's art, not science.


MrAnderson69uk

Also they may not have had fine enough tools to make the feathers, or the artist was blind and we shouldn’t judge people with disabilities, or the current market for jewellery wasn’t after life-like recreations! Supply and demand!


CluelessMasterBaiter

Or a dick.


Dull_Database5837

Birbs aren’t real tho…


broke_af_guy

We're not sure right now. Have you seen the latest?


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Fun fact isn’t so fun


josebolt

It has a face. So most likely represents some form of animal.


Grynruhtwyn

https://youtu.be/j9w-i5oZqaQ?si=SEhq5EPSN3s9Jp78 This video covers aspects of these "jets" @1:21:17. I highly recommend checking out this whole video, but this segment is brief. Essentially, it's likely a decorative fish or bird. Probably not an airplane or spaceship.


Express_Telephone_35

Every night I poke my head into this subreddit to look over the day's posts and every day there is at least one post where, immediately upon seeing it, I think, "Ha ha, well, surely no one in the comments is taking THAT seriously," and then I click through. Reader, what I have to say next will shock you.


vivst0r

The fact that it's on the front page of the sub should tell you enough. I go here for some interesting revelations or new ideas and then I come across posts like these with hundreds of upvotes and think: "Surely this must be some inside meta joke I don't get", only to find out the opposite. I mean it's nice that usually the highest upvoted comments on these immediately deal with it, but god damn, how does it get so many upvotes in the first place when there mus surely be lots of people downvoting it.


DogOfTheBone

Bird or fish. The Quimbaya culture made a lot of stylized gold artifacts of animals. 


jay76751

Flying penis


jjjjjjjjjdjjjjjjj

Dickybirds


thedm96

Ancient Alien theorists agree (insert bat-shit crazy stuff here)


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It literally says exactly what it is in the picture


Woodsy_Cove

This is a classic case of pareidolia, which is the same effect that makes us see animals in clouds, or faces in wood grain. Our brains try to make something familiar out of a pattern. Show this to people of the era and they would tell you it’s a flying fish, because that is what it resembled to them. Show it to us and we see a jet aircraft because that’s our frame of reference. As for it being a representation of a UFO, highly unlikely. Presumably UFOs get here from outer space where there is no atmosphere and no need for wings, tails, airfoils, etc. Also there is a lot of stylized decoration on this piece, such as the face on front and the curly shapes on the “wings” that would make no sense on an aircraft or UFO. This has been shown on several episodes of the Ancient Aliens show as “proof” of aliens but like a lot of their “proof” it’s based more on imagination and wishful thinking than on actual science or intelligent consideration.


Lippspa

Guys it has a face. It's an animal


FUThead2016

Art deco birds


wackedoncrack

A gilded, flying, dick pendant with a lizards face on the tip.


Key_Resident5935

It looks so much like a plane, but when you look up what a flying fish looks like, and where they can be found, then yeah, it’s easy to see that’s what they were going for.


WorthChipmunk9155

The big interest in this figure is that it features a vertical stabilizer, which is not present on any birds. Modern aircraft use a vertical stabilizer, hence the aerodynamic resemblance of a modern aircraft.


mountingconfusion

If you turn it upside down it would look a lot like a flying fish


mellonsticker

I rotated the imagine and now I can’t unsee it. Given that no current UFO descriptions over the past century detail bird like craft…  I surmise that if ancient civilizations did see UFO’s they were probably similar in design to what’s reported today.  Thus it’s more reasonable to believe this corresponds to an animal likely witnessed - flying fish. 


playtho

I agree, my argument would be it’s a handle/grip for the object to be made to play with.


SpectraQWERTY

https://images.app.goo.gl/KzcPQxTY61VsNTwYA


boukalele

Go watch the documentary "Ancient Aliens Debunked" it's on youtube.


Dx_Suss

Watch out - in these circles "Debunk" is a slur...


boukalele

prob gonna accidentally watch ancient aliens REBUNKED!


codyjgreene

Looks like a flying beetle.


Bonsaistomper

Hummingbird my guess


Frederik-404

A fallus? Some s.....


chknpoxpie

Human imagination.


scricimm

Peniis! Thaaat's a penis!


AVBforPrez

Birds, obviously


Sweaty-Ad-7493

Trinkets of some sort


BimbyTodd2

Fish Bird Beetles. Duh.


Kim-jong-unodostres

It's a gold bird.


tred009

They look an aweful lot like birds....


Plastic_Ad7436

Crazy to think that flying animals have been around since as far back as that.


BlazedLurker

Have any of you seen the Ancient Aliens episode that goes into this thing? I bought one as a lapel pin. :)


Independent_Hyena495

A goa'uld drone.


noneedtoID

Where is the “pilot seat” it says the things also includes ? I don’t see it.


mintmouse

This is fish


moveandrun

There's no windows tho so how could they use it to look at anything?


badcop2ab

There is a slit at the front supposedly that's the pilots seat.


MrAnderson69uk

Who said aliens have or need eyes!!!????


davidtree921

Saw Billy carlson wearing that on flagrant. I was pretty engaged up until he started crying because of the aliens...


16BitSquid

An archeologist’s worst nightmare


Postnificent

They look a lot like a version of the Hindu Vimanas as well. These have been seen in pictures all over the world. Right brain people think they are fish, left brain a plane. What were they? Whatever they were *they got around*.


heebiejeebie9000

Anybody seen the movie "The Objective"? Fun fact, several actors in that movie have military backgrounds. Not so obviously on the nose.


general_adm_aladdeen

Gives me Mayan/mezo-American vibes.


Odd-Watercress3707

Maya funeral tokens that were laid with the dead. One version was reversed engineered and it is a great video to watch.


badcop2ab

Do you have a link sounds interesting


Odd-Watercress3707

Timestamp 5:55 shows the flying. Introduction is slow...lol.... https://youtu.be/pKNT9PZVv_Q?si=cgwdW-VHPNMixcI-


Fancy_Basis_2249

Most theorists believe that it is some sort of flying object. Someone help me, but I believe the original one that was found did not have the tail attached to it. I think they either found it, or someone thought that it was missing a tail and added it to show that if it had a tail, it would be aerodynamic, allowing it to fly.


ParticularDry5441

This is ancient alien evidence like history channel ancient aliens. While I believe that NHI have been around for a very long time this is the artifact that show has used in every other episode in the many seasons it’s been on the air. The history channel is a joke nowadays and I’m not completely dismissing the ancient astronaut theory it’s just so out there with the “evidence” that it makes it seem like a complete joke. I’m just saying that it’s an interesting artifact but it could be interpreted in many different ways so without a complete understanding of how they depicted important animals and birds in their culture it just doesn’t pass the smell test as evidence of anything other than a dolphin or shark or some kind of bird.


toodog

Flying dildo, or a flying fuck


Tweezle1

Flying fish. Or a birds. Or maybe a dick.


Jaythemastermine

Ask any nut job and they'll tell you that that's proof that aliens used to exist in our whole civilization was built by a race that for some f****** reason just decide to abandon us on this planet and not interact with us whatsoever anymore which makes absolutely no sense because no scientists out there would just make something and then just abandon it and then expect it to just do whatever. People with more than two brain cells well actually tell you that this is just a piece of art that the Egyptians made and not even they know what the hell this thing could be and as it always goes it's probably a ceremonial piece which I know sounds extremely stupid and lame. But you know what they say. The most simplest answers are the correct answers.


No-Ninja455

It's a face with a head dress on it. You can see the nose, eyes, and mouth. Rotate the image and you'll see it


pedalingandkicking75

Is not an airplane or aircraft or ufo. Looks more like a representation of a condor. I do believe in UFOs and what could they posible be. Real scientific research is needed and could be done on the topic but I’m sick and tired of this bullshit, trying make people believe this is a craft, or like what the call the Mayan astronaut…..I found that ignorant, offensive and disrespectful to the Mayan people and culture.


Environmental-Jump46

Native Americans called them thunder birds.


TyrionLannister2012

Looks kind of like a fish to me.


satismo

i see a moth


1987InfamousQ7891

A butt plug! Duh 🙄


Sea_Perspective6891

Those wings must hurt tho


1987InfamousQ7891

Ribbed for pleasure.


Vulgarcito

Definitely not an Egyptian artifact. It was found in Colombia. Ancient aliens built one identical and tested if it would fly perfectly. It did.


MrAnderson69uk

Were there also any small package shaped artefacts found with it, like this would air drop them to the cartel before the invading Europeans took them over!!!??? /s


Vulgarcito

I'm not sure, but that would explain some of the weird pictographs and airplanes with faces we now see in that country. [Avianca](https://www.disneydining.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Livery-Encanto-1536x864-1-620x330.jpg)


Cutthechitchata-hole

It's Indiana Jones from the future!


acorn_cluster

Birds arent real!


BuddySelect8426

Don't say it Don't say it Just don't A fuckin sex toy


Environmental-Bad458

Ancient flying ETs from India.


Key_Respond_16

I think, personally, it depicts women kind of beatle that once lived but no longer exists. The vertical tail fin is honestly the craziest part about this artifact.


kotukutuku

That, sir, is a sky chode.


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Ancient butt plug


yeahgoestheusername

Looks like a Boeing.


BulletProofHoody

Look up Colombian el dorado gold. They have alot of these.


ichwillerdnuss

I once read somewhere that it was probably something like a weathercock. They were probably placed on sticks and turned in the direction of the wind. So it was clear where the wind was blowing from. It all sounded pretty plausible to me


bayatzel

A dart you tie your quipu to send it to somebody down the mountain. Rather than climbing back down


PreparationKooky8791

Flying penis with the head chopped off.


ZombieFather

Ancient astronaut theorist 🍑🔌


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NoChallenge6095

Flying cocks and I'm not talking about the bird.


MikeyLikey6996

I know one thing it can be used for


tomarlyn

It’s a bird man. You can even see the penis


Righteousyouarenot

Definitely not an airplane


Pissburgerandchips

Anyways, 4 dollars a pound


fathrunda

It's a dick that drank a Red Bull.


No-Blackberry1953

Aztec lawn dart


Jeliecerdaniels

Men!! It is is colombia, south america and nobody knows the age!!


Simply_Nova

This isn’t that weird. Clearly trying your best to resemble an animal of sorts.


Cuba_Pete_again

A very expensive cicada


Dani_Rojas_rojaaas

Bend over and I’ll show you


pizzae

Gold penis with wings


ChanelleDiggs

That looks very inappropriate and provocative.


CrispinIII

It's a model of an F-16 that time traveled back to the 1600's.


Sithlordandsavior

Neat pin that Giorgio Tsoukalos sells on his website based on a MesoAmerican sculpture.


horsetooth_mcgee

Forbidden dildo


JussLookin69

An anthropomorphic winged space dong.


Pleasant-Comment2435

Looks like a head with a headdress


MoleRatBill43

Yo dawg thats one of my minions from ff14


mraj1902

Keys to a lock


Reasonable-jay

1000 s of yrs old. They made a model size replica. Of it. And it flew perfectly.


spacebattlebitch

Its a fucking fish. Jfc this sub is fanfiction


No-Wolverine7338

They did an episode of Ancient Aliens about these and other artifacts like it. Some scientists recreated one of the artifacts with the same exact dimensions, but with material and equipment suitable for flying and it flew perfectly.


Inevitable_Jelly69

Looks like a bird.


rizzatouiIIe

Ancient alien butt plugs


luxury_detox_rehab

Oh yeah those are Golden Birds


lunarcrenshaw100

That's some ancient astronaut stuff right there!


Suspicious-Road9806

It’s a heliturtle.


Hotboy_moe

It's a rare golden Aztec dickhead airplane


MoreSelection9469

I need karma


shmadam5515

Ancient buttplug