I’m just happy you’re not citing Erich Von Däniken’s legitimately racist garbage.
I did not bring up Erich von Däniken because, like I explained earlier in this thread, I do not support the Ancient Astronaut hypothesis. I do think it is possible that some strange aerial sightings in ancient times — like the “fiery shields” mentioned by the Romans — could have been spacecraft or probes from somewhere else. But I do not believe aliens made direct contact with ancient civilizations, taught them astronomy and math, or were worshipped as gods. In my opinion, alien visitation to Earth only started happening regularly around the late 1940s. Before that, it was probably very rare.