Ancient Aliens creator Kevin Burns brings an inquisitive mind to Alien Con.

Burns is okay with that.

This is also why Kevin Burns spoke exclusively withDen of Geek.

He enjoys the exchange.

Den of Geek: What are your favorite conspiracies?

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Kevin Burns:Im not a conspiracy theorist.

Everyone talks and most secrets get found out.

Do you separate conspiracy theories between the ones you enjoy and the ones you might believe?

Oh, say the Illuminati?

I think the Illuminati is an intriguing notion.

Theres a fascinating history.

If the Illuminati exists, its agenda seems to be globalism.

Yes, I think thats been borne out by a lot of whats coming out through WikiLeaks.

Im just saying thats not so much a conspiracy theory as a conspiracy fact.

This is the first Alien Con.

Do you expect a people will be presenting you with home-spun evidence and found footage?

He invited me to come out with Giorgio and Bill Mumy to this convention in Roswell, New Mexico.

I was excited because Id never been to Roswell.

For a town of 40,000 people, it was a very well-attended convention.

It was fascinating because I could not for the life of me just dispel it.

It did not look molded.

It did not look constructed.

It didnt look man-made, even though it was certainly not natural.

The gentlemen appeared on the show.

I went to another show with Erich von Daniken and Giorgio called the Paradox Symposium.

A lot of people said could you just do a show about this.

Its a celebration but its also an opportunity to do kind of a workshop.

When critics sayAncient Aliensepisodes are based on pseudoscience, do you think theyre missing the point?

I got excited again about the whole ancient astronaut theory.

Giorgio asked what my take on it was.

I said Im an open-minded skeptic.

Im not a cynic.

Im open-minded about it.

There may be pseudoscience presented by some of the theorists.

Theres no question that some of the theories presented by the interviewees are, even for me, far-fetched.

Or I dont know that theyre true.

They believe them to be true.

I allow our presenters to speak based on their own research, their own observation and their own beliefs.

I take them at their word.

All we do is say if this is true this could also be true.

For instance, if the narrator says such and such happened in 1923, it happened in 1923.

If the narrator says mainstream science believes X to be true then mainstream science believes it to be X.

People believe they used logs or rolled them on stones, but they dont know.

We are a species with collective amnesia.

So my feeling is science and religion are both to attempt to explain the unknown.

I think its arrogant to suggest that one is more valid than the other.

you’re able to argue that religion is pseudoscientific.

That religion is an attempt to explain things that are otherwise not explainable.

So I take umbrage at pseudoscience.

Science itself has not come up with a factual explanation.

Well, science cant disprove that, so we suggest that were open to that theory.

Ancient Aliens, to me, is not pseudoscience.

Have you had your own personal beliefs shaken?

Are you scare of things like The Doomsday Prophecies?

No, not really.

Listen, I was raised Catholic and I wasnt terrified at all of that.

Yet theres something in our subconscious doesnt feel comfortable with that explanation.

Theres something that doesnt ring true.

That we are nothing to be a mass of molecules and that the big bang explains the universe.

In my opinion, it doesnt.

And I said you put a period at the end of the sentence and we dont.

Your first episode said the how long ago the Big Bang theory happened.

I said, no offense but nobody believes that anybody knows that, assuming that it ever even happened.

I think thats whats exciting about the show.

Some people have said havent you cheapened it by putting in science fiction and movies and TV.

I said no, those are the people who have opened our minds to possibilities.

In science fact, the science future is the science fiction of yesterday.

Were finding new things over and over.

I read something in the news today about possible UFOS.

Even Stephen Hawking acknowledges this.

This is radical from where we were when was as a kid.

Did you see theSouth Parks A History Channel Thanksgiving episode from 11/11/11?

Hysterical, just hysterical.

I also thought it was hysterical because it starts out satirical in terms of the show.

How do we know its not from extraterrestrials?

You chose to remake these.

What grabbed you about them?

As a kid, my three favorite TV shows wereThe Munsters,Lost in SpaceandBatman.

I was always very drawn as a child.

Things that were fantastic in terms of the space ships and the special effects and the monsters.

So that was very stimulating.

Irwin Allen was doing science fiction movies on the small screen.

That was what I was mostly familiar with when I was seven, eight, ten years old.

As it went on, and very quickly, it became more fantasy adventure and its funny.

There was an episode where they meet Thor and the Norse Gods.

We did an episode on Aliens and Vikings.

Destinations to Mars and things like that.

My favorite Irwin Allen wasLand of the Giants, which I always saw as a kind ofGilligans Islandin space.

Well,Lost in Spacewas aGilligans Islandin space too.

Yeah, but the Robinsons werent going on a three-hour tour.

Its still seven people stranded.

Did you ever wish that castaway aliens would wash up onBridgets Sexiest Beaches?

[Laugh] No, but I think she did.

But Bridget so believe in the paranormal.

Totally, totally, totally.

She would take pictures that were filled with orbs.

She had all of these incredible extrasensory experiences.

Very legitimate, she was very serious about it.

She really did feel she had some kind of psychic ability or psychokinetic power.

So its funny you mention that, but she was very sincere about that.

I always thought Bigfoot should be on the endangered species list.

The first reaction people have is to kill it.

Yeah, I never could understand that.

The last run of a humanoid that might have escaped what weve become.

Alien Con is really a dream come true.

We do take ancient aliens very seriously.

Some people have asked why we dont have skeptics in the show.

If you were really trying to be scientifically honest in a show youd have skeptics.

Well, would you have a skeptic in a show about Jesus?

Would you have a skeptic in a show about the Virgin Birth?

I used to run a magazine calledDaily Offbeatand we were advocates for the otherly.

We use the show to explore the theories.

I have to say, and this is true of almost every episode.

I think thats a little much.

But theres always four or five of them where you say I cant explain them any other way.

Theres no other explanation for it.

Do I think were on to something?

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