Definition: Swiss hotellier and best-selling author Erich von Daniken has long enraged archaeologists, anthropologists, and native peoples the world over by ascribing the great wonders of the world to construction by aliens, rather than the work of the human people. His Chariots of the Gods included a theory that humankind arose because aliens came to earth and impregnated hominids.  

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The Skeptic's Dictionary
From Robert Todd Carroll, a rather more complete description of Von Daniken.

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