This timeline of ancient astronauts outlines the major events in the development of the ancient astronaut as presented and promoted by advocates of the theory.
Timeline of publications
* 1897: Garrett P. Serviss (book, Edison's Conquest of Mars)
* 1919: Charles Fort (book, The Book of the Damned)
* 1928: H.P. Lovecraft (short story, "The Call of Cthulhu")
* 1954: Harold T. Wilkins (book, Flying Saucers from the Moon)
* 1956: Morris K. Jessup (book, UFOs and the Bible)
* 1957: Peter Kolosimo (book, Il pianeta sconosciuto (The Unknown Planet))
* 1958: George Hunt Williamson (book, Secret Places of the Lion)
* 1958: Henri Lhote (book, The Search for the Tassili Frescoes: The story of the prehistoric rock-paintings of the Sahara)
* 1959: Matest M. Agrest
* 1959: Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels (book, The Morning of the Magicians)
* 1960: Brinsley Le Poer Trench (book, The Sky People)
* 1963: Robert Charroux (book, One Hundred Thousand Years of Man's Unknown History)
* 1964: W. Raymond Drake (book, Gods or Spacemen?)
* 1965: Paul Misraki (book, Flying Saucers Through The Ages)
* 1966: Iosif Shklovsky and Carl Sagan (book, Intelligent Life in the Universe)
* 1967: Brad Steiger (book, The Flying Saucer Menace)
* 1967: John Michell (book, The Flying Saucer Vision)
* 1968: Erich von Däniken (book, Chariots of the Gods?)
* 1968: Barry Downing (book, The Bible and Flying Saucers)
* 1969: Robert Dione (book, God Drives a Flying Saucer)
* 1969: Jean Sendy (book, Those Gods Who Made Heaven and Earth; the novel of the Bible)
* 1971: Andrew Tomas (book, We are not the first: riddles of ancient science)
* 1972: Thomas Charles Lethbridge (book, The Legend of the Sons of God: A Fantasy?)
* 1974: Charles Berlitz (book, The Bermuda Triangle)
* 1974: Josef F. Blumrich (book, The Spaceships of Ezekiel)
* 1974: Claude Vorilhon aka Rael (book, Le Livre Qui Dit La Vérité (The Book Which Tells the Truth))
* 1974: Robin Collyns (book, Did Spacemen Colonise the Earth?)
* 1975: Graham Cairns-Smith (a biochemist who suggested that the ancestors of humans might have had alien biochemistries and presented some evidence to support this possibility in a biological research journal)
* 1975: Serge Hutin (book, Alien Races and Fantastic Civilizations)
* 1975: Doctor Who (British television series): the serial Pyramids of Mars featured a conflict on Earth between aliens of a race named the Osirans forming the basis of Egyptian mythology, and a number of other Doctor Who serials have used similar ideas.
* 1976: Robert K. G. Temple (book, The Sirius Mystery)
* 1976: John Baxter, Thomas Atkins (book The Fire Came By: The Riddle of the Great Siberian Explosion)
* 1977: John Philip Cohane (book, Paradox: The Case for the Extraterrestrial Origin of Man)
* 1977: Warren Smith (book, UFO Trek)
* 1978: George Sassoon and Rodney Dale (book, Manna Machine)
* 1978: Zecharia Sitchin (book, The 12th planet)
* 1984: Don Elkins, James McCarthy, Carla Rueckert (book, The Ra Material: An Ancient Astronaut Speaks (The Law of One , No 1))
* 1988: Riley Martin (book, The Coming of Tan)
* 1993: David Icke (book, --and the truth shall set you free)
* 1996: Alan F. Alford (book, Gods of the New Millennium)
* 1996: Murry Hope (book, The Sirius Connection: Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Egypt)
* 1996: Richard C. Hoagland (book, The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever)
* 1998: Lloyd Pye (book, Everything You Know is Wrong — Book One: Human Evolution)
* 1998: James Herbert Brennan (book, Martian Genesis)
* 1999: David Hatcher Childress (book, Technology of the Gods, The Incredible Science of the Ancients)
* 1999: Laurence Gardner (book, Genesis of the Grail Kings: The Explosive Story of Genetic Cloning)
* 2003: Burak Eldem
* 2010: Ancient Aliens (documentary television series)
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