It's the Ancient Aliens playbook. Have you ever seen the show? Take absolutely anything from history that ever happened and provide clear evidence that you can't prove aliens didn't do it.

"Could ufos have played a part, as ancient alien experts theorize...?

Well, when you look at historical documents from that time, they mention this vague thing which we just retcon to mean flying saucers."

Hollywood uses this excuse for black people every chance they get.