Chasing UFOs

National Geographic – deep six this show and try to redeem yourselves before you ruin your once respected name!

UFO Hunters was bad verging on psychotic.

Ancient Aliens took preconceived ideas to entirely new levels so far out of reality that their final episode should have been to visit the wizard and get a brain.

The new evolution, Chasing UFO's, is not even worth watching. This show could take a true believer and turn them into a hard core skeptic. There is just no basis in reality/science/research anywhere in this show. I truly cannot come up with any redeeming features for this show. It is as if they gave some failed actors a poorly written script and told them to wing it. I have tried to give it a chance, but three episodes are enough to make my call on this one. This show is pathetic.

If this is the direction educational channels (as I once considered National Geographic) are going, we are in for serious problems.

Lame. It is just a daytime TV type show for dummies, no real science, no proper investigations, no expert analysis and utterly awful cast. Ryder is the core of this programs failing, she is highly irritating grrrr she must go if the show has any chance, but I am positive it will fail. For the show is a fake as the hubcap ufo photographs that have muddied the real truth all these years.

This is a real insult to the professionals that painstakingly research the real evidence on the subject matter, the sheer lack of credible investigations and the Hollywood style faked drama will be a massive disappointment to watchers hoping to find a good solid foundation in this subject. Producers need to rethink this concept and stop making unprofessional cartoon dramas on a subject that has very real and credible evidence to its existence.

I love the National Geographic magazine. In the world where quality matters less and less, it's still surprisingly professional and inspiring.

However, seeing shows like this on their TV channel makes me think that one day - sooner rather than later - it too will join the cheap entertainment(?) media. How such an idiotic production ended up on National Geographic channel is beyond me. It seems to go against all the values that I thought the National Geographic society had. But I rarely watch TV and mostly read the magazine, so maybe this show isn't an exception. Maybe it's a direction in which the channel is headed. In that case, I have nothing more to say.

The top of the heap, as UFO investigation on TV goes, was "Sightings" (on Fox then SciFi) which, in its weekly newsmagazine format, did its level best to be journalistic, and to report on new cases (or at least those we might not have heard of). And Then...despite being a solid hit on both networks, it was GONE. Almost as though it was making Someone nervous. So what's come along since then to fill the void? The History Channel had the excellent "UFO Files," which did not avoid controversy...it pointed fingers and named names, and managed to be shocking at times. And Then...it was GONE. Then History's "UFO Hunters" in which our intrepid 'investigators' never managed to look into anything more recent than the '70s; History's ongoing "Ancient Aliens" which, while intriguing, leaves you wanting to throttle those silly-haired geeks over such blockheaded assertions as that there was NO indigenous science in ancient Egypt, ONLY alien science. Sheesh. And now there's THIS, which could be mistaken for an unsold 3 Stooges pilot. THIS intrepid troupe shows up at sites where someone saw something 10 or 20 years ago...they come back at night with their expensive night-vision gear, huffing and puffing, assuming that if someone saw something once upon a time, then they'll see it too (one of them is James Fox, a once-respected ufologist with a couple of solid docs on his resume, who obviously always wanted to be an action hero). What those entries from "UFO Hunters" forward have in common is that they're all new-age Cold Case Files, seeking out the over-reported and the unsolvable, and they are ALL wastes of time. There are Some who'd have you believe that this is because there haven't been any new sightings in years'n'years. BUSHWAH!! There's a terrific website which will convince you otherwise. In the meantime, I'd rather have NO UFO programming on the air than this fol-de-rol. Someone...PLEASE...Bring Back "Sightings"!!!!

Wow. Most pathetic UFO show I have ever seen.

I have a big interest in UFOs, but even I can't stand to watch this reality-type UFO show. What they do is get three people together, one who believes in UFOs, one who doesn't, and then one person who is in the middle. It shows them periodically interviewing them, hence the reality TV show style. But just like many reality shows, it comes across as very fake and unauthentic.

They try to add suspense by pretending that they see something, but it is so terribly fake. I'm totally convinced these are actors, and they aren't even trying to "chase UFOs".

They should also present more evidence.