Chasing UFOs

Chasing UFO's? More like chasing a purpose. More quality entertainment and informative programming are needed from Channels like National Geographic.

The series at first look - the title - before watching an episode - would seem to be a very interesting perspective on UFO's. It would seem at first look that a National Geographic series would be based on a journalistic style as have appeared in the magazines.

But even watching just one episode - no substance or authentic purpose appears. Either it is wrong to expect some purpose or not - chasing UFO's insults the viewer.

As most people would expect - channels like History, Military, TLC and A&E in the past have tried to report and inform. Now we see this trend offered for the public entertainment. But shows like these are not entertaining but silly.

Weird camera angles, whispering at night, pretending to be chasing anything real and false evidence appearing real - such as a marsupial passed off as a potential alien.

They proposed the idea of an alien - but at the very end that idea was debunked. Of course it wasn't. It lead the viewer of a possibility - maybe keep watching after the break - but since no other real evidence was available an obvious earthly mammal was proposed to the viewer. Didn't think anyone thought it could be an alien.

Maybe expectations don't match reality. Days of informative and enlightening episodes such as A&E Biography, TLC True Crimes or History Channel's Vietnam on HD maybe dying but don't insult the viewer. Either way the series is not entertaining or informative. One star out of many only because it serves no purpose or does it serve as an engaging series.

Cable T.V is expensive enough - we don't want to be slapped in the process. However other shows on National Geographic channels are good this one isn't.

So, dear networks provide us with only quality entertainment and informative episodes we pay for!

More shows that change the way we see ourselves and the world are needed. Hope that come soon.

I read the reviews before watching this, and so I knew that the majority of people thought this series was rubbish, but I usually give things the benefit of the doubt, so I have watched 3-4 of the episodes now, hoping that it would get better. It hasn't!! I have just finished watching the Brazil one, and that's it for me...no more. It's one of the worst UFO series that I've ever watched! The majority of the program comprises of 3 grown adults walking through forests, or maize fields in the middle of the night, getting so spooked at any little noise, that they then run away! It's ridiculous! The witness testimonies are interesting, but even they are extremely short, with no detail, and no follow up. How on earth they get funded for this, is beyond me!

Every episode shows the team of paranoid chasers bungling in the dark, shrieking with fear when they hear an animal or slip in the mud, carrying expensive equipment and filming close-ups of their green faces with the night vision camera, and they never gather any credible evidence. All the fright seems to come from their close calls climbing fences and hills and almost falling down. They curse (beeped out) and say things like, "There's definitely more than meets the eye here!" But no credible evidence. It would be more interesting if they were arrested for trespassing occasionally or if they were chased by a bear. There is a lot of whispering into the microphone and running in the dark with the camera bopping up and down on their face, then they rendezvous to share their horror stories and to share their suspicions. But unfortunately, no credible evidence. The best part is the interviews with the witnesses--they are the only believable and interesting part of the show.

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"!!!!

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.