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[badeskov]

BishopRyan, on 30 June 2012 - 11:12 PM, said:

The show makes a mockery of investigative journalism. We have maybe 5% relevant information and questioning, 5% UFO eye candy followed by 90% fluff and sensationalism. The show borderlines on complete nonesense. I was cautiously optomistic simply because I've been hoping for a legitimate televised show on ufology and in my opinion they started the show off in a great location with a great topic that has ton of tangible evidence and information but in the end I guess we all kind of knew what we were going to get.

The Blair Witch cameras have to go but not that it matters because I won't be watching.

I completely agree with your assessment, however, maybe one part could do with a bit of clarification:

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The show borderlines on complete nonesense

And on what side of said border do you think it resides? I know where my vote is.

Cheers,
Badeskov

[DONTEATUS]

@$*%  ^** )(9 %8 #&@^@ Now ITs very Clear that my puter is infected ! BUt Again that Show was the Bomb ! In the It needs to be Bombed !to a million bits ! Really a bad show IMO.

[Darth Tyranus]

BishopRyan, on 30 June 2012 - 11:12 PM, said:

The show makes a mockery of investigative journalism. We have maybe 5% relevant information and questioning, 5% UFO eye candy followed by 90% fluff and sensationalism. The show borderlines on complete nonesense. I was cautiously optomistic simply because I've been hoping for a legitimate televised show on ufology and in my opinion they started the show off in a great location with a great topic that has ton of tangible evidence and information but in the end I guess we all kind of knew what we were going to get.

The Blair Witch cameras have to go but not that it matters because I won't be watching.

BishopRyan, on 30 June 2012 - 11:12 PM, said:

The show makes a mockery of investigative journalism. We have maybe 5% relevant information and questioning, 5% UFO eye candy followed by 90% fluff and sensationalism. The show borderlines on complete nonesense. I was cautiously optomistic simply because I've been hoping for a legitimate televised show on ufology and in my opinion they started the show off in a great location with a great topic that has ton of tangible evidence and information but in the end I guess we all kind of knew what we were going to get.

The Blair Witch cameras have to go but not that it matters because I won't be watching.

Amen brother.


I'm really starting to not trust certain guys who "claim" to be UFO investigators. I do trust guys like Stanton Friedman and people like Bill Burns the guy in the cap and black shades most of the time. Bill is a hardcore believer and seriously wants to get to the bottom of what the hell is going on. But some of these guys I think just want to be on tv, write books and make money. Thats all find and dandy if you don't forget the scope of what its all about. Finding the the truth and real evidence about UFO and alien contact.

The reason I've been critical of ancient aliens is that they want to tie EVERYTHING to aliens. I just don't believe that aliens came down and hunted dinosaurs for sport to clear a way for modern humans. Evidence shows an asteroid caused their exstinction.

Also on ancient aliens they had a feature on bigfoot. IMO bigfoot has nothing to do with flying saucers. I saw on the show where a woman reported that a hunter supposedly told her he saw a bigfoot standing a 50 yards. He fired a 30.06 rifle at the creature & it vanished before the bullet got there. To me that is total bull____. I tunred the chanel after that segment.

I wish some of these producers would contact and interview people like Lonnie Zamora. The Iranian pilot in th 76 incident. The witnesses who saw 2 aliens being chased by Brazillian police in that famous crash incident. How about the pilot for Japan airline who watched a huge mothership for 45 minutes fly next to his 747?

We have so many credible witnesses but these idiots are running around in the woods at night with walkie talkies looking up in the sky at military bases.

[Karyotype]

Maybe the ancient aliens had a really large gun that uses asteroid's for bullets.  That would clear up the dinosaur part right nicely!
And why the problem with bigfoot, who do you think pilots the inter-galactic ships?

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sorry, I could not resist!

Edited by Karyotype, 01 July 2012 - 04:59 AM.

[badeskov]

Darth Tyranus, on 01 July 2012 - 04:03 AM, said:

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I'm really starting to not trust certain guys who "claim" to be UFO investigators. I do trust guys like Stanton Friedman and people like Bill Burns the guy in the cap and black shades most of the time.

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By all means of respect, but I have some serious issues with this. First of all, there should be no question of trust at all. Either the evidence proves you correct or it doesn't. It is not a matter of trust, but one of interpretation. Secondly, trusting a fellow like Stanton Friedman that have misconstrued facts (provably so) to make his case I personally find highly questionable.

Cheers,
Badeskov

[Left-Field]

I saw about 30-40 minutes (maybe less) of the show total and found it hard to believe the people were even doing a real investigation.

The OP (IIRC) compared it to "Finding Bigfoot" and I thought that was a fair comparison. For as dumb as "Finding Bigfoot" is though, I can at least find it entertaining for some reason or another when I bother to watch it.

And in "Finding Bigfoot," despite the fact they do just about everything but "find bigfoot," their investigations actually come of as if they could be real. This "Chasing UFOs" show just seemed ridiculous though.

They were climbing fences into areas they shouldn't be allowed access and acting as if they had to avoid being detected. Meanwhile they have that big device connected to them to film themselves, have at least one other camera person filming them from another angle, and they are using flashlights in these areas they aren't supposed to be while shooting footage of people only a few feet away from them who would supposedly have the "investigators" arrested if they were to spot them.

If the flashlight, camera device attached to their person, and the camera man filming them weren't enough to get them spotted then these "guards" (or whoever they were) must be blind.

[Lilly]

Saw one episode...to recap an old saying, "Silly is as silly does". Just my personal opinion.

[zoser]

Lilly, on 01 July 2012 - 09:46 AM, said:

Saw one episode...to recap an old saying, "Silly is as silly does". Just my personal opinion.

I'm surprised at people's negativity and I wonder really what people were expecting?  The only silly part about it for me is when the team became side tracked and became obsessed by a wild boar.

On the documentary we have witness testimonies from a police officer, from a pilot and a group of local residents as well as the superb testimony from Ricky Sorrel.  The team also capture a strange looking object themselves on tape that looks suspiciously UFO like.

Short of capturing a live alien and poking and prodding a confession out of it, what more could they really do?  If there is one other small criticism it must be that the style of investigation is a carbon copy of The UFO Hunters.  I  don't really care about that as long as they are covering the cases.

[TheMacGuffin]

I watched all of it, and I thought that they had found out about some military activity in Fresno that involved the "flying triangles" or whatever they are.  They looked a little silly hiking around a "secret military base" that turned out to be a hydroelectric plant, or digging around for fragments of a supposed 1891 "UFO crash" in Texas.

They filmed military helicopters taking off in Fresno, which was hardly a big UFO case.

I did believe that the cops they talked to in Texas and California really had seen UFOs, and that the 2008 sightings in Stephensville were real.

Edited by TheMacGuffin, 01 July 2012 - 02:18 PM.

[Space_Jockey]

zoser, on 01 July 2012 - 09:59 AM, said:

I'm surprised at people's negativity and I wonder really what people were expecting?  The only silly part about it for me is when the team became side tracked and became obsessed by a wild boar.

On the documentary we have witness testimonies from a police officer, from a pilot and a group of local residents as well as the superb testimony from Ricky Sorrel.  The team also capture a strange looking object themselves on tape that looks suspiciously UFO like.

Short of capturing a live alien and poking and prodding a confession out of it, what more could they really do?  If there is one other small criticism it must be that the style of investigation is a carbon copy of The UFO Hunters.  I  don't really care about that as long as they are covering the cases.

You're quite easily impressed by TV shows aren't ya?

[jaguarsky]

Perhaps the worst show ever on the topic of UFOs.

I really wanted to give the show a chance so I watched the first two episodes; will not waste any more of my time. The episodes start out well enough but then like 'Finding Bigfoot' just veers off into the silly and predictable. And, as far as I can tell it does not even have a good drinking game factor: no Bobo, no squatchy catchphrase.

I really don't understand why it is so difficult to do a good show on this subject, or any paranormal subject. We, the non reality show watching public are crying out for good investigative journalism. Give us a show with facts, you know: who, what, where, when and why. Or don't they teach that in journalism 101 any longer. And since good journalism is not editorial, don't editorialize; just the facts and when there are no facts the on air personalities don't get to make them up or spin a yarn to fit. Oh, and just because they have some nifty equipment that looks cool when they use it at night doesn't mean they should.

Anyway, pretty disappointing debut. I would give it a big ol thumbs down.

[DONTEATUS]

TheMacGuffin, on 01 July 2012 - 02:17 PM, said:

I watched all of it, and I thought that they had found out about some military activity in Fresno that involved the "flying triangles" or whatever they are.  They looked a little silly hiking around a "secret military base" that turned out to be a hydroelectric plant, or digging around for fragments of a supposed 1891 "UFO crash" in Texas.

They filmed military helicopters taking off in Fresno, which was hardly a big UFO case.

I did believe that the cops they talked to in Texas and California really had seen UFOs, and that the 2008 sightings in Stephensville were real.

THe Stephenville Tx event was even so botched up ITs amazing ! THis show has its 15 min`s of infamous and out ! So bad ITs Gotta top the list of Rejects on the T.V. air list !
I do also believe that something was seen in 2008 in Texas ! And it was a monster sized one at that. !
As for these startup teams of UFO`s chasers we need real ,and trained observers ! THe whispering into a walkie talkie as you tromp through the woods just wont get it !
Well anyone for a Area 51 trip ?

[Earl.Of.Trumps]

DONTEATUS, on 01 July 2012 - 03:31 AM, said:

@$*%  ^** )(9 %8 #&@^@ Now ITs very Clear that my puter is infected ! BUt Again that Show was the Bomb ! In the It needs to be Bombed !to a million bits ! Really a bad show IMO.

couldn't agree more, it BOMBED.

the players were not funny or distinct characters, it was just BLAH, no energy people.

They fashioned the whole show on the style of Bigfoot Hunters. same thing.
go to a town. have a town meeting. allow folks to tell what they saw. go into the field and see if they can find anything, but of course they do not.

BigFoot hunters is way more entertaining, and UFO Hunters is better than both by far

[Sweetpumper]

I just said this in another thread, but this is one of the stupidest shows on the subject I've ever seen. Almost comedic.

[Rafterman]

Terrible show and really quite boring.

I'm growing incredibly tired of the "let's film ourselves talking about stuff while we drive the car" approach that so many of these shows take.

Not to mention the fact that very little actually gets done on these shows when you consider that you lose 18 or so minutes for commercials and then probably another 10-12 minutes doing the back from commercial recaps of the segment you just watched.  When it comes down to it, it's probably less than 25 minutes of actual content in a one hour show.  Kind of odd given that all of these shows seem to talk about the hours and hours of footage that was edited out of each episode.