UFO Hunters on History Channel Bitter Editorial!

UFO Hunters on History Channel SUX!

Let me preface my loathing for this new series on the History Channel by saying that this channel has the best documentaries on the UFO subject.

That said, their new UFO Hunters is the epitome of disappointment.

The pattern of the shows thus far, is here's an intriguing case, let's spend an hour (actually less for commercials) by stringing the viewer along with "cliffhanger" selected dialogue to ultimately arrive at...No conclusive anything/deepen the mystery euphemisms.

The redeeming feature is that they employ some scientific experiments and trials to bolster that anomalies are viable. Yeah for that.

I hope I'm speaking for the consensus when I say that I expected more from the History Channel.

Why can't they produce new documentaries on recent, significant UFO sightings??

What about the Stephenville, Texas event that actually garnered some good, however brief, media coverage. The Air Force retraction made me nostalgic and added to the resonance of the '47 Roswell coverup.

What about the Chicago 'O Hare Airport sighting?

What about the '97 Phoenix, Arizona mass sighting that its Governor Fife Symington originally derided, only to come clean ten years later?

Updates...Producers of the History Channel, do you copy?

[edit on 14-2-2008 by EclipseReloaded]

They probably had a list of topics they wanted to start with in the first few episodes and Stephenville was too recent to include.IMO they could have done O'Hare and the drone stories though.

Isn't production on shows like this done far ahead of time? I am betting the whole season is already filed. The reason for the lack of recent material is because the shows were already produced before the events occurred. That would be my theory.

Possibly, but, the 'O Hare incident occurred in November 2006...the Phoenix, Arizona/Governor Symington retraction was last year.

Still waiting for the Dan Akroyd follow up DVD with the 'O Hare story w/video & photos. C'mon Dan...the April release is far away.

[edit on 14-2-2008 by EclipseReloaded]

You're not even giving the show a chance. Only a few episodes have aired and you're already calling it a bad show. I think it's a good show and I like it.

The only thing I find annoying is the UFO Magazine guy. He wears that hat in any show I've seen him in and when people tell their stories he likes jumping in and talking over them. That's beyond annoying when people do that.

I just watched the USO episode last night and was VERY disappointed as well. They were interviewing the witness' and kept talking over and leading them so to speak.

One interesting point to note was the video evidence they had from 1977 (I think) was identical to the O'Hare UFO.

I never watch those kind of shows on the history channel anymore. All they do is tout the "part line", or if it is a story somehow related to morality, come down on the side of "liberals".

reply to post by EclipseReloaded

What about the Stephenville, Texas event that actually garnered some good, however brief, media coverage. The Air Force retraction made me nostalgic and added to the resonance of the '47 Roswell coverup.

Actually, History Channel is heading out to the Stephenville area at the end of this month. It was stated here:

UFO Investigation Won't Go Away

the show is a disapointment in many ways.
its scripted, its staged, the guys on the show are "actors" -they each seem to inhibit a "character-written-for-the-plot" attitude. one of them is humble, one is skeptical, one is a bad-ass beleiver with many resources... and the show takes place in their "head quaters" [jeez]
the show has a "theme" - ufo hunters to the extreme. the camera angles, the way its shot, the way they make open-ended statements before they cut to commercials, and much more makes it more of a reality series on a small scale. not what i was expecting, or wanted to see.

last night was it for me, this show is moot...

thumbs down.

Originally posted by nightmare_david
You're not even giving the show a chance. Only a few episodes have aired and you're already calling it a bad show. I think it's a good show and I like it.

The only thing I find annoying is the UFO Magazine guy. He wears that hat in any show I've seen him in and when people tell their stories he likes jumping in and talking over them. That's beyond annoying when people do that.

I've been giving the shows a chance (seen all three that have aired) that's why I stated my opinion that it is not really going anywhere.

I had much higher expectations for UFO Hunters because of the History Channel's previous, excellent documentaries that each featured multiple credible cases supported with video footage and witness accounts.

Nice to hear that the History Channel is going to Stephenville, Texas!

I would say the best episode as of yet was last nights Abduction Episode. They started out by focusing on the Betty and Barney Hill story, followed by a very recent implant removal (December 2007) BY Dr. Roger Leir. The Implantee remembered seeing a U.F.O when he was 8 years old (in 1969?), I believe it was somewhere out in the Midwest with one of his family members. He didn't think more of it, until around 2001 when he began to become Ill, he went from 220 lbs. to 140 lbs, and because of that was tested and thus diagnosed with Heavy Metal Poisoning. During an X-Ray it was discovered that he had an object in his thigh, and it was actually right under his skin.

When Dr. Leir held a 250 lb. magnet over it, you could see the bump form in his skin from the pull on the object. They tested it for Radio Frequency, EMF (Electromagnetic Fields), and so on before removing it. The EMF went off the scale of the detectors, but the most interesting aspect was the RF. They tested both MHz and GHz. It fell within the VHF band for MHz, which is basically the lower numbered TV Channels, and various other public Radio Frequencies. However, when tested for GHz, it fell within the range of what SETI has their Radio Telescopes tuned into. It is also the same Frequency used for communications with Deep Space Probes used by NASA and other Astronomers. Now I have heard a similar story before, but this was the first time I actually saw proof of the tests confirming such.

Also, the Implant ceased all EMF, and RF emissions as soon as it was removed from the body. Not to mention that the Human Nerve Cells and Tissue totally became "one" with this foreign object, which is COMPLETELY irregular. Almost all foreign objects in the human body are rejected, and result in infections. The Human Tissue was so intertwined with the Implant that under a Scanning Electron Microscope they were able to view a piece of Tissue growing from within a fissure on the object.

They tested for compounds, and the Implant essentially came up as a Meteor. They could find no mechanical functions, controls, or manufactured evidence, yet all of the evidence proves otherwise.

The one analyst tried to state that the object could have been a rusted piece of iron that happend to become imbedded in the skin, but combined with the other scientific observations of the Implant, this explanation seems even more random and unbelievable than simply believing an Alien jabbed the thing into the guys thigh.

So in other words, this is an object which manages to make itself into the human body, with little or no scarring, bonds with the nervous system, and uses it as a bio-power source. It also JUST so happens to eminate a Radio Frequency used for Deep Space Communications. Seems like an awful lot of coincidences.

[edit on 2-14-2008 by TheAgentNineteen]

reply to post by EclipseReloaded


Every History Channel show Ive seen on the subject always ends up debunking the topic. The 1st 45 minutes of the show might show great witnesses and plausible reports but they always end the same. The last 15 minutes they debunk every single point they brought up the previous 45 minutes.

And if you look at who owns the History channel its easy to see the agenda continues to be shhh, we need to keep this quiet. Okay discuss it for some ratings and attention but at the very end explain everything away.

I like that little ego inflated bob (ufo magazine) birnes with his facial twitching when he speaks without his aviator sun glasses on. His face starts twitching and his eyes start slamming shut with his eye brows going up and down as he excitedly speaks. Man, thats class acting.

At least history channel throws in a good line up starting with monster quest, ufo hunter and a ufo file show to end the evening with.

I'll continue to watch the show since I live a boring life anyway and don't do much more than look out the window and hang out here on ATS.

reply to post by admriker444


Every History Channel documentary I've seen presents intriguing cases that are given its fair due. The BEST cases have an engrossing residual effect since much of the cases point to alien visitation.

Some cases are deconstructed to be explainable or hoaxes, but, that is being a balanced show.

UFO Hunters is very disappointing in my opinion because the crack team shamelessly leads viewers to think that they have the smoking gun after the commercial break. That gun is always a letdown that I'm sure they are aware of which seems to manifest itself in the form of bad acting.

B for effort, D for execution.