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Chasing UFOs - National Geographic

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I want more coverage of the subject, so I really hoped to enjoy and support the show. In general if I can learn a few facts I didn't know, I'll sit through some gratuitous goofiness. So I won't comment about the promotional ad, the night-time artifact searches, the home-made camera prosthetics, and the (gasp!) mysterious white vans of Fresno. What really bugs me about this show is the obvious intention to NOT INVESTIGATE anything that occurs. It was summed up by Ryder when she was fleeing something interesting and unusual. "It's not worth taking any chances," she explained.

Like Destination Truth, (previous Ryder show) these guys spend the money and time to go across the country/world, and they finally get to something strange, and then "It's not worth taking any chances."

It's my experience that those are the exact times that chances should be taken.

Whale Wars would be much less compelling if the Sea Shepherds ran away from the Whaling Fleet the entire season. Maybe we should select investigators who regard the subject as a true mystery, and that solving it IS worth taking chances?

Perhaps Chris O'Brien would like to show these guys how it's done? Chris put a show on Kickstarter so we can get this going.

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BlackRockLobster said:
Perhaps Chris O'Brien would like to show these guys how it's done? Chris put a show on Kickstarter so we can get this going.
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Actually, I'm putting the finishing touches on a 30 min video about my recent trip to the confluence of Grand Canyon and the Little CO River Gorge, the location near the alleged entrance of the fabled "underground Egyptian city." Maybe I should flesh it out and create a new TV show idea that covers not only UFOs, mutes, etc, but also cool archaeological mysteries, indigenous myths and legends, as well....
 
Christopher O'Brien said:
Actually, I'm putting the finishing touches on a 30 min video about my recent trip to the confluence of Grand Canyon and the Little CO River Gorge, the location near the alleged entrance of the fabled "underground Egyptian city." Maybe I should flesh it out and create a new TV show idea that covers not only UFOs, mutes, etc, but also cool archaeological mysteries, indigenous myths and legends, as well....
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Will you jump fences and 'infiltrate' a military base though ?
 
lancemoody said:
Watched the premiere and now watching the second one.

I was wrong.

This is WAY stupider than Finding Bigfoot.

Watching these morons stumbling around doing soil surveys (!) of dubious cases (for instance, one reported by a silly paranormal club leader who obviously believes EVERYTHING) is funny enough. That they do it AT NIGHT is comedy gold.


Unimaginably silly, embarrassing and insulting to any viewer watching for any reason other that the unintentional humor.

What the HELL was that???



Lance
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I'm nowhere near as skeptical as yourself Lance but that does not mean I cannot appreciate a good take-down by someone and yours was perfect. The fact that was done at night is enough to pretty much ignore anything that comes from their direction. Sadly but it seems to be true. Anyway, anything with 'reality' in it's title, real or implied, is out of bounds for me. I don't waste my time with any of them.
 
dyingsun said:
Will you jump fences and 'infiltrate' a military base though ?
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Yup, and we'll be complete with armed security and blinking boxes, gadgets with buttons and gauges including lipstick cams&lights mounted on machetes sticking out in front of our faces to cut down any underbrush and arm-chair critics in our path. With a budget and crack research and travel depts, we could sneek&peek our way around the world toward truth, glory and the American Way (and syndication rights if we can milk it for 100 episodes like Lance's fave show Ancient Aliens). :)
 
i havent watched any episodes yet. natgeo is off my viewing list right along with the history channel.
 
Sean Elifritz said:
I actually thought the third episode was better than the first two. Yeah, it had hoaxer extraordinaire Romanek on it but at least they were skeptical of him. I wonder what he was thinking when they said they saw an alien face in his window. I'm thinking it might have been something like, "Wtf? I faked that shit! How are you seeing it now?"

Funny that the only thing that happens to those guys on their ghost hunters-like night investigations is nearly getting eaten by wild animals.

With some tweaks this could be an OK show. More than anything else they need to stop trying to be so much like ghost hunting shows. I know UFOs Over Earth was on for only three episodes but the producers should watch that. It was a reality show that was doing it in a way that made sense for UFOs.
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That third episode was so much fun to watch.

Romanek reaction to James saying there is in alien looking in the window at me. Really he seemed shocked lol? Anyone who believes this guy is the real deal watch this episode.

The second episode was fun to watch had a few laughs watching it, but it was over the top in lot of places.

The first episode was the better of the three episodes. The video evidence shown in all three episodes is not good footage often too dark or grainy to figure out what it could be.
 
ok i decide to catch the last few minutes of this program. someone is yelling "get back to camp!" turns out there is a bear wandering around and one of the ufo chaser guys says.... "can they be aggressive?" i guess thats all i need to see.
 
I just watched NatGeo's 'The Truth Behind UFOs' (or similar), from 2011 and there are UFO watchers beside the black mailbox on the road to Area51.
They had some decent gear and looking in the same direction as Lear and Lazar did ages ago, they do indeed capture what are basically points of light, immobile in the sky. Not flares or choppers, planes or balloons.
One bit was very interesting. You can actually see a stationary object, that moves so suddenly with massive acceleration, making a streak from the speed of it moving. No idea what it could be but it certainly behaved, on first inspection, like many reports of discs etc.
 
pixelsmith said:
ok i decide to catch the last few minutes of this program. someone is yelling "get back to camp!" turns out there is a bear wandering around and one of the ufo chaser guys says.... "can they be aggressive?" i guess thats all i need to see.
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This made me laugh out loud, literally. Which one of them was it?
 
Muadib said:
This made me laugh out loud, literally. Which one of them was it?
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i have no idea. i started watching when they spent about 10 minutes getting a truck up a hill, lost interest, came back and heard the bear comment. i thought yes... bears can be aggressive you dumb f#ck and turned it off.
 
Yes, it's dumb but I kinda can see a point in that some black or brown bears you would probably be alright with but a hungry grizzly or polar? Woh! Damn scary creatures and anyone who goes walking up in the Alaskan wilderness without some serious firepower is either stupid or has large cajones (?) I don't speak spanish so that is my attempt to spell it!
 
I wonder if they used it as an excuse to end their investigation, kind of like in the first or second episode when they were running around in the dark, on a hill, and a car drives by and they decide that "it's best not to take any chances" and run away like scared little girls. One of the funniest things I've ever seen, for all they know, it could've been two teenagers going to park and make out but they assume that it's the MIB and take off. Hilarious. I tried to watch the 4th episode on demand the other day and just couldn't do it. It's just too awful.
 
I missed yesterday's episode but would watch it just for the bear bit. Yes, I live in the Colorado Rockies and black bears can be aggressive. I've had a few Close Encounters of the Furry Kind, though I can say in all of my personal encounters that shouting or making noise has scared away the bear. Some people up here haven't been so lucky.

I want this series to get better or at least, be entertaining brain candy along the same lines as UFO Hunters. Right now I'd say it's almost too painful to watch even with an IPA as a painkiller. That whole business with the alien mask in the window a couple of weeks ago actually hurt. Someone also needs to tell me what, if anything in that show, was actually filmed in the San Luis Valley. I think the closest they got was Salida. Seems rather dishonest as they were advertising about odd events in the SLV.
 
Funny that so many people now consider UFO Hunters to have been a good show. At the time it was running I recall everyone complaining about it. My take is that the first season was mostly pretty decent, the second so-so, and the third ridiculous. But it was definitely better than Chasing UFOs, even the third season of it.
 
Considering the restraints placed upon makers of such shows, I actually thought UFO Hunters was good. They got out and investigated some cases, performed experiments and importantly, kept a skeptic on the team.
Really not a bad effort and I think Bill Birnes got treated a bit harshly over it.
 
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