Chasing UFOs

These shows are all the same formula:

1) A sad sack scientist who paid attention in school and earned an advanced degree in some unrelated field surrounded by a group of infinitely credulous actors who are frightened of their own shadows and attribute the most banal things to aliens or ghosts or whatever.

2) Investigations that only take place at night because the aliens or ghosts or whatever apparently have day jobs.

3) An exotic location that has been visited by a jillion paranormal investigators in previous series.

4) They interview several sorry individuals suffering from paranoid delusions who should be encouraged to seek the services of a mental health professional.

5) The actors act scared of every noise and attribute every flicker of light in sky or glimpse of something moving in the woods as definitive proof of ghosts. The other films crews working in the same area use that same evidence as proof of Bigfoot and aliens and time travelers and ancient aliens plus whatever else they can make into an episode.

6) Though the area has been the subject of intense scrutiny by other investigators for decades, this investigation lasts a couple of days because that's all the budget they have.

7) They find nothing, which they take as proof positive of the aliens or ghosts or whatever they were looking after.

8) The scientist, ridiculed and ignored the entire episode, is coerced into a voice over the closing credits to the effect that it is still a mystery.

9) Filming stops and everyone high fives one another and toasts the gullible dupes that comprise their audience.

Five stars for having the stereotypical infinitely credulous cast member, the one convinced a Big Mac is proof of ancient alien Bigfoot ghost time travelers, as a male instead of the more typical female actor. Five more stars for the laughs. Minus five stars for going to Roswell. Roswell?! Five stars.

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.

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!

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.

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.