Chasing UFOs

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.

I love the National Geographic magazine. In the world where quality matters less and less, it's still surprisingly professional and inspiring.

However, seeing shows like this on their TV channel makes me think that one day - sooner rather than later - it too will join the cheap entertainment(?) media. How such an idiotic production ended up on National Geographic channel is beyond me. It seems to go against all the values that I thought the National Geographic society had. But I rarely watch TV and mostly read the magazine, so maybe this show isn't an exception. Maybe it's a direction in which the channel is headed. In that case, I have nothing more to say.

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!

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.

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.