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Originally Posted by astrophotographer
I believe that was a re-air of "UFOs: Seeing is believing" with Peter Jennings. Not a bad show if you ask me. The UFO proponents did not like Roswell being called a myth and was very angry at some of the SETI scientists reactions to UFOs. Jerome Clark suggested Frank Drake was a religious zealot and Jill Tarter was ridiculous when talking about her UFO sighting (which she would eventually figure out was the moon hidden by some clouds without calling MUFON/CUFOS/NUFORC/FUFOR etc). Stanton Friedman went as far as to refer to SETI as the "silly effort to investigate".
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That's the show. I didn't see all the other stuff...but when I first saw that Peter Jennings was hosting a show on UFO's, I was a bit thrown...which just made me all the happier to see the rational treatment that segment I caught recieved.
Great varation on the typical format: Woo -> Scientific Explination -> Dramatic chord followed by vague line, eg "Or IS it?!" (unsupported statement of doubt) -> Commercial break to advertise new "scientific" ghost hunter series