This is apparently going to be a weekly show. Mostly MUFON and worse for authoritative comments. Taping it so I can verify that I actually heard some of the more outlandish claims.

Another rung down in the decline of the History Channel. :roll:


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saw the last 15 minutes... I think it would help their case if the people on the show didn't talk about how the UFOs were responding to their telepathic messages.

Also the line about UFO hotspots being surounded by one person was just hysterical.

UFO Files

“UFO Hot Spots”

Notes:

1. The only clear, sharp images of UFOs in the entire show are those right at the beginning. The beginning is what apparently will be the standard introduction to the show, and the special effects UFOs are very clear, sharp, and fake.

2. The quick world tour of the “hot spots” includes nothing but fuzzy video, even a few where one can detect the effects of the camera’s lens changing focus.

3. The first “authority” is Christopher Montgomery. Here’s a link to his unbiased webpage.

4. The next “authority” is Terry Hansen, freelance journalist. Here are a fews links to his stuff. One Two Three.

5. The next “authority” is John Schuessler, founding member, and current Deputy Director for Administration of the Mutual UFO Network, Inc. (MUFON). Here is his homepage. Here is MUFON.

6. The next authority has some credentials. He is Dr. Albert Harrison of the University of California Davis. Here's his UCD page. Dr. Harrison is a social psychologist whose interests include organizational and environmental psychology. His primary focus is human adaptation to spaceflight and spaceflight-analogous environments with particular emphasis on Antarctica as a prototype for Mars. His comments of how sightings proliferate after one person/one sighting kicks them off were very interesting. He also makes a good point about how UFO reports tend to be more accepted and believed in countries such as Brazil, where religion and other beliefs in the supernatural cause the populace to give more credence to such reports.

7. The October 1957 (the exact date varies) Antonio Villas Boas close encounter in Brazil is then presented as completely factual, even the female alien (who, in one shot, appears to be definitely male), having sex with him. The confirmation of his having “radiation burns” is reported to have been provided by a Dr. Olavo Fontes, who is identified as a medical professor at the National School of Medicine of Brazil. In reality Fontes was an MD who was also a leading member of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO), a once-active UFO research group founded in 1952. So there are some credibility issues here, the same as having the defendant examine and interpret the evidence.

8. I wonder if some viewers thought the sound special effects were real, especially after the same whooshing sounds were used with different UFOs?

9. Then we move on to the alien bodies recovered and autopsied in Brazil.

10. This is followed by speculation that the destruction of the Brazilian rain forests is attracting UFOs.

11. Then we are treated to aerial shots of pre-Columbian Mexican architecture, over which the narrator asks, “Could the sacred energy that permeates these buildings be attracting other-worldly visitors?”

At this point it was time for a good dose of antacid. More later...


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Blimey, is the History Channel often home to this kind of junk? I was considering subscribing to it here in the UK.

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Unfortunately, yes. The baloney detector seems to be going off more and more frequently while watching this channel's programming.

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Yeah, the History channel seems to be in a steady state of decline...it's a shame really. I'm sure some folks see that it's on "The History channel", and think that there might be "something" to all this "who ha" when there is absolutely no evidence to support the idea of "visiting aliens".

In the UK the History channel seems to show an endless stream of 'Documentaries' about the Third Reich, all with the same film clips re-arranged to emphasize the thrust of the particular show.

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In almost every case, every single television "special" or series that "probes" (pardon the pun) the UFO phenomenon uses the most fantastic and often "debunked" UFO Filez [sic] it can get it's grubby little paws on.

I mean seriously: I'm no "UFO Nut" but even I recognize UFO cases that have been beaten down so hard by "professionals" and "UFO'logists" so hard with a wet noodle that they have no hope of even being remotely credible. However, television will air it and yap incessantly about how interesting the case is. Especially if there are videos or pictures involved. Don't forget the occasional abduction and anal probing! Can't have a good TV show without aliens probing the rectums of innocent victims!

Most of the time, I'm just appalled by the lack of respect television has for the minds of it's viewers. There are a few channels that have a smattering of shows and documentaries that are worth watching. The rest seem to think that cable lends them the right to pump 200 pounds of "pap" into our living rooms every 10 minutes. The more sensational the material, the more often it gets used to set-up the next garbage-filled broadcast.

Well, I suppose they have to make a living. They have people that work for them that need to keep the electricity bills paid just like everyone else. If the public demands garbage, then they get garbage. However, if they wouldn't "push" it, the public wouldn't miss it. What if they did a show on UFO's from the viewpoint of serious inquiry? I'm not talking about UFO=ET angles. I'm talking about arial phenomenon or other, little known phenomenon, that could account for some of the "unsolved cases." What if they actually took a remotely discriminating view and showed viewers what critical thinking is all about? Wouldn't it be more interesting to see information that said it may be possible that some of these phenomenon could be caused by natural occurances that are little understood by science? It may not be true, but at least it could be approached with a little more sense.

Instead, they tramp out the guys in the grey latex suits and badly applied facial appliances to mime sex-starved alien visitors with a penchant for ramming surgical steel rods into the nether regions of unsuspecting residents. <sigh> Bleh..

/rant off

I'm not making a claim either way in regards to UFO=ET phenomenon. I'm just commenting on television's disregard for minding it's own "intellectual integrity." If such a cause can even be debated..


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Sweet gods, what utter rubbish. ](*,)

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It isn't just the History Channel. TV is going down the drain.

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Yes... Ads for $cientology and completely uncritical shows about psychics, the apocolypse, alien abductions, and why SOME-OR-OTHER DEITY DEFINITELY EXISTS EVEN THOUGH IT IS COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE AND IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE IN IT YOU WILL BE TORTURED FOREVER IN THE WORST POSSIBLE WAY AFTER YOU DIE etc. etc.

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Ok, I think I know why they do anal probes. The first alien visitors to this planet used a tachyon-induced wormhole to get here. Unfortunately, these well-meaning aliens got messed up on the time scale and were viewing everything backwards. Their recordings seemed to indicate that humans can somehow vacuum up slimy detritus into their nether regions and produce food at the other end. Not only that, but somehow they can even reconstitute the revered Holy edible species of the cow. Some unscrupulous alien network executives got ahold of this footage and aired a special Transvid program about the miracle of earther replication of resources (Earth: Truth or Hoax?). The general alien population disbelieves it, especially since the Aero-Space Alien Network (ASAN) finally revealed it was a temporality screw-up.

However there is a fringe group that thinks it is a cover-up. These fringe alien pseudoscientists keep coming back to earth and trying to find evidence of humans replicating cows and other produce. Since they have never duplicated this phenomena, they are convinced that the humans are now working with ASAN. The alien pseudoscientists claim that all the alien resource problems would go away if humans would share their abundance with them, but ASAN is controlled by a secret cabal known as Beings That Produce Things (BTPT). The BTPT want exclusive control of resources and will stop at nothing to prevent simple alienkind from living reasonable and harmonious lives without intervention or rampant inflation.

So now we know why it is they do what they do. But they are really concerned about crop circles. They think it is humans signalling the BTPT for food pickup. So now the alien pseudoscientists are kidnapping molecular biologists to get to the root of the problem. Too bad they didn't take any astrophysicists, cause then everyone would finally have the right answers.

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