UFO Hunters TV Review

by Glen Boyd

The History Channel’s new Wednesday night UFO documentary series UFO Hunters (which premiered on February 6) is the latest in a long line of television’s efforts to satisfy the appetite of a public which continues to be fascinated by the subject of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs. Anybody else remember the old FOX TV series Sightings, back in the nineties?

Interestingly, this time around the show has some competition.

It seems the producers of the Sci-Fi Channel’s highly successful (and entertaining) Ghost Hunters franchise about — what else? — hunting down ghosts, have launched their own weekly UFO hunting show. Sci-Fi’s version of UFO Hunters not only airs at right about the same time on Wednesday nights, it even has the same identical name.

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(Full Article: http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/02/09/050425.php)

History and Sci Fi channels to debut dueling ‘UFO Hunters’ on Feb 6

At the very best, this show is going to show the same stuff we have seen in the last 60 years, at the worst, they are going to be the tool to spread disinformation, E.T. disinformation like brutal abduction which we all know is conducted by MILAB and other facilities, or even worst, fueling the false flag E.T. Invasion the elites would like to stage to scare us even more.

Looking forward to see the show nonetheless, maybe I’m wrong. Hope I am wrong.

By Christopher Rocchio and Steve Rogers

In what appears to be an unprecedented scenario, both networks are currently planning to premiere different reality programs with the same name and the same subject matter on the same night in the same time period.

The History Channel’s UFO Hunters will follow a team from UFO Magazine as they investigate UFO cases in North America and Europe while Sci Fi Channel’s UFO Hunters will follow a team from the New York Strange Phenomena Investigators organization investigating their own set of UFO cases. Both shows are currently scheduled to premiere Wednesday, February 6 at 10PM ET/PT.

F. Jay Dougherty, a professor of law at Loyola Law School Los Angeles who spoke with Reality TV World on Friday, said television program titles aren’t copyrightable but can obtain trademark protection — a move that, rather than just selecting an alternative name, both shows are attempting.

“Normally, the competitive process would have weeded it out,” said Dougherty. “You tend to work these things out through changing names, or changing release dates. Normally they kind of work out in the process of relationships in the commercial world. I’m a little surprised that they’re butting heads like this.”

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(Full article: http://www.realitytvworld.com)

History and Sci Fi channels to debut dueling ‘UFO Hunters’ on Feb 6

At the very best, this show is going to show the same stuff we have seen in the last 60 years, at the worst, they are going to be the tool to spread disinformation, E.T. disinformation like brutal abduction which we all know is conducted by MILAB and other facilities, or even worst, fueling the false flag E.T. Invasion the elites would like to stage to scare us even more.

Looking forward to see the show nonetheless, maybe I’m wrong. Hope I am wrong.

By Christopher Rocchio and Steve Rogers

In what appears to be an unprecedented scenario, both networks are currently planning to premiere different reality programs with the same name and the same subject matter on the same night in the same time period.

The History Channel’s UFO Hunters will follow a team from UFO Magazine as they investigate UFO cases in North America and Europe while Sci Fi Channel’s UFO Hunters will follow a team from the New York Strange Phenomena Investigators organization investigating their own set of UFO cases. Both shows are currently scheduled to premiere Wednesday, February 6 at 10PM ET/PT.

F. Jay Dougherty, a professor of law at Loyola Law School Los Angeles who spoke with Reality TV World on Friday, said television program titles aren’t copyrightable but can obtain trademark protection — a move that, rather than just selecting an alternative name, both shows are attempting.

“Normally, the competitive process would have weeded it out,” said Dougherty. “You tend to work these things out through changing names, or changing release dates. Normally they kind of work out in the process of relationships in the commercial world. I’m a little surprised that they’re butting heads like this.”

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(Full article: http://www.realitytvworld.com)

UFO believers pursue case

BY SEAN D. HAMILL
CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Judge has told NASA to find the files

KECKSBURG, Pa. — The U.S. government says nothing of note happened in this small town in the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania on Dec. 9, 1965. A meteor may have passed by, but no alien ship or Russian space probe fell to Earth.

Still, Bill Bulebush, 82, says he knows what he saw, heard and smelled, despite the doubts of the government and others in Kecksburg.

“I looked up and saw it flying overhead and it was sizzling,” said Bulebush, a retired truck driver.

“I got to it 15 to 20 minutes after it landed. I saw it 10 to 15 feet away from behind a big tree — because I was worried it might blow up — and it smelled like sulfur or rotten eggs and was shaped like a huge acorn, about the size of a VW.”

Other people said that dozens of Army soldiers and three members of the Air Force showed up, and later that night a flatbed military truck took the object away.

Despite such accounts, the government has been “trying to make it out like we’re a bunch of liars,” Bulebush said.

But now he and his fellow believers may have their best chance to prove their case. A recent settlement in a 4-year-long Freedom of Information Act court battle requires NASA to comb for documents about the incident and report back periodically to the judge overseeing the case.

The lawsuit was filed in December 2003 in the District of Columbia by Leslie Kean, a freelance journalist, with financial support from the SciFi Channel.

SciFi had asked Kean in 2002 to find a solid UFO report, one with credible witnesses and possible physical evidence, to serve as a test case.

Kean pressed the case after she filed a Freedom of Information Act request in 2003 and NASA said it couldn’t find any documents related to Kecksburg.

But Kean knew the space agency had documents. Stan Gordon, a UFO and Bigfoot researcher with whom Kean was working, had information he got in response to a request he sent NASA in the 1990s.

The case boiled over on March 20 for federal Judge Emmet Sullivan, who had tried to move NASA along for more than 3 years.

According to a transcript of the hearing that day, Sullivan angrily referred to NASA’s search efforts as a “ball of yarn” that never fully answers the request, adding: “I can sense the plaintiff’s frustration because I’m frustrated.”

A settlement, reached Oct. 17, specifies how NASA will make a new search for records. Both sides will be required to report back to Sullivan periodically, starting this week.

(Source: http://www.freep.com)

SCI FI Channel, CFI Ready Lawsuit Against Government

A year ago, with the support of John Podesta, former Clinton White House Chief of Staff and member of the Moynihan Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, the SCI FI Channel and the Coalition for Freedom of Information (CFi) initiated an effort to obtain classified and other government documents on the 1965 UFO incident in Kecksburg, Pa.

Now, as a result of continued delays and stonewalling by key federal agencies including the Department of Defense, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, and NASA on CFi’s Freedom of Information Act requests, SCI FI will announce its support for legal action to force various agencies to reveal what they know about the Kecksburg crash.

Legal, scientific, and archival experts will report on a year’s worth of investigative work — federal archive searches, interviews with witnesses and military personnel, scientific analyses, and Freedom of Information Act requests.

On Dec. 9, 1965, just outside the small Pennsylvania town of Kecksburg, witnesses described seeing a fireball in the evening sky, a controlled landing and the systematic military recovery of an object. As reported by local radio and newspapers, U.S. military personnel cordoned off the area, investigated the site, and left without ever providing a full report of the incident other than to dismiss it as a meteorite.

WHO:

• Bonnie Hammer, SCI FI Channel president
• Leslie Kean, investigative journalist
• Lee Helfrich, attorney, Lobel, Novins & Lamont
• Amber Moulton, History Associates Incorporated
• Ed Rothschild, executive director, Coalition for Freedom of Information

WHEN:
Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 10 a.m.; Coffee and pastry at 9:30

WHERE:
First Amendment Room, National Press Club, Washington, D.C.

(Source: http://www.linuxelectrons.com)

UFO Hunters Announced By Sci Fi Channel

From the creators of SCI FI Channel’s hit series Ghost Hunters, comes the search for paranormal phenomena of a different kind. UFO Hunters, a series from Emmy Award winning executive producer Craig Piligian, Tom Thayer and Piligian’s Pilgrim Films and Television, sets out to investigate claims of UFO sightings and otherworldly experiences.

UFO Hunters will investigate, review and reveal, giving viewers a new perspective on the universe around them. “UFOlogists” have always walked the fine line between science and fantasy. Long objects of ridicule, there’s a new generation of investigators using cutting-edge technology to legitimize the examination of evidence and separate genuine claims from works of fiction.

As with The Atlantic Paranormal Society of (TAPS) featured on Ghost Hunters, New York Strange Phenomena Investigators (NY-SPI), led by co-founders Oliver Kemenczky and Ted Davis, and supported by researcher/investigator Dennis Anderson, will bring to UFO Hunters their decades of experience and unquestioned credibility in the UFO community. And for the first time, reality television may reveal evidence that we have been visited…and will be again!

This is another stupid show that will come tarnish the credibility of the serious researchers. This goes along the line with Myth-Buster scientic wannabes that attempted doing a real zero-point machine but didn’t have the knowledge to proceed to the bottom of it. Don’t get me wrong, Myth busters has it’s ENTERTAINING value, but nothing more than that.