You’re never alone!
I admit it. I succumbed to all the blog buzz last night and tuned into NatGeo’s new show ‘Chasing UFOs”. I don’t consider myself a believer…more like a healthy skeptic. I mean, really, has anyone ever presented that utterly compelling drop-dead piece of evidence that would seal the deal? NO! And yet there are those prized little nuggets that just can’t seem to be explained away…mini-nanites eating away at my disbeliefs. So yes, part of me wants to believe. But how? The nearest star is light years away. Practical interstellar space travel would require folding time and space - the energy required to do that is beyond imagination. Or is it?
My skepticism may reside in the fact that so many sightings seem to occur in the desert southwest, Fresno, Texas, Idaho and over tea party strongholds – places where potent weed, peyote, and government conspiracy theories exist in great quantity. It also doesn’t help that the news media prefers interviewing witnesses who sport tinfoil caps. But when you see astonauts, scientist, teachers, ministers, and soccer moms stepping forward at great risk to their social and professional credibility, the air of legitimacy begins to rise. Especially when so many claim they were later visited by hard men in black suits who came and took their footage away after posting them on line. If you want to read five good reasons why you should believe in UFOs click here.
Seeking the truth!
Ben, Ryder, James
‘Chasing UFOs’ features a team of ‘researchers’ who take to the road, tracking down sightings and doing their own investigative work. The team includes resident scientist Ben, researcher Ryder, and documentarian James. Ben is a bow-tied scientist and major skeptic that believes everything has a natural explanation and uses science to try to prove it. Ryder is a ‘kick-ass Laura Croft meets Nancy Drew and bitch-slaps her’ hard-as-nails investigator who favors busom flattering sweaty tops and is worth the price of admission all by herself. She’s a skiever – a skeptic who wants to believe. James is a true believer who has compiled some of the most impressive evidence to date and brought together people from all walks of life into publicly accessible symposiums to discuss what may, or may not, be out there. He is Fox Muldar reincarnated.
What is the real truth? I have no idea. I just know there are those who seem genuine in their admissions of close encounters and I believe that they believe they saw something extraordinary. I found ’Chasing UFO’s’ to be entertainingly harmless fun and occasionally thought-provoking. It airs Fridays at 10p on NatGeo. Personally, I would love to see a UFO and capture it on video. But I don’t think I would share it. I don’t want anybody dressed like a mortician visiting my house! Featured below is a compilation of June’s best captured sightings from FOanonymous.com. You might want to put on your tinfoil cap before viewing. 
#1 by Scotty on June 30, 2012 - 2:59 pm
They’re just lost tourists on their way to Graceland.
#2 by Fletch on June 30, 2012 - 3:03 pm
I don’t think swamp gas moves that way.
#3 by Jonesy on June 30, 2012 - 3:05 pm
I didn’t watch the show but I will now.
#4 by Owen on June 30, 2012 - 3:10 pm
We always assume that alien civilizations might be the same age as humankind. But what if they’re billions of years older. They may have long ago conquered the restraints of what we percieve as the physical laws of the universe.
#5 by Twyla on July 1, 2012 - 5:47 am
I think there’s a lot of frisbies that get photographed.
#6 by Fischer on July 1, 2012 - 5:51 am
If alien spacecraft exist then they are probably looking for my boss who has quite obviously come from another planet.
#7 by Janine on July 1, 2012 - 5:55 am
Billions and billions of galaxies and each one containing billions and billions of stars – its impossible not to believe that other civilizations exist.
#8 by Mystery Girl on July 1, 2012 - 5:57 am
I know its mostly junk science but I love those kind of shows.
#9 by Davis on July 1, 2012 - 5:59 am
Think about the movie Close Encounters. Given the chance, wouldn’t you want to go for a ride along?
#10 by snake on July 1, 2012 - 6:00 am
It depends – would there be cookies?
#11 by Carl on July 1, 2012 - 6:05 am
Humanity loves a good mystery and since no one every completely solves this one it keeps us guessing. I don’t want it to be solved – that would ruin a cool movie genre.
#12 by Swirlaway on July 1, 2012 - 6:08 am
Natgeo has been doing a whole weekend of ufo shows. Its been been a nice diversion from the oppresive heat. I never thought it would be too hot to go to the pool.
#13 by Rebel on July 1, 2012 - 6:11 am
If they are looking for lab rats to experiment on they can have my little brother!
#14 by Whos It on July 1, 2012 - 6:17 am
We were driving across west texas one night and we kept seeing the dancing lights low on the horizon. They would appear and then disappear and this went for like some 20 minutes or so. Finally we got close enough to realize we were approaching an oil refinery and we had flames flickering in and out of giant pipes. We were crushed because we had been videoing them thinking they were ufos.
#15 by Kris on July 1, 2012 - 6:23 am
They won’t land because we’re crawling in cooties!
#16 by Cavendish on July 1, 2012 - 6:26 am
Lots of photo-shopped hoxes out there, but occasionally you get that one from a tech-challenged mom that just can’t be explained away. Thats what keeps the mystery alive.
#17 by Yuki on July 1, 2012 - 6:29 am
I believe on general principle and because I think it would be cool.
#18 by Carole Anne on July 1, 2012 - 6:33 am
My dad is a ufologist – its a complete obsession and drives my mom crazy because he’s always talking to these weird people and sharing files and stuff. I’ve gone with him on night watches but we’ve never seen anything. It’s harmless.
#19 by Lynne on July 1, 2012 - 6:35 am
I’ve never seen them but there has been a lot of strange unexplained lights over Phoenix.
#20 by Djarom on July 1, 2012 - 6:39 am
Not a subject I’m too interested in but I would watch to see this Ryder!
#21 by Lewis on July 1, 2012 - 6:45 am
We were doing whiskey shots a couple of weeks ago and after a while I saw lots of aliens. I think they must have brought me home because I don’t remember anything and I woke up with a strange bruise on my neck
#22 by Nina on July 1, 2012 - 6:48 am
Anyone who has been to California knows that aliens exist and walk among us…especially in L.A.
#23 by Marcella on July 1, 2012 - 6:52 am
There’s been lots of sightings in Indianna, too.
#24 by Anais on July 1, 2012 - 6:56 am
Like the nonchalance of the people in the video…’put on your shirt little guy, mommies filming ufos’
#25 by Luke on July 1, 2012 - 7:02 am
Think about when the first European explorers arrived in the new world. Would native Americans have first believed the tales of men with white skin and funny clothes traveling in great ships with huge sails. Or would they have created a mythology about it?
#26 by Arachne on July 1, 2012 - 7:08 am
Maybe planet Earth is a zoo that people from all over the universe come to visit. Don’t feed them peanuts because it might make some of them sick
#27 by Eddie on July 1, 2012 - 7:10 am
Who you gonna trust? the people or the government!
#28 by Angie Glo on July 1, 2012 - 7:15 am
We’ve been listening to the universe with radio telescopes for decades and so far not a peep. No completely undeniable photo has ever been taken. I’m very skeptical. But the video was fun
#29 by Jersey on July 1, 2012 - 7:18 am
Sorry, but that thing floating over Culver City looked like a giant condom.
#30 by Tallboy on July 1, 2012 - 7:23 am
The military/government doesn’t help the cause with information suppression. If it’s just experimental aircraft then where’s the harm in sharing that. And if alien encounters have occurred wouldn’t it be nice for the world to know that we’re not alone. Why the need to blur the information pipeline?
#31 by Rita on July 1, 2012 - 3:53 pm
When you get caught up in the fervor of ufos you become one of ‘the lone gunman’ type of conspiracy theorists and paranonia set in. No thanks!
#32 by The Dharma Project on July 1, 2012 - 3:56 pm
I believe just because so many completely normal people seem to have had an experience. Who would want to do that and be branded a nut case.
#33 by mischa on July 1, 2012 - 3:58 pm
My brother and his friend have experimented tossings things off the roof, and taking pictures and instagramming them to see what happens.
#34 by Rosalinda on July 1, 2012 - 4:01 pm
Yay – we just got our power back. We’ve been without for days but it wasn’t a ufo that knocked it out…it was a humongus storm!
#35 by Wyoming on July 1, 2012 - 4:04 pm
I watched that video and I keep thing that those objects over Lubbock look like a flock of high flying geese.