UFO HUNTERS Review – “The UFO Before Roswell”

I finally took a look at the first episode from The History Channel’s UFO HUNTERS (which I wrote about here) called “The UFO Before Roswell.”

In the episode, the team examines an incident that took place two weeks before the now-famous report of a UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico.

First I would like to mention that the whole UFO “obsession” is not really my thing. If it turns out I switch the channel and find an interesting program about it, I might watch it, but I won’t go out of my way to find something about it. What I did like about the episode was that the UFO Hunters team was really trying to find what had happened and didn’t shove the UFO theory down our throat. If it turned out that the evidence proved that the materials found were from out of this world, then fine but if not, then that’s it.

Obviously the first episode doesn’t answer everything since it is a series, so you can expect more investigations in future episodes about different unexplained events.

If finding out about unexplained events and UFO interests you, then you might enjoy watching UFO Hunters on Wednesdays at 10pm on The History Channel.

You can watch the promo for next episode on The History Channel website.

Here is more information about UFO Hunters:

UFO Hunters Bill Birnes, Pat Uskert, Dr. Ted Acworth, and Jeff Tomlinson are passionate about separating fact from fallacy when it comes to UFO incidents. Each brings a different background and perspective: Bill Birnes is publisher of UFO Magazine, home to one of the world’s largest collections of documentation on UFO incidents. Also from UFO Magazine is investigator Pat Uskert, who became intrigued with the UFO phenomenon after he witnessed a strange metallic object floating over Venice, California. Jeff Tomlinson is the scientific intern with the UFO HUNTERS team. They are joined by Dr. Ted Acworth of MIT, a mechanical engineer and researcher who previously worked for NASA, and brings the discipline of hard science to the team, assisting in the investigations of reported UFO incidents to determine if they are real.

Each week, the group travels to the site of a well-known UFO incident to explore the event and uncover what really happened. Using history as their guide, the UFO Hunters examine evidence such as videotapes, audiotapes, witness interviews, and files newly opened under the Freedom of Information Act, then go on location and to the lab to interview, re-construct the events, and investigate. Their journeys take them across North America and Europe in search of the truth about these UFO sightings.