# UFO Hunters On History **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 19, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-hunters-on-history/489966 "2009-03-19T00:49:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-hunters-on-history/489966/1 "2009-03-19T00:49:01Z")
Pretty cool show, IMHO. I think there’s definitely a lot of stuff being covered up, and some of those real folks are very believable. Whatcha think? Q ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-hunters-on-history/489966/2 "2009-03-19T00:53:29Z")
No one on this board is able to say they find the stories intriguing. It is not permissible. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-hunters-on-history/489966/3 "2009-03-19T01:43:44Z")
They’re always believable. They have always been believable. When I was in 7-9th grade, I knew the gospel. Maj. Donald Kehoe. I read the books. They were real. When real life comes around, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-hunters-on-history/489966/4 "2009-03-19T03:27:01Z")
There is no perceptible difference between > [@](#): > > stuff being covered up and that same “stuff” not actually existing. To choose to believe in the paranoid and/or gullible option marks a person as, well, a mark. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-hunters-on-history/489966/5 "2009-03-19T04:01:46Z")
UFOs are so 90s. I probably would’ve been a sucker for this show during my teens back then. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-hunters-on-history/489966/6 "2009-03-19T04:06:27Z")
Well, I’m not sure I understand what you just wrote, **Askance** , but I suspect you disagree that there _are_ UFO’s **and** that the people (including 4 astronauts) interviewed on the program are telling the truth (or maybe you think they’re telling _their_ truth?) You and **samclem** are going to have to excuse me, but I’m not too good at understanding sentences like y’all wrote, anymore. Pretty sad for an English major, huh?:(🙂 And Jeez, I hope we didn’t just venture into Great Debates!:eek: Anyway… I _like_ the show! 😉 Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-hunters-on-history/489966/7 "2009-03-19T04:54:16Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![aaslatten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@aaslatten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aaslatten)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-hunters-on-history/489966/8 "2009-03-19T05:00:55Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > UFOs are so 90s. I probably would’ve been a sucker for this show during my teens back then. I really think of UFOs as more of a '70s thing – Close Encounters, Project Blue Book, Chariots of the Gods, In Search Of. UFOs were as integral to the 70s as shag carpeting and cocktail parties. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-hunters-on-history/489966/9 "2009-03-19T05:14:38Z")
[QUOTE=Quasimodem] You and **samclem** are going to have to excuse me, but I’m not too good at understanding sentences like y’all wrote, anymore. [/QUOTE] What he’s trying to point out is that when there is no evidence an event occurred, you can choose to believe it is because all the evidence is being covered up, or that the event did not in fact occur. For some people, the lack of evidence is _proof_ of a coverup, as opposed to actually having evidence of a coverup. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-hunters-on-history/489966/10 "2009-03-19T05:20:08Z")
Of course there are UFOs in the strictest sense of the term. There are unidentified flying objects. Just because you don’t know what something is, doesn’t mean it’s a Martian spaceship, though. Here’s the thing about the woo woo ET, UFO stuff. The problem is not that there can’t be other life in the universe. It would be more extraordinary for there NOT to be other life. The universe is so big that abiogenetic and evolutionary events on other planets, moons, whatever, are a virtual certainty. The problem is not with the notion that aliens exist, but with the enormous, almost unimaginable distance between even the most neighboring stars. It would take hundreds or thousands of years to travel between them. FTL travel is still pure SyFy. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-hunters-on-history/489966/11 "2009-03-19T05:39:24Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society. Thanks, **Czar**. You and the other mods are always there to pull me out of the proverbial fire! 😉 Hey, you know what (and this will make your whole night, Dude)? I sometimes wonder if you modz have a “Quasi-Alarm” system that alerts you everytime I post???😃 **BRAAAAAP, BRAAAP** **Quasi’s in Great Debates/The Pit!!!** **BRAAAP, BRAAP** Just kiddin’, but I know I have a tendency to let my emotions get the better of me. Hopefully these new meds are helping to keep me in line. Thanks, again Q ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-hunters-on-history/489966/12 "2009-03-19T06:01:18Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > The problem is not with the notion that aliens exist, but with the enormous, almost unimaginable distance between even the most neighboring stars. It would take hundreds or thousands of years to travel between them. FTL travel is still pure SyFy. **Diogenes**? What if they were already here, though?:eek: Also, I have to add: What if that whole UFO Hunters show were **SATIRE**?😃 They’d win a damn Emmy, I’m sure of it!:D:D:D You know what, though? I’m just thankful I can still look at both sides of an issue. It gives me something to hope for… Q ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-hunters-on-history/489966/13 "2009-03-19T08:10:15Z")
> [@aaslatten](#): > > I really think of UFOs as more of a '70s thing – Close Encounters, Project Blue Book, Chariots of the Gods, In Search Of. UFOs were as integral to the 70s as shag carpeting and cocktail parties. Before my time, though I am familiar with three out of those four. Maybe they peaked in the 90s with X-Files, Alien Autopsy, and thousands of other hours of cable TV programming. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-hunters-on-history/489966/14 "2009-03-19T09:13:27Z")
There have always been UFOs. There have never been aliens visiting earth in their spacecraft. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-hunters-on-history/489966/15 "2009-03-19T13:01:21Z")
Hell, even if there aren’t alien spacecraft or inter-dimensionals or anything paranormal about it all, it’s damn fascinating as a cultural phenomena & a modern mythos. _proud owner of the main three books of George Adamski_ ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-hunters-on-history/489966/16 "2009-03-19T14:02:11Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > The problem is not with the notion that aliens exist, but with the enormous, almost unimaginable distance between even the most neighboring stars. It would take hundreds or thousands of years to travel between them. FTL travel is still pure SyFy. That’s not even where the idea of alien visitors falls apart for me. I mean, if we’re talking about actual _alien_ life, then the rules as we know them don’t apply. FTL travel _as we imagine it_ is pure fiction, but there’s nothing to say that FTL travel – in some form of which we have absolutely no concept – isn’t SOP in some far-flung galaxy. My problem is simply this: Why come visit this pissant burg? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-hunters-on-history/489966/17 "2009-03-19T14:44:14Z")
I love the bad science shows on the History channel, but they don’t really convince me. I’ve caught one particular episode of the UFO hunter shows more than once, and their evidence seems flimsy. My memory is poor, but at one time they show the heads on Easter Island and compare them to others in (Peru?) and say that the similarities are striking. But for me they were only similar in as much as they were both heads. I’m a fool for the shows though, so I’ll watch when I’m bored. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-hunters-on-history/489966/18 "2009-03-19T14:49:46Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Pretty cool show, IMHO. I think there’s definitely a lot of stuff being covered up, and some of those real folks are very believable. > > Whatcha think? > > Q Making such a statement on this board is akin is saying something like “AIG is a responsible corporate citizen.” ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-hunters-on-history/489966/19 "2009-03-19T16:22:01Z")
Oh, **really**? So now I’m supposed to re-think my position on AIG, **too**? 😉 You guys can come up with the craziest analogies, I swear! 🙂 Still, you know ? There’s a lot of stuff we have on the planet which remains unexplained: Like those Nazca (?) figures which can only be seen from above, and really, kiddos - our **astronauts** seeing weird shit - and willing to talk about it??? Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-hunters-on-history/489966/20 "2009-03-19T16:25:22Z")
I find the topic of UFOs to be interesting, so I enjoy the show. Personally, I think the space critters have already visited us. They posted signs all around the galaxy warning rational beings to stay away from the insane asylum. The UFOs that we see are the teenage critters disobeying their parents. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-hunters-on-history/489966.md?page=2)