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This article is about the show on The History Channel. For the show produced for the Sci Fi Channel, see UFO Hunters (Sci Fi Channel).
UFO Hunters
A screenshot of the title in the title sequence of UFO Hunters.
GenreDocumentary / Reality
StarringWilliam J. Birnes
Pat Uskert
Kevin Cook
Country of origin United States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes30 (as of April 8, 2009 )
Production
Running time42 minutes (approx. without commercials)
Original release
NetworkHistory
ReleaseJanuary 30, 2008 –
present

UFO Hunters is an American documentary television series that premiered on January 30, 2008 on The History Channel. It is a spin-off series of History's UFO Files and is produced by Motion Picture Production Inc.[1] The tagline of the show is: "Hoax or History?"

Format

The show follows numerous forensic investigations (referred to as "cases" in the beginning of each episode) led by William J. Birnes and his team of experts: researcher and scuba diver Pat Uskert, mechanical engineer and MIT researcher Ted Acworth, and investigative biologist Jeff Tomlinson. In the third season, Acworth and Tomlinson departed and were replaced by mechanical engineer Kevin Cook.[2]

In each episode, the team investigates reports of unidentified aerial phenomena in which they interview witnesses of close encounters with UFOs, USOs, and supposed extraterrestrial life. They also analyze any evidence collected such as photographs, video, or recovered physical material. They also conduct research with other investigators and scientists in the field in an attempt to find conclusive evidence that a report is real or a hoax. The show also investigates long-standing UFO cases such as the Roswell, New Mexico UFO crash incident and other famous sightings throughout history.[3]

The show should not be confused with another show with the same title, which premiered for a single episode on the same day and time on the Sci Fi Channel.

Credited crew

Investigators

  • William J. Birnes - Producer, Lead Investigator
  • Pat Uskert - Associate Producer, Investigator
  • Kevin Cook - Investigator

Former Investigators

  • Ted Acworth
  • Jeff Tomlinson

Other

  • John Tindall - Experiments Producer
  • James Lurie - Narrator

Episodes

Color Key

Season No. episodes Year(s) aired
1 13 2008
2 13 2008–2009
3 TBA 2009

Season one

Season One aired from January 30, 2008 to May 7, 2008.

Ep# Episode Title Original Airdate Summary
101 The UFO Before Roswell January 30, 2008 The hunters take a look at a little-known UFO encounter off Maury Island, Washington which happened two weeks before the famous Roswell, New Mexico crash.
102 USOs February 6, 2008 The team checks out the reports of Unidentified Submerged Objects (USOs), one of which reportedly caused the crash of a single-engine light aircraft, off the coast of Santa Catalina Island, California.
103 Abductions February 13, 2008 The team looks back into the famous Betty and Barney Hill alien abduction case and later observes the surgical removal of a supposed alien implant from a man's leg.
104 Crash and Retrieval February 20, 2008 The team looks into the 1974 Coyame and 2007 Xilitla UFO crash cases in Mexico, where the Mexican and U.S. military reportedly recovered wreckage material.
105 Military vs. UFOs February 27, 2008 The team reopens the files on the famous 1956 RAF Bentwaters and 1980 Rendlesham Forest UFO incidents, and the supposed cover ups that followed.
106 Cops vs. UFOs March 5, 2008 The hunters look at police reports from Florida and the United Kingdom that involve patrolmen encounters with UFOs.
107 Reverse Engineering March 12, 2008 The team looks into lingering rumors that advanced military aircraft, such as the SR-71 Blackbird and B-2 Spirit Bomber, were designed from reverse engineered alien technology.
108 Vortexes March 19, 2008 The team looks into New York's Hudson Valley; Sedona, Arizona; and Britain's Stonehenge, to determine what makes them purported UFO hotspots.
109 Alien Contact April 2, 2008 The team compares the strange encounters of two men, one from Cleveland, Ohio and the other from Suffolk, Virginia, to see if there is evidence that they've had contact with extraterrestrials.
110 Invasion Texas: 2008 April 9, 2008 The team investigates the January, 2008 mass UFO sightings between Fort Worth and Houston, Texas.
111 UFO Dogfights April 16, 2008 Investigation into an Iranian and a Peruvian fighter pilot's claims of combat engagements with UFOs.
112 Code Red April 30, 2008 The team interviews military air traffic controllers who have come forward about tracking UFOs over restricted airspace and the security alerts that followed.
113 The NASA Files May 7, 2008 The team interviews former NASA astronauts, engineers, and scientists and delves into video footage to see if the space agency knows more about UFOs than it is letting on.

Season two

Season Two aired from October 29, 2008 to February 25, 2009.

Ep# Episode Title Original Airdate Summary
201 Invasion Illinois October 29, 2008 The team reviews a 2004 Tinley Park, Illinois UFO mass-sighting event where some eyewitnesses claim seeing three separate objects, while others believe it was a single triangular craft over 1500 feet wide.
202 UFO Emergency November 5, 2008 The hunters reopen famous police cold-cases involving mass UFO sightings such as the 1994 Trumbull County, Ohio and Holland, Michigan sightings and the 2000 Millstadt, Illinois case where 911 dispatchers were flooded with calls and police radio chatter of strange lights moving slowly through the sky.
203 Heartland Explosion November 12, 2008 The team investigates an April 16, 2008 Kokomo, Indiana report of a high decibel boom that echoed across the heartland and was supposedly followed by sightings of a fiery object in the night sky.
204 First Contact November 19, 2008 The team researches the story of the 1897 Aurora, Texas UFO crash where the townsfolk are rumored to have tossed the ship wreckage down a well and buried the body of the non-human pilot in their local cemetery.
205 The Real Roswell December 3, 2008 The team looks into rumors of a possible second crash site of flying disk recovered by the military in New Mexico, on the same night as the famous Roswell UFO Incident.
206 Arizona Lights December 10, 2008 The hunters join Out of the Blue filmmaker James Fox on an investigation of an April 21, 2008 mass-sighting report of a triangular craft spotted over the Nevada/Arizona border to as far as Tucson and looks at connections to the "Phoenix Lights" incident of 1997.
207 Lost UFO Files December 31, 2008 The team delves into the University of Arizona archives to review the notes of late UFO investigator James E. McDonald and brings to light his research and evidence that has laid dormant since his death in 1971.
208 Alien Fallout January 14, 2009 The investigators take a look at close encounters of the second kind, such as the December 29, 1980 case of Betty Cash, and Vickie and Cody Landrum, who claimed they encountered a fiery object hovering over a road that emitted intense heat and allegedly left them suffering symptoms of radiation exposure.
209 UFO Storm January 28, 2009 The team joins UFO researcher Nick Pope and investigates a recent wave of UFO hysteria in the United Kingdom which started soon after the Ministry of Defense released formerly classified documents in May 2008.
210 Giant UFOs February 4, 2009 The team probes the skies over England following an airline pilot's official report of a pair of UFOs he believed to be at least a mile in length, and a review of other sightings of gigantic unidentified craft seen over the United States.
211 Aliens at the Airport February 11, 2009 The hunters investigate the growing number of encounters between commercial aircraft and UFOs, highlighting a November 2006 incident at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago and a 2004 sighting in Osaka, Japan.
212 Alien Crashes February 18, 2009 The hunters try to find what the military covered up in a recent May 2008 crash of an unknown object in Needles, California, and looks at other famous crash incidents like the Kecksburg, Pennsylvania case where the military supposedly undertook a massive clean up effort and intimidated local witnesses.
213 Area 51 Revealed February 25, 2009 The team finds new vantage points to spy on the recent activity at Area 51, which in the past decade has acquired more public lands to increase perimeter security, and built new towers, buildings and runways for the continued development of top secret aircraft.

Season three

A third season of UFO Hunters is currently in airing and the information below is subject to change.

Ep# Episode Title Original Airdate Summary
301 Giant Triangles March 18, 2009 The team investigates the increasing number of enormous black triangle reports in Sonora, California—what has become known as "Triangle Alley"—and analyzes night and rare daylight video footage of these objects to determine if they are top secret military aircraft or otherworldly spacecraft.
302 Underground Alien Bases March 25, 2009 The team looks into the claims of undercover investigators and former military personnel that an alien base exists somewhere below the New Mexico desert where human-alien hybrid experiments are being performed and how the beings there actually had a deadly conflict with human infiltrators.
303 The Greys Conspiracy April 1, 2009 The team studies two alleged alien abduction cases with alarmingly similar details that involve encounters with the creatures known as "Greys," and then they closely examine a strange humanoid skull found in Mexico that could be the remains of an alien-human hybrid.
304 Underwater Alien Bases April 8, 2009 The hunters delve into the mountain of reports from the Gulf Breeze, Florida UFO sighting wave of the early 1990s and then looks for possible connections to recent reports from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba of alleged Unidentified Submerged Objects (USOs) spotted rising from the ocean.
305 Nazi UFOs April 22, 2009 The team ventures to Germany and Poland to investigate rumors that the Third Reich had reverse engineered alien technology and may have produced a functional spacecraft, and how some of this technology was captured by the United States and helped jump start the U.S. space program.

See also

References

  1. ^ Shows produced by Motion Picture Production Inc.
  2. ^ "Who are the UFO Hunters?" article on History.com
  3. ^ "About the Series" article on History.com
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