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I'd be curious to hear what David Biedny would ask a SETI researcher. Especially in the last few months, the show has not rejected the ETH, but I think it is fair to say that isn't a frontrunner on the show at this point. So it becomes something of an apples and oranges question. It might be fun...

True, but only one half of the problem gets paid a book deal/speaker's fee. "Selective" quoting is one practice. I'd put it in the same basket as: Using older information when newer and more throroughly researched/documented information doesn't support your point. Working from tertiary...

The Texas one got it because the local paper covered it in several stories. Had that not occurred, it would just be another sighting that we see daily on the various UFO-related news sites. That's something that frustrates me when people email with "Have you seen this story?" I try to explain...

Skepticism of Nuts and Bolts ETH is raised fairly often on the show. This essay http://www.computercrowsnest.com/features/arc/2008/nz12191.php has nothing directly to do with that. It's about how many science fiction writers and fans have gotten trapped in a well of tropes and genre...

I have only minimally done research (archaeology) around a tv crew, so I can't speak from direct experience. But if you want prime evidence that tv involvement turns things to shit, go read The Roswell Dig Diaries. It is combo of the final report on the excavations outside of Corona at the Mac...

Frank Warren is not happy with the History Channel show http://frankwarren.blogspot.com/2008/02/premier-of-ufo-hunters-and-premier-of.html

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Because NIDS isn't a government agency, so either the guy got FAA information and they were waving around the NIDS report because it looks "official" (which is stupid), or he got the information from a NIDS report (which doesn't make any sense considering the case is new, but were this the...

The Sci-Fi one felt a bit goofy, and the format is obviously contrived from Ghost Hunters. And lets not go into the "government report" from NIDS. But at least they went and interviewed eyewitnesses, compared this with other accounts and astronomical data etc. The History Channel one, they...

I said something similar on my blog, http://spookyparadigm.blogspot.com/2008/01/dueling-ufo-hunter-tv-shows-and-why.html

I'm really glad that David kept asking: So, where are these artifacts? It's a valid question for someone who is making money publishing books on them. Oh wait, I forgot, the firebug conspiracy to burn down all anomalous artifacts and bones once someone publishes them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumb#Other_animals_with_thumbs

So has Sci-Fi.

Ah, ok. I bumped the other thread because this is on right now. I suspect this isn't just a proto-pilot, but in some of the ads for the new show, they refer to it as a "spin off." I suspect this is what they were spun off from.

The History Channel one is one right now, an episode on USOs (it seems that perhaps this is the original show that the series is spun off of, but it was called UFO Hunters: USO's and had an intro highlighting four investigators by name including William Birnes). It sounds and looks so far a lot...

I wondered about that myself. But if all it takes is a little digging, that's not exactly wiped clean.

I can believe entire cities going. But I am skeptical of an entire intelligent species leaving no trace.

Don't know. The assumption is that it will take forever to break down. Which if true, would mean a huge index layer of plastics. Then again, we don't know how it will break down in the real world. But if I had to guess, the estimates are conservative. Bill Rathje, used to be a Maya...

As an archaeologist, I liked some of it but other parts bugged me. And the one that annoyed me most was the "there will be no traces in a few thousand years." Bull. Wooden and bone artifacts of all sorts are found in small but persistant quantities from archaeological sites of the past 10,000...