Alien & UFO segments are funny!!

[GeorgiaboyJeff!]

Those are real funny to me.I must admit when I was a child, I used to believe in the stories & I was afraid that I was going to get abducted but I don't believe in them anymore lol.One that stood out to me was the one about the 5 men who went on a camping trip & they all claimed to have been watched & abducted by aliens. It was kinda creepy though with the drawings they had of the supposed beings & what they were doing to them.

[CODIS]

I live in New York. I remember watching a specific episode of UM that dealt with "missing time". An African American Soldier that was dropped off by a bus, suffered from the phenomenon. They show a segement from the support group he was attending and one of the guys there was my LOCAL ICE CREAM MAN! My sister called me up and told me the same thing. Mildly disturbing to say the least.

[LooksLikeCRicci]

I don't know... I'm open to the belief that UFO Abductions happen. I mean, I don't think humans can be so arrogant as to think that we are alone in this universe.

I'm not sure if I buy the theory that aliens are really an advanced form of the human race that have mastered time travel and come back to Earth to warn us to change our ways.... that's a little too ABC Afterschool Special for me.

But given how many people have claimed to see them... we'd be stupid not to consider the idea.

[Awsi Dooger]

Actually I think the UFO stories that UM chose to feature were very good. I'm not saying I'm convinced but those episodes are hard to dismiss as wacko. The story about the five men out in the boat is probably the weakest and most dubious one. But the others like Belgium, Mexico, Kecksburg, Roswell, Falcon Lake, the Hispanic police officer, and the plane that disappeared after reporting a strange object, all seemed well presented to me and many creditable accounts.

If Roswell was complete nonsense and just a weather balloon I don't understand why the government would care enough to come out with multiple and ever changing explanations every few years or so, or whenever the topic gained steam. They've even had huge written reports on their latest theory on the supposed confusion. Something that never happened should have one official government version and no need for followup.

[jjmcgr]

I used to love UM, but their episode on Roswell with the old mortician's claims about seeing flying saucer peiople and having a nurse girlfriend who mysteriously died in a car crash in England proved to be weakly researched. almost every claim made by the mortician (made BTW 50 years later) could be proven to be false or not true- he did not work for the funeral home at the time of the alleged incident, there was no nurse at the base by the name he gave ever and there were no nurses of any name who got transferred to England and then died. The mortician did apparently participate in mortuary activities related to a big plane crash at Roswell a few years later which he may have mixed up later with the emerging UFO myth.
UM fact checkers could have checked these facts out easily but did not do so or chose to suppress them because they'd ruin their drama. Leads one to wonder how they researched other cases.
UFO episodes are clearly their weakest segements if this is any example.