"Chasing UFOs"

The National Geographic Channel premiered its new series, "Chasing UFOs," this weekend.  It's pretty typical of a stripe of show that seems fairly popular on cable televison-- a team of investigators seek the truth about some provocative subject.  The "Chasing UFOs" team includes a ufologist, a scientist/engineer type, and a young woman who says her mind is open on the question of alien visitation of Earth. Perfectly balanced.  This team is also foul-mouthed, for whatever that's worth.  It also seems to like to work in the dark of night.  Sometimes that's legitimate, but searching a hillside for possible spaceship shards in the middle of the night seems a bit strange.

Ultimately, this show suffers from the same weakness that all similar shows have.  Viewers who think about it know there will be no payoff.  If the team had proven aliens exist, the world would have known about it long before the show aired.