Chasing UFOs own show
Chasing UFOs own show,For most people, looking for UFOs is more of a hobby than an actual occupation. Not so for Erin Ryder, James Fox and Ben McGee, members of a dynamic team starring in the new television series, "Chasing UFOs," that premieres Friday on the National Geographic Channel.
One can imagine the theme music of the old "X-Files" series playing in the heads of Ryder, Fox and McGee as they travel the country looking for the truth behind reported unexplained UFO encounters, alien abduction and military cover-ups.
The three investigators bring different points of view as they chase UFOs.
Ryder, a thrill-seeking adventurer who costars on the Syfy Channel's "Destination Truth" series and also the "Chasing UFOs" tech supervisor and lead researcher, calls herself the "skeliever" of the group -- sort of a half-skeptic, half-believer.
"I couldn't find a word to best describe how I felt my stance was and I really am somewhere between a skeptic and a believer," she told The Huffington Post. "I've always had a fondness for the strange and unusual, and I go on the facts and base my findings from the evidence we collect and the testimonies we hear."
Fox, who is often referred to as a UFOlogist and has produced two previous UFO documentaries, "Out of the Blue" and "I Know What I Saw," is the believer here. "My goal is to create something that is entertaining, yet very informative and also dispels the myth that there's nothing more to UFOs than swamp gas, misidentified aircraft and mass hallucinations," Fox told HuffPost.
McGee, a geologist, field explorer and aerospace consultant, is the scientific skeptic of the group. "This material tends to be so toxic for scientists, so my first impulse was to run for the hills," McGee told HuffPost. "But I believe very strongly in education and science outreach, and I thought this would actually be a vehicle to help engage people in the conversation about our place in the universe and the possibility of extraterrestrial life."
source: huffingtonpost
