UFO Hunters is an American television series that premiered on January 30, 2008 on The History Channel, produced by Motion Picture Production Inc., and ran for three seasons.Jon Alon Walz was the Executive Producer of the show and was responsible for selling the series to History Channel after a bidding war for the rights to the show broke out between History Channel and Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy).
The concept for the show was tested in a segment of History Channel's 2006 UFO special entitled "Deep Sea UFOs", produced by Motion Picture Production Inc, which featured two of the final four cast members. "UFO Hunters" was not a spin-off from a 2005 History Channel special with the same title. The tagline of the show is: Hoax or History?
The series should not be confused with a similarly themed and titled UFO Hunters, a special that debuted the same day and time on the Sci-Fi Channel, (now SyFy), and created by the producers of Ghost Hunters, but which only aired one episode.
In the US, History Channel only released the first two seasons on DVD in the correct airdate order. However, the format was only released in full screen (1:33:1) instead of wide screen. In the UK, History Channel released the third and final season on DVD however, the episodes were released in the incorrect airdate order.
In a 2011 interview with Jim Harold, William J. Birnes claimed that after the Dulce Base episode aired, the show was canceled by top level executives at History Channel.
Season one
Season One aired from January 30, 2008 to May 7, 2008.
Episode Title Original Airdate
101 (1) "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 (2) "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 aircraft, off the coast of Santa Catalina Island, California.
103 (3) "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 (4) "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 (5) "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 (6) "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 (7) "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 (8) "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 (9) "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 (10) "Invasion Texas: 2008" April 9, 2008
The team investigates the January 2008 mass UFO sightings between Fort Worth and Houston, Texas.
111 (11) "UFO Dogfights" April 16, 2008
Investigation into an Iranian and a Peruvian fighter pilot's claims of combat engagements with UFOs.
112 (12) "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 (13) "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.
