• Air date: 29 Oct '08 13 episodes
      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. 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, and created by the producers of Ghost Hunters, but which only aired one episode. In the US, History Channel only released...
  • List of Episodes (13)
    • 1. Invasion Illinois

      29 Oct '08
      A triangular-shaped aircraft seen over Tinley Park, Illinois is investigated. Similar reportings were made around the same time all around the world.
    • 2. UFO Emergency

      05 Nov '08
      Police officials in Ohio, Michigan and Illinois talk about the cases of UFO they have examined in their areas.
    • 3. Heartland Explosion

      12 Nov '08
      The hunters head to Kokomo, IN. to check out a report of a high decibel boom which was felt and heard for miles and caused a flood of emergency phone calls. Included are theories of what may have caused such a loud noise.
    • 4. First Contact

      19 Nov '08
      The 1897 crash of a alleged UFO in Aurora, Texas in examined. Also, a search for the grave of the aircraft's alien pilot was believed to be buried.
    • 5. The Real Roswell

      03 Dec '08
      A retrospective which examines the July 1947 in the New Mexico Desert of Roswell, where an alien ship purportedly crashed. Included are new theories, among them is a second crash may have occurred.
    • 6. Arizona Lights

      10 Dec '08
      An investigation of the formation of lights seen above the Phoenix skies in 1997 and 2008.
    • 7. Lost UFO Files

      02 Jan '09
      n the early 1950's, James McDonald, a senior physicist at the University of Arizona, changed the entire course of UFO research. For nearly 20 years he examined UFO reports in great detail – interviewing over 500 witnesses, uncovering important government documents, and testifying before Congress in 1968. He challenged skeptics, performed scientific analysis, and led the charge for UFOs to be properly studied. After his tragic death in 1971, his investigations and files were sent to the Universit
    • 8. Alien Fallout

      14 Jan '09
      The investigators take a look at close encounters of the second kind, such as the December 29, 1980 case of Betty Cash, and Vickie and Cody Landrum, who claimed they encountered a fiery object hovering over a road that emitted intense heat and allegedly left them suffering symptoms of radiation exposure.
    • 9. UFO Storm

      28 Jan '09
      The team joins UFO researcher Nick Pope and investigates a recent wave of UFO hysteria in the United Kingdom which started soon after the Ministry of Defense released formerly classified documents in May 2008.
    • 10. Giant UFO's

      04 Feb '09
      The team probes the skies over England following an airline pilot's official report of a pair of UFOs he believed to be at least a mile in length, and a review of other sightings of gigantic unidentified craft seen over the United States.
    • 11. Aliens at the Airport

      11 Feb '09
      The hunters investigate the growing number of encounters between commercial aircraft and UFOs, highlighting a November 2006 incident at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago and a 2004 sighting in Osaka, Japan.
    • 12. Alien Crashes

      18 Feb '09
      The hunters try to find what the military covered up in a recent May 2008 crash of an unknown object in Needles, California, and looks at other famous crash incidents like the Kecksburg, Pennsylvania case where the military supposedly undertook a massive clean up effort and intimidated local witnesses.
    • 13. Area 51 Revealed

      25 Feb '09
      The team finds new vantage points to spy on the recent activity at Area 51, which in the past decade has acquired more public lands to increase perimeter security, and built new towers, buildings and runways for the continued development of top secret aircraft.