This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Absolutely amazing

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

I agree wholeheartedly with steveheinze-07578; this show could easily be pared to ten minutes or so if they omitted the time spent telling viewers what the phenomenon isn't (pardon the grammar, please) before finally revealing what it is. Most of the time, the "possibilities" suggested are so ridiculous I want to throw a brick through my TV. If "What On Earth?" is a science program, then bowling, poker and Scrabble are sports.

I've been watching this show since it started and every once in a while you learn something new. The first season had some good content buried among the fluff they use to fill an hour but the second season was just a rearranged rerun of the first. When the third season started I checked it to see if there was anything new and they found fresh content but the fluff is getting increasingly pointless and misleading to the point of just spewing lies. What really got to me was the most recent episode where they refer to the Star of David as the "Star of Lucifer", I mean really? So you're going to relate the symbol of Judaism to Satanism? So the ignorant masses who watch this show will think that Jewish people are Satanists because of false information like this? I'm not Jewish myself and am more offended by the lack of proper information than anything but if I can see how a Jewish person could be very hurt and offended by this. I guess this is just another "Reality show" that has no basis in reality.

Here's the formula for this show:1. Search high and low for any sort of satellite image that can possibly be presented in an anomalous context.2. Omit key information / observations / facts, while using the narrator to mislead the viewers / present said "anomaly" as something extraordinary (e.g. aliens, government secrets, the end of the world).3. Present several (typically idiotic / ludicrous) possibilities (to eat up time), and then proceed to discredit said idiotic / ludicrous possibilities (e.g. Narrator's Voice (hyperbole): "A satellite caught glimpse of a giant pink blob in the sky over the Pacific Ocean, which has experts baffled. Some have suggested it could be a giant herd of pigs. This would certainly explain the pink appearance, but upon further inspection, seems unlikely as pigs aren't known to fly. Further, the blob covers an area of 100,000 square miles. If it is a herd of flying pigs, it would consist of more pigs than are known to exist in the observable universe").4. Present all the (initially omitted) facts / details, revealing the anomaly's true, (underwhelming) identity (e.g. Narrator's Voice: "When orbiting the earth, a satellite witnesses a sunset and sunrise every 90 minutes. At the time the anomalous satellite image was taken, the sun just so happened to be setting behind the Earth, resulting in a spectacular sunset, which manifests itself as a (wait for it)… pink… blob…").There might be one legitimate / actually interesting case presented every couple of episodes. Aside from that, it's just a bunch of lazy / manufactured, (often) downright idiotic filler content… Then again, I suppose that's pretty much all television these days

A science channel show where the premise is to look for bizarre images of objects on earth seen from satellites, and try to explain what they are. 3-4 images are featured per episode. I was wary this show might feature a lot of pseudoscience, but I think it does a pretty good job demonstrating the difference between speculation and science.Authors and journalists are interviewed, some with very outlandish claims, but their ideas are presented critically, with any holes pointed out by the scientists also being interviewed. Googling these scientists, they seem legitimate; their credentials accurately stated, no accusations of unethical research, etc. Unfortunately, who is saying what may not be completely clear to anyone not looking for it, as the show moves through different arguments so fast.You often don't find the real answer, which is to be expected, but either way I think the journey is a real treat. You could hear about an abandoned island which turns out to be a forced labor camp from WWII. Or about intricate designs in the desert, rumored to point to a lost city reported by an 1800s explorer, only to find out that it's a farm coincidentally pointing to an unusual rock formation.Along the way, you learn different facts about history, meteorology, military technology, geology, and most importantly, satellite imaging. The single biggest problem with this show is that so many of the segments are reused, being literally copied and pasted into different episodes. So the actual amount of content is probably only about half of the show's length.The knowledge is pretty esoteric, so I don't recommend it for basic education, but if you're a fan of science and mystery, I'd check it out in spite of its flaws.