Post by brillbilly on Oct 26, 2009 0:57:45 GMT 10
Allen Hynek worked for US Air Force´s project Blue Book as a consultant astronomer. When he started his attitued against all who had seen UFOs was that, with his own words, only "kooks ans Crackpots" saw UFOs. But after a couple of years he started to notice that many of the reports wasn´t made up by kooks and crackpots, but highly credible militaries and civilians. But after dismissing several credible witnesses at the Michigan sighting with the natural cause of swamp gas he resigned. Hynek led the investigation of the Socorro landing case in 1964 with the FBI. He went on with the at the time young Jaques Vallee and founded the Center of UFO Studies in Illinois in 1973. Hynek later become a member of the Robertson Panel. In 1986 Dr J. Allen Hynek died. Under his life time Hynek wrote theese books: The Ufo Experience: A Scientific Inquiry, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley Ufo Sightings and What You Should Know About UFOs.
Dr. Hynek has been the consultant astronomer to Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book. I won’t say that he’s a
“believer” but he’s darn interested. He has devoted a great deal of his valuable time to the project. He has read
amost every UFO report in the Air Force files. In the summer of 1952 he debated with Menzel at the American
Optical Society meeting in Boston and blasted Menzel right out of the hall.
He sat on the panel in Washington in January 1952 and was very much pro-UFO. Dr. Hynek is Head of the Ohio
State Univ. Astronomy Department, Director of the Perkins Observatory and Assistant Dean of the USU Graduate
School. He is still working for Blue Book.
Hynek also invented the Hynek Classification System.
Nocturnal Light
A visual sighting of a light on the sky at night. About
35 - 40 % of all reports are nocturnal lights.
Daylight Disc
A visual sighting of a UFO with distinct shape seen at
daytime.
Radar Cases
UFOs detected on radar.
Radar Visual Cases
UFOs detected on radar and visually at the same
time. About 1 - 2 % of al reports are radar visual
cases.
Close Encounters of the First Kind
A UFO observed within 150 yards.
Close Encounters of the Second Kind
A UFO that leaves some kind of evidence like
burnmarks on the ground or fragments of unknown
material.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
A UFO with visible occupants.
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind
Abductions.
Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind
Communication between a human and an alien.
Dr. Hynek has been the consultant astronomer to Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book. I won’t say that he’s a
“believer” but he’s darn interested. He has devoted a great deal of his valuable time to the project. He has read
amost every UFO report in the Air Force files. In the summer of 1952 he debated with Menzel at the American
Optical Society meeting in Boston and blasted Menzel right out of the hall.
He sat on the panel in Washington in January 1952 and was very much pro-UFO. Dr. Hynek is Head of the Ohio
State Univ. Astronomy Department, Director of the Perkins Observatory and Assistant Dean of the USU Graduate
School. He is still working for Blue Book.
Hynek also invented the Hynek Classification System.
Nocturnal Light
A visual sighting of a light on the sky at night. About
35 - 40 % of all reports are nocturnal lights.
Daylight Disc
A visual sighting of a UFO with distinct shape seen at
daytime.
Radar Cases
UFOs detected on radar.
Radar Visual Cases
UFOs detected on radar and visually at the same
time. About 1 - 2 % of al reports are radar visual
cases.
Close Encounters of the First Kind
A UFO observed within 150 yards.
Close Encounters of the Second Kind
A UFO that leaves some kind of evidence like
burnmarks on the ground or fragments of unknown
material.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
A UFO with visible occupants.
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind
Abductions.
Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind
Communication between a human and an alien.