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" Hynek wrote that during Air Force Major Hector Quintanilla's tenure as Blue Book's director, “ the flag of the utter nonsense school was flying at its highest on the mast .” Hynek reported that Sergeant David Moody, one of Quintanilla ’ s subordinates, “ epitomized the conviction-before-trial method.
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Hynek wrote a detailed response, dated October 7, 1968, suggesting several areas where Blue Book could improve.
Early evidence of the shift in Hynek's opinions appeared in 1953, when Hynek wrote an article for the April 1953 issue of the Journal of the Optical Society of America titled " Unusual Aerial Phenomena ," which contained what would become perhaps Hynek's best known statement:
Physicist Dr. James E. McDonald, for example, wrote to Hynek in 1970, castigating him for what McDonald saw as his lapses, and suggesting that, when evaluated by later generations, retired Marine Corps Major Donald E. Keyhoe would be regarded as a more objective, honest, and scientific ufologist.
Hynek wrote " In my contacts with I found him to be honest and seriously puzzled about the whole phenomenon ".
Following a wave of UFO reports in 1965, astronomer and Blue Book consultant J. Allen Hynek wrote a letter to the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board ( AFSAB ) suggesting that a panel convene to re-examine Blue Book.
" Hynek described the Report as " a voluminous, rambling, poorly organized " and wrote that " less than half ... was addressed to the investigation of UFO reports.
Astronomer J. Allen Hynek wrote that " The Condon Report settled nothing.
Hynek and during
After what he described as a promising beginning with a potential for scientific research, Hynek grew increasingly disenchanted with Blue Book during his tenure with the project, leveling accusations of indifference, incompetence, and of shoddy research on the part of Air Force personnel.
Hynek notes that during its existence, critics dubbed Blue Book " The Society for the Explanation of the Uninvestigated.
It was during the late stages of Blue Book in the 1960s that Hynek began speaking openly about his disagreements and disappointments with the Air Force.
In Hynek and Vallee's 1975 book The Edge of Reality, Hynek publishes a stereoscopic photograph of a UFO he took during a flight.
LaPaz's last known comments on the green fireballs occurred in 1965 during a visit by astronomer Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a consultant to the Air Force's Project Blue Book.
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J. Allen Hynek, who worked with the United States Air Force on Project Blue Book, was hired as a scientific consultant.
Hynek acted as scientific adviser to UFO studies undertaken by the U. S. Air Force under three consecutive names: Project Sign ( 1947 – 1949 ), Project Grudge ( 1949 – 1952 ), and Project Blue Book ( 1952 to 1969 ).
In his 1977 book, Hynek admitted that he enjoyed his role as a debunker for the Air Force.
Air Force Captain Edward J. Ruppelt ( Blue Book's first director ), held Hynek in high regard: " Dr. Hynek was one of the most impressive scientists I met while working on the UFO project, and I met a good many.
Hynek then discussed the Battelle study, and the panel discussed with Air Force personnel the problems inherent in monitoring UFO sightings.
Hynek argued that if he had exposed this, the Air Force would have dumped him as Blue Book's consultant ; Hynek was the only scientist formally studying UFOs for the government.
Dr. Hynek was also a scientific consultant for Project Blue Book, the U. S. Air Force's official study of the UFO mystery from 1948 to 1969.
Although Dr. Hynek started out as a skeptic and helped the Air Force to debunk most UFO reports, he gradually became convinced that a small number of UFO cases were not hoaxes or explainable as misidentifications of natural phenomena, and that these cases might represent something extraordinary — even alien visitation from other planets.
When the Air Force shut down Project Blue Book in 1969, Dr. Hynek decided to establish his own organization to continue to study UFO reports in a scientific and unbiased manner.
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Ruppelt, Hynek, and others presented the best evidence, including movie footage, that had been collected by Blue Book.
Heartened by Friend's efforts, Hynek organized the first of several meetings between Blue Book staffers and ATIC personnel in 1959.
In his dissenting conclusion, Hynek described Blue Book's conclusions as absurd: in their reports, several of the police had unknowingly described the moon, Venus and the UFO, though they unknowingly described Venus as a bright " star " very near the moon.
Sleeper noted that Hynek had publicly accused Blue Book of shoddy science, and further asked Hynek to offer advice on how Blue Book could improve its scientific methodology.
Regardless of his own private views, Hynek was, by and large, still echoing the post-Ruppelt line of Project Blue Book: There are no UFOs, and reports can largely be explained as misidentifications.
Hynek continued as scientific consultant to Project Blue Book.
Though Hynek thought Ruppelt was a capable director who steered Project Blue Book in the right direction, Ruppelt headed Blue Book for only a few years.
Hynek has also stated his opinion that after Ruppelt's departure, Project Blue Book was little more than a public relations exercise, further noting that little or no research was undertaken using the scientific method.
Hynek began occasionally disagreeing publicly with the conclusions of Blue Book.
" Only after Blue Book was formally dissolved did Hynek speak more openly about his " turnaround.
* J. Allen Hynek, astronomer and consultant to Blue Book presented to the panel, but was not a full member.
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In addition, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a professor of astronomy and one of Project Blue Book's scientific consultants, contacted one of the Texas Tech professors in 1959 and learned that the professor, after careful research, had concluded that he had actually been observing the plovers ( Clark, 349 ).
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Hynek reported bitter exchanges with Moody when the latter refused to research UFO sightings thoroughly, describing Moody as “ the master of the possible: possible balloon, possible aircraft, possible birds, which then became, by his own hand ( and I argued with him violently at times ) the probable .”
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Karel Hynek Mácha () ( 16 November 1810 – 6 November 1836 ) was a Czech romantic poet.
In 1937 a biographical film, Karel Hynek Mácha, was made by Zet Molas ( a pen name of Zdena Smolová ).
This terminology and the system of classification behind it was started by astronomer and UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek, and was first suggested in his 1972 book The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry.
Later, Hynek introduced a fourth category, CE4, which is used to describe cases where the witness feels he was abducted by a UFO.
Hynek was to later declare that Sleeper's letter was " the first time in my 20 year association with the air force as scientific consultant that I had been officially asked for criticism and advice … the UFO problem.
Hynek was an associate member of the Robertson Panel, which recommended that UFOs needed debunking.
Their civil leader was the priest Ambrosius, and their hetman was Hynek Krušina from Lichtenburk.
Ignác Šechtl ( 26 May 1840-6 July 1911 ), also known as Ignace Schächtl or Hynek Šechtl, was a pioneer of Czech photography ( especially photojournalism ) and cinematography.
* The greatest representative of Czech romanticism, Karel Hynek Mácha, died in Litoměřice, shortly after he had moved to the town, and was buried there.
Dr. Josef Allen Hynek ( May 1, 1910 – April 27, 1986 ) was a United States astronomer, professor, and ufologist.
Hynek was born in Chicago to Czech parents.
During World War II, Hynek was a civilian scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, where he helped to develop the United States Navy's radio proximity fuze.
Hynek was contacted by Project Sign to act as scientific consultant for their investigation of UFO reports.
When Project Sign hired Hynek, he was initially skeptical of UFO reports.
Hynek also noted that this 11 % figure was, according to most polls, greater than those in the general public who claimed to have seen UFOs.
Hynek was also distressed by what he regarded as the dismissive or arrogant attitude of many mainstream scientists towards UFO reports and witnesses.
The essay was very carefully worded: Hynek never states that UFOs are an extraordinary phenomenon.
But it is clear that, whatever his own views, Hynek was increasingly distressed by what he saw as the superficial manner most scientists looked at UFOs.
In 1953, Hynek was an associate member of the Robertson Panel, which concluded that there was nothing anomalous about UFOs, and that a public relations campaign should be undertaken to debunk the subject and reduce public interest.
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