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J. Allen Hynek
The claims the writer was given for J. Allen Hynek, in the order they were given.
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J. Allen Hynek, the chief scientific consultant to the United States Air Force, visited Raymond Fowler at his home in Wenham, Massachusetts several times.
“Dr. Jalen Hynek, the late Dr. Jalen Hynek, who was the chief scientific consultant to the Air Force, has visited me here right in this house several times.”
Raymond Fowler on UFOs, Government Cover-Ups & the Andreasson Affair (Full Interview, 1987) 00:18:35.8-00:18:44.5 administrative first hand
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J. Allen Hynek told Raymond Fowler that the standard operating procedure for gun camera photographs taken by interceptors on UFO intercept missions was for the film canister to be taken upon landing, the pilots debriefed and told to keep quiet, and the pilots would not even see the film themselves.
“he told me that the standard operating procedure for gun camera photographs, which interceptors readily were able to do on intercept missions concerning UFOs, would land, the canister would be taken, the pilots would be debriefed, told to keep quiet, and they wouldn't even see the film.”
Raymond Fowler on UFOs, Government Cover-Ups & the Andreasson Affair (Full Interview, 1987) 00:18:45.9-00:19:03.3 hearsay second hand
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The Mutual UFO Network supports J. Allen Hynek's Center for UFO Studies by supplying investigative capability for documented reports.
“a group that supports Dr. Hynek's Center for UFO Studies by supplying investigating capability in documented reports.”
Raymond Fowler on UFOs, Government Cover-Ups & the Andreasson Affair (Full Interview, 1987) 00:43:23.9-00:43:30.6 administrative first hand
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J. Allen Hynek stated the essential facts of the UFO phenomenon in documents circulated before the 1978 United Nations Special Political Committee meeting.
“the essential facts of the phenomenon have been stated by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, by Dr. Claude Poher, and by myself”
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J. Allen Hynek believes there is life and intelligence elsewhere in the universe, but regards whether that is what UFOs are as the big open question.
“My feeling is that there is a life and intelligence elsewhere. However, The big question is, is that what UFOs are?”
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J. Allen Hynek considers it preposterous that humans could be such complete freaks as to be the only intelligence in the vast array of the universe.
“It's preposterous to me to think that we could be such complete freaks as to be the only intelligence in that vast array of things.”
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J. Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallee traveled to Boulder, Colorado to brief the Condon Committee.
“Dr. Hynek and I traveled to Boulder to brief the Condon group.”
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Jacques Vallee and J. Allen Hynek later verified, using Air Force data, that UFO landings tended to occur in desolate places.
“Allen Hynek and I later verified it, using Air Force data.”
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Jacques Vallee called J. Allen Hynek to alert him to the March 1966 Michigan UFO sightings, and Hynek in turn called Project Blue Book in Dayton, Ohio, to propose an immediate investigation.
“I called Dr. Hynek to alert him to the sightings, and he in turn called Project Blue Book in Dayton, Ohio, to propose that they investigate at once.”
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J. Allen Hynek suggested he travel to Ann Arbor, Michigan before reporters and curiosity-seekers destroyed the evidence of the swamp gas sightings.
“He suggested that he go there before reporters and curiosity-seekers destroyed all the evidence.”
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An officer at Project Blue Book in Dayton, Ohio initially told J. Allen Hynek he was not interested in investigating the Michigan sightings because the case had not been reported officially to the Air Force.
“The case hasn’t been reported officially to the Air Force, he said.”
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Half an hour after initially declining, Project Blue Book called J. Allen Hynek back to ask how soon he could be in Ann Arbor, saying that someone, later identified as the Pentagon, had officially reported the case.
“Half an hour later, Project Blue Book called back: How soon can you be in Ann Arbor?... The Pentagon! They are deluged with calls. Every reporter in the country wants to know what’s going on.”
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The morning after the initial report, J. Allen Hynek travelled to Michigan to investigate the swamp gas sightings.
“The next morning, Dr. Hynek was in Michigan.”
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J. Allen Hynek released a statement, at the urging of Air Force public-relations staff, calling for a thorough investigation of the Michigan sightings but suggesting that some people in Michigan might have seen swamp gas.
“Hynek had to release a statement prematurely, at the urging of public-relations people from the Air Force. In his statement, he called for a thorough investigation of the phenomenon, but mentioned also that *some* people in Michigan *might* have seen swamp gas.”
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The press interpreted J. Allen Hynek's swamp gas statement as a final verdict and reacted with anger.
“The press took this for a final verdict and exploded with anger.”
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J. Allen Hynek found that the strangest UFO reports, such as landing cases with occupants, did not always come from the least reliable sources, and that many reports in his files combined both high reliability and high strangeness.
“He found that such was NOT the case, and that many reports existed in his files with both high reliability and high strangeness.”
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J. Allen Hynek called the informal network of UFO researchers "the Invisible College", referencing the secretive group of "natural philosophers" who fought the established dogmas of the church in the mid-seventeenth century to acquire knowledge through experimental investigation.
“With his keen sense of scientific history and his usual humor Dr. Hynek called this informal network “the Invisible College” in reference to the secretive group of “natural philosophers” who fought against the established dogmas of the church in the mid-seventeenth century to acquire knowledge through experimental investigation.”
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A 1974 photograph of some members of the Invisible College was taken in Boulder, Colorado, around J. Allen Hynek, including Douglass Price-Williams, David Saunders, Leo Sprinkle, Dick Henry, Jacques Vallee, J. Allen Hynek, Claude Poher, and Fred Beckman.
“Some of the members of the Invisible College around Dr. J. Allen Hynek photographed in Boulder, Colorado in 1974. From left: Douglass Price-Williams, David Saunders, Leo Sprinkle, Dick Henry, Jacques Vallée, J. Allen Hynek, Claude Poher, and Fred Beckman (photo taken by Ted Phillips).”
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At Northwestern University, the team around Professor J. Allen Hynek had access to the files of the United States Air Force (USAF) Project Blue Book.
“At Northwestern University, the team around Professor J. Allen Hynek, of which I was a part, had access to the files of the U. S. Air Force Project BlueBook.”
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Jacques Vallee was part of the Northwestern University team led by J. Allen Hynek.
“At Northwestern University, the team around Professor J. Allen Hynek, of which I was a part, had access to the files of the U. S. Air Force Project BlueBook.”
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J. Allen Hynek invited Jacques Vallee to apply his background in computer science to a study of the statistical procedures used by Project Blue Book, more than ten years before this book's 1975 publication.
“I was introduced to this informal group over ten years ago, when Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the U.S. Air Force’s expert on UFO matters, invited me to apply my background in computer science to a study of the statistical procedures used by Project Blue Book.”
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J. Allen Hynek was the United States Air Force's expert on UFO matters.
“Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the U.S. Air Force’s expert on UFO matters”
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J. Allen Hynek stated that in the 'dark ages' of science, when scientists were suspected of being in league with the Devil, they had to work and meet privately and clandestinely to exchange views and results, and for this reason called themselves the Invisible College.
“Way back in the "dark ages" of science, when scientists themselves were suspected of being in league with the Devil, they had to work privately. They often met clandestinely to exchange views and the results of their various experiments. For this reason, they called themselves the Invisible College.”
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According to J. Allen Hynek, the Invisible College remained invisible until its scientists gained respectability when the Royal Society was chartered by Charles II in the early 1660s.
“And it remained invisible until the scientists of that day gained respectability when the Royal Society was chartered by Charles II in the early 1660's.”
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The term "invisible college" was J. Allen Hynek's name for a small group of researchers, scientists, and academics who studied the UFO phenomenon under cover of anonymity.
“The invisible college, Jacques wrote, was J. Allen Hynek's name for a small group of researchers, scientists, and academics who studied the phenomenon under the cover of anonymity.”
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J. Allen Hynek was an academic and astronomer who, in the 1970s, was the scientific consultant to the United States Air Force programme to study UFOs, called Project Blue Book.
“Hynek, an academic and an astronomer himself, in the 1970s was the scientific consultant to the US Air Force program to study UFOs, called Project Blue Book.”
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J. Allen Hynek was a consultant to Project Blue Book.
“Blue Book consultant Dr J. Allen Hynek lamented”
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J. Allen Hynek, a Project Blue Book consultant, said the termination of Project Blue Book was the coup de grace to the UFO era, and that science had spoken, meaning UFOs didn't exist and the thousands of people who had reported strange sightings could all be discounted as deluded, hoaxers, or mentally unbalanced.
“Blue Book consultant Dr J. Allen Hynek lamented, ‘this was indeed the coup de grace to the UFO era. Science had spoken. UFOs didn’t exist, and the thousands of people who had reported strange sightings . . . could all be discounted as deluded, hoaxers, or mentally unbalanced’.22”
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Harry Turner met the Project Blue Book expert Dr J. Allen Hynek when Hynek visited Australia.
“Turner also met the Project Blue Book expert Dr J. Allen Hynek when Hynek visited Australia.”
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Harry Turner told his superiors that J. Allen Hynek, along with many other reputable scientists, did not accept the US Air Force explanation of misidentification, hysteria or hoax for UFO sightings.
“'It is quite clear that Dr Hynek along with many other reputable scientists do not accept the USAF explanation of misidentification, hysteria or hoax,' Turner told his superiors.”
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Don Schmitt trained as an investigator under J. Allen Hynek.
“having trained as an investigator with the late celebrated 'UFO investigator' Dr J. Allen Hynek”
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J. Allen Hynek was a civilian scientist who served as a Project Blue Book consultant.
“Civilian scientist Dr Josef Allen Hynek was a Project Blue Book consultant”
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J. Allen Hynek had previously worked as an advisor for Project Sign.
“who had previously worked as an advisor for Project Sign”
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J. Allen Hynek was initially extremely sceptical of UFO reports, having said in his first year on Project Sign that the whole issue 'seems utterly ridiculous'.
“He had initially been extremely sceptical of so-called 'UFO' reports, having said in his first year on Project Sign that the whole issue 'seems utterly ridiculous.'”
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J. Allen Hynek later observed that the air force could easily discount civilian UFO reports but could not discount outright their own trained military witnesses.
“Hynek later observed that the air force could easily discount civilian reports, 'but they could not discount outright their own trained personnel – the military witnesses.'”
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J. Allen Hynek said two schools of thought dominated the air force's approach to UAP investigations: one that they should be taken seriously as probable extra-terrestrial craft, and a debunking view eventually embraced by top officials in Washington DC.
“He said two schools of thought dominated the approach to UAPs in their investigations: the first acknowledged that they should be taken very seriously as probable ET craft and the second was the debunking view eventually embraced by the top brass in Washington DC”
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J. Allen Hynek said the air force's resulting theorem was 'It can't be, therefore it isn't'.
“'Science had said that it was impossible and the air force theorem which was to cause so much trouble later on was born: "It can't be, therefore it isn't",' Dr Hynek lamented”
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J. Allen Hynek witnessed how the air force instructed its investigators to 'stall' off press inquiries with a 'no-comment answer' regarding the Hanford sighting and other such sightings.
“Dr J. Allen Hynek, by now immersed in the Blue Book investigations, witnessed how the air force instructed its investigators 'to "stall" off press inquiries "with a no-comment answer"' to the Hanford incident and other such sightings”
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J. Allen Hynek concluded that the Robertson Panel's primary role was to debunk all UAP sightings and put control of investigations back with the air force.
“It became clear to Project Blue Book consultant Dr J. Allen Hynek that the Robertson Panel's primary role was to debunk all UAP sightings and to put control of investigations into the phenomenon back with the air force”
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J. Allen Hynek wrote that in convening the panel, the CIA was fearful not of UFOs, but of UFO reports.
“Hynek wrote, 'In short, in convening the panel, the CIA was fearful not of UFOs, but of UFO reports.'”
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J. Allen Hynek of Project BLUE BOOK said that the United States Air Force (USAF) expected him to perform the role of debunker.
“J. Allen Hynek of Project BLUE BOOK, said that the USAF expected him to perform the role of debunker”
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J. Allen Hynek served as Project BLUE BOOK's lead scientific investigator.
“J. Allen Hynek served as its lead scientific investigator.”
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After the Condon Report was criticised by some scientists, including Project BLUE BOOK's Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a panel of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) was tasked in late 1968 to examine the rigour, methodology, and conclusions of the Condon Report.
“After the Condon Report was criticized by some scientists - including Project BLUE BOOK's Dr. Hynek - a panel of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) was tasked in late 1968 to examine the rigor, methodology, and conclusions of the Condon Report.”
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J. Allen Hynek, among individuals inside and outside the United States Government, claimed the United States Air Force (USAF) had a key goal of debunking or explaining away reports of UAP.
“At various points in history, individuals inside and outside of the USG, including Dr. J. Allen Hynek, claimed the USAF had a key goal of debunking or explaining away reports of UAP.”
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J. Allen Hynek visited Socorro, New Mexico to investigate the 1964 Lonnie Zamora UAP encounter.
“Dr. J. Allen Hynek... visited the region.”
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J. Allen Hynek was the lead scientist in charge of the United States Air Force's official Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) investigation team, Project Blue Book.
“Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the lead scientist in charge of the Air Force's official UAP investigation team, Project Blue Book, visited the region.”
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At the insistence of Michigan congressman Gerald Ford, J. Allen Hynek's Project Blue Book reviewed the 1966 Michigan swamp gas Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sightings and announced that the witnesses had seen swamp gas.
“At the insistence of a leading Michigan congressman named Gerald Ford, Dr. Hynek's Project Blue Book reviewed the matter thoroughly, and unfortunately announced that the witnesses had seen… swamp gas.”
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J. Allen Hynek later regretted the role he played in suppressing evidence of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) under the United States Air Force.
“To his credit, Hynek later regretted the role he played in suppressing evidence under the aegis of the US Air Force.”
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As a young researcher, Jacques Vallée worked with and organised the papers of J. Allen Hynek from the United States Air Force's Project Blue Book.
“As a young researcher, Vallée worked with and organized the papers of Dr. Hynek of the Air Force’s Project Blue Book.”
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Robert Friend and J. Allen Hynek held a piece of the material from the 1958 Hartford, Connecticut crash.
“Robert friend and J. Allen Hynek, uh, have a piece of this crash at Hartford, Connecticut.”
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