Scientists & Researchers
J. Allen Hynek
1948–1986
Astronomer; scientific consultant to the Air Force's UFO study (Project Sign, then Blue Book), 1948-1969; later became sympathetic to serious study of the phenomenon.
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mentor & lifelong collaborator, co-wrote "The Edge of Reality"
Source: Hynek & Vallee, The Edge of Reality (1975); 'invisible college'
found among his research papers
Source: Vallee, Forbidden Science (1992)
Blue Book colleagues
Source: USAF Project Blue Book records; Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (1956)
fellow credentialed scientists pressing for serious UFO study
Source: Wikipedia: James E. McDonald
took part as ATIC's astronomical consultant (associate member)
Source: F.C. Durant, Report of Meetings of the OSI Scientific Advisory Panel on UFOs (Durant Report), CIA, Jan 14-18 1953
scientific consultant
Source: USAF Project Blue Book records; Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (1956)
fellow astronomers who co-organized the 1969 AAAS UFO symposium and took opposite public stances
Source: Wikipedia; NASA Ames
his sighting was classified under Hynek's reporting scale
Source: J. Allen Hynek classification system
corresponded with him until Hynek grew wary of his self-promotion
disputed his committee's conclusions
publicly called his "swamp gas" explanation flippant
Source: Ford press release, Mar 1966