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Hynek acted as scientific advisor to UFO studies undertaken by the U.S. Air Force under three projects: Project Sign (1947–1949), Project Grudge (1949–1951) and Project Blue Book (1952–1969). In later years, he conducted his own independent UFO research, developing the "Close Encounter" classification system.
Jan 4, 2019 · American astronomer J. Allen Hynek is best known for investigations of unidentified flying objects and efforts to promote "ufology" as a legitimate scientific pursuit.
Welcome to the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies. The Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) is a non-profit organization that includes scientists, professionals, academics, investigators, and others, all volunteers, dedicated to the study and analysis of the UFO phenomenon.
May 1, 1986 · J. Allen Hynek, an astrophysicist and consultant to an Air Force project to assess reports of unidentified flying objects, died of a malignant brain tumor Sunday at Memorial Hospital in...
May 1, 1986 · J. Allen Hynek, the astronomer who took on what he described as a sprawling collection of “kooks, nuts, ding-a-lings and cultists” when he agreed to head a U.S. Air Force investigation of ...
J. Allen Hynek Biography. Josef Allen Hynek’s first look at the heavens came only a few days after he was born on May 1, 1910. His parents, Joseph and Bertha, took their newborn son to the roof of their apartment building in Chicago, Illinois, to see the brilliant trail of Halley’s Comet, which was making its closest recorded approach to earth.
Astronomer J. Allen Hynek led Northwestern’s Astronomy Department into the Space Age and became the nation’s foremost expert on unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
