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Topic: Allen Hynek


In the News (Wed 23 Dec 09)

  
  J. Allen Hynek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hynek was distressed by what he regarded as the dismissive or arrogant attitude of many mainstream scientists towards UFO reports and witnesses.
Hynek was also the consultant to Columbia Pictures and Steven Spielberg on the popular 1977 UFO movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and made a brief, non-speaking appearance in the film (he can be seen with his pipe, looking on as aliens communicate with Earth scientists at the Devils Tower contact site).
Hynek was the founder and head of the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Allen_Hynek   (1290 words)

  
 ufo - UFOS at close sight: J. Allen Hynek, Nature 1975
Hynek, professor of astronomy at Northwestern University, Illinois, and author of the best-selling The UFO Experience, has been interested in unidentified flying objects for years, and has developed contacts with what he calls the "invisible college" of qualified scientists who believe the UFO phenomenon to be worthy of investigation.
Hynek rented the services of a toll-free telephone switchboard that is manned round the clock, seven days a week, and distributed its number to police throughout the United States.
Hynek is impressed by the fact that the nature of the phenomenon itself is the one thing that has not changed.
ufologie.net /htm/hyneknature75.htm   (637 words)

  
 Paradigm Clock - Dr. J. Alen Hynek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
From 1936 to 1941, Dr. Hynek was an instructor and assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Ohio State University.
Hynek became the Chairman of the Astronomy Department and director of the Dearaborn Observatory at the Evanston campus of Northwestern University.
Allen Hynek would already be widely recognized as one of the most important scientists of the twentieth century.
www.paradigmclock.com /hynek.html   (584 words)

  
 The New York Times, Thursday, 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 Scottsdale, Ariz.
Hynek, who moved to Scottsdale from Evanston, Ill., a year ago, was for 18 years professor and chairman of the Department of Astronomy at Northwestern University and director of its Dearborn Observatory, until he retired in 1978.
Hynek founded the center for U.F.O. Studies in Evanston in 1973 and took it with him when he moved to Scottsdale.
www.geocities.com /ufomiami.geo/Hynek.html   (725 words)

  
 - AP: Hynek Obituary PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) - J. Allen Hynek, a leading authority on unidenti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In a 1974 interview, Hynek said he stayed with the program so he would have access to the Air Force data and to avoid being marked a "UFO nut." He founded the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Ill., in 1973, and moved to Scottsdale a year ago, bringing the center with him.
Hynek coined the phrase, "close encounters of the third kind," in his 1972 book, "The UFO Experience." The phrase, meaning experiences in which alien beings were encountered, became the title of the 1977 Steven Speilberg movie.
Hynek, who was born in Chicago, did undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Chicago from which he received his Ph.D. He was head of the Department of Astronomy at Northwestern University for 18 years until his retirement in 1978.
www.skepticfiles.org /mys3/hynekobt.htm   (309 words)

  
 jah.html
ALLEN HYNEK has made inquiry this date relating to the status of the article that was submitted in relet.
Dr J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer and Chairman of the Department of Astronomyat Northwestern University, served The Temporal Doorway - Witness Demographics From Dr. J.
Allen Hynek is universally regarded as themost important scientist in the history of Ufology.
easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~pppf6/Research/UFOphenomena/UFObook/Jhynek/JhynekWeb.html   (788 words)

  
 Maine-MUFON  Hynek
Allen Hynek was an astronomer with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts when he became responsible for tracking the Earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik.
Additionally, Hynek was Professor of Astronomy at Ohio State University and Professor Emeritus and Director of the Lindheimer Astronomical Research Center at Northwestern University, Visiting Lecturer, Harvard University, 1956-60.
Hynek was a civilian scientific consultant to the USAF for ca.
www.terrestrialworld.com /hynek.htm   (489 words)

  
 Interview With Dr J Allen Hynek May 17 422 - Excellent Resources on Interview With Dr J Allen Hynek May 17 422   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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www.selectnet.info /Interview/How-To-Interview/Interview-With-Dr-J-Allen-Hynek-May-17-422.cfm   (977 words)

  
 UFOs - J. Allen Hynek's Freshman Orientation at Northwestern
Allen Hynek was announced for that evening in the main lounge of McCulloch Hall, a freshman men's dormitory.
Hynek said that it is particularly easy to judge witnessess' credibility when they send in handwritten reports, for handwriting analysis provides us with a lot of information about them.
Hynek would say that a UFO is only a thing that a trained investigator is not able to identify (although the trained investigator did not see it.).
www.debunker.com /historical/HynekFreshman.html   (1258 words)

  
 hynek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
I knew Dr. Hynek had a brain tumor but I hadn’t heard from him in about a month or so and didn't realize he was gravely ill. I didn’t know he had died until I read an obituary in a newspaper one morning at work.
Hynek, as most people should know, was the first scientist to publicly assert that UFOs should be taken seriously and should be scientifically studied.
Hynek and Phil Imbrogno had done a lot of work investigating the 1983 sightings and decided to write a book, but they needed a writer.
www.bobpratt.org /hynek.html   (990 words)

  
 CFREE: Viewpoints: Hynek: Roots of Complacency
Allen Hynek investigated a spectacular series of UFO events that occurred during the early to mid-1980s in the Hudson River Valley of New York.
Hynek's customary scientific reserve, coupled with the fact that he had served as scientific advisor to the Air Force Project Bluebook, caused many people to question his sincerity as a ufologist.
Allen Hynek is one of the premier figures in ufology, having started his career as a consultant to the U. Air Force's project Blue Book, where he was asked to explain reported sightings in conventional terms.
www.cfree.org /contact/Viewpoints/View001.html   (2328 words)

  
 DR. J ALLEN HYNECK - Aliens111
Allen Hynek worked for US Air Force´s project Blue Book as a consultant astronomer.
Hynek led the investigation of the Socorro landing case in 1964 with the FBI.
The 12/17/66 Hynek Saturday Evening Post article is a paper Dr.J. Allen Hynek wrote sumating his approximately 18 years tenure(at that point) as civilian scientific consultant to the Air Force concerning UFOs.
www.angelfire.com /wizard/wizardfl/HYNEK.html   (1768 words)

  
 Ufopsi.com: UFO: researchers: Joseph Allen Hynek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hynek, on the moment, thinks that it would be an amusing job, considering also the benefit of the top secret level, Hynek accepts the assignment.
Hynek, still skeptical in its reports, pushes his conclusions far away with explanations that could not stand still.
Hynek dies of cancer at Memorial Hospital of Scottsdale (Arizona) in 1986.
www.ufopsi.com /researchers/en_hynek.html   (847 words)

  
 Re: J. Allen Hynek
Allen Hynek posted by miri barak on June 12, 2003
: I know Allen Hynek was a kind of advisor in the UFO subject, but I don't understand this urologist thing about him.
Re: J. Allen Hynek miri barak 06/13/03 (2)
www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/21/messages/734.html   (76 words)

  
 Donald Rumsfeld
Allen Hynek had told me a very interesting thing many years ago and he said he simply didn’t know what to make of this particular remark.
I’m not sure but Allen said that at some point when Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense under Gerald Ford so this would be in the seventies.
Allen was on a visit, and he got an appointment with Rumsfeld.
www.presidentialufo.com /donald_rumsfeld.htm   (414 words)

  
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Allen Hynek, the nation's foremost authority on UFOs, was not always sympathetic to the idea of flying saucers.
Through the Forties and Fifties, he was a research scientist at Ohio State and Harvard Universities, producing rigorous papers on super- novas and electronic satellite tracking, and from 1960 to 1974 he was chairman of the astronomy department at Northwestern University.
HYNEK: Whichever level you perceive the UFO phenomenon, you still have a problem.
www.tu-bs.de:8080 /~y0001095/Hynek.omn   (1403 words)

  
 J. Allen Hynek at UFOMind
Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS)@ - Dr. Hynek became director of CUFOS to continue his investigation of UFOs.
(Hynek was a "spy" for the AF.) p.268-284.
Hynek's Reevaluation of Air Force Unidentified+ - Form used by Dr. Hynek in his reevaluation with an illustative USAF case.
www.cohenufo.org /Hynek/hynk_ufomnd.htm   (1264 words)

  
 FBI FILE on Dr. J. ALLEN HYNEK
Dr Hynek, an astronomer and physicist, was a consultant to the USAF for many years, and later founded the Center for UFO Studies.
HYNEK was advised that should any action be taken relative to the publication, he would be advised.
ALLEN HYNEK, Director of The Department Of Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, on 12/6/74, was advised of the contents of referenced Bureau airtel.
www.cufon.org /cufon/fbihynek.htm   (8291 words)

  
 The Temporal Doorway - A Behavioral Classification System For UFO Sightings
Allen Hynek's system[footnote 2] was designed to classify UFO reports, rather than UFOs.
Unfortunately, the result[footnote 3] was not an improvement on his first effort, and, in fact, the original categories, which needed extending, were, to some extent, obscured by the incorporation of the Hynek categories.
It reduces the shortcomings of the Hynek and Vallee classifications, while using the best from each, and yet remains sufficiently simple and memorable as to be accessible to those producing and using catalogs.
www.temporaldoorway.com /ufo/classification/behavior/object.htm   (1719 words)

  
 SHG - The Condon Report and UFOs: Dr. J. Allen Hynek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hynek has examined thousands of reports of "flying saucers" and investigated many of them personally.
At the beginning of his consultative assignment, his mission was to determine which of the sightings were due to astronomical phenomena - meteors, planets, or stars.
Hynek is head of the Department of Astronomy and director of the Lindheimer Astronomical Research Center of Northwestern University.
www.project1947.com /shg/articles/bas1.html   (2908 words)

  
 Close Encounter with Dr. J. Allen Hynek - An Interview With The Dean - UFO Evidence
HYNEK: They said they were, of course, but they would turn handsprings to keep a good case from getting to the "attention of the media".
HYNEK: Yes, that, as you know, became something of a national joke and Michigan was soon being known as the "Swamp Gas State." Eventually, it resulted in a Congressional Hearing called for by then state Congressman, Gerald Ford, who of course later went on to become President.
HYNEK: Well, as you know, the Condon Report said that a group of scientists had looked at UFOs and that the subject was dead.
www.ufoevidence.org /documents/doc1486.htm   (2614 words)

  
 UFO Landing at Socorro New Mexico 1964
Donald Menzel, a famous UFO debunker whose name appears on the infamous MJ-12 list, stated that the speeding motorist who Zamora had been chasing was a decoy who led the patrolman to the remote area, then used a walkie-talkie to signal co-conspirators, who released a phony flying saucer attached to a balloon.
The laughable theory was laid to rest by Hynek, who pointed out that the craft left travelling west, while there was a strong wind from the south that day.
Phillip Klass, another notorious debunker, dismissed the entire incident because the landing mark indentations did not correspond to the symmetrical landing legs of a NASA spacecraft.
www.subversiveelement.com /UfoSocorro.html   (782 words)

  
 FS UFO Index: Hynek's Lost File
Allen Hynek was a frequent visitor to my home, the last of such visits taking place from August 20 to August 31.
During his visits, Dr. Hynek did quite a bit of work using my computer which was quite similar to his own at home.
Time marched on, and after Dr. Hynek passed away, the work was completed by Bob Pratt and published in book form in 1987, under the tittle NIGHT SIEGE.
www.100megsfree4.com /farshores/hynek.htm   (2032 words)

  
 Suggested Reading
Allen Hynek served as a consultant to Project Blue Book, and The UFO Experience is his response to the official Air Force debunking policies and a summation of what he had learned about the UFO phenomenon.
Hynek presents an eloquent and accessible case for the continuing scientific study of UFOs and offers a classification system that inspired the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Dr. Hynek was a fine educator and the Air Force's science consultant on UFOs from 1949-1969.
www.ufoscience.org /reading/reading-home.html   (1643 words)

  
 The Temporal Doorway - Witness Demographics From Dr. J. Allen Hynek's The UFO Experience
Allen Hynek's book The UFO Experience: A Scientific Enquiry, is a classic in the field.
Unfortunately, Hynek does not indicate which witnesses are involved in which cases, so some professions, such as the maritime profession, have been skewed by large numbers of observers in a single case or a small number of cases.
Hynek does not provide demographics for CE-III cases covered in his book.
www.temporaldoorway.com /ufo/analysis/demographics/ufoexperience   (209 words)

  
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Editor's note: J. Allen Hynek, director of the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Illinois, and a leading proponent of the scientific investigation of such phenomena, debates UFO skeptic James Oberg on the meaning of unidentified flying objects.
Hynek: "The UFO may be an interface between our reality and a parallel reality.
Allen Hynek says that intergalactic travel is physically impossible, arguing that UFOs could not be craft carrying emissaries from space.
www.jamesoberg.com /ufo/debate.html   (886 words)

  
 J. Allen Hynek's Final Essay On The Hudson Valley Sightings Discovered
Allen Hynek was a frequent visitor to my home, the last of such visits taking place from August 20 to August 31, 1985, when he finally left to have his first surgery on September 5, 1985.
Time marched on, and after Dr. Hynek passed away, the work was completed by Bob Pratt and published in book form in 1987, under the title NIGHT SIEGE.
When I opened it, it was a paper intended to be the Preface of the book, that undoubtedly by error Allen had saved on one of my diskettes (on August 30, 1985, just the day before he left my home).
www.rense.com /ufo5/hudsonv.htm   (2080 words)

  
 Wendy Connors' Audio Disc Inventory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Allen Hynek and Dr. Willy Smith on January 16, 1958.
Hynek, J. Allen Dr. : Discusses cloud cutter phenomena and pilot sighting at unknown 1969 meeting.
Hynek, J. Allen Dr. : Hynek and Ted Philips discuss the Edward Webb incident of October 4, 1973.
www.project1947.com /shg/connors/audiodisc.html   (2643 words)

  
 Metamorphosis (Addendum)
Allen Hynek -- despite his sincerity and basic honesty.
Hynek gave the photos his preliminary (and customary) stamp of approval: "[No] indication of an obvious hoax.
Unfortunately, as I learned only after discovering the works of such UFO skeptics as Phil Klass, Robert Sheaffer (who solved the "Jimmy Carter" case) and James Oberg, the dogged rigorousness of Hynek's "investigation" of this case was more the rule for the pro-paranormal community than the exception.
members.aol.com /garypos/metamor_addend.html   (611 words)

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