Meet J. Allen Hynek, the Astronomer Who First Classified UFO ‘Close Encounters’ https://www.history.com/news/j-allen-hynek-ufos-project-blue-book When the U.S. government tapped the academic to help investigate UFOs, he was initially a skeptic. But not for long. It’s September 1947, and the U.S. Air Force has a problem. A rash of reports about mysterious objects in the skies has …
