Who to believe: UFO sightings

In 1952, in an attempt to cope with the public outcry concerning hundreds of reports of UFOs, the U.S. Air Force organized “Project Blue Book” whose primary objective was to collect and analyze citizen reports of UFO sightings. The chief scientific consultant for that project was a well-respected Northwestern University astronomy professor, J. Allen Hynek.

When Hynek first began his UFO research, he was very doubtful that the purported UFO sightings were of any real significance. In fact, during a 1966 congressional hearing on UFOs, he indicated that “the whole subject seemed utterly ridiculous,” and he thought the sightings were a fad which would soon pass. However, after decades of analyzing hundreds of UFO reports from airline pilots, military personnel, police officers, public officials, psychologists, astronomers and other scientists, Hynek said his opinion started to shift. He believed something was going on and serious research was needed to understand what it was. In a 1985 interview with Dennis Stacy, when asked what caused his change of opinion, he responded: It … “was the completely negative and unyielding attitude of the Air Force. They wouldn’t give UFOs the chance of existing even if they were flying up and down the street in broad daylight.” In the late 1970s, Hynek also told a group of students and faculty at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale that his team fudged the data on “Project Blue Book.” He said they could explain only 80 percent of the sightings, and the 20 percent that could not be explained were often omitted from reports, and then used by the team for more in-depth research.

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(Full Article: http://www.columbiamissourian.com)

Very old Video with J. Allen Hynek. He states there that there was in this case, a cover up of the real facts.

Very old Video with J. Allen Hynek. He states there that there was in this case, a cover up of the real facts.

Dr. J. Allen Hynek – Whistleblower

Dr. J. Allen Hynek (past Chairman of the Astronomy Department of Northwestern University) served as the scientific consultant to US Air Force’s official (public?) UFO investigation Project “Blue Book”. He did field-investigations and talked to claimed UFO eye-witnesses for 21 years (between 1948-1969). Initially a skeptic who tried to “explain away” the phenomenon, later became convinced of the UFO reality and admitted that Project BlueBook had misled the public:

(Source: http://www.hyper.net/ufo/summary.html)

Hyper.Net seems to be a great source of cases, including cases from the Disclosure Project. I would like to invite the readers to check it out.

Project Sign – Project Grudge – Project Bluebook

Project Sign – Project Grudge – Project Bluebook.
With Robert O. Dean,

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