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02.24.20. The Hynek Report: UFOs, Radar & Close Encounters
This week, we lead off with news about artificial intelligence, and the passing of an influential NASA mathematician, Katherine Johnson, before turning our attention to Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force study of UFOs, and its scientific consultant J. Allen Hynek. During the early years of the Air Force's UFO investigations, Hynek, a professor of astronomy at Ohio State University, was tasked with lending his scientific knowledge as the astronomical consultant to programs like Project Blue Book. As noted at the website of the Center for UFO Studies (which Hynek founded in 1973), "At first…
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