Post by auntym on Mar 4, 2011 19:44:58 GMT -6
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Dr. J. Allen Hynek Remembered at 100
Don Schmitt
Legendary folklorist Mark Twain wasn't the only famous American to be born in the year of Halley's Comet and to die in the year of its next return. So was my friend and mentor, Dr. J. Allen Hynek. The year Twain died, 1910, was the year Hynek was born. This May would have been Dr. Hynek's 101st birthday.
Many have searched for the truth about the UFO mystery, hoping it will lead to some form of Disclosure. Like Halley's Comet, Dr. Hynek traveled an astronomical path and his story remains a very important one in ufology -- from a skepticism to an acknowledgement that something outside the ordinary was actually happening in the skies above us.
Ironically, his work as the scientific adviser to the study of UFOs undertaken by the U.S. Air Force known as Project Blue Book (1952 to 1969) may have been an accident of geography. At the time of his selection, he was a professor of astronomy and physics at Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio. And Ohio State is really just down the road from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio where Blue Book was based. That geography changed his life, and meeting him changed mine.
In 1973, after Blue Book had been mothballed and he'd moved out of the Air Force's influence, Hynek became the founder of CUFOS, the Center for UFO Studies where he continued his own independent UFO research until the day he died on April 27, 1986. Hynek also served as chairman of the Astronomy Department at Northwestern University where his specialty was the chemical composition of space.
He always promoted the idea of scientific analysis of UFO reports, and I followed his lead in my work for him as the CUFOS Director of Special Investigations. His belief in evidence first still informs all my current research into the Roswell case.
Hynek's Last Lament
“Why can’t they tell me now? Why can’t they tell me the truth even now?,” wondered the dying astronomer as he lay in the recovery room at the hospital. His plea fell on ears hardened by years of deceit and denial. And Hynek, like the rest of us, once believed them. Jesse Marcel had been told at Roswell, “Just be a good soldier for a few more years and it will all come out.”
In his lifetime, J. Allen Hynek had seen the study of UFOs become a circus ring more than a few times. He observed some people he worked for as having more in common with P.T. Barnum than Abraham Lincoln, another son of Illinois like Hynek. He had been patient to a fault.
Now, for the remaining months of his life, Hynek's family focused on fulfilling his one final request. He simply wanted to know the truth, to take to his grave a sense that his life had been lived well in the service of history. He was denied.
No secret documents anonymously arrived from parts unknown. There were no special curriers from Washington. No upper statesman called with any final confessions. The Pentagon was just running out the clock. We doubt that the old general officers there even had much awareness or concern of what the seasoned UFO investigator had discovered without their strict guidelines. Yet one aspect of the subject which clearly ought to have gained their attention was what Hynek had learned about UFO crash/retrieval reports. He kept most of his thoughts on that subject to himself, but he told them to me, pointing me in the direction of my lifetime passion, to tell the definitive truth about this seminal moment of contact in the New Mexico desert.
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Dr. J. Allen Hynek Remembered at 100
Don Schmitt
Legendary folklorist Mark Twain wasn't the only famous American to be born in the year of Halley's Comet and to die in the year of its next return. So was my friend and mentor, Dr. J. Allen Hynek. The year Twain died, 1910, was the year Hynek was born. This May would have been Dr. Hynek's 101st birthday.
Many have searched for the truth about the UFO mystery, hoping it will lead to some form of Disclosure. Like Halley's Comet, Dr. Hynek traveled an astronomical path and his story remains a very important one in ufology -- from a skepticism to an acknowledgement that something outside the ordinary was actually happening in the skies above us.
Ironically, his work as the scientific adviser to the study of UFOs undertaken by the U.S. Air Force known as Project Blue Book (1952 to 1969) may have been an accident of geography. At the time of his selection, he was a professor of astronomy and physics at Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio. And Ohio State is really just down the road from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio where Blue Book was based. That geography changed his life, and meeting him changed mine.
In 1973, after Blue Book had been mothballed and he'd moved out of the Air Force's influence, Hynek became the founder of CUFOS, the Center for UFO Studies where he continued his own independent UFO research until the day he died on April 27, 1986. Hynek also served as chairman of the Astronomy Department at Northwestern University where his specialty was the chemical composition of space.
He always promoted the idea of scientific analysis of UFO reports, and I followed his lead in my work for him as the CUFOS Director of Special Investigations. His belief in evidence first still informs all my current research into the Roswell case.
Hynek's Last Lament
“Why can’t they tell me now? Why can’t they tell me the truth even now?,” wondered the dying astronomer as he lay in the recovery room at the hospital. His plea fell on ears hardened by years of deceit and denial. And Hynek, like the rest of us, once believed them. Jesse Marcel had been told at Roswell, “Just be a good soldier for a few more years and it will all come out.”
In his lifetime, J. Allen Hynek had seen the study of UFOs become a circus ring more than a few times. He observed some people he worked for as having more in common with P.T. Barnum than Abraham Lincoln, another son of Illinois like Hynek. He had been patient to a fault.
Now, for the remaining months of his life, Hynek's family focused on fulfilling his one final request. He simply wanted to know the truth, to take to his grave a sense that his life had been lived well in the service of history. He was denied.
No secret documents anonymously arrived from parts unknown. There were no special curriers from Washington. No upper statesman called with any final confessions. The Pentagon was just running out the clock. We doubt that the old general officers there even had much awareness or concern of what the seasoned UFO investigator had discovered without their strict guidelines. Yet one aspect of the subject which clearly ought to have gained their attention was what Hynek had learned about UFO crash/retrieval reports. He kept most of his thoughts on that subject to himself, but he told them to me, pointing me in the direction of my lifetime passion, to tell the definitive truth about this seminal moment of contact in the New Mexico desert.
TO CONTINUE READING CLICK ON ABOVE LINK