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The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs
By O'Connell, Mark
- ISBN
- 9780062484178 9780062484185
- Publisher
- Dey St: HarperCollins
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Reviewed on June 1, 2017 | Science and Technology
O'Connell (To Be a Machine) examines astrophysicist and forensic investigator J. Allen Hynek's trajectory from UFO skeptic to believer. In 1949, Hynek was given a contract with the U.S. Air Force to work with Project Sign, the first of three UFO studies, and to distinguish which unidentified flying objects were simply of natural causation. Hynek separated the science from fiction, slowly p...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
