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Astronomer J. Allen Hynek becomes Project Sign consultant

Name: Astronomer J. Allen Hynek becomes Project Sign consultant
Start: 1948
Location: Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

When: 1948
Where: Wright-Patterson AFB, OH
Sources: 1 public source

Astronomer J. Allen Hynek (left), who became Project Sign's consultant in 1948 United States Government, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

In early 1948, Air Force officers from Wright-Patterson asked J. Allen Hynek, director of Ohio State's McMillin Observatory, to help Project Sign find which saucer reports were astronomical. Hynek, then a skeptic, had no role in Grudge but returned as Blue Book's consultant from 1952 to 1969.

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PressMeet J. Allen Hynek, the Astronomer Who First Classified UFO 'Close Encounters' (opens in a new tab)HISTORY / 2018-11-19

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