Roster / The early years
J. Allen Hynek
Astronomer and Air Force consultant · 1910 to 1986
Air Force science consultant for two decades who came to take the subject seriously.
Hynek was an astronomer at Ohio State and Northwestern who advised the Air Force's UFO projects from 1948 to 1969, starting as a skeptic. His 1972 book introduced the "close encounters" scale, and he founded the Center for UFO Studies in 1973.
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