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Over the past eighteen years I have acted as a scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force on the subject of unidentified flying objects - UFO's. As a consequence of my work on the voluminous air force files and, to a greater extent, of personal investigation of many puzzling cases and interviews with witnesses of good repute, I have long been aware that the subject of UFO's could not be dismissed as mere nonsense.

J. Allen Hynek's Popular Quotes

When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science bu…

- J. Allen Hynek

Ridicule is not a part of the scientific method and the public should not be taught that it is

- J. Allen Hynek

As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were overlooked because the new ph…

- J. Allen Hynek

I would not spend one further moment on the subject of UFOs if I didnt seriously feel that the UFO phenomenon is real and that efforts to investigate…

- J. Allen Hynek

Each wave of sightings adds to the accumulation of reports which defy analysis by present methods... An investigative process in depth is necessary h…

- J. Allen Hynek

When one gets reports from scientists, engineers and technicians whose credibility by all common standards is high and whose moral caliber seems to p…

- J. Allen Hynek

Blue Book was now under direct orders to debunk. . . I remember the conversations around the conference table in which it was suggested that Walt Dis…

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Science is not always what scientists do.

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I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science, and indeed a 30th Century …

- J. Allen Hynek