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

- J. Allen Hynek

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

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

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

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

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…

- 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

Science is not always what scientists do.

- J. Allen Hynek

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