(NICAP.org)
Quote from the UFO lecture/paper:
“American Association for the Advancement of Science,
134th Meeting
134th Meeting
General Symposium, Unidentified Flying Objects
J. Allen Hynek, Professor and Chairman,
Department of Astronomy
Department of Astronomy
Northwestern University
December 27, 1969
My role here today is that of reporter; to report to you on my score or
so years of experience with UFO reports (note that I do not say UFO’s, for I
myself have never had a UFO experience) and with those who make such reports,
from this and many other countries. I was asked in 948, as an astronomer then
at Ohio State University, and thus geographically near the Wright- Patterson
AFB, to review the UFO reports received by the Air Force and to determine how
many of them originated from misperceptions of astronomical objects or events.
This consulting role continued across the years and gave me the chance to
monitor the flow of UFO reports submitted to the Air Force, and to observe the
Air Force handling of the problem as first one, then another officer took
charge of Project Bluebook.
As reporter of the UFO scene, I am reminded of the old dictum of the
reporter: find out Who, What, Where, When, and Why. I will have no difficulty
in dealing with the Who, What, Where, and When, for that means simply dealing
with facts - particularly with the incontrovertible fact that UFO reports
exist, and that the time and location of the reported event is generally known,
as well as the identity of the witnesses.
The ‘Why’ I shall leave to other scientists, but I shall challenge their
explanations if they are not conversant with the Who, What, Where, and When. I
am very weary of pontifications by those who have not done field- or home-work,
so to speak.”
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Dr. J. Allen Hynek,
Scientific Consultant on UFOs (1948-1969), UFO
Author,
Lecturer & Researcher (4.bp.blogspot.com
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