8 October 1977
(Houston Chronicle, Texas)
Source: theufochronicles.com
The Houston Chronicle presents a Chicago Daily News
article.
The whole article:
“A French government agency has begun to study the
phenomenon of unidentified flying objects.
J. Allen Hynek, professor of astronomy at Northwestern University and director of the Center
for UFO Studies, said the study is the first of its kind to be funded by any
government.
The French
National Center
for Space Studies (CNES) has created a research group which has asked Hynek’s
organization for cooperation.
Hynek told reporters that CNES is equivalent to our
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
‘The implications of this step taken by the French government
are farreaching,’ Hynek said. ‘It points up to the growing interest on an
official level and recognition of the serious nature of the UFO phenomenon,’ he
added.
Hynek has been studying UFO reports since 1948.
‘There will now be an official government group –
unfortunately in another country – that is going to take this thing seriously,’
he said.
‘All of our data is available to them. We have
computer data on 60,000 cases. The great difference between our work and what
the French will be doing is they will be properly funded.
Hynek hedged when asked if he personally believes the
Earth has been visited by beings from other worlds.
‘It is possible,’ he said.”
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Dr. J. Allen Hynek, U.S. Astronomer,
the U.S. Air Force's Scientific
Consultant on UFOs (1948-1969), UFO Author, Lecturer & Researcher
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