J. Allen Hynek
Birthday:
May 1, 1910 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
J. Allen Hynek was a professor of Astronomy at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. He was also the Founder of the Center for UFO Studies and first coined the phrase "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" as a way to catagorize direct contact with aliens.
Close encounters of the third kind. [on physical contact with an alien being or an extraterrestrial craft, in his book _The UFO Experience_,...Show more »
Close encounters of the third kind. [on physical contact with an alien being or an extraterrestrial craft, in his book _The UFO Experience_, Regnery, 1972] Show less «
This intellectual Pearl Harbor, a real gutsy sock to the stomach. [On the success of the Soviet orbiter Sputnik, the Earth's first artificia...Show more »
This intellectual Pearl Harbor, a real gutsy sock to the stomach. [On the success of the Soviet orbiter Sputnik, the Earth's first artificial satellite] Show less «
