I took a break from my obsession with the topic of UFOs and aliens.
Except for watching the Larry King Show when he has visitors (no…not aliens) who talk about UFOs, I have not bothered to read or think that much about UFOs.
I’m going back to books that I’ve read and will share notes that I’ve taken from them.
THE HYNEK UFO REPORT was one of the last books that I read, and here I am quoting some of the more interesting things that Dr. Hynek wrote in that book.
U Thant: “You know, I am a Buddhist, and we believe in life elsewhere.”
Dr. J. Allen Hynek: “As an astronomer I do too, but the physical conditions, especially the length of time involved in journeys from outer space, seems insuperable.”
U Thant: “Ah, but what may seem like years to us, may be just a day or two to others.”
A careful study of the more extraordinary and unexplained UFO cases, not only from the Air Force files but from the more extensive files at the Center for UFO Studies leaves little doubt that an “intelligence” of some sort is operating. But what kind and where from?
Dr. J. Allen Hynek
It was against all known science that a craft could behave in the manner attributed to UFOs: amazing accelerations from a standing start, right-angled turns, rapid, noiseless disappearances after seemingly and openly defying gravity by hovering effortlessly above the ground.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek
Science had said that it was impossible and the Air Force theorem which was to cause so much trouble later on was born: “It can’t be, therefore it isn’t.”
Dr. J. Allen Hynek
No astronomical object appears as a metallic flying disc violently cavorting through the daytime sky.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek
No fireball on record, to this investigator’s knowledge, has ever been known to turn back on itself.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek
I would not spend one additional moment on the subject of UFOs if I didn’t seriously feel that the UFO phenomenon is real and that efforts to investigate and understand it, and eventually to solve it, could have a profound effect---perhaps even be the springboard to a revolution in man’s view of himself and his place in the universe.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek
Why “flying saucers”? Why not flying cubes or flying pyramids, or for that matter, why not flying pink elephants or even flying buildings, reported from a hundred different countries? Indeed, if UFO reports were entirely the result of excited imaginations, why not hundreds, possibly thousands, of totally and radically different types of reports as people of different cultures let their locally conditioned imaginations loose? But no. Instead, a continued flow of reports of fairly similar things which could be roughly classified into just a few categories.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek
UFOs of other categories seem to demonstrate intelligent action. Certainly this action does not appear to be random, but seems almost programmed or planned.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek
In the earliest days of the modern era of “flying saucers,” at the very inception of Project Sign---forerunner of Projects Grudge and Blue Book---there were two factions within the Air Force Intelligence system: those who believed that the mounting evidence was sufficient to take “flying saucers” very seriously---even to the belief that they were interplanetary spaceships---and those who believed that by no stretch of the imagination could the evidence be taken seriously. The latter group argued that with our advanced knowledge of the physical world around us, by the very nature of things these reports had to be nonsense. Rather quickly, probably because of the matter-of-fact nature of the military mind, the latter group won favor, and when Project Grudge replaced Sign in 1948, the “anti-UFO policy” was set for all time. In the end, the Air Force “got rid” of UFOs altogether with a most helpful assist from the Condon Committee at the University of Colorado.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek
In the fall of 1948, Project Sign received a report from Kyushu, Japan, describing the encounter of an F-61 aircraft with from two to six unidentified flying objects. Intelligence reports from Far East air forces indicated that the UFOs might have “carried radar warning equipment,” because the “object seemed cognizant of the whereabouts of the F-61 at all times.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek
Close Encounters of all types are hard to dismiss as misidentifications of familiar objects; it is hard to label a large object reportedly sighted just a few hundred feet away as Venus or a helicopter.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek
In all my years with Project Blue Book, I never ceased to be impressed with the phenomenon of mature adults with respectable positions in their communities reporting to the authorities (generally out of a sense of duty) the most incredible tales. In most of these cases there was no discernible motive for a deliberate hoax. Why then the report? Hallucination immediately suggests itself, but the witnesses generally have no previous record whatsoever of such an aberration. Furthermore, how can one exactly ascribe the same hallucination to two or more witnesses?
Dr. J. Allen Hynek
Why should it be more difficult for us to accept encounters with “creatures” than with “craft”? Probably because once we dare admit that beings alien to ourselves exist, we are forced to face our deepest fear of the unknown, along with our more basic and specific fears of competition and hostility. But, as in other types of UFO experiences, we cannot ignore the reports which do exist, for they are made by seemingly credible persons and are widespread.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek
Below are some subtitles in Dr. Hynek’s book THE HYNEK UFO REPORT.
They show Dr. Hynek’s sense of humor.
Flying Discs and the Taffy Apple
The Incredible Flying Carpet
The Case of the Dogs and the Derby Hat
The Case of the Leisurely Boomerang
The Case of the Flying Tadpole
The Case of the Bawling Cattle
The Mysterious Baseball Cap
IT’S THE OIL STUPID!
