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  1. Career. During World War II, Hynek was a civilian scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, where he helped to develop the United States Navy 's radio proximity fuze . After the war, Hynek returned to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio State, rising to full professor in 1950.

  2. Jan 4, 2019 · American astronomer J. Allen Hynek is best known for investigations of unidentified flying objects and efforts to promote "ufology" as a legitimate scientific pursuit.

  3. CUFOS is a non-profit organization that studies and archives UFO reports, documents, and publications. It is named after J. Allen Hynek, a prominent astronomer and UFO researcher.

  4. Jan 15, 2019 · The central character of the TV series, the prominent astronomer J. Allen Hynek, played by Aidan Gillen, was recruited as Blue Book’s scientific consultant and was indeed initially committed to...

  5. Learn about the life and career of J. Allen Hynek, a prominent astronomer and UFO researcher who worked with the Air Force and coined the term "close encounter". Discover his scientific achievements, his interest in the unknown, and his involvement in the UFO phenomenon.

  6. May 1, 1986 · J. Allen Hynek, an astrophysicist and consultant to an Air Force project to assess reports of unidentified flying objects, died of a malignant brain tumor Sunday at Memorial Hospital in...

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  8. May 1, 1986 · J. Allen Hynek, the astronomer who took on what he described as a sprawling collection of “kooks, nuts, ding-a-lings and cultists” when he agreed to head a U.S. Air Force investigation of ...