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What You Should Know About UFOs, by Dr. J Allen Hynek, 1975 [8 Pages, 24MB]

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The following documents were collected by UFO Investigator Rob Mercer, and digitized to preserve their history.

These documents are part of the “From the Desks of Project Blue Book” Archive. 

A note from Rob Mercer regarding the below file:

“I came across this case information in the files, it is regarding a May 1968 case that I wasn’t able to find in Blue Book official files. I have seen it mentioned in one sentence descriptions referencing Hynek. He took the witness information and may have looked at it later. It’s possible that who ever has his old papers probably has the case. I edited out the minimal witness info for their privacy. Rob”

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 From the Desks of Project Blue Book: Mosinee, Wisconsin, 29 May 1968 [12 Pages, 5.8MB] 

https://documents.theblackvault.com/bluebookdesk/MosineeWI29May1968.pdf

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In this letter, dated February 9, 1976, from Dr. J. Allen Hynek to pioneer physical trace ufologist Henry McKay, Hynek mentions setting up a CUFOS affiliate with Henry in Ontario, Canada.

Four months prior, Hynek contacted Henry requesting he investigate the Suffern Three Mile Lake Incident where a UFO reportedly landed on a road and a creature was claimed to have been seen wearing a one-piece, silver-coloured suit with a white or light-coloured globe on its head.

The letter is dated the year before the release of the Steven Spielberg movie, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, a term coined by Hynek which inspired the movie.

Hynek handwrites the following note at the end of the letter, “Mimi and I will be seeing you on the 27th”. Mimi was Hynek’s wife.

The Letter

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LOCATION: Papua, New Guinea
DATE OF OBSERVATION: June 26, 1959

The following is a transcript from an audio cassette recording of Henry McKay, at the 24 minute 51 second mark. This would have been at either one of his lectures or his course.

The cassette is simply labelled as “UFO Talk H.H.M”. Date unknown. From the files of the Henry McKay UFO Archives:

“Quite a few number of years ago there was an incident reported in New Guinea, where a Reverend Gill and a number of missionary observed the UFO on three evenings. It was brought to his attention by some of the Natives yelling, which brought him outside and he observed, and it’s well documented, a hovering UFO, the discoid configuration.

And one of the evenings there were three humanoids aboard the craft standing on the outer rim, if you will, performing some sort of an operation or procedure, work procedure.

One of the Native boys waved at this craft and one of the creatures leaned over what appeared to be like a rail, a railing on a ship, and waved back. Now, they couldn’t see the railing, but it gave him that  impression, that it was a railing that he was leaning over, and waved back.

This so intrigued the, Father Gill, that he went and sent one of the Native boys for his torches, he called it a flashlight. And he signaled to the UFO, and it responded.

Now the Reverend Gill has released all this information, and it’s well documented at the UFO Research Centre under the direction of Dr. Allen Hynek.” – Henry McKay

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Courtesy of the Henry McKay UFO Archives, this historical document is a letter from Dr. J. Allen Hynek to Iris Owen, dated August 24, 1977.  It is significant to not only the UFO research community, but also to the ghost research community. Hynek was the astronomy consultant to the U.S. Air Force’s UFO projects, including Project Bluebook.

In this letter Hynek mentions the upcoming release of the movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, which he was the consultant for, and anticipates that the movie “will yield a large number of ancient sightings”.

Hynek than goes on to express his thoughts on physical evidence of UFOs and how not all UFO reports should be discounted as just mere “hallucinations”.

And, even more interesting, is his statement “Your work at the Foundation has certainly shown that the mind can influence physical matter — Phillip, table-tipping, poltergeist phenomena — all attest to this.”

Iris Owen, whom Hynek wrote this letter to, was the wife of Dr. George Owen. The Owens ran the TSPR (Toronto Society for Psychical Research), which led the infamous Philip Experiment — which is what Hynek was referring to when he mentioned “Phillip”. The Owens’ goal with the experiment was to see if the mind could actually “create” a ghost.

Hynek also mentions his opinion regarding correlations between ghost research (in particular ‘psychic research’) and UFO research, and the need for both organizations to “keep in close touch on really significant cases”.

Most telling is when he says, “I am being driven, somewhat reluctantly to the feeling that many UFOs are caused by our own psychic energy somehow interacting with matter”.

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This is a Christmas card that was sent to pioneer physical trace UFOlogist Henry McKay from his good friend Dr. J. Allen Hynek. Date unknown.

There are two images. The first image is the front of the card, the second image is the inside of the card.

Hynek coined the term “Close Encounters”, and was the astronomy consultant to the U.S. Air Force’s UFO projects including Project Bluebook. Inside the card (which is the second image) Hynek wrote: “Merry Christmas! How’s this for a close encounter of the third kind! Mimi and Allen. Hope to see you soon.”

Mimi was Hynek’s wife.

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