UFOs: Investigating The Unknown S01E03 (Alieninfoo)

An excellent episode covering the work of astronomer, and consultant to the Air Force, J. Allen Hynek, referencing his work to draw serious scientific attention to the subject after the closure of the Blue Book program in 1969. The video opens with the Air Force claim that UFOs posed no security threat but then goes over incidents in the 1960s where US nuclear missiles were taken offline during a close encounter incident. The episode then goes on to cover the documented wave of UFOs over Belgium in the early 90s and the famous Hudson Valley mass sightings of the early 80s (where they should have emphasised the extreme close up nature of many observations, at tens of feet - that absolutely ruled out the aircraft hypothesis/excuse).

One thing this video leaves out is Hynek's famous 1966 'swamp gas' gaff that made headlines and incensed witnesses, and the press, during his investigation in Michigan on behalf of the Air Force. The backlash helped change his thought process, at least publicly (because know one knows if he was in the loop or not when it came to more classified aspects of what was going on).

Editor's note:

As a footnote, I'm pretty sure I have an archived email from Mark Rodeghier, who now runs Hynek's Centre For UFO Studies, from decades ago, when I was trying to get the National Academy of Sciences to revoke their endorsement of the Condon Report (the fraudulent/flawed University of Colorado study that the Air Force used to shut down Blue Book). The NAS accepted my letter but said they only responded to requests made by officially sanctioned organisations and not individual requests by members of the public. I have a bit of correspondence from back then. Anyway, they endorsed a fraudulent report and they still need to make a correction.

Further note: the Thumbnail to this video is not Hynek, but one of the Air Force Missile officers who witnessed the nukes going offline.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, April 24, 2026.]