Joseph Allen Hynek is undoubtedly the most experienced scientist who has documented and never put hand to the UFO case, Hynek was known as astrophysicist , Director of the Smithsonian Observatory in Cambridge Astrophisycal (Massachusettes), then director of the Lindheimer Astronomical Research Center at Northwestern University and then Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of the same institute.
Although initially proved skeptical of UFO phenomena in 1963 and publicly stated in the scientific (in the Yale Scientific Magazine ) That is absolutely false to claim that UFOs have never been seen by people with scientific training. Some of the best and most consistent reports come from witnesses of this kind. "
Since 1963 was an active member and promoter of the so-called Invisible College : A research team on the UFO phenomenon supranational, not subjected to political pressure or military of any kind. It was essentially an informal and regular meetings between scientists held to date on this issue. The Invisible College lasted his secret until 1973, when the huge wave of sightings occurred in the United States led Hynek to bring into the open in trasfromandolo Center for UFO Studies ( CUFOS ). In fact, many scholars are part of the Invisible College is not yet known.
Hynek published in 1972, as opposed to Condon Report , The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry , To which we must note the classification of the types of close encounters. Finally taken to publish a magazine entirely dedicated to the study of the UFO phenomenon: l ' International UFO Reporter .