Mark O'Connell, The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs. HarperCollins, 2017. A human life can be read as the totality of its enigmas. The questions to be asked, naturally, will differ from person to person. For J. Allen Hynek (1910-1986), the brilliant … [Read more...]
J. Allen Hynek and Halley’s Comet
This is a PS to last week's post on astronomer and UFOlogist J. Allen Hynek, which I was working on when a story about Hynek's last days came to mind. I looked the story up in Keith Thompson's book Angels and Aliens (Fawcett Columbine, 1991), and found it to be fully as powerful and moving as I'd … [Read more...]
