He referenced Hynek's classic work, The UFO Experience, as a source for evaluating UFO reports.
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I do draw from Hynek's in his book, The UFO Experience. He lists out how we all should approach this based on the reliability scale and the strangeness scale.
— Episode: #2428 - Michael P. Masters
Episode: #2428 - Michael P. Masters
He referenced Hynek's classic work, The UFO Experience, as a source for evaluating UFO reports.
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I do draw from Hynek's in his book, The UFO Experience. He lists out how we all should approach this based on the reliability scale and the strangeness scale.
It was mentioned as a book that Hynek wrote after he switched sides from a skeptic to a believer in UFOs, essentially founding ufology.
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He said everything was negative and unyielding in their attitude. Everything had to have an explanation. And I began to resent that even though I basically felt the same way I thought they weren't goi...
— Episode: How Project Blue Book Worked, Pt II
Episode: How Project Blue Book Worked, Pt II
It was mentioned as a book that Hynek wrote after he switched sides from a skeptic to a believer in UFOs, essentially founding ufology.
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He said everything was negative and unyielding in their attitude. Everything had to have an explanation. And I began to resent that even though I basically felt the same way I thought they weren't going about it in the right way.
He just completely basically switched sides and said there's a lot of stuff that we can't explain. Here's all these, you know, all this experience that I have investigating these things. Let's go forward and figure this out.
Episode: How Project Blue Book Worked, Pt II
It was discussed as the book that founded ufology, written by a man who had gone from a skeptic to a believer in the field of UFOs, having a change of heart over time.
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He said everything was negative and unyielding in their attitude. Everything had to have an explanation. And I began to resent that even though I basically felt the same way I thought they weren't going about it in the right way.
He just completely basically switched sides and said there's a lot of stuff that we can't explain. Here's all these, you know, all this experience that I have investigating these things. Let's go forward and figure this out.
Episode: How Project Blue Book Worked, Pt II
It was mentioned as the book that founded ufology, written by the investigator who eventually changed his perspective from skeptic to believer in the existence of unexplainable phenomena.
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He said everything was negative and unyielding in their attitude. Everything had to have an explanation. And I began to resent that even though I basically felt the same way I thought they weren't going about it in the right way.
He just completely basically switched sides and said there's a lot of stuff that we can't explain. Here's all these, you know, all this experience that I have investigating these things. Let's go forward and figure this out.
Leslie Kane recommended Hynek's book as a seminal historical account of UFO research, noting his transition from skeptic to a more open perspective. She called it one of the most important historical books on the subject.
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One of them is a book called The UFO Experience, A Scientific Inquiry by J. Allen Hynek.
— Episode: What the Heck Is Going on With These U.F...
Episode: What the Heck Is Going on With These U.F.O. Storie...
Leslie Kane recommended Hynek's book as a seminal historical account of UFO research, noting his transition from skeptic to a more open perspective. She called it one of the most important historical books on the subject.
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One of them is a book called The UFO Experience, A Scientific Inquiry by J. Allen Hynek.
Note: The book recommendations on this page are discovered automatically from podcast transcripts, and may be incorrect or incomplete.
