Posted on 01/09/2019 7:46:21 PM PST by BenLurkin
Now declassified, the most intriguing of these unsolved cases are revisited in the History Channel series "Project Blue Book." Premiering tonight (Jan. 8) at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT., the show offers UFO aficionados and skeptics alike a peek at how it all began.
Unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have long inspired curiosity and speculation, but when did our fascination with UFOs really take off? A new television drama explores the origins of the UFO phenomenon, drawing from the incredible true story of the U.S. government’s decades-long investigation of reported UFO encounters.
The secret program — dubbed Project Blue Book — launched in 1952 and was monitored by the U.S. Air Force until the project's termination in 1969. During that time, experts investigated more than 12,000 reports of UFO sightings, of which over 700 remain unexplained, according to records in the National Archives.
Aidan Gillen (Littlefinger on HBO's "Game of Thrones") stars as Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the real-life professor and astrophysicist who acted as the science adviser for Project Blue Book, and who is known to many as the "father of UFOlogy," show creator and executive producer David O'Leary told Live Science.
In the series, Hynek joins Air Force officials to investigate and explain sightings of peculiar lights in the sky, mysterious glowing fireballs, "flying saucers" and even purported extraterrestrials, History Channel representatives said in a statement.
But as "Project Blue Book" unfolds, Hynek comes to an unpleasant realization: His scientific curiosity about UFOs may run counter to a government agenda that wants to bury events that prove unthreatening, but nonetheless truly defy explanation, O'Leary said.
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wasn’t this a series back in the 70s?
Yes it was.
Pretty good casting.
Pretty cool. Kids are clever and creative.
Tangentially related whatever happened to those crop circles those were kinda cool
He I had always thought that I was the only viewer that show had.
Little turds
Agendas change.
Wasn’t the real “project blue book” started by the Air Force? Thought it was to just put silly info out there for cover on flight test of new aircraft. And good way to get leads on what people “saw”.
People saw and reported all kinds of weird “sightings” when they’d do stealth fighter tests.
Swear I read something like that.
I guess it’s because their is no weather on the Weather Channel. No music on MTV.
A Friend of ours just climbed Devil’s Tower.
He told me he didn’t see any UFO’s or Richard Dreyfus either.
OMG, he really does.
Only time in any story that the Clantons "technically" won.
I want to know about Dulce, New Mexico
https://www.gaia.com/article/is-there-proof-of-aliens-inhabiting-the-dulce-secret-air-force-base
Never heard of that show. Thanks!
It does not seem to sell or entertain?
It does me but apparently not the target demographic. Post adolescent males who are young, dumb and full of .... well.
Try The History Guy on youtube. Great vignettes on history.
the documentaries on Netflix and Amazon Prime make the history channel completely redundant. no wonder, really, that they’ve literally gone alien.
That’s where the money is.
Get out the roll of Rynold’s Wrap, a few more hats are in order...
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