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43. I'm very familiar with J. Allen Hynek,

Reply to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Reply #38)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 01:47 PM

Jun 2015

and have been for many years.

I've read several of his books.

He started the Center For UFO Studies

"One of the last investigations that Dr. Hynek conducted was of the so-called
'Westchester boomerang'..a silent, large boomerang-shaped object that was seen by literally thousands of witnesses just north of New York City in the early 1980s.
He wrote his last book, "Night Siege" about these sightings with Philip J. Imbrogno and Bob Pratt"
http://www.cufos.org/hynek_prefix.html

I'll have to get that book.

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