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Blue planet project snopes3/25/2023 ![]() When we reported on the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which began in 2007, we offered a glimpse into a similar scenario today: military cases being investigated and filmed without the public knowing. While Hynek was involved, Blue Book compiled reports of 12,618 sightings of unidentified flying objects, of which 701 remain unexplained to this day.īut what’s most important to study during that era is what occurred outside Project Blue Book, to the extent that it has been revealed. (Though he never saw a supposed alien creature floating in a tank or crashed in a plane while recreating a reported U.F.O. But he gradually realized that the bizarre objects were real and needed further scientific attention. Allen Hynek, played by Aidan Gillen, was recruited as Blue Book’s scientific consultant and was indeed initially committed to explaining away flying saucers as natural phenomena or mistaken identifications. The central character of the TV series, the prominent astronomer J. It’s already hard enough for those trying to understand the truth about government involvement with U.F.O.s without mixing fact and fiction. The History series predictably sensationalizes and overdramatizes case investigations and the historical figures involved, adding many story elements that simply never happened. So, despite the embellishments, we were interested to discover parallels between the TV version and the historical and current reality. ![]() Leslie Kean wrote the Times 2010 best-seller “U.F.O.s: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record.” Ralph Blumenthal has written about U.F.O.s for Vanity Fair as well as The Times. We broke the December 2017 New York Times exclusive on a secret Pentagon program investigating the phenomenon, with our colleague Helene Cooper. ![]() ![]() We viewed the first six episodes from the standpoint of writers who have long worked on the serious side of U.F.O.s. Featuring a Russian spy murder, a self-immolation, gun-toting government thugs and other fanciful plot devices, “Project Blue Book,” History’s popular new series on the Air Force’s program to investigate and debunk U.F.O.s, is not your historian’s Project Blue Book. ![]()
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