What My Father Knew About UFOs - Paul Hynek - DEBRIEFED ep. 45

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Son of legendary astronomer and UFO researcher Dr. J. Allen Heinik. Paul Heinik. Are you familiar with Project Blue Book? Blue Book. Blue Book. Project Blue Book. Project Blue Book. Dr. J. Allen Heinik, chairman of the Department of Astronomy, a UFO investigator for the Air Force for the past 18 years. He saw so many witnesses that were so credible. Calvin Parker and Charlie Hixon, Father Gil, Travis Walton. So many of these people who you just sit down with and you can tell they are not lying. And I remember taking the call from Calvin Parker. Good friend of mine. Yeah. Um what do you mean you took the call? I the phone rang in my house. I'm outside playing kickball and there's this guy with a southern draw talking about Pascula and seeing something in the sky. It was Neil Armstrong who asked to sit with my father and family. Turns out that he did talk with my father and they talked seriously about creating a new UFO research group. What year was this? 1973. This is 4 years after the moon landing. Using the title of a chapter from my father's book. You actually have my father in Spielberg explaining what the movie title means. And the close encounters of the third kind are the most interesting of all is really when you meet them. Jacques and I went to Sakuro, New Mexico, site of one of the most famous sightings. And he told me that it was there, that case, 1964, Lonni Zamora, a policeman, that made my father feel comfortable speaking in public about aliens and not just craft. It was not comfortable speaking publicly. So, he and Jacques formed what they called the Invisible College. ...

Excerpt from AREA52 Podcast (Chris Ramsay), Jul 11, 2025. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.