Two of the most respected academics to study the UFO phenomenon started as skeptics. J. Allen Hynek was an astrophysicist who worked with the U.S. Air Force on Project Blue Book to debunk UFO sightings. But after investigating hundreds of cases, he concluded many couldn’t be explained by known science and helped create the modern classification of “close encounters.” John E. Mack, a Pulitzer Prize–winning Harvard psychiatrist at Harvard University, began studying alien abduction reports expectin

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