Title The close encounters man : how one man made the world believe in UFOs / Mark O'Connell.

Publication Info.	New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2017]
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Edition	First edition.
Description	xi, 403 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-386) and index.
Contents	Under the dome -- Unusual stars -- The crowded sky -- Debunked -- Scintillations -- Project Henry -- Hynek in wonderland -- Flying saucer conspiracy -- Interaction -- Obscuring influence -- Burned brush -- Will-o'-the-wisp, part one -- Will-o'-the-wisp, part two -- Mr. UFO -- Signal in the noise -- Invisible at last -- The UFO experience -- The spur -- Purple peach trees -- Hynek vs. Sagan -- Close encounters -- Arizona -- The supersensible realm.
Summary	Details the life of the astronomer hired by the United States Air Force who spent years debunking sightings of UFOs across the country before shockingly changing his mind and using modern science to accept that they actually might be real.
Subject	Hynek, J. Allen (Joseph Allen), 1910-1986.
	United States. Air Force -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
	Hynek, J. Allen (Joseph Allen), 1910-1986. (OCoLC)fst01475809
	United States. Air Force. (OCoLC)fst00538280
	Unidentified flying objects -- Sightings and encounters -- United States.
	Unidentified flying objects in popular culture -- United States.
	Astronomers -- United States -- Biography.
	Belief and doubt.
	Armed Forces -- Officials and employees. (OCoLC)fst01351840
	Astronomers. (OCoLC)fst00819629
	Belief and doubt. (OCoLC)fst00830124
	Unidentified flying objects in popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01161327
	Unidentified flying objects -- Sightings and encounters. (OCoLC)fst01161320
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Biographies.
	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
ISBN	9780062484178
	0062484176

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