The top-secret UFO program exposed by TV's "Project Blue Book"

After joining Project Blue Book, Dr. Alan Hynek (played by Aiden Gillen) was deeply attracted into the mysterious world of UFOs. (Copyright History 2019)

Unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have long inspired curiosity and speculation, but when did our fascination with UFOs really begin? A new TV series explores the origins of the UFO phenomenon, based on the incredible true story of decades of U.S. government investigations into reported UFO encounters.

This secret project was Known as Project Blue Book, it was launched in 1952 and was monitored by the U.S. Air Force until the project was terminated in 1969. During this period, experts investigated more than 12,000 reports of UFO sightings, more than 700 of which remain unexplained, according to National Archives records. The most intriguing of these unsolved cases was featured on the History Channel series "Project Blue Book." The show will premiere tonight, January 8th at 10pm ET/9pm CT, giving UFO enthusiasts and skeptics alike a peek into how it all started. Show creator and executive producer David O'Leary said in an interview on set:

Aidan Gillen (Littlefinger on HBO's "Game of Thrones") plays Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a real-life professor and astrophysicist who served as a scientific advisor to Project Blue Book, is known by many as the "Father of UFOlogy" science.

In the series, Hynek joins Air Force officials to investigate and explain strange lights seen in the sky, mysterious glowing fireballs, "flying saucers" and even claims of aliens, with History Channel representatives on hand "The government must respond to the fact that military pilots, commercial airline pilots, police officers - people with trained eyes - are seeing things in the sky that they cannot understand," the statement said. objects," O'Leary said.

But as Project Blue Book unfolds, Hynek comes to an uncomfortable realization: His scientific curiosity about UFOs may be at odds with the government's agenda to bury those An incident that proved non-threatening but truly defied interpretation, O'Leary said, was "national security" during the period in American history that gave rise to Project Blue Book, where global superpowers were testing the boundaries of military technology. This type of technology has never been available before. According to O'Leary, for obvious reasons and for national security, the Air Force wants to monitor all UFO sightings that may represent previously unknown weapons, and there are hundreds of UFOs investigated by Project Blue Book. The object sightings proved completely unexplainable.

An incident that occurred on September 12, 1952 (and appears in the series) involved three boys who witnessed a blazing red light pass by in Flatwoods, West Virginia. Overhead, followed by a loud bang. A local newspaper reported at the time that as the boys approached the scene, they glimpsed "a 10-foot-tall monster with a blood-red body and a green-looking face," which was later dubbed the "Flat Forest Monster." , the History Channel reports,

Another unexplained sighting was on August 30, 1951, in Lubbock, Texas; a teenage child, the History Channel reported. The photo shows a V-shaped arrangement of lights in the sky, now known as the "Lubbock Lights." Among the many reports of so-called flying saucers, one of the most unexplained phenomena is the "Lubbock Lights" photographed by 19-year-old Carl Hart Jr. in Lubbock, Texas, on August 30, 1951. (Bettmann Archives)

Other disturbing encounters with UFOs have been directly observed by pilots who are trained to recognize unexpected sightings that may arise during challenging flight conditions. O'Leary explained that this made their descriptions of UFOs harder to dismiss as delusional, and also fueled Hynek's efforts to make sense of the puzzling events, which were dramatized by the British Academy as Credible Witnesses < /p>

"We have a range of witnesses, from lone civilians to To the individuals representing the military and law enforcement, to the people reporting on the same sightings, when you get to the final episode, they all say, 'There are a lot of credible witnesses. sighting, which actually prompted the president to intervene. So you can say, 'This is undeniable. This is historically accurate,'" said Jablonski, a cast member of the new UFO series "Project Blue Book" (left to right: Laura Menne Earl, Aidan Gillen, Neal Macdonald, Michael Haney, Michael Malarkey, Ksenia Solow) (Copyright History 2019)

Although the True Blue Book. The project ended decades ago, but interest in UFOs has barely waned. In fact, the U.S. government continues to monitor and analyze UFO reports to this day, Live Science reported in 2018.

The work was conducted under a secret program called the Advanced Aeronautical Threat Identification Program (AATIP), although official statements indicate that federal UFO investigations ended with the termination of Project Blue Book in 1969. This work continued for decades.

"UFOs are a mystery that remains unsolved," Jablonski said. Once you gain a new understanding of the UFO phenomenon, you have to ask, "Who's flying them?" "Then you have to talk about extraterrestrial life. It frees you from a reality that most people live with throughout their lives.

The first episode of "Project Blue Book" airs tonight (January 8) on the History Channel at 10pm ET/9pm ET.

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