Having just seen Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day (good, not great summer flick in our humble opinion), we were of course reminded of his 1977 effort Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, one of our all-time favorites.
J. Allen Hynek was a technical advisor for the movie and had a brief cameo. He was an astronomer who became a UFO investigator, he's the person who coined the term "close encounter". He was originally a total UFO skeptic but over the years his views on the subject became more nuanced. He felt the UFO phenomenon was "real" (in the sense that people were actually seeing the things), but the origin of the objects themselves remained a mystery.
Anywho, after seeing the movie we found ourselves ildy poking around the 'net on the topic and came across this still of Professor Hynek from the Close Encouters:
This resulted in sort of a "hey, wait a minute..." moment, because this is what Colin Firth's character (the bad guy) in Disclosure Day looked like:
J. Allen Hynek was a technical advisor for the movie and had a brief cameo. He was an astronomer who became a UFO investigator, he's the person who coined the term "close encounter". He was originally a total UFO skeptic but over the years his views on the subject became more nuanced. He felt the UFO phenomenon was "real" (in the sense that people were actually seeing the things), but the origin of the objects themselves remained a mystery.
Anywho, after seeing the movie we found ourselves ildy poking around the 'net on the topic and came across this still of Professor Hynek from the Close Encouters:
This resulted in sort of a "hey, wait a minute..." moment, because this is what Colin Firth's character (the bad guy) in Disclosure Day looked like:
So, grey(ing) hair, glasses, blue sportcoat, dark blue tie/turtleneck...perhaps we have an overactive imagination, but there seems to be slightly more than a passing resemblance there. Maybe it's just another crazy UFO-related conspiracy theory. The truth must surely be out there...somewhere.
