PositiveRolling StoneClose Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs, a new book by Mark O'Connell, serves as a biography for both the modern UFO phenomenon and for Hynek, an astronomer and professor at Northwestern University who died over 30 years ago, but whose ideas make him one of the most surprising scientific figures of the 20th century ...reveals an academic committed to rigorous, methodical study, but whose deep intellectual curiosity also harbored a mystical side... O'Connell, a screenwriter and UFO history expert who writes the blog High Strangeness, has already had some of Hynek's legacy rub off on his own reputation, which he takes as a sign that he is following in Hynek's footsteps as an unbiased, open-minded researcher, rather than writing for one camp or another ...O'Connell wants to reposition the conversation about UFOs, as well as an agreement to adhere to the scientific method itself.
