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From: Dennis Stacy <dstacy@texas.net>
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 18:09:46 -0500
Fwd Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 20:44:54 -0400
Subject: Re: Dr. J. Allen Hynek (1910-1986)


>From: Jenny Randles <nufon@currantbun.com>
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: Dr. J. Allen Hynek (1910-1986)
>Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:14:43 +0100

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>But I am glad he [Hynek] is not around to see some of today's
>ufology. I fear he would be sad at some of the mercanary
>exploitation that goes on. Allen was far above all that.

>Jenny Randles

Jenny,

I suppose "mercanary" would be the buying and selling of
canaries?

And you're right -- Allen was above all that. So much so that he
sold the rights to what became "Close Encounters of the 3rd
Kind" -- one of the highest grossing movies of all time -- for a
miserable pittance and a song. ($10,000 if memory serves.) Too
bad. CUFOS could have used the extra money. Now more than ever.
Are you aware that they're in severe financial difficulties and
may not survive the millennium?

So was he above it -- or did he simply lack the good sense to
hire an agent or business manager? And if he was really above
it, then why accept a cameo role in the movie?

Look, I liked Allen as a person, too, but let's not turn the man
into some sort of beknighted UFO saint he wasn't. By some
accounts, he came to like the microphone and camera a wee bit
too much in his later years -- and his own UFO research suffered
accordingly. He did much, just as he left much undone, an
epitaph I'm sure most of us would be happy to share.

Let's leave it at that.

Dennis