J. Allen Hynek

J. Allen Hynek was born on May 01, 1910 in USA. J. Allen Hynek's big-screen debut came with Close Encounters of the Third Kind directed by Steven Spielberg in 1977. J. Allen Hynek is known for Close Encounters of the Third Kind directed by Steven Spielberg, Richard Dreyfuss stars as Roy Neary and François Truffaut as Claude Lacombe. The upcoming new movie J. Allen Hynek plays is Close Encounters of the Third Kind which will be released on Dec 14, 1977.

J. Allen Hynek was a professor of Astronomy at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. He was also the Founder of the Center for UFO Studies and first coined the phrase "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" as a way to catagorize direct contact with aliens.