Editing Project Blue Book (section)

==Criticism==
Hynek was an associate member of the [[Robertson Panel]], which recommended that UFOs needed [[debunker|debunking]]. A few years later, however, Hynek claimed that Air Force personnel were indifferent, incompetent, and conducted shoddy research. Hynek notes that during its existence, critics dubbed Blue Book "The Society for the Explanation of the Uninvestigated."<ref name=Hynek180>J. Allen Hynek; ''The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry''; 1972; Henry Regenery Company, p. 180</ref> Regarding Ruppelt, Hynek wrote, "In my contacts with him I found him to be honest and seriously puzzled about the whole phenomenon,"<ref name=Hynek175>J. Allen Hynek; ''The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry''; 1972; Henry Regenery Company, p. 175</ref> and of Friend he wrote, "Of all the officers I worked with in Blue Book, Colonel Friend earned my respect [and] conducted himself with dignity and a total lack of the bombast that characterized several of the other Blue Book heads."<ref name=Hynek187>J. Allen Hynek; ''The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry''; 1972; Henry Regenery Company, p. 187</ref> Hynek claimed that Quintanilla "disregard[ed] any evidence that was counter to his hypothesis."<ref name=Hynek103>J. Allen Hynek; ''The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry''; 1972; Henry Regenery Company, p. 103</ref> Hynek also reported bitter exchanges with Moody, describing Moody as "the master of the possible: possible balloon, possible aircraft, possible birds, which then became, by his own hand (and I argued with him violently at times) the probable."

Author and columnist [[Robert Sheaffer]] has written that Project Blue Book "amassed 12,618 reports, and none of them amounted to anything significant, or added to our knowledge of any subject, even after more than 50 years of investigation."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Shaeffer |first1=Robert |title=Do Pilots Make 'Relatively Poor' Witnesses? |url=https://badufos.blogspot.com/ |website=Bad UFOs: Skepticism, UFOs, and The Universe |publisher=Robert Sheaffer |access-date=2023-02-20}}</ref>