Clever Apes #7: Apes in space

By Gabriel Spitzer

Jan 31, 2011, 11:00am CT

Famous ufologist J. Allen Hynek has a cameo in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," a movie he consulted on and helped inspire.

By Gabriel Spitzer

Jan 31, 2011, 11:00am CT

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^{J. Allen Hynek makes his cameo in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”}

Few things have changed humanity’s self-image in quite the same way as human space travel. Whether it’s seeing that