stepping forward to view the spectacle. Personal life Hynek and his wife, Miriam (Curtis) had five children. Hynek's son Joel is an Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor. He oversaw the design of the camouflage effect for the movie Predator, and won the Best Visual Effects Oscar for his work on What Dreams May Come. DocuSeries based on his life In 2019, The History Channel created and aired a highly-fictionalized TV show based on his UFO research and the organization he worked for dubbed Project Blue Book. Death On April 27, 1986, Hynek died of a malignant brain tumor, at Memorial Hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was 75 years old, and was survived by his wife Mimi, children Scott, Roxane, Joel, Paul, and Ross, and his grandchildren. Books The UFO Experience: A scientific inquiry (1972) The Edge of Reality: A progress report on the unidentified flying objects, with Jacques Vallée (1975) The Hynek UFO Report (1977) Night Siege – The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings, with Philip Imbrogno and Bob Pratt (1987) UFO Fact or Fiction – circa 1970 References External links Our Speaker Tonight: Josef Allen Hynek at Saturday Night Uforia J. Allen Hynek Papers, 1925–1988, Northwestern University Archives, Evanston, Illinois J. Allen Hynek: The Pied Piper of Ufology? (archived link) Interview with J. Allen Hynek by Ian Ridpath (New Scientist, 1973 May 17) J. Allen Hynek 1985 interview French biography on J. Allen Hynek J. Allen Hynek's statement before the committee on science and astronautics, July 1968 J. Allen Hynek's biography at Ufopsi J. Allen Hynek's biography in Spanish Historical Documents from the Phillip Klass collection of Robert Sheaffer concerning Hynek https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062484178/the-close-encounters-man/ History Channel DocuSeries based on Hynek's work with Project Blue Book 1910 births 1986 deaths American astronomers Ufologists American UFO writers American people of Czech descent 20th-century American non-fiction writers