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Are you aware of the series "Dark Skies"? Came out in the mid-90s but set in the 60s. Probably had some influence in shaping this series. It wasn't bad... it had a strong cast, but it was just TOO similar to the X-Files and suffered by comparison.

Back in my high school days, I had a few of Hynek's books. A fellow UFO enthusiast and I skipped a day to attend a lecture by him in downtown Toronto.

Although he never explicitly said that he believed UFOs to be extraterrestrial craft, he firmly believed in them as a paranormal phenomenon worthy of study.

There is a line of thought that suggests they represent some sort of mass psychology that's part of our collective psyche. The how's and why's of it aren't understood though since the whole field is considered a fringe pseudo-science, and nobody has given it serious study.

Trivia: Hynek had a brief appearance in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.