Project Blue Book (w/ Kate Dorsch)
Jul 24, 2021•1 hr 29 min
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Episode description
The podcast welcomes its first-ever guest, historian Kate Dorsch. Kate is a postdoctoral lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and is writing a book about the U.S. Air Force's UFO investigations from 1947 to 1969, including Project Blue Book.
How should we understand these investigations within the context of the Cold War? How weird was Project Blue Book, really? How did J. Allen Hynek become J. Allen Hynek? And what does Kate think about that show on the History Channel?
You can read Kate's dissertation here: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/3231/
Also check out her recent piece in Foreign Policy: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/06/06/ufos-space-cold-war-pentagon-military-aliens/
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