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Written by theunexplained.org
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UFO research was in
transition. Public interest faded in the wake of the Condon rejection, awaiting
the next big wave to shake it up.
In the meantime, the process of transferring the problem from the military into the domain of science began. Hynek - now free of USAF shackles - became a leader in the field. His 'Invisible College' saw rapid expansion with several of the Condon team joining.
Another man launched into the UFO maelstrom by his work with Condon was Dr Leo Sprinkle, a psychologist at the University of Wyoming. He had been called in to perform psychological tests and regression hypnosis on Herb Schirmer, a police patrolman who had undergone an abduction at Ashland, Nebraska in December 1967.
The Condon team had given up on the case without physical evidence, even though the patrolman's testimony stood up and his credentials were impeccable. In 1970 Sprinkle began a study of possible abduction cases, seeking out cases where missing memories were suggested. He pioneered ufology into the era that would dominate its future - the study of what Hynek came to call close encounters of the fourth kind - or, as we more colloquially know them today, 'spacenappings'.
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