Project Blue Book (TV series)

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Project Blue Book (TV series)
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Project Blue Book is an American historical drama television series broadcast by the History channel from 2019 to 2020, loosely based on the U.S. Air Force's UFO investigations of the 1950s and 1960s.[1]

Premise

Portrait of President Harry S. Truman (ca. 1947).
Portrait of President Harry S. Truman (ca. 1947). Photo: National Archives and Records Administration. Office of Presidential Libraries. Harry S… · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

The series follows astronomer J. Allen Hynek, played by Aidan Gillen, who begins as a skeptic, and Air Force Captain Michael Quinn, a fictional character played by Michael Malarkey, as they investigate UFO reports. Over the series Hynek comes to believe that some cases cannot be explained by science. Historical figures such as Wernher von Braun and President Harry Truman appear in some episodes.[1]

Production

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Illustration: an open book about flying saucers. An artist's impression drawn for this site, not a photograph of the event.

The series was created by David O'Leary, with Robert Zemeckis as an executive producer, and was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia. The supporting cast included Laura Mennell, Ksenia Solo, Michael Harney and Neal McDonough.[1]

Episodes

Artist's impression of the Flatwoods monster.
Artist's impression of the Flatwoods monster. Photo: Tim Bertelink · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

The first season of ten episodes premiered on 8 January 2019, and a second season of ten episodes ran from 21 January to 24 March 2020. Many episodes were loosely based on real cases, including the Lubbock Lights, the Flatwoods monster and the Roswell incident. History cancelled the series in May 2020.[1]

Reception

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Illustration: an open book about flying saucers. An artist's impression drawn for this site, not a photograph of the event.

Reviews were mixed: the series holds a 65 per cent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a Metacritic score of 56. Skeptic Robert Sheaffer criticised the historical inaccuracies of its early episodes, which went well beyond their loose basis in real events.[1]

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