'Project Blue Book' season 1 once again massages the facts and gives us a brilliant view of the Lubbock Lights
This may contain spoilers for Project Blue Book, season 1, episode 3: The Lubbock Lights.
Showing historical documentation of facts related to the biggest conspiracies can often get a little tedious and boring especially from the viewers' point of view unless one is a hardcore fanatic of the genre. But History's new show 'Project Blue Book' manages to strike just the right balance when it comes to the titular real-life investigation from the '50s by tempering it with nuanced fiction and mild drama here and there. The latest and third episode of the show from Oscar-winning director Robert Zemeckis is no different from that signature style of the show, as they bring in regular civilians as witnesses of the mysterious Lubbock Lights that were dubbed as alien and UFO sightings back in the day.
History's 'Project Blue Book' focuses on Dr. J Allen Hynek - the real-life astrophysicist tasked with offering some scientific explanation to the sudden surge in reports of extraterrestrial sightings in the Washington, DC area back in the '50s. As part of the real-life investigation, Dr. Hynek's journey started as a skeptic but he soon took to believe that there was something darker and more sinister going on than the authorities were willing to reveal. On the show, however, we see Dr. Hynek (Aidan Gillen) as a curious scientist who already has some faith in the existence of the extraterrestrial, but acting as the force of disbelief and skepticism is his US Air Force counterpart, Captain Michael Quinn (Michael Malarkey).
