What happens in The Green Fireballs episode of Project Blue Book?

Hynek and Quinn are called in to investigate the appearance of strange green fireballs in the sky when they interrupt a top-secret weapons test, and what they find sends Hynek down a frightening rabbit hole.

As the first season of Project Blue Book progresses, each episode pulls further away from the case-of-the-week format it began with. Quinn and Hynek’s investigation into the green fireballs begins as an average assignment but it becomes clear there is more going on here than can be explained by simple science.

That and Hynek’s increasingly erratic behavior since Henry Fuller’s violent death has changed the Project Blue Book’s formula and in the process, the mystery has been amped up substantially. This week’s episode might have been one of the most informative ones yet.

1. The green fireballs are probably not meteors.

The easy answer to explain the fireballs would be meteors but meteors can’t change course and they generally aren’t bright green. Hynek attempts to make sense of the phenomena by utilizing a specialized camera. One that General Harding shot down. Instead, Hynek went over his head and sought permission from the Secretary of Defense. The cameras will prove these “green fireballs” are in fact, a specialized technology – possibly alien in nature.

2. Susie’s relationship with Mimi may be getting her in trouble.

Susie has fallen off her game due to her emotional tie to Mimi. Despite trying to pass off the relationship as no more than a means to an end, her partner, (a brute with no Philip Jennings charm), doesn’t exactly buy it and is clearly suspicious.

He grants her only 48 hours to find something concrete on Hynek before they get relocated to another state.

3. Hynek is struggling with the trauma of Henry Fuller’s death.

Watching a man die is not something you can forget about. Ever since Henry lit himself in fire because Hynek unknowingly activated his kill switch, Alan has been on edge and unable to sleep. Mimi has noticed his increasingly frenetic and worrisome behavior. He snaps at her and gets totally absorbed in his work, unable to focus on anything else. His dreams are haunted by horrific images of Henry burning. Only Quinn recognizes what Hynek is feeling since he too, has taken the lives of other men in war.

4. Donna is dead.

Even though Susie is able to gain access to Hynek’s journals, learn about his visitations to a secret weapons-testing facility at White Forest, and piece together clues about Project Blue Book’s agenda, this doesn’t entirely satisfy her partner.

Donna was a strange character on the show. I never expected her to have a role beyond the scene where she introduces the idea of a nuclear fall-out shelter to Mimi but she has persisted in appearing in random scenes since. At first I thought she might be a spy herself, because there was no other reason to keep her around. Her character didn’t serve much of a purpose.

In death, she allows us to see how serious things are for Susie. Donna’s death is a clear threat to her and to Mimi, although Mimi isn’t aware. I knew something was going to happen to Donna when she ran into Susie earlier, but I didn’t expect her to wind up dead and stuffed into a trunk.

5. The Man in the Hat reveals himself to Hynek.

The mysterious man in a black hat who has been following Hynek and leading him to important clues since the fist episode finally shows his face to Hynek this week. No, he isn’t a character you would recognize (for a while I considered he could be General Valentine since he has nothing else to do) but he comes bearing more cryptic clues and messages.

His goal is to encourage Hynek down the extraterrestrial path, to continue to seek in the places the government wants to cover-up. He even offers Hynek a surprising trinket, a strange mechanism, likely alien in nature, with glowing spheres and a structure of cubes that looks like a puzzling optical illusion.

Perhaps most surprising of all is the fact Hynek chooses to share this with Mimi after she confronts him about the things she read in his journal and his heightened sense of secrecy. I was happy to see her getting involved in the main storyline and perhaps it will give Hynek some peace of mind going forward, knowing he has someone he loves and trusts on his side after Quinn turned out to be a disappointing partner.

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What did you think of this episode of Project Blue Book? Are you happy the show got renewed for a second season? How do you think Mimi is going to react to all of Hynek’s secrets now that he’s sharing them with her more openly? Let us know in the comments!

A new episode of Project Blue Book titled “The Scoutmaster” will air February 19th on the History channel.

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