UFO Archive - Dr James E. McDonald.

[Karl12]

For folks interested Aussie researcher Keith Basterfield has just posted a corker of a link archiving some of the UFO research of atmospherical physicist Dr. James E. McDonald.

Trove of James E. McDonald UAP related material


A collection of UAP related, and other documents by/about the late James E. McDonald has been uploaded to a server at Princeton University in the USA. The collection sits on the website of Kirk T. McDonald, Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics at Princeton. 

Ann Druffel's 2003 book titled "Firestorm: Dr. James E. McDonald's Fight for UFO Science" gives details of McDonald's six children, including the eldest son Kirk. 

The trove of documents, the largest online collection of James E. McDonald's work of which I am aware, includes copies of:

* Letters

* UAP magazine articles

* John Kenneth Gillin's 2013 thesis about McDonald's UAP work

* McDonald's statement to the 1968 UFO Symposium

* A 100 page PDF of summaries of audio recordings of McDonald's 1967 interviews of Australian witnesses

* Various talks by McDonald

* Meteorological papers

* Details of the University of Arizona McDonald special collection

* A bibliography

* Newspaper articles

* An MP4 file titled "Westall_UFO" re the 6 April 1966 Westall, Melbourne, Australia event.


link / Archive

For those who don't know about the chap then thought Rich Dolan gave a good breakdown below (there are also some hot links to academic papers here).



From 9:45

James McDonald was an American physicist. He is best known for his research regarding UFOs. McDonald was a senior physicist at the Institute for Atmospheric Physics and professor in the Department of Meteorology, University of Arizona, Tucson.

McDonald campaigned in support of expanding UFO studies during the mid and late 1960s, arguing that UFOs represented an important unsolved mystery which had not been adequately studied by science. He was one of the more prominent figures of his time who argued in favor of the extraterrestrial hypothesis as a plausible, but not completely proved, model of UFO phenomena.

[Karl12]

Some relevant statements from Doc McDonald:

• "As a result of several trips to Project Bluebook, I´ve had an opportunity to examine quite carefully and in detail the types of reports that are made by Bluebook personnel. In most cases, I have found that there's almost no correlation between so-called 'evaluations and explanations' that are made by Bluebook and the facts of the case..
There are hundreds of good cases in the Air Force files that should have led to top-level scientific scrutiny of this problem, years ago, yet these cases have been swept under the rug in a most disturbing way."

Dr James E. McDonald -Senior physicist at the Institute for Atmospheric Physics and professor in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Arizona.







• "The type of UFO reports that are most intriguing are close-range sightings of machine-like objects of unconventional nature and unconventional performance characteristics, seen at low altitudes, and sometimes even on the ground. The general public is entirely unaware of the large number of such reports that are coming from credible witnesses.. When one starts searching for such cases, their number are quite astonishing. Also, such sightings appear to be occurring all over the globe."

Dr. James E. McDonald - Hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, July 29th, 1968.







• "My study of past official Air Force investigations (Blue Book) leads me to describe them as completely superficial. Officially released 'explanations' of important UFO sightings have been almost absurdly erroneous."

Senior Atmospherical Physicist Dr James E. McDonald, speech to American Meteorological Society 1966.





• "This series of incidents became national headline news until officially explained in terms of ball lightning and wet ignitions. However, on checking weather data, I found that there were no thunderstorms anywhere close to Levelland that night, and there was no rain capable of wetting ignitions. Although I have not located any of the drivers involved, I have interviewed Sheriff Weir Clem of Levelland and a Levelland newspaperman, both of whom investigated the incidents that night. They confirmed the complete absence of rain or lightning activity. The incidents cannot be regarded as explained."

Dr James McDonald on the November 1957 Levelland UFO flap.







• "Much of what might be made clear at great length will have to be compressed into my remark that the scientific world at large is in for a shock when it becomes aware of the astonishing nature of the UFO phenomenon and its bewildering complexity. I make that terse comment well aware that it invites easy ridicule; but intellectual honesty demands that I make clear that my two years' study convinces me that in the UFO problem lie scientific and technological questions that will challenge the ability of the world's outstanding scientists to explain - as soon as they start examining the facts."

Dr. James E. McDonald.







• "I speak from three years of detailed, personal research involving interviews with more than five hundred witnessess in selected UFO cases, chiefly in the United States. In my opinion the UFO problem, far from being the 'nonsense problem' it has been labelled by many scientists, constitutes an area of extraordinary scientific interest."

Dr James E. McDonald. Professor of Atmospheric Sciences -
Senior Physicist. Quoted in 'UFOs - a Scientific debate'.



Scientists UFO/OVNI/UAP Statements.

[Karl12]

Ridicule:





Most of it by GOVshills Menzel and Klass:


UFO Debunker / Disinformant Philip J. Klass

[diamond age]

His suicide was strange.

[Karl12]

His suicide was strange.

Personally reckon he killed himself mate although what led up to it was highly questionable.


Doc McDonald really dug into this 'flap' and have to say it's truly remarkable - Preston has uncovered some 'other' sightings around the same time and thought this video presentation is one of the best when it comes to UFO YouTube videos - truly amazing research lol.





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