James McDonald
Dr James McDonald was a senior physicist at the Institute of Atmospheric
Physics and a Professor in the Department of Meteorology at the University
of Arizona.
In 1967 he tried to get NASA to take on the responsibility of UFO reports ,he reported:
"Curiously, I have said this both in NASA and fairly widely reported public discussion
before scientific colleagues, yet the response from NASA has been nil...Even attempting to
get a small group within NASA to undertake a study group approach to the available
published effort seems to have generated no response. I realise, of course, that
there may be semi-political considerations that make it awkward for NASA to fish
in these waters at present, but if this is what is holding up serious scientific
attention to the UFO problem at NASA this is all the more reason Congress had better
take a good hard look at the problem and reshuffle the deck....I have learned from
a number of unquotable sources that the Air Force has long wished to get rid of the burden
of the troublesome UFO problem and has twice tried to 'peddle' it to NASA - without
success".
Not long after McDonald committed suicide in strange circumstances.
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