![]() ![]() He felt people were being shamed for seeing and reporting something that they could not explain which fueled more skepticism for claims. McDonald felt that the US Air Force was not seriously investigating the reports and criticized the government for being indifferent and unscientific is its explanations of UFOs. Project Blue Book, a US Air Force program in the 1950s and 1960s, studied UFOs to determine the threat to national security and to scientifically analyze UFO data. There is an extensive collection of Project Blue Book reports. In the audio interviews about UFO witnesses researchers will discover witnesses’ accounts of UFO sightings as well as McDonald’s scientific studies that led to his disenfranchisement from the scientific community. Included in his UFO research files are correspondence between McDonald and government and military officials and scientists and politicians about the study of UFOs. The McDonald papers contains mostly his work on UFO research with a small portion related to his professional career. He believed that the government was not doing enough to investigate reports When he began speaking publicly about his research he believed that his scientific credentials would lend some validity to his investigations. He started studying sightings and collecting interviews in Tucson. In the 1960s and early 1970s he tried to bring scientific explanations to the discussion of UFOs. He was an internationally known and respected scientist known for his work in cloud physics and climate modification. He was born in Minnesota in 1920, educated at MIT and earned a PhD at University of Omaha. ![]() James McDonald was a professor at the UA in atmospheric physics and directed the UA’s Institute of Atmospheric Physics from 1954 to 1956. Our most used collection related to the study of UFOs is the James E. While Special Collections may not have the answers on the existence of aliens (that we know of anyway) we do have manuscript and book collections that might provide more information about the study of this phenomena. Whether you have always been curious or experienced something yourself, July 2, World UFO Day is the time to find out more about the alleged existence of unidentified flying objects and beings from outer space.
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