Roster / Scientists and researchers

James E. McDonald

Atmospheric physicist · 1920 to 1971

University of Arizona scientist who urged Congress to take UFOs seriously in 1968.

McDonald was a senior physicist at the University of Arizona's Institute of Atmospheric Physics. He interviewed hundreds of witnesses and testified at the House Science and Astronautics Committee's UFO symposium in July 1968, arguing for serious scientific study.

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