James E. McDonald | |
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Died | June 13, 1971 Tucson, Arizona, US | (aged 51)
Education | PhD. Iowa State University |
Occupation(s) | Physicist Ufologist |
Organization(s) | Institute for Atmospheric Physics, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Meteorological Society, NICAP, APRO |
James Edward McDonald (May 7, 1920 – June 13, 1971) 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 a professor of meteorology at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
During the 1960s McDonald campaigned in support of expanding UFO studies, and promoted the extraterrestrial hypothesis as a plausible explanation of UFO phenomena.[1][2]