Mystery AtlasJames E. McDonald
Senior physicist at the University of Arizona's Institute of Atmospheric Physics who independently re-investigated numerous UFO cases in the late 1960s, including re-interviewing all six RB-47 crew members, and was a prominent critic of Project Blue Book's and the Condon Committee's investigative rigour before Congress and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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- 1957 RB-47 UFO Incident17 July 1957
James E. McDonald investigated 1957 RB-47 UFO Incident — McDonald independently re-interviewed all six crew members in the late 1960s and presented his findings to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in December 1968.
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James E. McDonald criticised Project Blue Book — McDonald was, alongside J. Allen Hynek, one of the most credentialled public critics of Blue Book's and the Condon Committee's investigative methods.