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James E. McDonald
The claims the writer was given for James E. McDonald, in the order they were given.
1
James McDonald was sent to interview Greenwood about the 1966 Westall High School UFO sighting as part of the presidentially authorised inquiry.
“I think it might have been a Professor James MacDonald. James MacDonald, that's the one.”
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2
James McDonald officially worked for the United States Navy while, in his spare time, investigating Australian UFO reports and comparing them with American reports.
“Officially, he was working for the U.S. Navy, but in his spare time, he's checking many Australian reports of UFOs and comparing them with American reports.”
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James McDonald's aim was to determine whether UFO reports from different countries tallied and whether UFOs constitute a global phenomenon.
“His aim is to see if the reports tally, in short, whether UFOs constitute a global phenomenon.”
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In Melbourne, James McDonald spoke with Brian King about UFO investigations.
“In Melbourne, he's talking with Brian King.”
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James McDonald investigated approximately 50 to 60 UFO cases in New Zealand and Australia.
“I've investigated about 50 or 60 cases since I came down to New Zealand and Australia.”
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6
James McDonald found the UFO sightings he investigated in New Zealand and Australia to be essentially similar to those reported in the United States.
“Extremely interesting UFO sightings, essentially similar to those in the United States.”
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7
James McDonald found that witnesses of high credibility reported unconventional objects including discs and cigar-shaped objects.
“Persons of really quite high credibility reporting unconventional objects, discs, cigar-shaped objects”
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8
James McDonald found the unconventional objects were frequently reported at very low elevation.
“frequently at very low elevation”
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9
James McDonald found the objects were reported hovering over urban areas.
“hovering over sometimes urban areas”
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10
James McDonald found the objects were reported hovering over or following cars.
“sometimes over cars, following cars.”
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11
James E. McDonald, as a scientist, is not entirely happy with taking hearsay evidence on Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) cases.
“Certainly as a scientist, I am not entirely happy with taking hearsay evidence”
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12
During the James E. McDonald 1967 Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania UFO investigation tour, James E. McDonald interviewed witnesses in Australia face-to-face and by telephone to establish for himself what happened in individual cases and how credible the witnesses were.
“I've been down here in Australia interviewing witnesses to find out for myself, in direct, face-to-face, or in some cases, phone interviewing, exactly what happened in individual cases and what the credibility of the witness is”
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13
James E. McDonald considers the clear, non-thundery conditions reported in the 1949 Hawthorn cigar-shaped object sighting to rule out plasmoids of the ball lightning type.
“Yes, that rules out plasmoids of the ball lightning type.”
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14
James E. McDonald considers the stationary character of the object in the 1949 Hawthorn cigar-shaped object sighting to rule out a meteoric fireball.
“let's just take the stationary aspect. The possibility that it's a meteoric fireball is ruled out...”
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15
James E. McDonald says it takes about an hour to do justice to any good Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) sighting report.
“It takes about an hour, of course, to do justice to any good sighting”
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16
James E. McDonald considers that a soundless object hovering stationary in conditions that do not imply ball lightning rules out meteors as an explanation.
“Soundless objects hovering stationary in conditions that do not imply ball lightning, rule out meteors.”
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17
Barry Jones's Melbourne talkback radio programme took listener calls on the telephone number 638151 during James E. McDonald's appearance discussing Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs).
“Talkback 638151. Professor James MacDonald, the University of Arizona, talking about unidentified flying objects. Let's hear from you on 638151.”
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18
James E. McDonald is a professor at the University of Arizona.
“Professor James MacDonald, the University of Arizona, talking about unidentified flying objects.”
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James E. McDonald considers reports in which the object is simply a light in the sky an extremely dangerous category with respect to misinterpretation.
“this general category of observation in which it is simply a light in the sky is an extremely dangerous category with respect to misinterpretation”
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20
Many people in the United States, Australia and elsewhere report lights that move across the sky, hover, and exhibit manoeuvres that do not match meteors.
“lots of persons in the US and Australia and elsewhere are making reports just like that of lights that move across, hover, exhibit maneuvers that do not at all match meteors.”
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21
James E. McDonald says a reported light stopping in mid-course is not at all uncommon among Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) reports.
“The stopping that you described is not at all uncommon.”
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22
James E. McDonald knows of no hovering meteors in all the history of mankind, and considers one light approaching another as scarcely meteoric behaviour.
“The fact that another one came up is scarcely meteoric behavior, and I don't know of any hovering meteors in all history of mankind.”
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23
James E. McDonald says helicopters and aircraft can mislead observers at night, and that a hovering light requires a helicopter if it is to be conventional.
“Helicopters, aircraft, of course, you have to have a helicopter if you're going to have it hover, can mislead us at night.”
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24
Aeroplanes typically carry flashing coloured lights at night, but some reconnaissance and photographic aircraft have odd and unusual lights.
“Typically, yes, but still there are planes, reconnaissance planes and photo planes with odd and unusual lights”
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25
James E. McDonald considers that light-in-the-sky reports are not the category on which strong conclusions about the Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) problem should now be built.
“this category of report is not the one on which the strong conclusions need now to be built.”
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26
James E. McDonald says that in the East Melbourne cylindrical object case no more than two people reported it, which is not the same as no more than two people seeing it.
“well no more than two reported it in any way”
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27
James E. McDonald says that when he asks witnesses why they did not report a sighting, the common answers are fear of ridicule or reluctance to have the account sensationalised.
“very commonly, the answer is either, no, I didn't report it, fear of ridicule or a little reluctance to have it sensationalized or so on is involved.”
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28
James E. McDonald says witnesses commonly report a sighting to the press or official channels, meet scepticism and a ridiculing rebuke, and then hear nothing more, a pattern occurring in both the United States and Australia.
“One reports it to someone and press or official channels and a certain amount of skepticism leads to a ridiculous rebuke of some sort and then nothing more is heard.”
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29
James E. McDonald says there are Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) cases in which dozens of people have seen objects of an unconventional sort.
“there are cases where dozens of people have seen objects of unconventional sort”
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30
James E. McDonald found on his 1967 tour that the pattern of general rejection of the Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) subject by people with almost no knowledge of it is essentially the same in Australia as in the United States.
“That's one of the many patterns that I find in my trip down here that's essentially the same in Australia as in the States. A general rejection of this by persons who usually have almost no knowledge of it but who realize that it sounds at first glance like a lot of nonsense and who jump to that conclusion.”
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31
James E. McDonald considers that when people who reject the Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) subject work in the press or radio, they filter out much information that should be reaching scientific channels.
“And when these people are in paper press or radio and so on, they tend to filter out a lot of the information that should be getting into scientific channels.”
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32
During the James E. McDonald 1967 Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania UFO investigation tour, James E. McDonald was due to travel to Tasmania after his Melbourne talkback radio appearance.
“I hope we do get a chance to give you a ring sometime during the day before I head down to Tasmania.”
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33
James E. McDonald considers the main difficulty with Carl Gustav Jung's psychological archetype explanation of flying saucers to be that Jung was not addressing the real Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) problem but psychotic types with a psychic need to believe.
“The main difficulty is Jung was not at all addressing himself to what is the real UFO problem. He is talking about psychotic types who have some kind of psychic needs to believe.”
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34
James E. McDonald says a cult and crackpot fringe, very visible particularly in America, has formed around the Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) subject, including people who believe a salvation message is being brought from Venus.
“one does see this sort of thing emerging in the cult and crackpot fringe, which is unfortunately very visible, particularly in America, centered around the UFO problem. People who feel that there's a salvation message being brought from Venus and all that sort of rot.”
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35
There are many Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) cases in which animals such as dogs, horses and cows are present and react.
“There are lots of cases where animals are present, dogs, horses, cows, and so on.”
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36
James E. McDonald argues that Carl Jung's psychological archetype explanation of flying saucers requires assuming that canine, equine, feline and bovine archetypal images are identical to human ones, and cannot explain why the phenomenon stampedes cattle.
“Jung says these are psychic projections of archetypal images, you know. Well, it poses the puzzling question, you see, Barry, that we have to make the assumption that canine, equine, feline, bovine archetypal images are identical with ours. ... If you think this is not a real phenomenon, then why does it stampede cattle?”
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37
During the James E. McDonald 1967 Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania UFO investigation tour, the Victorian Flying Saucer Society took James E. McDonald around the Victorian countryside to interview key witnesses.
“we were down with the Melbourne UFO group, the Victorian Flying Saucer Society, very helpfully have been taking me around the countryside to some of the key witnesses.”
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38
During the James E. McDonald 1967 Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania UFO investigation tour, James E. McDonald travelled to Moe in the Gippsland area of Victoria to interview a farmer named Brew.
“We were down in Mowi, in the Gippsland area, talking to a farmer named Brew,”
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39
A farmer named Brew was milking at 07:00 on a day in February 1963 at Moe, Victoria, when a large disc-like object came out of the overcast and hovered over a tree about 90 metres away.
“who was milking 0700 on February of 1963. All of a sudden, coming out of the overcast was a large disc-like object which hovered over a tree 100 yards away.”
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40
James E. McDonald visited the site of the February 1963 Moe farm disc sighting a few days before his Melbourne talkback radio appearance in 1967.
“I was on the spot a few days ago looking at it.”
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41
The farmer named Brew was most impressed by the animals' reaction during the February 1963 Moe farm disc sighting: the cattle jumped and stampeded, the dogs began barking and horses broke loose.
“The cattle, he was most impressed by the way in which the cattle jumped and stampeded, the dogs started barking, horses broke loose and so on.”
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42
James E. McDonald says the panic reaction of animals in the February 1963 Moe farm disc sighting is not at all unrepresentative of animal behaviour in such cases.
“This is not at all unrepresentative of the kind of panic reaction that animals show.”
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43
On 1967-06-07, James E. McDonald spoke to the United Nations Outer Space Affairs Group about the Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) problem and submitted formal statements urging United Nations action on it.
“On the 7th of June, I was at the United Nations speaking to the Outer Space Affairs Group about the UFO problem, submitted some formal statements to them, urging UN action on the UFO problem.”
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44
James E. McDonald had an appointment to see U Thant in June 1967, but the Middle East crisis prevented the meeting.
“I had a date to see U Thant, but the Mideast crisis interfered.”
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45
U Thant, in an exchange with Drew Pearson roughly four to six days before James E. McDonald's Melbourne talkback radio appearance in 1967, said the Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) problem is probably the most important international problem, with the present exception of the Vietnam War.
“Subsequently, however, in some kind of an exchange with Drew Pearson, U Thant made a statement now about four or five days ago, I guess six days ago, that the UFO problem is probably the most important international problem, with the present exception of the Vietnam War.”
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46
James E. McDonald considers U Thant's statement on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) interesting and somewhat striking.
“rather interesting and somewhat striking statement.”
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47
James E. McDonald cabled U Thant a reply endorsing his statement but disagreeing to the extent that, in McDonald's opinion, the Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) problem is of even greater international importance than the Vietnamese situation.
“I cabled U Thant a reply, endorsing the statement, but disagreeing to the extent of saying that, in my opinion, the UFO problem is probably even greater in international importance than the Vietnamese situation.”
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48
James E. McDonald considers the Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) problem to be apparently a global-scale problem.
“let's hope that since it is apparently a global scale problem”
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49
James E. McDonald hoped that United Nations scientific groups would take up the UFO problem, given the Australian evidence added to the American evidence and much other clearly attested evidence.
“vidence added to the American evidence and much, much other evidence clearly attested that, let's hope that UN scientific groups will get right onto it.”
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50
The steam bores at the Wairakei geothermal field put out a terrific roar such that a person must almost shout in another's ear to be heard, so no sound from the object could have been heard during the circa 1957 surveying engineer's sighting.
“James E. MacDonald: Did you hear any sound...? Speaker 8: I was in the field of steam boars, which put out a terrific roar, and I don't know whether you've been to Wairakei in New Zealand, but to make anyone else hear you, you have to almost shout in their ear.”
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51
The circa 1957 Wairakei sighting was never reported to any air force, including the New Zealand air force.
“James E. MacDonald: You never reported that to the RAF or the New Zealand Air Force? Speaker 8: No, not at all.”
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52
James E. McDonald was sceptical of UFO reports until he began to look at what he described as the almost incredibly large volumes of good reports.
“I was skeptical, too, until I began to look at the almost incredibly large volumes of good reports.”
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53
The official position of the United States Air Force on UFOs is that the subject is a lot of nonsense and a burdensome duty the Air Force is unable to get away from.
“The official position is that it's a lot of nonsense, burdensome duty that the Air Force is unable to get away with.”
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54
Expertise to examine the UFO problem exists at the disposal of the United States Air Force, but James E. McDonald found on investigation that it is not being used and has not been used for 15 years.
“There is expertise at the disposal of the American Air Force, but when you go digging, as I have, you find it just isn't being used and hasn't been used for 15 years.”
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55
Project Blue Book, the United States Air Force UFO investigatory programme, consisted in 1967 of three people: a major, a sergeant and a secretary.
“Project Blue Book consists of three people at present. The American Air Force Investigatory Program is a major, a sergeant, and a secretary.”
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56
In the 1955-11-17 New Zealand West Coast train sighting, the objects appeared semi-circular with no clearly discernible shape and seemed to be spinning at a terrific speed.
“they seem to be semi-circular. You know, they were just... You couldn't really make out a shape. They just seemed to be spinning at such a terrific speed.”
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57
In the 1955-11-17 New Zealand West Coast train sighting, the objects did not appear terribly far away and could be seen quite clearly, though no distance was noted.
“James E. MacDonald: Did you have the impression they were many miles away or quite close? Speaker 9: not terribly far, you know, because I could see them quite clearly.”
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The date 1955-11-17 is close to the date of a New Zealand sighting by an airline pilot that James E. McDonald checked while in Auckland.
“That date is interestingly close to the date of a sighting in New Zealand that I checked when I was over in Auckland, an airline pilot.”
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59
In the 1965-03-08 East Preston sighting, the object moved fairly rapidly, disappearing from view shortly after the witness fetched and focused binoculars on it.
“James E. MacDonald: was this moving in in a very rapid speed...? Speaker 5: well fairly rapid i didn't have time i just had time to go and get the binoculars and then pick it up and it disappeared from view”
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In the 1965-03-08 East Preston sighting, the object seen through binoculars exhibited actual shape and structure, appearing to be made of metal in an iridescent blue colour.
“James E. MacDonald: when you looked at the binoculars did it exhibit actual shape and structure Speaker 5: yes it was like made out of a metal an iridescent blue color”
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James E. McDonald considered the 1965-03-08 East Preston iridescent blue object sighting moderately interesting and worth discussing further with the witness.
“that's uh moderately interesting it might be well to talk with you a little bit further if we could”
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62
James E. McDonald planned to return to the United States on the 10th after visiting Tasmania and then the northern part of Australia.
“I'm going back on the 10th after getting down to Tasmania and then up to the northern part of the country.”
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63
James E. McDonald spent about 12 to 13 months in the United States interviewing witnesses in key UFO cases before his 1967 Australasian tour.
“I've spent about 12-13 months in the States in interviewing witnesses in key cases, attempting to unravel this very puzzling and very intriguing mystery.”
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64
Large numbers of UFO reports appear in the publications of private UFO investigating groups in England, America, Australia and France indicating that sightings of essentially the same type occur in other parts of the world.
“it turns out that there are large numbers of reports in the publications of various private UFO investigating groups in England, America, Australia, France, and so on, that quite clearly indicate that”
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65
James E. McDonald, as a scientist, is not entirely happy taking hearsay evidence and therefore came to Australia to interview witnesses directly, face to face or by telephone, to establish what happened in individual cases and the credibility of each witness.
“I'm not entirely happy with taking hearsay evidence. And I've been down here in Australia interviewing witnesses to find out for myself, in direct, face-to-face, or in some cases, phone interviewing, exactly what happened in individual cases and what the credibility of the witness is”
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66
The picture of UFO sightings in Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania, including observations of unconventional objects manoeuvring sometimes within tens to hundreds of metres of credible observers, is not appreciably different from that in the United States.
“The picture in Australia, with respect to UFO sightings, observations of unconventional objects maneuvering, sometimes quite close to ground, sometimes within tens to hundreds of feet of very credible, reliable observers, is just not appreciably different in Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania from what it is in the States.”
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67
James E. McDonald found a little evidence suggesting there may be somewhat more UFO sightings per unit area or per head of population in Australia than in the United States, but would not stand firmly on that impression.
“There's just a little bit of evidence that indicates to me there may even be a few more sightings per square mile or per capita here than in the States. But I wouldn't stand firmly on that feeling that I've gotten.”
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Many witnesses interviewed by James E. McDonald mentioned, after 15 to 30 minutes of interviewing, that several friends of theirs had also seen objects at close range.
“lots of witnesses, after 15 or 20 or 30 minutes of interviewing them, bring up the point that several other friends of theirs have also seen objects at close range.”
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During his 1967 Australasian tour James E. McDonald recorded approximately 3,000 metres of interview tape.
“I have about 10,000 feet of tape, I noticed, when I wound this thing up.”
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During his 1967 tour James E. McDonald interviewed about 70 Australians or New Zealanders.
“And I've interviewed about 70 Australians or New Zealanders.”
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71
James E. McDonald travelled to Hobart, Tasmania, during his 1967 tour and found some extremely interesting UFO cases in Tasmania.
“I've been down to Hobart, Tasmania, some extremely interesting cases in Tasmania.”
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There is a great reluctance among witnesses to report UFO sightings, equally in Australia and the United States, because people have been ridiculed by official groups, the press, radio, television and scientists, which has driven the problem underground.
“There's a great deal of reluctance to report them. That's exactly the same in the States as it seems to be down here. People have been ridiculed and made fun of by official groups, by press and radio and television, and scientists too. ... that's driven the problem underground.”
UFOs in Australia – Eyewitnesses Talk to Dr. James E. McDonald During His Investigative Tour (1967) 2026-08-11 00:30:40.8-00:30:57.0 testimony first hand
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Witnesses asked by James E. McDonald whether they reported their sighting to the United States Air Force, or in Australia to the air force, typically answered no.
“You ask people, did you ever report it? Did you ever report it to the United States Air Force? Or down here, did you report it to the RAF? And the answer is typically no.”
UFOs in Australia – Eyewitnesses Talk to Dr. James E. McDonald During His Investigative Tour (1967) 2026-08-11 00:31:12.2-00:31:22.2 testimony first hand
74
A woman interviewed by James E. McDonald described her UFO case in detail to a reporter, who asked her why she did not use more water in what she had been drinking, leaving her incensed.
“One woman that I interviewed not so long ago pointed out that she described her case in some detail. The reporter asked her why she didn't use more water in what she's been drinking. She was quite incensed and I would agree with that.”
UFOs in Australia – Eyewitnesses Talk to Dr. James E. McDonald During His Investigative Tour (1967) 2026-08-11 00:31:26.9-00:31:40.9 testimony second hand
75
Project Blue Book, the United States Air Force UFO investigation, had been in operation for about 14 years as of 1967.
“the American Air Force investigation Project Blue Book which has been in operation for about 14 years”
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James E. McDonald considers the high regard in which Project Blue Book is held within the United States and in other parts of the world completely unjustified, and holds that its investigation has been done superficially and by persons of extremely low scientific competence and must be regarded as essentially zero and not a scientific investigation.
“regarded quite highly in other parts of the world and that's completely unjustified ... it's been done superficially and by persons of extremely low scientific competence. It has to be regarded as essentially zero. It is not a scientific investigation.”
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77
The United States Air Force issues press releases about the great expertise used and the thoroughness of its UFO investigations, and indicates that only two or three per cent of cases are unknowns which the Air Force insists would probably be explained with a little more data.
“the kind of press releases that are put out about the great expertise that's used, the thorough investigations, and the indication that there are only two or three percent of unknowns, and probably those would be explained, the Air Force insists, if they add a little more data.”
UFOs in Australia – Eyewitnesses Talk to Dr. James E. McDonald During His Investigative Tour (1967) 2026-08-11 00:32:51.3-00:33:06.2 testimony second hand
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James E. McDonald concluded that the UFO problem has been completely lost sight of in America, and that the large sums of money apparently at the United States Air Force's disposal are misconstrued elsewhere in the world as indicating a very large and thorough study of the problem, which is absolutely incorrect.
“with a conclusion that this problem has been completely lost sight of in America ... the large amounts of money that seem to be at the disposal of our Air Force are misconstrued as indicating we've probably done a very large, very extensive, very thorough study of the problem. That is absolutely incorrect.”
UFOs in Australia – Eyewitnesses Talk to Dr. James E. McDonald During His Investigative Tour (1967) 2026-08-11 00:33:27.1-00:33:51.8 opinion first hand
79
Thousands of UFO cases on record in the United States involve cigar-shaped objects and discs, sometimes hovering at very low altitude.
“the type of sightings that are on record, thousands of cases in the U.S., involve cigar-shaped objects, disks, hovering sometimes at very low altitude.”
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UFO reports include scientifically inexplicable phenomena involving very high accelerations.
“Many inexplicable, scientifically inexplicable, baffling phenomena, very high accelerations.”
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81
UFO reports include high-speed objects moving without any obvious sonic booms, though some unexplained sonic booms could be caused by UFOs.
“sometimes high-speed objects moving without any obvious sonic booms, though I'd hasten to interject that sometimes there are unexplained sonic booms that could be UFOs”
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82
UFO reports include many peculiar luminous phenomena, some of them in Australia which James E. McDonald expects will baffle every scientist who examines them.
“many peculiar luminous phenomena, and Some of them down in Australia will really baffle every scientist who ever takes a look at these.”
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83
Mainly cigar-shaped and disc-shaped objects are reported manoeuvring in airspace and are written off by official groups as non-existent, as though the witnesses were untrustworthy people seeing things.
“mainly cigar-shaped objects and disc-shaped objects maneuvering in our airspace and written off by official groups as non-existent, just as if it was a lot of nuts seeing things, a lot of people who can't be trusted.”
UFOs in Australia – Eyewitnesses Talk to Dr. James E. McDonald During His Investigative Tour (1967) 2026-08-11 00:34:46.6-00:35:02.5 opinion first hand
84
A visible cultist and crackpot fringe has grown up around the UFO problem in the United States, which discolours the subject and puts many scientists off.
“in the United States, there's a very annoyingly visible cultist crackpot fringe that's grown up around the problem, That discolors it and puts a lot of scientists off.”
UFOs in Australia – Eyewitnesses Talk to Dr. James E. McDonald During His Investigative Tour (1967) 2026-08-11 00:35:15.4-00:35:25.1 opinion first hand
85
Some UFO reports are completely sincere misidentifications of planets, ball lightning, fireballs, other luminous phenomena and even aircraft.
“there are completely sincere misidentifications of planets and planets, and Balls, lightning, fireballs, luminous phenomena one time or another, even aircraft and so on.”
UFOs in Australia – Eyewitnesses Talk to Dr. James E. McDonald During His Investigative Tour (1967) 2026-08-11 00:35:27.9-00:35:42.6 opinion first hand
86
Experienced private UFO investigating groups work in Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania and other parts of the world, as distinct from the official groups, whose explanations James E. McDonald finds outrageously absurd.
“experienced investigators such as those that have been working in Sydney and Melbourne and Tasmania and in other parts of the world, these are private investigating groups, not the official groups. The official groups ... come out with such outrageously absurd explanations”
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87
The Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) sightings being investigated during the James E. McDonald 1967 Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania UFO investigation tour include unconventional phenomena that are not a product of Australian, Russian or English technology.
“these are sightings that are being investigated include a lot of quite unconventional phenomena that are not any product of our technology or Australia or Russian or English technology”
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88
James E. McDonald considers the Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) sightings he investigated not to be plasma phenomena.
“They are not plasma phenomena”
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89
James E. McDonald considers the Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) sightings he investigated not to be sun dogs or pelicans.
“they are not Sun dogs and pelicans and all the rest of the things that one hears about”
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90
James E. McDonald considers Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) to be beyond the present pale of science.
“They are beyond the present pale of science”
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91
James E. McDonald considers Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) to be ignored by science and by official groups, and holds that this must change very rapidly.
“they're being ignored by science being ignored by official groups and that has got to change very very rapidly”
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92
James E. McDonald considers the question of what the Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) are, once fireballs and planets have been set aside, to be the ultimately important question, and not easy to answer.
“And that, of course, is the ultimately important question. Not easy to offer an answer.”
UFOs in Australia – Eyewitnesses Talk to Dr. James E. McDonald During His Investigative Tour (1967) 2026-08-11 00:36:57.1-00:37:04.2 opinion first hand
93
During the year preceding 1967, James E. McDonald worked through the psychological, advanced-technology, hoax, fabrication, fraud and poorly-understood-geophysical-phenomena hypotheses for Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs).
“When you look at these various hypotheses, psychological, advanced technology, hoax, fabrication, fraud, poorly understood geophysical phenomena, you run through all of those. This is certainly what I've done in the past year of checking.”
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94
James E. McDonald concluded that the seemingly absurd and seemingly improbable hypothesis, that Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) may be coming from somewhere else, is what one ends up with after eliminating the other hypotheses.
“You find yourself ending up with the seemingly absurd, seemingly improbable hypothesis These things may be coming from somewhere else.”
UFOs in Australia – Eyewitnesses Talk to Dr. James E. McDonald During His Investigative Tour (1967) 2026-08-11 00:37:33.1-00:37:44.6 opinion first hand
95
James E. McDonald considers that everything known about the astronomy and planetary meteorology of the solar system argues against an origin for Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) within the solar system.
“All that we know about the astronomy and planetary meteorology of the solar system seems to argue against a planetary, that is, intrasolar system origin of the objects.”
UFOs in Australia – Eyewitnesses Talk to Dr. James E. McDonald During His Investigative Tour (1967) 2026-08-11 00:37:51.2-00:38:02.7 opinion first hand
96
Everything known about the structure of the galaxy makes clear that the next nearest possible source of origin for Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) is an embarrassing number of light years away.
“All that we know about the structure of the galaxy makes quite clear that the next nearest source of origin is quite an embarrassing number of light years away.”
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97
James E. McDonald considers it essentially not possible, in terms of 1967 or foreseeable terrestrial propulsion techniques, to explain how any kind of surveillance probe or object could be brought into the Earth's environment across interstellar distances.
“it's very very baffling essentially not possible to explain how any kind of objects surveillance probes or what have you could be got into the earth's environment from an extra solar that is across interstellar distances”
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98
James E. McDonald found laymen to be more aware of, and more sensitive to, the limits of present-day scientific knowledge than some of his fellow scientists.
“I really find laymen more aware of this than some fellow scientists that are more sensitive to it”
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99
James E. McDonald considers it a safe extrapolation that terrestrial technology will be an entirely different thing in another hundred or thousand years, on the grounds that radio, television, lasers, nuclear fusion and fission would have been incredible a hundred years earlier.
“You have to realize that given another hundred years or a thousand years, terrestrial technology will be an entirely different thing from what it is now. It's a safe extrapolation because you have only looked back a hundred years and things like radio, television, lasers, nuclear fusion, fission, countless other technological devices and systems that we take for granted now are of course incredible a hundred odd years ago”
UFOs in Australia – Eyewitnesses Talk to Dr. James E. McDonald During His Investigative Tour (1967) 2026-08-11 00:39:24.2-00:39:55.1 opinion first hand
100
A hundred years is a twinkling of an eye on galactic and geological time standards.
“a hundred years is just nothing just a twinkling of an eye in galactic even geologic and time standards”
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101
It is generally granted by astronomers that elsewhere in the reaches of the galaxy there must be other societies of sentient beings whose technologies are far beyond those of Earth.
“It's generally granted by astronomers that far from here, in the reaches of the galaxy, there must be other societies that are essentially sentient beings whose technologies are swept far beyond ours.”
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102
James E. McDonald considers that, while advanced civilisations elsewhere in the galaxy are generally granted, nobody grants that such civilisations could reach Earth, and this blocks further thought on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs).
“But what nobody grants and what everybody stalls on and blocks their further thoughts on with respect to UFOs is nobody thinks they can get here.”
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103
James E. McDonald had no idea how anything would travel to Earth from a star system 10 to 15 light years away such as Tau Ceti or Epsilon Eridani.
“I don't have the slightest idea how anything would get here from from say Tau Ceti or Epsilon Eridani or anything 10 or 15 light years away”
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104
After examining Australian, American and other sightings, the credibility of the observers and the content of the observations, James E. McDonald concluded that Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) boil down to machine-like craft of some kind.
“looking at Australian, American and other sightings, examining the credibility of the observers looking at the content of these observations, I'm afraid that it boils down to to craft of some kind machine-like objects”
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105
James E. McDonald considers that the machine-like objects reported as Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have been around for 20 years, ignored, swept aside and ridiculed by scientists, with the result that all those years have been scientifically wasted.
“machine-like objects that have been around for 20 years, ignored by all of us scientists, swept aside and ridiculed, and nobody has any good knowledge of this problem. All these years have been wasted scientifically.”
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106
James E. McDonald holds that the Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) problem must be taken up immediately on a global scale using the world's best scientific talent, not only that of the United States or Australia.
“We've got to get at this right away. We've got to get on it on a global scale. And with the best scientific talent, not just in United States or not just in Australia but the world's best scientific talent has to get on that.”
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107
In mid-1967, James E. McDonald presented a statement to the United Nations Outer Space Affairs Group urging immediate United Nations action on the Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) problem.
“I spoke along these lines only a short time ago this summer in the United Nations at the outer space affairs group presented a statement to the outer space affairs group urging immediate UN action on the problem”
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James E. McDonald was pleased that his statement to the United Nations Outer Space Affairs Group had some effect.
“was very pleased to see that it had some effect”
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James E. McDonald had an appointment to see United Nations Secretary-General U Thant but the meeting did not take place because it fell in the middle of the United Nations Security Council crisis.
“I didn't get a chance to talk to U Thant. I had a date to see him, but it was right in the middle of the the Security Council crisis, and he couldn't see me.”
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James E. McDonald intended to try again to meet United Nations Secretary-General U Thant.
“I'm going to try again to see him.”
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111
United Nations Secretary-General U Thant, in a statement to Drew Pearson shortly before 1967, said the problem of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) is the greatest international problem second only to the Vietnam War, as relayed by James E. McDonald.
“But Only A Very Short Time Ago, A Very Interesting Statement Was Made By U Thant To Drew Pearson That The Problem Of The UFOs. Now this is the Secretary General of the United Nations speaking, saying that the problem of the UFOs is the greatest international problem second only to the present one of the Vietnam War.”
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James E. McDonald considers U Thant's statement about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) being the greatest international problem after the Vietnam War very interesting.
“I think that's very interesting.”
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James E. McDonald learned of U Thant's statement about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) by long-distance telephone call from San Francisco while in Australia.
“I cabled in from Australia when I heard that by long distance phone call from San Francisco.”
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James E. McDonald cabled United Nations Secretary-General U Thant from Australia to endorse his statement on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), while expressing disagreement with part of it.
“I cabled Secretary-General U Thant and strongly endorsed his statement, except I expressed disagreement.”
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James E. McDonald considers the Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) problem to be the greatest scientific problem and the greatest international problem facing the world, ranking it above the position U Thant gave it.
“In my opinion, the UFO problem is the greatest scientific problem, the greatest international problem that stands before us.”
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James E. McDonald hoped to see the Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) problem elevated to the status of the greatest scientific and international problem very quickly.
“And I am hoping to see it elevated to that status in a very great hurry.”
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James E. McDonald is an American physicist.
“We've been listening to American physicist Professor James E. MacDonald of the University of Arizona.”
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James E. McDonald held the title of professor at the University of Arizona.
“American physicist Professor James E. MacDonald of the University of Arizona”
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