PHYSICIST RAPS EXPLANATIONS AIR FORCE PROBE OF UFOS CALLED 'SCIENTIFIC SCANDAL'

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 8, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

Dr1,1LY NEK'S
QGT 8 1966
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PHYSICIST RAPS EXPLANATIONS
Air Force Probe of * UFOs
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Called $ cien tiflc Scandal'
TUCSON, Ariz., 061. 8 (UPI) Air Force explanations of the
A University of Arizona physi- UFO sightings.
cist says he believes some un- He said the most common ex.
Identified flying objects come planation is that they result
from outside the earth's atmos- from two natural phenomena-
phere and are "operated or swamp gas and ball lighting.
controlled in some way by Several cases I have investi
thinking beings." gated, atmospheric conditions
were not such as to allow either
James McDonald, s e n 1 o r of these to occur," he said.
physicist at the Institute of At. Dr. McDonald also said the
mospherip-,Physics,-criticized Air Force method of investiga-
iion "is a scientific scandal.
He said none of the investigators;
had training in astronomy, phys-
ics, or related sciences. v
He said he has "absolutely'
no idea where the objects come.
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from, or how they are opera-
ted," but "after 10 years off
`,research I know they are some-i
,thing outside of our atmos
phere."
Dr. McDonald said they seem y
but he said - he did not known
to he "extra-terrestrial probes'
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!won't speculate on the matter.' 1
'Saucer' Study
The Air Force has commis- `
Visioned Cobrada Universky to
`conduct an "in-depth" study oI:
- y
; The, project apparently is the
outgrowth of continuing -public
6mistrust .' of Air Force
reinvestigations of thousands' of
unidentified flying` o b "j:e c t s
UFOS) - which 'some citizens 1
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