Science in Default: Twenty-Two Years of Inadequate UFO Investigations
James E. McDonald
American Association for the Advancement of Science Symposium
Summary
McDonald's landmark 1969 AAAS presentation cataloging the systematic failure of U.S. science to investigate UFO reports. Presents 41 cases he personally investigated from the Blue Book files that could not be explained as misidentifications. One of the most rigorous critiques of Project Blue Book ever published.
Abstract
A systematic critique of the inadequacy of official UFO investigation programs, presented at the AAAS symposium. McDonald reviews decades of scientific neglect and presents detailed case analyses that resist conventional explanation.
Citation
James E. McDonald. (1969). American Association for the Advancement of Science Symposium
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