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

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500070007-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 8, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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PHYSICIST RAPS EXPLANATIONS
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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 atnios- from two natural phenomena
phwre and are "operated or swamp has and ball lighting. f
;.controlled in some way by "Several cases I have investi-,
thinking beings." gated, atmospheric conditions.
were not such as to allow either
James McDonald, se n i o r ? of these to occur," he said.
physicist at . the Institute of At- , Dr. McDonald also said the
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