- Wendy Connors is a wonderland. She ~continues~ to produce
the quality ufological goods at her usual prodigious, if worryingly race-running
pace. Additionally, if beside the point (...which is the truly monumental
ufological contribution of Dr. James E. McDonald, plus some cogent but
alternant thinking on the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis...), she puts in
~this~ iteration of her foundational ufological history series a high ornament
on the tree symbolizing her ever expanding contribution to it! She illustrates
(by accident or design), in an unspoken sidebar, every reason one needs
to have... for detesting the scurrilous activities of Philip J. Klass (et
al), arch skeptibunky, uber-menchen CSICOP storm-trooper, and specious
agenda grinder. Hyperbole and histrionics? In my opinion, decidedly,
no.
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- Philip Klass, by way of quick explanation, and forgetting
that he is at the tap-root of every less-than-constructive attitude our
hijacked mainstream communicates with regard to UFOs... was socially instrumental
to, and so holds, in my too humble opinion, ~some~ responsibility... for
the tragic suicide (...~if~ that's what it was...!) of the this review's
hinge pin, nascent ufologist Dr. James E. McDonald.
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- I think it can be argued, reader, that there is metaphoric
blood on Mr. Klass' hands. Among portentously outrageous others, Klass'
clever blindsiding, completely immaterial, totally baseless, absolutely
fraudulent, and patently disingenuous attacks on the competence, character,
intelligence, and integrity of Dr. McDonald are well known and require
no citation.
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- James McDonald, indeed, was an early victim of a conjectured
"Mothman Futility Mechanism." The sufferer of this mechanism
is a rational person who encounters an aspect of the *highly strange*,
and, in a passionate investigation of that very real strangeness, ends
up paying an awful *price* for the pursuit of that enigma's challenge...
as it's demanded by the *enforcement arm* (Klass et al) of the jealous
non-elected... "them," to put a point on it. ...And please ask
me who "they" are... please. Please.
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- This story transcends mere tragedy, good reader. McDonald
lost a shining-star career, followed by his family (A wife and six kids),
and then finally his life... when he walked out into a lonely desert, hounded
by the capering trolls and ardent apologists of a disingenuous and corrupted
mainstream (Klass, et al)... and fired a 38 caliber bullet into his brain.
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- ...
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- To his credit, the memory of Dr. McDonald is lauded by
ALL the quality ufological proponents, and studiously ignored, unless pressed,
by the opponents of same. To the discomfiting chagrin of the latter, Dr.
McDonald actually ~was~ what most mainstream scientists and researchers
only pretend to be: data driven explorers of the brave unknown and courageous
surveyors of our inevitable and fast approaching future ... incisive scouts
and pioneers on a four-fold path of experience, knowledge, wisdom, and
enlightenment!
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- A result of Wendy Connors' tireless diligence, Dr. McDonald
provides the listener another "real deal": a ~private~ audience
where he lays out, in a cogent, practical, and compelling manner, [One]:
the case for UFOs and the extraterrestrial hypothesis... [Two]: the abject
failure of Science, Agency, Institution or Government (SAIG) to address
UFOs in a ~remotely~ intelligent manner... and [Three]: the incompetent,
biased, and sullenly canted *official* investigations of UFOs ~extant~...
and referenced today... inexplicably, still! One begins to sense the awful
magnitude of the terrible forces (SAIG!) that would be arrayed unjustly
against our intrepid Doctor...
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- Just so we'll understand who we're dealing with here,
James Edward McDonald held a respected Doctorate in physics from Iowa State
University in the early fifties. He had worked there, briefly, as an assistant
professor in meteorology. Additionally, he was a research physicist in
the University of Chicago's department of meteorology. A member of the
University of Arizona faculty, he was first an associate professor, then
a ~full~ professor in the real-world department of meteorology. Full professorships
in moneyed academic departments from world-class Universities are not handed
out like happy meals.
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- McDonald was also a senior physicist in the University's
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, served as both associate director and
scientific director where he was a preferred advisor to numerous federal
agencies, including the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval
Research, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Environmental Science
Service Administration. If he'd been for sale to a foreign government,
the price tag would have been in the high seven figures. This individual
was a world-class act of trained intelligence, a top drawer scientist,
a hard-nosed researcher, and was "afraid of nothing," ... he'd
also, along with his wife, seen a UFO!
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- It's no stretch he was the Klansman skeptibunky's worst
nightmare. He was a brave and talented intellectual, 'a man of, zeotropic,
color' with age, experience, and reputation. He could say, and very well,
exactly what he meant! ...And... he held the "ace river card",
good reader... he wore an academic *badge*!
- It's no wonder that he would have to be destroyed. ...And
he was. Verily. Thank ~you~, Mr. Klass (...et al living and dead...).
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- Again -- Dr. McDonald was an articulate, engaging, and
compelling speaker with a fine sense of humor as reported by seminal ufologist
Richard Hall, and, as the listener will discover, constructively humorous.
He was even able to make his audience ~laugh~ at his opposition (likely
his most unforgivable *sin*, on reflection, against his back-shooting,
corner-sniping and tres-cowardly opponents) as he exemplifies, even today,
the totality of their collective failure to pursue ~real~ science with
reasonable examples, faultless logic, and illustrative parables... or pertinent
conjectures based on facts and truly scientific thinking... like Dr. McDonald
was legend to be able to do... Listeners are enabled to hear that for themselves...
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- McDonald produced no books on the subject of UFOs, unfortunately,
but did produce several short pieces on his series of lectures and presentations
made to learned colleagues and other professional persons. These talks
included explications on:
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- 1. Our Science in Default ... a paper detailing 22 Years
of Inadequate UFO Investigations
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- 2. The "Problem" of Unidentified Flying Objects
... thoughts on perceiving a cover-up.
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- 3. Meteorological Factors in Unidentified Radar Returns
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- 4. UFOs And The Condon Report ... A Scientist's Critique
on Condon's validity and procedure.
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- 5. Statement on UFOs ... Hearings Before The Committee
on Science. Debunking the debunkers.
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- This is a hint of what the listener is treated to...
sober and intelligent reflections on the reality of UFOs. No hyperbole
or histrionics... just straight science as pure as the garden variety skeptibunky
(Klass et al) would ~purport to~ want to have it!
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- Verily! Weigh Dr. McDonald's concise speech of even
~yesterday~ against the state of the art skeptibunker's duplicitous pule
of today, and be not too surprised with regard to who arrives the proverbial
day-late-and-dollar-short! All the senseless faux-skepticisms still trotted
out currently with insentient and numbing regularity were asked and answered,
proffered and discredited... suggested and invalidated decades ago by James
E. McDonald! Wendy Connors, indeed, provides you with a primary reference
proof you can hold in your hands! UFOs ~are~ real!
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- ...That's not ~all~ that will be found on Wendy's current
compilation!
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- ...There's Edward R. Murrow, one of the last few media
journalists who had respect for the sensibilities of news consumers and
who believed that an ~informed~ public was the one best served. Not resorting
to cheap-shots, easy sensationalism or degrading comedy, he puts the subject
of UFOs squarely in the street during an incisive thirty minute radio program...
as valid today as it was in 1950!
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- ...There's Air Chief Marshall, Lord Hugh Dowding, dead
in 1970, a British Royal Air Force Chief of Staff, who relates his belief
in the ETH (a belief maintained until the end of his life) on August 9,
1954.
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- ...There's a copy of "Open Mind Debate" ~ A
public affairs program from 1960 where Professor Eric F. Goldman of Princeton
University moderates an ~astonishing~ program on the subject of UFOs. The
subject, "Are Flying Saucers Only Science Fiction"?... is debated
by guests: Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Dr. Donald H. Menzel, Dr. Ronald Leonard
Sprinkle, Dr. Frank Saltzburg and researcher John G. Fuller. Be amazed
how cagey, obfuscating, evasive, and ~guarded~ Dr. Menzel can be... and
wonder why. Reflect on why he would be the ~only~ panel member to get
angry... Do scientists ~really~ do as they want?
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- That's not all! General Douglas MacArthur holds forth
on UFOs and extraterrestrials! Dr. Adolph G. Dittmar explicates on them!
Dr. Ivan T. Sanderson lectures about them! Robert Coe Gardner cogitates
in their regard... out loud! Dr. Willy Ley compellingly expounds! Wow!
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- That's, still, not all! Twelve hours less change, total
time, awaits the open mind and courageous heart of a curious listener.
...And ~be~ curious... good reader!
- Curious, you increase our aggregate bravery to challenge
the unknown; by becoming more brave; you expand and elevate our society;
you help to re-take our hijacked mainstream! Additionally, you invalidate
the specious pronouncements of Philip Klass (et al) and his capering coterie
of cultish apologists, men who have always resorted to character assassination,
baseless innuendo, and duplicitous mechanism... when they can't debate
their worthy opponents competently on the issue at hand and are keen, only,
upon grinding their own duplicitous axes...
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- ...And who can blame them... standing tall only insures
their demise... real debate hastens their destruction... real dialogue
only provides for the righteous invalidations they have earned! But, then,
I don't ~care~ what their reasons are for their obfuscation! They are not
shared with ~me~, and so are then unacceptable, on spec!
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- That these threadbare and disingenuous pelicanists stand
in the way of human progression with their senseless and obstinate obliviousness,
that they ignore recorded history, or that they connive to despoil, degrade,
and destroy their betters... are reasons enough to discredit them -- provide
for ~their~ professional demise... dismiss ~their~ legacy, such as it is!
Yea and Verily!
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- Wendy Connors provides, in my opinion, ample historical
evidence for the validity of all the preceding contentions in her latest
compilation, "James E. McDonald & The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis."
The listener should not be disappointed...
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- More info and purchase information can be found contacting
Wendy Connors at:
- wendy@fadeddiscs.com ... Read on!
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- alienview@adelphia.net
- www.AlienView.net
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