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The reader who has made it this far, and through several unproven conspiracy theories will, it is hoped, endure one more. Did James McDonald commit suicide, or did he not? Most UFO researchers say that he did. Let us look at the other possibility. We know that many intelligence agencies were skilled in “creating” suicides. But, one might ask, wasn’t McDonald’s mental condition already deteriorating? Jerome Clark stated that McDonald was ready to “crack” in the aftermath of the SST hearings. But what caused this? Embarrassment at the SST hearings? His marriage? Perhaps, one supposes, but both of these explanations feel flimsy. Without exception, those who knew McDonald described him as possessing great integrity and courage. Was he really the type of person to commit suicide? UFO researcher Val Germann wrote this about McDonald in an Internet essay:

Biographical Information: Dr. James E. McDonald (as of 1968]

Born: Duluth, Minnesota, May 7, 1920.

B.A., Chemistry, University of Omaha, 1942.

M.A., Meteorology, M.I.T., 1945.

Ph.D., Physics, Iowa State University, 1951.

U.S. Navy, Intelligence & Aerology, 1942-45.

Instructor, Physics, Iowa State University, 1946-49.

Assistant Professor, Physics, Iowa State University, 1950-53.

Research Physicist, Cloud Physics, University of Chicago, 1953-54.

Associate Professor, Physics, University of Arizona, 1954-56.

Full Professor, Physics, University of Arizona, 1956-57.

Senior Physicist, Institute of Atmospheric Studies, 1958-present.

Member, Weather Modification Panel, NAS, 1965-present.

Member, Navy Storm fury Advisory Panel, 1966-present.

Member, NSF Weather Modification Panel, 1967-present.

Member, AAAS, American Meteorological Society, Sigma Xi, American

Geophysical Society, American Society of University Professors.

Married, Six Children.

Yes, I would say this is a candidate for suicide, wouldn’t you? ... He was at the top of his field by the late 1950s and... left no stone unturned once he set his mind to a project. It has been said that genius is the capacity for infinite pains, and by that standard James E. McDonald certainly qualified.

Even if McDonald had been targeted by some dark force in the U.S. intelligence community, one may ask, how could his “suicide” have been arranged, and why? After all, why fear McDonald when UFOs had become irrelevant? To answer this question, we need to remember that, while UFOs were a nonissue within mainstream culture, things were different in the classified world. There, it was understood that UFOs would not go away simply because of Edward U. Condon. Looking back, we can see the early 1970s as a lull, not the end, of the UFO problem. Those on top of the problem at the time probably understood this. Therefore, James McDonald, only fifty-one years old, could well have been perceived as a nuisance, and even a threat.

The how part was really no matter at all. By the early 1970s, there were already means available to alter the moods of unsuspecting persons. A pocket-sized transmitter generating electromagnetic (EM) energy at less than 100 milliwatts could do the job. This is no pie-in-the-sky theory. In 1972, Dr. Gordon J. F. McDonald testified before the House Subcommittee on Oceans and International Environment on the issue of electromagnetic weapons used for mind control and mental disruption. He stated:

[T]he basic notion was to create, between the electrically charged ionosphere in the higher part of the atmosphere and conducting layers of the surface of the Earth, this neutral cavity, to create waves, electrical waves that would be tuned to the brain waves.... About ten cycles per second.... You can produce changes in behavioral patterns or in responses.