Donald Howard Menzel

One of the interesting members of the MJ12 was Dr.

Professor Donald Menzel, who actually had written three books on the subject that had the general flavor of, of debunking it.

And I read this book and I said, there's a guy who's allegedly a PhD in physics, but he's obviously ignoring the data.

I'm highly confident that Dr. Menzel was working in a counterintelligence mode.

No departure has been confirmed.

One-time fiancée of Donald Trump Jr. came under scrutiny this week after the Wall Street Journal reported she asked Trump donor Eric Dieters to pay off a $100,000 American Express bill shortly before her Senate confirmation hearing.

According to messages reviewed by the Journal, Giffoyle urged Deeters to wire the money directly to American Express, saying the transaction wouldn't leave a paper trail.

And she offered to help him gain access to senior Trump administration officials.

Papers and wire service reports hinted that the plane had been destroyed because of the fragments that were carried on board.

The government maintained they did an investigation, didn't find any indications of foul play.

Same day the plane crashed, Donald and Chrisman took Captain Smith to see the boat they said they'd been on.

Smith wasn't particularly impressed.

Some scientists and skeptics in the nineteen sixties and seventies offered alternative explanations that still ring true today.

For instance, a Harvard astronomer, Donald Menzel, argued that meteorological conditions such as temperature inversions could create optical phenomena, glare from the sun at low angles reflected by thin cloud layers that would look like multiple bright points moving across the sky.

Likewise, one hypothesis proposes that the objects were actually a formation of conventional aircraft, perhaps a cluster of warplanes on training patrol that had an unusual flight path.

But the problem with the conventional aircraft theory is that it must account for Arnold's specific claim that the objects moved like stones skipping across water, implying rapid lateral acceleration and deceleration, something typical planes rarely exhibit without being in close proximity.

That assertion depends on assumptions about camera distance, which were never recorded.

Contrastingly, astronomer Donald Menzel reviewed photographs like these in the early nineteen fifties and emphasized how lack of horizon markers makes estimating scale nearly impossible.

He urged caution in treating such images as evidence.

The debate hinges on whether the object was truly in the sky or simply a terrestrial trick The answer depends on variables that we cannot now measure, because the original data is lost, and no one has performed a rigorous optical simulation from the same exposure conditions.

Back in 2015, a documentary came out that included interviews with a couple of leading ufologists, who, like Mike Rogers, alleged that Philip Klass was a paid disinformation agent of the United States government.

According to the documentary, Klass was mentored by a guy named Donald Menzel, one of the early founders of the NSA.

Being on the government's payroll may also explain where Klass was planning on coming up with the $10,000 that he offered to Steven Pierce to say the story was a hoax.

To this day, Travis stands by his story.