James E. McDonald was a physicist at the University of Arizona. He was also one of the first academics to investigate UFO cases from a scientific perspective.
UFO Hunters ended 2008 by looking at McDonald's career, focusing on three of the most prominent cases he investigated. The problem with such an approach is that it plays into the hands of skeptics. Most UFO reports are shallow and short on details; skeptics use that to dismiss the reports. It's probably better, therefore, if such programs drive deeply into one or two incidents at a time.
Having said that, the program did try to counter, seemingly successfully, some points skeptics have made about the cases examined. McDonald studied UFOs from 1953-1970, and left a rather large body of work to the University of Arizona, where it is now archived. Perhaps a thorough examination of that material by competent scientists using current capabilities would be useful.
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