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UFOs and Related Subjects (Lynn Catoe, 1969)

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This is Government Attic's posting of a 1969 Library of Congress annotated bibliography, UFOs and Related Subjects, compiled by Lynn E. Catoe for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The Defense Technical Information Center released it under FOIA in November 2014. The bibliography lists more than 1,600 items and was requested to support the University of Colorado UFO study led by Edward U. Condon. Its preface concludes that no simple, single explanation of the UFO phenomenon applies to all cases.

  • p. 40 …Author postulates th ..,.t UFO research seems to have reached a crucial turning point and cites…
  • p. 44 …Survey of activitiee of official and private organizations engaged in UFO research. 29
  • p. 50 …Lecture at the Southern Region UFO Research Groups Conference, Oxford, England, May 8, 1965. 35
  • p. 83 …witness by Peter Norris, chairman of the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, and M. Thornhill. 66
  • p. 95 …The UFO investigator, v. 3, Nov. -Dec. 1965: 5. Experiments and research by Prof. Clyde E…
  • p. 121 …Peter Norris, chairman of Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, and M. Thornhill. The humanoids. Flying saucer…
  • p. 128 …London, British UFO Research Assn. , 1964 31 p. Details are given of the various natural and…
  • p. 129 …London, British UFO Research Assn. , 1964 31 p. Details are given of the various natural and…
  • p. 136 …Discusses three questions important in UFO research: (1) where do they ..~om~ from? (2) who crews…
  • p. 137 …UFOs: the greatest scientific problem of our times," delivered at the convention of the American Society…
  • p. 154 …General discussion of activities of UFO researchers and alleged contactees. Claims made by "Prince Neosom of…
  • p. 156 …Moseley, President of the Saucer and Unexplained Celestial Events Research Society; and Michael J. Campione, New…
  • p. 212 …Flying Saucer Research Society, Adelaide, Australia. Babcock, Edward J. and Timothy G. Beckley. UFO plagues N…
  • p. 216 …Koch, Publicity and Research Director of Universal Research Society of America, sighted a UFO on Apr…
  • p. 288 …Author surrnests the possibility that UFOs and poltergeists are among phenomena which could be "experienced, " with…
  • p. 398 …UFOs is the hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitations by intelligent beings." Reprinted in News Report, National Research…
On Se.X. IO, 1954, Marius Dewilde allegedly saw two creatures tlui.t appeared
to oo crew of a "flying saucer" that had landed on railroad tracks in an area
near Valenciennes, France. Details of subsequent investigation are given.
----- Flying saucers over Europe: French flying saucer. Fate, v. 10, Dec.
1957: 33-38.
A flying saucer allegedly landed in a field in Saint-Seine-l'Abbaye, France,
(near Dijon), was seen by several people, and left an excavated hole in the
ground. Occurrence was on Oct. 4, 1954.
----- The mystery at Marignane. Fate, v. 9, Dec. 1958! 22-30.
French customs officer Gabriel Gachignard reported that a weird, football-
shaped object landed at Marigoane airport (France) on Oct. 26-27, 1952.
Reprinted from author's book, The Truth Abo•1t Flying Saucers (New York,
Criterion Books, 195~.
----- Valt.nsole. Phenomenes sill.tiaux, Mar. 1966: 21-26.
Auihor's ir:_yestigation of claim by Maurice Masse that on July 1, 1965, he saw
a hnded football-shaped flying machine and i~ pilot in his lavender field
pr.:xluces new facts. Among them: (I) during the week preceding the alleged
inddent, Masse and his father noticed that young lavender plants were damaged
as though someone were taking cutting~ from them; (2) when the UFO flew away,
it accele1-ated rapidly and then vanished completely twenty yards away; (3) Masse's
"IXU"alysis" may have been due to post-hy11.1otic suggestion since "real" ~a-
lysis would have stopped the heart muscles; and (4) Masse may not be revealing
all the details of his encounter with the UFO ''pilot. " Reprinted from Flying
Saucer Review.
----- The Valensole affair. Flying saucer review, v. ll, Nov. -Dec. 1965: 7-9.
Comment by author on July l, 1965, sighting at Valensole, France, of UFO
and its humanoid crew based in his own investigation.
Michel, Aime and Charles Bowen. A visit to Valensole. Flying saucer review,
v. 14, Jan. -Feb. 1968: 6-12.
Aime Michel and Charles Bowen interview Maurice Masse (in August 1967)
at Valensole, France, about his alleged experience with the humanoid
occuill.nts of a flying saucer that landed on his property July 1, 1965,
Mention is also made of UFO sighting on Sept. 17-18, 1965, from St. Michel
Observatory, France, by three astronomers.
More about Marliens. Flying saucer review, v. 13, Sept, -Oct. 1967: 14-15.
Report quoting extensively from the Lausanne (Switzerland) news!-llper,
Feuille d' Avis, on marks discovered May 9, 1967, in a clover field in
Marliens, Frruice, that seem to indicate a flying saucer landing.
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