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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. 111 …Charles Fort and the UFO. Flying saucers, July 1959: 20-23, 42. Speculates on whether sightings…
  • p. 127 …29, 1962, with objects sighted 184~-1872 and recorded by Charles Fort in Book of the…
  • p. 188 …Charles Fort and the UFO. Flying saucers, July 1959: 20-23, 42. Speculates on whether sightings…
  • p. 342 …Fort, Charles. The books of Charles Fort. Introd. by Tiffany Thayer. New York, Hem·y Holt…
  • p. 403 …24, 77, 92, 102, 132, 141, 142, 159, 169, 183, 200 Fort, Charles 325 Foss, William…
Lindsay, Gordon. The riddle of the flying saucers. Dallas, Tex., The Voice of
Healing Publishing Co. , 1966. 31 p.
Author says that reports of flying saucers landing in the desert, claiming to
come from other planets, claiming to oe creatures of a high state evolutionary
development, claiming to bring knowledge to the human race to save it from
disaster -- do not ring true. He sugi;ests that the whole thing has the earmarks
of the diabolical.
Lorenzen, Coral. The Fitzgerald investigation: what it means. Flying saucers,
May 1959: 47-50.
On Sept. 21, 1958, Mrs. William Fitzgerald of Sheffield Lake, Ohio, allegedly
saw an apparently intelligently controlled metallic object about 22 feet in
di2.meter and six feet thick; luminescent smoke seemed to issue from nozzles
in apertur..s on the rim. Author compares this report to similar ones
throughout the world that were accompanied by mention of electrical inter-
ference and power failure and concludes !hat the era.ft may be engaged in
weapons testing.
----- Flying saucers: the startling evidence of the invasion from outer space.
New York and Toronto, Signet Books, New American Library, 278 p.
Authur presents evidence in support of theory that UFOs are reconnoitering
earth's water reserves and military defenses, gathering flora and fauna,
and tracking our space missiles. Original title: The Great Flying Saucer Hoax
(New York, Willi::i.m-Frederick Press, 1962).
----- The great flying saucer hoax; the UFO facts and their interpretation.
New York, William-Frederick Press, for the Aerial Phenomena Research
Organization of Tucson, Ariz. , 1962. 257 p.
Author, director of Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, presents
documented information to support theory that UFOs are not only real,
bu~ are extraterrestrial and unfriendly and that visitations follow a
pattern indicating military reco11naissance and biological and ecological
survey. Published also with titl~ Flying Saucers in JXiperback edition
by New American Library, Inc. (Signet book T3058), New York.
Luna, Walter F. Los UFOs y su posible mision en la tierra. Montevideo, The
Author, 1968, 15 p.
Assuming that UFOs are extraterrestrial spacecraft under intelligent control,
the author speculates on their mission to the planet earth.
McDonald, James E. Are UFOs extraterrestrial surveillance craft? Tucson,
Ariz. , The Author, 1968. 4 p.
Stressing the need for establishment of a vigorous investigation program of
the UFO phenomenon, the author noted that close-range sightings of
machine like objects of unconventional nature and unconventional performance
characteristics, seen at low altitudes, appeared to be occurring all over the
globe, possibly with increasing frequency. Suggestions that such observations
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