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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.
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Clark, Jerome. A contact claim. Flying saucer review, v. 11, Jan. -Feb. 1965: 30-32. Noting the way in which the "beingR" associated with the 1897 "airship" sightings seemed interested in reinforcing the belief that the craft was of mundane origin, the author concludes that the extraterrestrials either were engaged in some unknown activity in which they did not want their real identity made known, or that they chose to hide their existence realizing that the comparative un- sophistication of nineteenth century Americans wonld not permit them to accept the interplanetary answer. ----- The meaning of contact. Flying saucer revi~w, v. 11, Sept, -Oct. 1965: 28-29. Speculating that the UFO beings might put a false cover over their activities so as to keep officialdom or anyone else fro~ coming close to the truth, the author suggests that contac' claims become a tool with a two-fold purpose: to discourage legitimate inquiry into the saucer field by making it look ridiculous, and to instill false ideas into the minds of those who do go to investigate the subject. ----- UFO landings in ~outh America. Flying saucers, Oct. 1966: 24-25. Author reports alleged landings of UFOs during September in Brazil and Peru and describes the "ufonauts" observed. Creighton, Gordon. The extrao1'<iinary happenings at Casa Blanca. Flying saucer review, v. 13, Sept. -Oct. 1967: 16-18. On Aug. 22, 1955, a group of children playing in the garden of a home in Casa Blanca, California, f. llegedly first sighted silvery, spinning discs and later 3-ft. -tall transparent beings who emerged from landed craft. Author co:isiders accounts of incident by Coral Lorenzen in Flying Saucer Review's The Humanoids and by Winona Cromwell in a 1955 issue of the Journal of the Boderland Sciences Research Association. Do flying saucers ever land? Flying saucers, Oct, 1966: 30. Lists reports of flying saucer landings worldwide and encounters with humanoid occupants 1964-1966, Edwards, Frank. Frank Edwards' report: space men - or monsters: Fate, v. 11, Sept, 1958: 76-83. Analysis of conflicting reports of alleged flying saucer occupants and dis- cussions of how much truth reports contained. Eiseley, Loren C. Little men and flying saucers. Harper's, v. 206, Mar. 1953: 86-91, 101
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 419 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.