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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. 18 …Discussion of activities of and reports of UFO sightings made to International Flying Saucer Bureau, organized…
  • p. 27 ----- :UFOs--an international scientific problem. Tucson, Ariz., The Author, 1968. 40 p. Summarizing his position, the…
  • p. 30 …Surveys UFO sighting reports and discusses current explanatory hypotheses. Includes a chapter on 'What to Do…
  • p. 31 …author's home a ''UFO reporting post," and CRIFO was lmown internation- ally as a "civilian…
  • p. 32 …Report includes statements reporting simultaneous U.tu sightings by ground obs'";rvers. United Press International. Flying…
  • p. 44 Review of UFO sighting reports, especially in the U.S. A., a.nd of theorie::> ad…
  • p. 52 …Proceedings of the 7th International UFO Congress, Mainz, Germany, Nov. 3-6, 1967. Vonkeviczky e gli…
  • p. 105 Discussion of activities of and reports of UFO sightings made to International Flying Saucer Bureau, organized…
  • p. 144 References are cited which f'.lXVey the liter2.ture en UFO reports, including explanatory hypotheses. F…
  • p. 146 …State-of-the-art report on theories and research relating to the UFO phenomenon. Author concludes…
  • p. 156 …Proceedings of ~he 7th International UFO Congress, Mainz, Germany, Nov. 3-6, 1967. Zinsstag, Lou. Conversations…
  • p. 179 …A need for un international study of UFOs. Flying saucer review, v. 14, Mar. -Apr. 1968…
  • p. 182 …Author, a former USAF public information officer on UFOs, discusses UFO sightings reported to Aerospace Technical…
  • p. 197 …Discussion of activities of and reports of UFO :::ightb1gs made to International Flying Saucer Bureau, organized…
  • p. 198 …Scientists were participating in 2nd International Geophysical Year 1956-58 exp2dition. Report supplied by UFO Chile…
  • p. 230 …Thant urging international COOPf}ration in studying the UFO phenomenon. Edwards, Frank. Arthur C. Clarke looks…
  • p. 233 …UFOs--an international scientific p!'oblem. Tucson, Ariz., The Author, 1968. 40 p. Summarizing his position…
  • p. 293 …Feature article en UFO reports in which there was alleged communication with the occupants or crew…
Markerl increase in England during 1963-1964 in appearance of large mystery
animals of the cat family is discuso:;ed. Reports indicate that depredations
by the animals are sometimes accompanied by UFO sightings.
Bray, Derek, R. M. Flying saucers: a startling theory. Panorama, v. 1, Nov.
1962: 4-7.
Author points out that whenever angelic beings have made themselves
visible to man, clothed in normal costume and speaking the language of
the country, they have not been identified as such until they chose to
make themselves known by an overt act of superhuman power or by
identifying themselves by word of mouth; throughout the ages there must have
been, and very probably still are, visitations by angP.ls--probably in most
cases appearing as normal human beings.
Bull, F. Malcolm. UFO handbook 2. London, British UFO Research Assn. ,
[ 1964] 31 p.
Details are given of the various natural and man-made phenomena that could
be misinterpreted as unidentified flying objects.
Campbell, John W., Jr. How do saurers fly? Pie, v. 23, Nov. 1952: 16-17,
73-74.
Reasons are given fer the author's belief that flying saucers are intelligently
manned extraterrestrial sμicecraft. He speculates on where they come from
and on why their pilots seem to prefer the western U.S.
Campione, Michael J. Reality of UFOs, their danger, their hope. Cinnaminson,
N. J., The Author, 1965. 16 p.
General discussion of the UFO phenomenon, including recognizable
characteristics, physiological effects on humans, statistics on sightings
and landings, theories on their origin, and USAF policy.
Clarke, Arthur C. Flying saucers. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society,
V. 12, May 1953: 97-100.
In author's opinion, UFOs are not material bodies because: (1) they have been
observed to travel at accelerations which no material body could stand, and
(2) despite the enormous speeds reported, no sonic booms are ever heard. He
considers it possible that UFOs may ''turn out to be of intelligent extra-
terresb'ial origin" but "if they are artificial, a~d come from other planets, it
is fairly certain they are not spaceships ... they will be something very much
more sophisticated. "
----- What's up there? Holiday, v. 25, Mar. 1959: 32, 34-37, 39-40.
Author describes personal UFO sightings that proved to have conventional
explanations. He suggests that many hard core unexplained UFOs may be
"plasmoids" -- ball lightning,
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