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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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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, 111
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.