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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. 74 …UFO by policeman Lonnie Zamora near Socorro, New Mexico, on April 24, 1964; alleged sighting of…
  • p. 135 …near Exeter, New Hampshire, and to an alleged saucer landing in Socorro, New Mexico. Klemin, Alexander…
  • p. 332 …Exeter, New Hampshire, and to an P,lleged saucer landing in Socorro, Ne~ Mexico. Lauritzen, Hans…
Kla~'s, Philip. That was no saucer, that was an echo. Aviation week, v. 59,
July 20, 1953: 2'3, 28, 30.
CAA study of unidentified radar plots is reported as showing that the spurious
targets are caused by radar energy which ricochets off small atmo~pheric
areas, strikes the ground, and returns an echo via fr.€ same path. These
isolated refracting areas are normally found under temperature inversion
conditions and travel with the wind, giving movir,g-target indications on
radar scopes. Findiugs contained in CAA T. D. ReIX>rt No. 180 entitled
"A Preliminary Study of Unidentified Targets Observed on Air Traffic Control
Radars" by Richa.rd C. Borden and Tirey K. Vickers.
----- UFOs -- identified. New York, Random House, 1968. 290 p.
The<Jry is advanced that most UFOs seerr to be "natural plasmas of ionized
ai?, sometirnes containing charged dust particles or tiny charged ice
particles." These plasmas may be closely related to St. Elmo's fire and
ball lightning. Thay appear to whirl and float, sometimes maneuvering
as though they were controlled by an intelligent bJing; they can also give off
light. Hypothesis is applied to explain reported UFO sightings near Exeter,
New Hampshire, and to an alleged saucer landing in Socorro, New Mexico.
Klemin, Alexander. The flying saucer. Aero digest, v. 32, Mar. 1950: 129-130.
Author examines "flying saucer stories" from point of view of aerodynamic
feasibility and practicality and concludes tlwre is "nothing in them. "
Kor, Pete1·. Perspective: flying saucers--physical or psychic? Saucer news,
v, 13, Fall 1966: 10-12.
Inquiry into the language and concepts that have been used to determine the
mture of the UFO phenomenon.
Layne, Meade. The coming of the guardians. Vista, Calif. , Borderland Sciences
Research Associates Foundation, me. (P.O. Box 548), 1964. 72 p.
UFO phenomenon is discussed, the nature and origin of the spacecraft, and
the reasons for their incursion into earth's atmosphere. Author postulates
they do not belong to the world of three-dimensional matter, but emerge from
denser etheric worlds.
----- Flying discs--the ether ship mystery anrl its solution. San Diego,
Borderlanrl Scienct·s Research Associates, 1950. 38 p.
Theorizes that UFOs are supi·:i-physical: the spacecraft do not come from
another planet of our solar system or from any other heavenly body known to
us; they come from the region of existence calle~ the etheric plane.
Le Poer Trench, Brinsky. The flying saucer story. London, Neville Spearman,
1966. 203 p.
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