UFOs and Related Subjects (Lynn Catoe, 1969)

Maney, Charles A. Donald MPnzel and the Newport News CFO: a critical report.
Fate, v. 18, Apr. 1965: 64-75.
Evidence is offered that Dr. Menzel's orthodox cxplauations of fl;•kg
saucers fall to ~xplain observed phenomena.
Maney, Charles A. and Richard Hall. The challenge of unidentified flying objects.
Washington, The Autho..:"s, 1961. 208 p.
Book is a series of separate articles by authors in which each presents his own
version and inte:i·rret&.tion of UFO phenomena.
March of the news· new light on "flying saucer-s. " U.S. news & woI'ld report,
v. 62, Mar. 20, 1967: 16.
When ammonium vapor is ignited with a high-voltage spark, the result is a
mass of glowing gas that assumes the shape associated with U.FOs--a
disc-shaped subject with an inverted-saucer top and sometimes the appearance
of tiny windows around the rim. It can be tracked by radar and produces
a "charge field" that could affect radio performmce nearby. Research was by
Dr. Robert S, Powell, Melpar Inc., Falls Church, Va.
Mauer, Edgar F, Of spots before the eyes. Science, \. 115, Dec. 19, 1952:
693.
The author, a physician, suggests that flying saucers are muscae volitantes
(motes before the eyes caused by shadows cast upon the retina by cells ia the
vitreous humor) "or perhaps some abnormal cortical discharges in the
migrainous. "
Meerloo, J oost A. Flying saucer syndrome and the need for miracles. Journal
of the American Medical Association, v. 203, Mar. 18, 1968: 170.
Analysi8 of subjective interpretation and failures in objectivity that may
explain flying saucer reports: (1) memory distortions; (2) personal search
for magic; (3) optical illusions; (4) psychological perceptual distortion;
(5) physical distor~~'>n of images; (6) anxiety; (7) flying saucer cult; (8) rumor
and propaganda.
:.·enzel, Donald H:. Flying :;aucel's. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1953.
319 p.
Phenomena underlying the 20% of UFO sighi.ings that USAF lists as unexplained
are reported as meteorological optical effects: mirages, reflections in mist,
refractions and reflections by ice crystals. Author asserts there is no evidence
that UFOs are interplanetary spacecraft manned by extraterrestrial beings.
----- UFO: fact or fiction? Cambridge, Mass., The Author, 1967. 15 p.
121