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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.
“Scientific American”22 pages
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
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.