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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.
“Edward Condon”9 pages
With respect to UFOs, the author states his position as being that natural explanations exist for "unexplained" sightings, He attempts to show that arguments advanced in favor of the interplanetary nature of UFOs are fallai!lous, Menzel, Donald H. and Lyle G, Boyd, The world of flying saucers. Garden City, N, Y. , Doubleday, 1963, 302 p. Authors describe the common types of UFO sighting and analyse some of the repres~ntative and most interesting cases in each category. It is concluded that specific UFOs can be accounted for in terms of normal physical phenomena. Michel, Aime. The truth about flying saucers. New York, Criterion Books, 1956, 255 p. Author presents and ccmments on UFO sightings re ported throughout the world from 1947. Sources include: Project Saucer records; communiques or records of the air forces in U. s. A., U, K, , Canada, South Africa, France, and Sweden; USAF's Air Technical Intelligence Center; National Meteorological Ofiice (France and the French Union); French and foreign technical periodicals; personal inquiries; and information in the files of NICAP. Summarizes current theories and explanations of UFO phenomena. Miller, R. DeWitt. You do take it with you. New York, Citadel Press, 1955. 238 p. Discussion of strange and unusual phenomena which seem to demonstrate existence of a world beyond the range ol physical measurement. Author believes that flying saucers can be intelligently evaluated only in this context. Moorehouse, Frederick G, The case of the flying saucers. Argosy, v. 329, July 1949: 22-24, 92, Author states that: (1) there are flying saucers; (2) they represent the most advanced form of guided missile yet to appear; (3) they use a new source of propulsion which derives from a compact "soft fission' atomic powerplant that affords amazing performance in terms of range and speed; (4) they use a new scheme for guidance and control that gives a never-before-reached degree of prP.cision. He documents his claims. Mlseley, James W. UFOs, the universe, and Mr. John M. Cage. Fate, v. 15, Sept. 1962: 78-84. Cage suggests that UFOs are not machines but are "sentient life forms of a highly tenuous composition, charged with and feeding upon energy in the form of negative electricity. " 122
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.