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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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Mulholland, John. Magicians scoif at flyir.£ &?U'.ers. l-'0puL'\r scienc.::i, v. 161, Sept, 1952: 96-98, Author, a professional magician, states his c.pinion that flying saucers may be optical illusions. The mystery of other worlds revealed, Greenwich, Conn., Fawcett Publications, 1952. 144 p. Chapter headings include: life on other wor!ds; c.:ommul'ication with other worlds; the exinnding universe; possibilities for an invasion base on the moon; a case for flying saucers; investigation of the Carolina saucer; are the flying sauc~rs Russian-owned? New light on flying saucers. u. S. news & world report, v. 62, Mar. 20, 1967: 16. Report that Dr. Robert S. Powell at Melinr, Inc., had succei>ded in making "flying saucers" in the laboratory by igniting ammonia vapo.: with a high voltage spark. Oberth, Hermann, Dr. Hermann Oberth discusses UFOs, Fate, v. 15, May 1962: 36-43, Author says that in the abs~ncr. cf a more plausible explanation, one might asst.me that UFOs are "flying machines" that (1) are not built by human beings; (2) fly by means of artificial gravity fields; arid (3) produce high- tension electric cha11ges to push the air out of their paths so that it does not start glowing, and strong magnetic fields to interact with ionized air at higher altitudes. Transitions of UFOs from half-transJlll'ent to invisible state might be related to creation of artiUcial gravity fields, Oberth "would bet 100 to one that some of the contact persons arP. normal and hs.ve seen and experienced something, " ----- Flying saucer:;: come from a distant world. American •;1eekly~ Oct. 24, 1954: 4-5. Author st1tE:s that flying saucers are possibly manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have be~n investigating earth for cen- turies and that they passibly have been sent lo conduct systematic, long- range invP.stigations, first of men, animali:. and vegetation, and more recently of atomic centers, armaments, and centers of armament production. Palmer, Ray. Saucers from eg_rth: a challenge to secrecy. Flying saucers, Dec, 1959: 8-21. Author suggests that the most logical origin for flying saPrers is our own earth and that the hollow earth theury, which suggest the interior of the earth is poJX!lated by a highly evolved race w\th great technological skill, merits serious attention. 123
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