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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. 18 …Discussion of activities of and reports of UFO sightings made to International Flying Saucer Bureau, organized…
  • p. 27 ----- :UFOs--an international scientific problem. Tucson, Ariz., The Author, 1968. 40 p. Summarizing his position, the…
  • p. 30 …Surveys UFO sighting reports and discusses current explanatory hypotheses. Includes a chapter on 'What to Do…
  • p. 31 …author's home a ''UFO reporting post," and CRIFO was lmown internation- ally as a "civilian…
  • p. 32 …Report includes statements reporting simultaneous U.tu sightings by ground obs'";rvers. United Press International. Flying…
  • p. 44 Review of UFO sighting reports, especially in the U.S. A., a.nd of theorie::> ad…
  • p. 52 …Proceedings of the 7th International UFO Congress, Mainz, Germany, Nov. 3-6, 1967. Vonkeviczky e gli…
  • p. 105 Discussion of activities of and reports of UFO sightings made to International Flying Saucer Bureau, organized…
  • p. 144 References are cited which f'.lXVey the liter2.ture en UFO reports, including explanatory hypotheses. F…
  • p. 146 …State-of-the-art report on theories and research relating to the UFO phenomenon. Author concludes…
  • p. 156 …Proceedings of ~he 7th International UFO Congress, Mainz, Germany, Nov. 3-6, 1967. Zinsstag, Lou. Conversations…
  • p. 179 …A need for un international study of UFOs. Flying saucer review, v. 14, Mar. -Apr. 1968…
  • p. 182 …Author, a former USAF public information officer on UFOs, discusses UFO sightings reported to Aerospace Technical…
  • p. 197 …Discussion of activities of and reports of UFO :::ightb1gs made to International Flying Saucer Bureau, organized…
  • p. 198 …Scientists were participating in 2nd International Geophysical Year 1956-58 exp2dition. Report supplied by UFO Chile…
  • p. 230 …Thant urging international COOPf}ration in studying the UFO phenomenon. Edwards, Frank. Arthur C. Clarke looks…
  • p. 233 …UFOs--an international scientific p!'oblem. Tucson, Ariz., The Author, 1968. 40 p. Summarizing his position…
  • p. 293 …Feature article en UFO reports in which there was alleged communication with the occupants or crew…
Schopfer, Siegfried. Fliegende Untertassen: ja oder nein? Stuttgart, Walter
Hadecke Verlag, 1955. 32 p.
lMdence rel2.ting to UFOs is examined and author concludes that although
nallucinations, images, and fantasies relating to the pheilomenon may be
real, there is no such thing as a flying saucer.
Shalett, Sidney. What you can believe about flying saucers. Saturday evening
post, v. 221, May 7, 1949: 36, 184··186.
Applies "logical" explanations to reported facts of UFO sightings and con-
cludes they arc results of tricks played hy sun, stars, and senses.
Sharp, Peter F. An appraisal of the present UFO position. Flying saucer
review, v. 7, 1961: 19-22.
Analysis of current hypotheses which attempt to explain UFO phenomena.
Slim chance for saucer sightings. Science digest, v. 43, Feb. 1958: 60.
USAF says there are less than two chances in 100 that UFO sightings cannot
be identified as familiar objects, reports Chemical and Engineering News.
The six categories into which USAF places UFOs are: balloons, aircraft,
astronomical, other (i.e., .reflections, searchlight3, birds, clouds, hoaxes,
ice crystals, fireballs), insufficient data, and unknowns.
Some "saucers'' may be electrical. New scientist, v. 31, Sept. 1, 1966: 463.
Discussion of Philip J. Klass' theory that corona discharges, in the shape
of balls of luminous gas, occur when there are salt deposits on very high
voltage transmission lines and account for many UFOs.
Something in the air. Time, v. 60, Aug. 11, 1952: 58.
Radar impulses bouncing off a temperature inversion are suggested as the
explanation for mysterious radar ''blips" believed by some to be caused by
flying saucers over the Capitol in Washington, D.C., July 20-21, 1952.
Siace visitors: examples of mysterious and well-authenticated unidentified
flying objects, by "Theorist." Practic3.l mechanics, v. 24, Dec. 1956:
138-141.
Sprinkle, R. Leo. Patterns of UFO reports. Laramie, Wyoming, The Author,
1967. 15 p.
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