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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. 40 …Author postulates th ..,.t UFO research seems to have reached a crucial turning point and cites…
  • p. 44 …Survey of activitiee of official and private organizations engaged in UFO research. 29
  • p. 50 …Lecture at the Southern Region UFO Research Groups Conference, Oxford, England, May 8, 1965. 35
  • p. 83 …witness by Peter Norris, chairman of the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, and M. Thornhill. 66
  • p. 95 …The UFO investigator, v. 3, Nov. -Dec. 1965: 5. Experiments and research by Prof. Clyde E…
  • p. 121 …Peter Norris, chairman of Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, and M. Thornhill. The humanoids. Flying saucer…
  • p. 128 …London, British UFO Research Assn. , 1964 31 p. Details are given of the various natural and…
  • p. 129 …London, British UFO Research Assn. , 1964 31 p. Details are given of the various natural and…
  • p. 136 …Discusses three questions important in UFO research: (1) where do they ..~om~ from? (2) who crews…
  • p. 137 …UFOs: the greatest scientific problem of our times," delivered at the convention of the American Society…
  • p. 154 …General discussion of activities of UFO researchers and alleged contactees. Claims made by "Prince Neosom of…
  • p. 156 …Moseley, President of the Saucer and Unexplained Celestial Events Research Society; and Michael J. Campione, New…
  • p. 212 …Flying Saucer Research Society, Adelaide, Australia. Babcock, Edward J. and Timothy G. Beckley. UFO plagues N…
  • p. 216 …Koch, Publicity and Research Director of Universal Research Society of America, sighted a UFO on Apr…
  • p. 288 …Author surrnests the possibility that UFOs and poltergeists are among phenomena which could be "experienced, " with…
  • p. 398 …UFOs is the hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitations by intelligent beings." Reprinted in News Report, National Research…
References are cited which f'.lXVey the liter2.ture en UFO reports, including
explanatory hypotheses. F ·_ ·-;ults of various investigators are summarized,
with emphasis on evidence indicating that UFOs are spacecraft controlled by
intelligent beings who are cooducting an lritensive survey of the earth.
Suggestions are offered with regard to psychological procedures and
techniques for investigating UFO reports, with emphasis on hypnotic tech-
niques and the pendulum technique for comparing the reliability of cooscious
and subconscious information from UFO observers. Speech given at Sept.
1-5, 1968, meeting of American Psychological Association, Washington, D. C, ,
under title "Psychological Problems of Gathering UFO Data."
Stanford, Rex G. Brev fran Rex Stanford. So!~aren, v. 5, no. 3, 1968: 16.
Author's response to questions submitted to him by the editor, Sven
Magnusson. He states his belief that flying saucers come from and are coo-
trolled by beings from outer space, The author's book, Look Up, was
translated into Swedish with title Kontakt med Rymdmanniskor (Halsingborg,
Parthenon, 1959). Aiso discussed is Project Starlight International,
organized by his brother, Ray Stanford, Corpus Christi, Tex., to collect
physical proof of the existence of GFOs.
Bteiger, Brad and Joan Whritenour. The Allende letters. New York, Award
Books, 1968. 155 p.
When the Office of Naval Research published a limited edition of a strangely
annotated copy of Morris Jessup's book, The Case for the UFO, it included
two letters received by Jessup from Carlos Allende, who was apparently
one of the annotators. This book explores Allende's role in the UFO
controversy,
Stranges, Frank E. Danger from the stars. Venice, Calif., International
Evangelism Crusades, Inc. , 1960. 14 p.
Author postulates that planet earth has been host to generations of inte:rstellar
visitors who can travel with or without what we call fiying saucers and who fall
into four classifications: ministering ang~l-::; guardian angels; angel reapers;
and fallen angels. He discusses their characteristics and trait& ar.d then
warns against "counterfeit" flying discs causing crashes, near collisions,
near-havoc, and all manner of fear and superstition. He lists occurrences
1945-1960 that seem to ind:icate a r..attern of violence and deliberate
interference.
Stumbaugh, Virginia. The anatomy of mirages. Fate, v. 6, Apr. 1953: 85-93,
Stating that an important segment of scientific opinion believes that flying
saucers can be explained as mirages, the author discusses phenomena that
are proven mirages and the conditions necessary for the phenomenon to be
manifested. She says that while many UFO sightings fit into a mirage
theory, scores do not.,
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