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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…
Study radar ''ghosts." 1cience news letter, v, 62, Aug. 16, 1952: 99.
Article states that ;i. DOD ienel is trying to discover the phenomena that can
be picked up by radr..r. tt is hoped that findings will help dispel impression
that unexpected ''blips" appearing on radar screens are "flying saucers."
Sykes, Egerton. Flying saucers and negative matter. Atlantis, v. 5, Sept.
1962: 49-51.
It l:w.s been established, asserts the author, that if heavy matter can be
volatized instantaneously, it may under certain circumstances recombine on
the negative side of lite si.:ale. This second.μoy :;tage will be shortlived, but
will have characteristics similar to those of fireballs.
Temperature inversions cause "flying saucers." Science news letter, v. 62,
Dec. 20: 1952: 388.
Reports the CM had confirmed that the "flying saucers" seen on radar scope
at National Airport near Washington, D.C., during July 1952 were result of
temperature inversions bending the radar waves,
Those flying saucers; an l\stronomer's explanation. Time, v. 59, June 9, 1952:
54-56.
Dr. Donald H. Men:.:el, Harvard professor of astrophysics, analyzes
frequently-reported characteristics of flying saucers and uses scientific
deduction to show that sightings were caused by terrestrial rather than
P.xtraterrestrial phenomena.
Tufty, Barbara. 8 planet-probe robots. Science newsletter, v. 84, Oct. 12,
1963: 22'1.
Ufology. Newsweek, v. 62, Aug, 5, 1963: 44,
Review of Donald H. Menzel and Lyle G. Boyd's oook The World of Flying
Saucers (New York, Double.day, 1963).
Unger, George. Flying saucers: physical and spiritual aspects. Foreword by Dr,
H. Poppelbaum. East Grinstead, Sussex, Eng. , New Knowledge Books,
1958. 43 p.
An anthroposophist convinced of spiritual relationship between the cosmos and
earth, author postulates that while UFOs are real phenomena, they are not
spacecraft from other planets; the spreading of sensational news about
their appearances may be considered a large-scale diverting mar.oeuvre by
adverse spiritual forces to distract mankind from task of spiritual development.
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