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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. 74 …UFO by policeman Lonnie Zamora near Socorro, New Mexico, on April 24, 1964; alleged sighting of…
  • p. 135 …near Exeter, New Hampshire, and to an alleged saucer landing in Socorro, New Mexico. Klemin, Alexander…
  • p. 332 …Exeter, New Hampshire, and to an P,lleged saucer landing in Socorro, Ne~ Mexico. Lauritzen, Hans…
Webster, Robert N. The saucers aren't balloons. Fate, v. 1, May-J~ne 1951:
4-7.
Attacks theory by Office of Naval Research chief of the nuclear physics
branch Dr, Urner Liddel that "Skyhook" balloons account for all &aucer
reports. Cites five UFO c;ighting reports that cannot be explained by
Dr. Liddel's theory.
----- Saucers: material or immaterial? Fate, v. 6, Oct. 1953: 4-5.
Author discusses his theory that flying sauc.ars are a kind of "ectoplasmic
ghost animal. "
Wellman, Wade. Extra-sol.ll' UFOs. Flying saucer review, v. 8, Mar. -Apr.
1962: 8-10.
Suggestion is made that UFOs co'lle from c.u+side earth's solar system--
possibl:y from 61 Cygni or 70 O:qi1iuchi.
----- '1'he psychology of scepticism. Flying saucer review, v. 9, Sept. -Oct.
1963: 32-34.
Review of Donald H. Menzel's book, The World of Flying Saucers (New York,
Doubleday & Co., 1963),
What were the flyi\/lg saucers? Popular science, v. 159, Aug. 1951: 74-75, 228.
Results of an unofficial Popular Science survey in which eye-witnesses to
UFO phenomena were asked to choose the explanation that seemed most
plausible to them: 52% believe they saw "man-made aircraft"; 16% believe
they saw "something commonplace"; 4% believe they sa.w a "visitor from
afar"; 28% are still uncertain, but more than half nf ihem think they saw
either man-made airc1•aft or visitors from afar.
Wilkins, Harold T. Flying saucers. The contemporary review, v. 78, July 1950:
49-53.
Well-corroborated UFO incidents are cited by author as proof that the
phenomenon cannot be dismissed as misinterpretation of natural objects.
Wilson, Harvey, Found: flying saucer base in outer space. The national police
gazette, v. 173, Aug, 1968: 14, 24,
It is speculated that pulsating signals from the region of the star Vega are
indicative of a flying saucer base there.
Wilson, Richard. A nuclear physicist exposes flying saucers. Look, v. 15,
Feb. 27, hl5J: 60-62, 64.
Report on Office of Naval Research's Skyhook project which has resulted in
many re ports of flying saucer sightings.
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