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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. 48 …pilots Capt. Jack Adams and G. W. Anderson, Jr., near Little Rock, Ark.; in July 1948…
  • p. 193 …pilots Capt. .Jack Adams and G. W. Anderson, Jr., near Little Rock, Ark.; in July 1948…
  • p. 196 …Donald Menzel's rejection of his report. Anderson, Carl. Two nights to remember. Los Angeles, New…
  • p. 205 …pilots Capt. Jack Adams and G. W. Anderson, Jr., near Little Rock, Ark.; in July 1948…
  • p. 211 …believed to be connected with the sightings. Anderson, Dave, The saucer tnat terrorized a town. Saga…
  • p. 272 …published in Toronto by Ambassador Books, Ltd. Anderson, Poul. Is there life on other worlds? With…
  • p. 400 …Gordon 47, 109, 151 Allingham, Cedric 1, 60, 79 Anders, Edward 249 Anderson, Carl 179 Anderson…
Wood, Robe1t H. Saucers, secrecy & security. Aviation week, v. 54, Feb. 19,
1951: 50.
Editorial comment on Feb, 27, 1951, Look ma.gazine story quoting Dr. Urner
Liddel, chief of the nuclear physics branch of ONR as saying, "There is not
a single reliable report of an [UFO] observation which is not attributable
to the cosmic [ Skyhook] balloons. "
Wylie, C, C. Saucers elude astronomers. Science newsletter, v. 61, June 14,
1952: 3'15.
Author, professor of astronomy at the University ~f fowa, states that not
one "saucer" has been reported as the result of astl'0ncmical observation,
He ~ays the fact that each saucer has been reported frv:>.l only one point
suggests that most have been spots of reflected light.
Wylie, Philip. Of stress and saucers. Saturday review, v. 42, Aug. 8, 1959: 17.
Carl Jung, in Flying Saucers: A Modern M th of Things Seen in~
(!'few York, Harcourt Brace, l , asserts that UFOs are compensatory
images projected by the frightened. Wylie takes issue with some of the
Swiss psychiatrist's conclusions.
--- ·- UFOs: the sense and nonsense. Popular science, v. 190, Ma~:. 19ti7:
76-79.
!'l what he terms an "informal consensus" of scientific opinion, author
~ Jnsiders (1) the possible nature of UFOs ;;ighted but not explained, and
(2) whether reported sightings are evidence that alien beings are reaching
earth.
Young, John R. The negative universe. Fate, v. 11, Apr. 1958: 87-89,
Hypothesizes that intelligent beings may exist in a "negative universe" that
interpenetrates and coexistR with ours without our being conscious of it.
Suggests that this might explain poltergeist manifestations and flying saucers.
ORTHOTENY
Cleary-Baker, John, Leys, orthotenies, and the UFOs, BU:FORA journal and
bulletin, v. 2, Summer 1967: 6-7,
The author states that the attempt to link UFOs with a discredited archeologicl\.l
fallacy (the leys of Great Britain) and the abandoned orthoteny theory is to
hamper the real work of UFO investigators.
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