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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. 11 …l!ld not have been compiled without the full and selfless cooperation of such collr-:ctors…
  • p. 32 …He urges international cooperation in a program to resolve the problem. ~ Vallee, Jacques. Anatomy of a…
  • p. 146 …He urge::s international cooperation in a program to resolve the i)roblem. U. s. space…
  • p. 302 …years to the planets of other suns. Cooper, John. Cities in the sky. Science diges!, v…
  • p. 313 …Author postulates that there exists in the galaxy a loosely integrated community of diverse civilizations, cooperating…
  • p. 327 …civilizati.:>ns, cooperating in the exploration and sampling of astrono:nical objects and their inhabitants. There…
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  • p. 401 …260 Cooper. John 285 Copland, Alexander Cordonnier, Gerard Corrall, Alice E. Cort, David 21 Coughlin, William…
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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