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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. 31 …Are the invaders coming? New York, Tower Publications, 1968. 139 p. Survey of basic UFO literature…
  • p. 42 …Is the U. s. Government expecting invaders from space? Flying saucers from other worlds, Aug. 1957…
  • p. 62 …Are the invaders com!ng? New York, Tower Publications, 1968. 139 p. Survey of basic UFO…
  • p. 109 …ma.n's efforts to invade S}llce under surveillance. The flying saucer menace. New York…
  • p. 111 Is the u. s. government ex1:iecting invaders from since'? Flying saucers from other worlds, Aug…
  • p. 122 …The mighty invaders from outer since, Catholic digest, v. 22, Apr, 1958: 25-29. "Portrait" of…
  • p. 204 …Report on UFO sightings and landings in France durir1g the fall of 1954. ----- The truth about…
  • p. 308 …The mighty invaders from outer space. Catholic digest, v. 22, Apr. 1958: 25-29. "Portrait" of…
  • p. 348 …position on the question of invaders from outer space. He noted that ''the principles of Catholic…
  • p. 374 …Summarizes the history of the Tungus (Siberia) meteorite of June 30, 1908-- videly P1ought to be…
  • p. 380 …An invader comes to earth for the sole purpose of being listened to and admired in…
  • p. 381 …A form of life resembling radio waves and dependent on the movement of the ether, invades…
  • p. 382 …An invading force is killed off by an organism living in a symbiotic relationship with the…
  • p. 384 …A trip to Venus is the means through which the crew gains knowledge of intelligent life…
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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