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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…
Duchtne, J. L. La rer.urtition des atterrissages de soucoupes volantes en France.
Phenomt!nes spatiaux, May 1965: 21-25.
By plotting the points of alleged UFO landings over a period of years on a map
of France, the author observes that they seem to be aligned circularly around a
"neutral" center.
Fontes, Olavo T. Brazil under UFO survey. Flying saucer review, v. 7, Mar. -
Ap:- 'Q60: 10-14.
Dr. Fontes documents the intensive UFO survey to which Brazil was subjected
on nigh! of May 13, 1960. Sightings followed orthotenic inttern first discovered
by Aime Michel in France in 1954.
Goddard, J. New light on ancient tracks. Flying saucer review, v. 10, Mar. -
Apr. 1964: 15-16.
Theory is proposed that the "leys, " old straight tracks stretching for miles over
the English countryside, were built by the intelligences behind the flying saucers
for navigational purposes or in order to find readily a form of magnetic current
that is helpful to them. It is suggested that leys and orthotenies are similar.
Haythornthwaite, P. K. 3avic as a permanent alignment. BUFORA journal and
bulletin, v. I, Autumn 1965: 16-18.
Analytical calculations are made to test the significance of orthotenic
alignments.
----- Bavic plotted as a world circle line. Flying saucer review, v. 9, Nov. -
Dec. 19C3: 17-18.
For those who wish to cah::ulate their own orthotenic world lines, author gives
the formula relating !attitude and longitude on a great circle line:
cos ~ =; 1-k 2
""'1--""K-2-co_s_,2,...(""'Q-+-x)....
where ~ is latitude
Q is longitude
and k and x are two constants for the given great circle which may be found
by substituting into the formula the values of Q and ~ for two known points
on the line.
Maney, Charles A. An evaluation of Aime Michel's study of the straight line
mystecy. Flying saucer review, v. 5, Nov. -Dec. 1959: 10-14.
Stating that Michel's book, Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery,
is "outstanding, " Maney summarizes Us contents. A public lecture given
at Akron, Ohio, on March 14, 1959, sponsored by the Research Committee
of Akron.
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