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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.
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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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