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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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Menzel, Donald H. Do flying saucers move in straight lines? Flying saucer review, v. IO, Mar. -Apr. 1964: 3-7. It is contended that orthoteny (occurrence of UFO sightings from places that lie on the same "straight line"), l!.s discovered by Aime Michel, is invalid because it is based on questionable statistics. ----- Global orthoteny. Flying saucer review, v. IO, July-Ang. 1964: 3-4. Author attacki:: Aime Michel's claim that local orthotenic alignment discovered during UFO sightings could be extended to constitute great world circle lines and also critifizes claims of further developments in orthotenic research by Jacques Vallee. ----- Orthoteny -- a lost cause. Parts I and II. Flying saucer review, v. 11, May-June 1965: 9-11; July-Aug. 1965: 26-28. Critique of orthoteny. Author suggests Aime Michel's straight lines are only accidental alignments of randomly clispersed points and that his statistics are incorrect. (Michel had theorized that UFO sighting points could be joined together by straight lines all radiating from the point where a "cigar-shaped" mother-ship had been seen. ) Michel, Aime'. Flying saucers and the straight-line mystery. Pref. by L. M. Chassin. New York, Criterion Books, 1958. 285 p. Author discusses his discovery that UFO sightings of a single day during late Summer and early Fall 1954, even though they might occur as far a[Ql't as England, France, and northern Italy, fell clearly and precisely along straight lines forming highly charactf!ristic patterns suggesting systematic aerial exploration. Translated from _Myst~rieux obiets ce'lestes and edited by the Research Division c;f Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York. Appendix on latest U. s. sightings by Alexander D. Mebane. ----- Global orthoteny. Flying saucer review, v. 9, May-June 1963: ~-7. Michel announces that "local" orthotenic alignments previously discovered in UFO sightings can be extended to constitute great world circle lines. ----- New thoughts on orthoteny. Flying saucer review, v. 12, Jan. -Feb. 1966: 19. Michel speculates that his presumed discovery of an underlying order in manifestations of UFO phenomena on a planetary scale--orthoteny--was but a false trail. ----- Reflecti'lns of an honest liar. Flying saucer review, v, 11, May-June 1965: 11-14. Author points out discrepancies in Dr. Men.:i:el' ..;; analyses of orthotenic statisdcs. 133
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 419 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.