Documents / Document

UFOs and Related Subjects (Lynn Catoe, 1969)

Government Attic · 419 pages · text from the file's own layer

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…
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

Cases discussed

About this file

Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 419 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.