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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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After considering problems in percept.ion presented to the brain i.: UFO sightings, tht: authors note that h the data comJ.ng in were cor.1pletely new, it is probable the brain would pick a simplifying oypotliesls base<i on the observer's experience and attitudes. The observer wouM then see and remembe1• this inte1•pretation of the data, and one could not tell what the original experience was really like. Finch, Bernard E. Can they see us? Flying saucer review, v. 14, Mar. -.n.pr. 1968: 31. Reports of the movements of flying saucers, including n8ll' misses of trf'es; buildings, overhead cables, and hills suggest to author thai whoever is it, control .- ppears to have very poor vision in our atmo!':iphere. He feels that this cm. Id account for the strange and paradoxical 1·eported movements of UFOs. Fuhs, Allen E. Visual sensitivity of residents of other planets. ARS Journal, v. 30, June 1960: 577. Visual sensiti'?ity of hypothesized ir ~elligent beings outside our solar system is dii: cussed. Hughes, F. P. Letters: a tnlined eye on UFOs. Science, v. 156, June 9, Hi67: 1311-1312. Drill designed to aicl discriminating observation of aerlal and/or atmospheric phenomena. Illusfons nf nature. Science illustrated, v. 2, Oct. 1947: 42-44. Examples of illusions of nature that can fool man inb major misconceptions. Luckiesh, Matthew. Seeing is deceivi11g. Science Hlu!':trated, v. 1, June 1946: 86-87. Instances in V.'hkh if one believes what he sees, he often is believing what isn't true. Perrd, J a.cques. Barbu, mare de i:::Ue, hallebardes. Mercure de France, Mar. 1, 1953: 408-427. Commentary on difficulty of ascertaining whether or not lJFOs are hallucinations. Smith, E. R. UFOs and artificial satellites. Flying saucer revJew, , .• 7, Sept. -Oct. 1961: 6-11. Some conventional methods of observing things seen in the sky are discussed for benefit of UFO researchers. Possibility of confusing satellites with UFOs--and vice versa--is treated. 136
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.