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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…
Wertheimer, Michael. A case of "autostasis" or reverse autokinesis. Perceptual
and motor skills, v. 26, Feb. 1968: 417-418.
Three of 5 observer!. <>f a light in the night sky that was actually movL•r.
continuously along a linear course reported it as stationary as long as the
light was on. '!'he }ilenomenon, "autostasis," eeems to be opposite to the
wellknown Jitenomenon of autokinesis, or apinrent motion of aa actually
stationary light in an undifferentiated field. This work was helped by the
Air Force Office of Scientific Research which supported the University of
Colorado's program to conduct a i::cientific study of unidentified flying
objects.
PERSONALITIES
Barker, Gray. Chasing the flying saucers. Flying saucers, May 1959: 19-43.
General discussion of activities of UFO researchers and alleged contactees.
Claims made by "Prince Neosom of the Planet Tythian" are mentioned.
----- Chasing the flying saucers. Flying saucers, Dec. 1959: 22-29.
Tells how Long John Nebel Show in New York was ordered cut off the air
during discussion of flying sa.ucers by Gray Barker, James Moseley, and
Jonah ibn Aharon.
Buckner., H. T. The flying saucerians: a lingering cult. New society, v. 9,
Sept. 1965: 14-16.
Cohen, Daniel. The return of flying saucers. ;he nation, v. 201, Sept. 13, 1965~
131-134.
Overall survey of UFO ever.ts in the U.S. from 1947 and of the personalities
and organizations involved.
Drai;er, Hal. Afternoon with the space people. Harper's magazine, v. 221,
Sept. 1960: 37-40.
An observer's view of visitors and speakers at the September 1959 Northern
California Spacecraft Convention in San Francisco sponsored by the
Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America. Summarizes AFSCA!s
apinrent aims.
Edwards, Frank. Frank Edwards' report: authorities who believe in flying
saucers. Fate, v. 14, Jan 1961: 29-35.
Among astronomers who have seen and/or photograi;hed unidentified flying
objects are Sr. Jose Bonilla, director of observatory at Zacatecas,
Mexico; Dr. H. Percy WHkins; Dr. James Bartlett, Jr.: Frank Halstead,
curator of the University of Minnesota observatory; and Clyde Tombaugh.
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