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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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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. 137
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.