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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. 40 …Author postulates th ..,.t UFO research seems to have reached a crucial turning point and cites…
  • p. 44 …Survey of activitiee of official and private organizations engaged in UFO research. 29
  • p. 50 …Lecture at the Southern Region UFO Research Groups Conference, Oxford, England, May 8, 1965. 35
  • p. 83 …witness by Peter Norris, chairman of the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, and M. Thornhill. 66
  • p. 95 …The UFO investigator, v. 3, Nov. -Dec. 1965: 5. Experiments and research by Prof. Clyde E…
  • p. 121 …Peter Norris, chairman of Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, and M. Thornhill. The humanoids. Flying saucer…
  • p. 128 …London, British UFO Research Assn. , 1964 31 p. Details are given of the various natural and…
  • p. 129 …London, British UFO Research Assn. , 1964 31 p. Details are given of the various natural and…
  • p. 136 …Discusses three questions important in UFO research: (1) where do they ..~om~ from? (2) who crews…
  • p. 137 …UFOs: the greatest scientific problem of our times," delivered at the convention of the American Society…
  • p. 154 …General discussion of activities of UFO researchers and alleged contactees. Claims made by "Prince Neosom of…
  • p. 156 …Moseley, President of the Saucer and Unexplained Celestial Events Research Society; and Michael J. Campione, New…
  • p. 212 …Flying Saucer Research Society, Adelaide, Australia. Babcock, Edward J. and Timothy G. Beckley. UFO plagues N…
  • p. 216 …Koch, Publicity and Research Director of Universal Research Society of America, sighted a UFO on Apr…
  • p. 288 …Author surrnests the possibility that UFOs and poltergeists are among phenomena which could be "experienced, " with…
  • p. 398 …UFOs is the hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitations by intelligent beings." Reprinted in News Report, National Research…
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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