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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…
Ex-Marine photographer tells how on July 29, 1952, he photographed a UFO
traveling in a left-to-right direction at speed estimated by the University of
Miami as 7 ,550 mph.
Palmer, Ray. 1914 UFO photo puzzles experts. Flying s~ucers, Aug. 1966:
7-9.
Photo ihat has lain in an album since it was taken in Pennsylvania in 1914
seems to show a disc-shaped UFO.
Powers, W. T. Photographic surveillance for UFOs: Is 1~ feasible? Flying saucer
review, v. 14, Jan. -Feb. 1968: 14, 17.
Information is given on proposed equipment and estimated cost for one year's
operation of an "all-sky camera network" that would photograph low-level,
close-range UFOs.
Rankow, Ralph. The disc with the domed top. Fate, v. 19, Aug. 1966: 54-61.
Highway inspector discl'ibed encounter with soundless aerial object that he was
able to photograph.
----- The Heflin photographs. Flying saucer review, v. 14, Jan. -Feb. 1968:
21-24.
Author, professional photographer in New York and former photographic con-
sultant to NICAP, describes conditions ur.der which four photographs of a UFO
were taken by Rex Heflin on Aug. 3, 1965, in Orange County, California.
----- The Martin B-57 and the changing UFO. Fate, v. 19, Nov. 1966: 36-45.
Evidence that :>.n apparently genuine UFO photograph taken near Edwards AFB
in 1954 as a public!ty portrait for the Martin Company was doctored up and
made to look like a fake.
Ribera, Antonio. Two more facts for the UFO file. Flying saucer review, v. 8,
July-Aug. 1962: 14-15.
Striking similarity is noted between UFO photograph in Jan. 8, 1961, Komsom-
olskaya Pravda and UFO photograph taken in Barcelona on Aug. 27, 1959.
Roberts, August C. The Nicholson photos. Flying saucers, July-Aug. 1968: 84-
85.
Ralph E. Nichols011 of Patterson, N. J. , snapped three photos of UFOs in
November 1957 from the roof of his home while trying to photograph one of the
Sputniks.
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