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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…
Professor Fred Hoyle is quoted ':ls saying that quasars "must be gravity power-
ed" and that ''if these stars are gravity-powered they will be found to be pulsat-
ing." It is suggested that the observed pulsations of UFOs might w~ll suggest
they are gravity-powered.
Oberth, Hermann. Dr. Hermann Oberth discusses UFOs. Fate, v. 15, May 1962:
36-43.
Author says that in the absence of a more plausible explanation, ·1ne might as-
su~e that UFOs are "flying machines·· that (1) are not built by hcman beings;
(2) fly by means of artificial gravity fields; and (3) produce high-tension elec-
tric charges to push the air out of their pati1s so that it doea not start glowing,
and strong magnetic fields to interact with ionized air at higher altitudes.
Transitions of UFOs from half-transparent to invisible state might be related
to creation of artificial gravity fields. Oberth ''would bet 100 to one that some
of the contact persons are normal and have seen and experienced something. "
Ogden, Richard C. The creation of the solar system. Flying saucer review, v. 4,
July-Aug. 1958: 14-18.
Author reveals that there are more than nine planets in our solar system and
gives locations of three newly-discovered planets; that our solar system con-
tains more than one asteroid belt; and gives informatic.~ on how man c~'l defy
gravity and apply this knowledge toward building a spacecraft that can maneu-
ver outside earth's atmosphere.
Plantier, Jean. La propulsion des soucoupes volantes par action directe sur latome.
Tours, Maison Mame, 1955. 123 p.
Presents theqry and supportir.g arguments that UFOs are propelled through use
of a controlled force field. Explain::; observed anomalies in behavior of UFOs
by this theory.
Ross, John C. Canada hunts for saucers. Fate, v. 7, May 1954: 12-15.
Canada's Project Magnet with equipment that could be used to investigate the
possibility of flying saucers powered :1y magn:-tic propulsion is described.
Slater, Robert M. Solving the secret of UFO propulsion. Flying saucers, June
1968: 15-17.
Author proposes a hypothetical propulsion system for UFOs based on phenome-
na observed in relation to the objects. He theorizes that the machines are
powered by a small fusion reactor which operates by combining deuterium
with helium.
Strong, James Godwin. Flight to the stars. New York, Hart Publishing Co., 1965.
178 p.
Speculative discussion of future galactic flight by man, including possible
means of propulsion and galactic worlds that may be congenial for habitation.
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