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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…
Unger, George. F1ying saucer: physical and spiritual aspects. Foreword by Dr. H.
Poppelbaum. East Grinstead, Sussex, Eng., New Knowledge Books, 1958.
43 p.
An anthr~csophist convinced of spiritual relationship between the cosmos and
earth, autltor postulates tha' while UFOs are real pt.enomena, they are not
spacecraft ~.rom other p!anetE.; the spreading of sensational news about their
appearanc~s may be considered a largP.-scale diverting maneuver by advers'.!
spiritual forr.es to distract mankind from task of spiritual development.
Walsh, William T. Our Lady of Fatima. New York, Macmillan, 1947. 227 p.
RADAR
'Ibree shepherd children from Serra da Aire, Portugal, reported six times in
1917 that they had seen a circular globe of light descend from the heavens and
had spoken with a lady--later thought to be the Virgin Mary--who had stepped
from inside it.
Browning, Keith A. and David Atlas. Velocity characteristics of some clear-air
dot angels. Journal of the atmospt.eric sciences, v. 23, Sept. 1966: 592-604.
Nat'.1re of the targets responsible for cel'tain clear-air dot angel echoes, and
their suitability as winu tracers, are deduced from pulse Doppler radar obser-
vations of their velocity characteristics.
Edwards, Frank. Frank Edwards' report: Have UFOs learned to outwit radar?
Fate, v. 12, Dec. 1959: 50-55.
Sightings of UFOs flying either very high or very low may indicate radar de-
t<:?ction evasion maneuvers.
Glover, Kenneth M., Kenneth R. Hardy, Thomas G. Konrad, W. N. Sullivan, and
A. S. Michaels. Radar observations of insects in free flight. Science, v. 154,
Nov. 25, 1966: 967-972.
It is concluded that the mysterious discrete "dot angel" echoes observed from
invisible targets in the apparently clear atmosphere are, in large measure,
due to insects.
Klass, Philip. That was no saucer, that was an echo. Aviation week, v. 59,
July 20, 195.l: 26, 28, 30.
CAA study of unidentified radar plots is reported as showing that the spurious
targets are caused by radar energy which ricochets off small atmosphei-lc
areas, strikes the ground, and returns an echo via the same path. These iso-
lated refracting 'l.reas are normally found under temperature inversion condi-
tions an~ travel with the wind, giving moving-target indications on radar scopes.
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