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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. 44 …three sure-fire perennial sensations--flying saucers, sea serpents (sometimes the Loch Ness monster), and Abominable…
  • p. 71 …More about UFOs and the sea. Flying raucer review, "· 11, Nov. -Dec. 1965: 17-18. Author…
  • p. 104 …Mysteries on the land, in the sea, in the air, and in outer space are discussed…
  • p. 113 …More about UFOs and the sea. Flying saucer review, v. 11, Nov. - Dec. 1965: 17-18…
  • p. 126 …Mysteries on the la.1d, in the sea, in the ai!', and in outer space are…
  • p. 158 …Saucer photographed at sea. Flying saucers, July 1959: 6-9. While author was with the British…
  • p. 213 …1966, a flaming object fell into the sea; there were many witnes!'\es. On Aug. 17…
  • p. 267 …an area west of the moon's Sea of Tran- quility released by NASA on Nov…
  • p. 339 …The mystery of flying saucers at sea. Rudder, v. 84, Feb. 1968: 21-23, 75. Account…
  • p. 340 …More about UFOs and the sea. Flying saucer review, v. 11, Nov. -Dec. 1965: 17-18…
  • p. 341 …UFOs atid the sea. Flying saucer revi£-w, v. 10, Nov. -l>C!c. !964: 8…
  • p. 343 …Descriptions of mysterious flames, phantom ships, and huge sea serpents given by pre-Fortean historians and…
  • p. 344 Mysterious aerial fire and similar phenomena on the earth and sea Mted by old Roman authors…
  • p. 367 …Ocean, opposite the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea, a large island--the remnant of an Atlantic…
  • p. 383 …converting Mars' atmosphere to N203 and its seas to nitric acid, thereby making the planet uninhabitable…
  • p. 387 …now inside the Parth and under the sea. The mode of speech of these beings is…
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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