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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…
Findings contained in CAA T. D. Report No. 180 entitled "A Preliminary Study
of Unidentified Targets Observed on Air Traffic Control Radars" by Richard C.
Borden and Tirey K. Vickers.
Malian, Lloyd. These saucers nearly foole1 the Air Force. T'lis week, May 7,
1967: 4-5.
Report on investigation of radar sightings near Guam of what appeared to be
UFOs. Objects weret identified as U.S. aircraft flying below horizon.
Saucers over Paris. Flying saucers from other worlds, June 1957: 76-77.
UFO was tracked by radar from Orly Airport, near Paris, France, on Febru-
ary 19, 1956. Speed was calculated at 2,250 miles an hour.
Something in the air. Time, v. 60, Aug. 11, 1952: 58.
Radar. impulses bouncing off a temperature inversion are suggested as the ex-
planation for mysterious radar "blips" believed by some to be caused by flying
saucers over the Capitol in Washington, D. C., .July 20-21, 1952.
Study radar ''ghosts.'' Science news letter, v. 62, Aug. 16, 1952: 99.
Article states that a DOD panel is trying to discover the phenomena that can be
picked ~P by radar. It is hoped that findings will help dispel impression that
uaex~1ected 'blips'' appearing on radar screens are "flying saucers. "
Temperature inversions cause 'flying saucers." Science news letter, v. 62, Dec.
20, 1952: 388.
Report the CAA had confirmed that the ''flying saucers'' seen on radar scopes
at National Airport near Washington, D. C., during July 1952 were results of
temperature inversions bending the radar waves.
RAOIATJON EFFECTS
Foght, Paul. Guilty: the m}'stery ray that kills. Fate, v. 14, Mar. 1961: 31-33.
A young man is found dead in his car, his skin and flesh destroyed while his
clothing and hair were intact. The car was hot enough to melt a religious stat-
ue on the dashboard althoubh nothing w~s burned. It is sugp;ested that a nuclear
energy ray would have had this effect.
Haythornthwaite, P. K. Radioactivity and the UFO. BUFORA journal and bulletin,
v. 1, Summer 1965: 13-14.
Possible radiation effects of UFOs are considered.
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