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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.
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Hervey, Michael. The strange growing in Martinique. Fate, v. 9, Sept. 1956: 27-41. Radioactive deposits of an unknown nature on the island of Martinique seem to affect the growth of animals, insects, plants, and man to a remarkable degree. It is suggested that an extraterrestrial spacecraft crashed on Monte Pel~e in 1948 and that the radiation is emanating from the wreck which has buried itself deeply in the ground. Slaboda, Emil. He collected on a flying saucer. Fate, v. 10, June 1957: 66-69. Night watchman Harry J. Sturdevant was granted medical compensation for disability caused by injuries he said he suffered when a UFO zoomed past him while he was on duty. Alleged incident took place near Trenton, N. J. , on Oct._2, 1956. Smith, Alson J. Psychic warnings of Pel~e eruption. Fate, v. 13, May 1960: 27- 34. Many omens of disaster preceded the eruption of Mt. Pelee, Martinique. on May 8, 1902. A single fiery blast incinerated the 40,000 occupants of the city of St. Pierre in less than one minute. It ha~ been speculated th1t explosion of a..*l e~raterrestrial spacecraft within the mountain's crater was responsible for th~ destruction. Young, Mort. The flying saucer invasion that panicked thP Pentagon. Saga, v. 34, July 1967: 22-25, 70, 72, 74-76. It is claimed that after the flurry of UFO sightings in Michigan in March 1966, investigators found traces of radioactivity, peculiar impres~ions in the ground, and that all plant and animal life in the immediate sighting area had b1:>en k1lled. Excerpted from UF'O--Top Secret (New York, Simon & Schuster, 1967). RESEARCH Bowman, Norman J. The need for critical analysis of flying disc reports. Journal of spaceflight, v. 5, Nov. 1953: 11. UFO data that has been gathered by Government and civilian research groups should be analyzed statistically to indicate what is probably unreliable, deter- mine averages, etc., the author suggests. He feels that this is the only way the UFO problem can be approached to yield conclusions of significance. Caputo, Livio. Anche gli astronauti hanno visto i dischi. volanti. Epoca, v. LXIV, Aug. 28, 1966: 16-23. Report on UFO sightings, chiefly in the U.S., from 1897 to 19titi and on investi- gation of phenomenon by Project Blue Book. Research programs of NICAP and APRO are mentioned. 158
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 419 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.