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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…
In setting up a scientific im·esti~ation into the UFO phenomenon, it is suggested
that the foHowing steps be takt-n: (1) cancellation of unnecesmrysecurity restric-
tions; (2) a systematic rather than haphazud search for UFO appearances; (3)
use of the most effective detection methods available; (4) determination of the
best locations to set up detection instruments; (5) use of a conver~ent pr()('Pdure
to alert given areas of a possible UFO sighting; {6) distribution of available
equipment and trained observers iu reasonable proportions in different areas;
(71 consideration of effect the search procec:b1re might have on the searthed
object.
Fouere, Rene. Sommes-nous aun tournant? Phenom~:les spatiamc, Dec. 1966: 6-
12.
Author postuiates that UFO research seems to have rea.-:hed a crucial turning
point and cites ".S indications oi this the fact that (1) USAF has begun to make
its Project Blu1• Book files more accessible to researchers, and (2) establish-
ment of the Condon Project at the University GI Cul orado to study UFO phtnomena.
Gibbons, Russel W. Ohio Northern investigates the saucers. Fate, v. 5, Oct.
1953: 18-20.
Basic objectives of Ohio Northern's ?roject A. begun in July 1952, are sum-
marized: (1) to objectively collect data from all possible sources deali~ with
''flying saucers, " and to anal7zP this data in various departmi'nts of the unh•u-
sity; (2) to make public the results of research of a private institution u~am -
pered by bureaucratic restrictions; (3) to stimulate and promote objecti\'e study
of all types of illusory phenomena by individual observers, and to issue reports
of the project investigations; and (4) to aid in creating more accurate observers
for the civilian air defense program.
Gli UFO 1al' lnghilterra all 'URfilo,. Centro unico nazionalc per lo studio del fenom-
eni ritenuti di natura extraterrestre. Notiziario, No. 6, 1967: 13-20.
Newspaper accounts of "official" Soviet interest in flying saucers are summa-
rized. Government commission to study UFO phenomenon is discuo;;sed.
Gre~nfield, Irving A. The UFO report. New York, !.ancer Books, 19t:7. 141 p.
Summary of tile author's personal investigations into the numerous UFO sight-
ing repo:-ts on Long Island, N. Y., in the spring of 1966, including many first-
hand accounts and a review of the history of the phenomenoa. Supports the ex-
traterrestrial thesis ar.t' the ''Air Force ccnspiracy" allegations.
Hatvany, Edgar A. Dr. Hynek & the UFOs. BU FORA journal and bulletin, v. 1,
Autumn 1966: 5-8.
Commentary on letter from Dr. J. Allen Hynek dated Aug. 1, 1966, and sub-
mitted to but not pubH..;hert by Jlcience, in which he urges scientific attention
to the CFO phenomenon.
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