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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. 27 …an international scientUic problem; (4) there has never been a thorough sci- entific investigation of UFOs…
  • p. 46 …for guidance and control that gives a never-before-reached degree of precision. He documents his…
  • p. 47 …the Air Force has never denied the possibility of life on other planets; what it does…
  • p. 60 …the Air Force has never denied the possibility of life on other planets; what it does…
  • p. 99 …the meteor that never was. Flying saucer review, v. 9, Seit. -OCt. 1963: 3-7. Details…
  • p. 122 …Prairie, Minn., is reported. Keel, John A. Never mind the saucer! Did you see the guys…
  • p. 139 …for guidance and control that gives a never-before-reached degree of prP.cision. He documents…
  • p. 166 …for guidance and control that gives a never-before-reached degree of precision. He documents his…
  • p. 231 …and technological phenomena; (2) he himself has never seen a UFO and his belief in whether…
  • p. 233 …international scientific problem; (4) there hc>s never been a thorough scientific investigation cf UFOs; (5…
  • p. 337 …Although aerodyne was never built, tests on critical portions of it were made in France and…
  • p. 342 …province of no known science, they have never been properly investigated. Gallegos, Faustin. The pulsing hor…
  • p. 348 …beings who si1U1ed against God but were never given the .:hance to regain grace; and (4…
  • p. 364 …Ted Serios has apparent ability to produce photographs of places he has never been, never seen…
  • p. 385 …future blended, but also time tracks that never h4ppened. Pcoxima Centauri is the tale of an…
  • p. 398 …25, 1804) of an aerial object that was never positively identified. Powers comments tilat Dunbar's…
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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