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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. 48 …pilots Capt. Jack Adams and G. W. Anderson, Jr., near Little Rock, Ark.; in July 1948…
  • p. 193 …pilots Capt. .Jack Adams and G. W. Anderson, Jr., near Little Rock, Ark.; in July 1948…
  • p. 196 …Donald Menzel's rejection of his report. Anderson, Carl. Two nights to remember. Los Angeles, New…
  • p. 205 …pilots Capt. Jack Adams and G. W. Anderson, Jr., near Little Rock, Ark.; in July 1948…
  • p. 211 …believed to be connected with the sightings. Anderson, Dave, The saucer tnat terrorized a town. Saga…
  • p. 272 …published in Toronto by Ambassador Books, Ltd. Anderson, Poul. Is there life on other worlds? With…
  • p. 400 …Gordon 47, 109, 151 Allingham, Cedric 1, 60, 79 Anders, Edward 249 Anderson, Carl 179 Anderson…
Hickman, Warren and Eric Turner. Report from Ohio Northern. Fate, v. 6, Oct.
1953: 21-25.
Highlights from analysis of the 54 UFO sightings reported to Ohio Northern
University's Project A are: (1) the objects fly with a pe~~iar step-like pattern
of flight, moving in a horizoni.al path, then risinJ! n ... rtically, then moving hori-
zontally again, in a series of steps; (2} i.rained observers who have been close
to the "saucers" state they are material objects; (3) they are disc-like in shape
and their domes give of! w1 amber light. At night the color seems reddish. 'lbe
rest of the disc is silver-colored c ~cept for a hazy blue light around the edges;
(4) observers only yards from the objects sighted have ruled 01Jt explanations of
light reflection, cloud formation, ionization, and similar theories.
Hynek, J. Allen. The scientific problem posed by unidentified flying objects. Evans-
ion, Ill., The Author, 1968. 15 p.
Author makes the following recommendations: (1) that a mechanism be set up
whereby the problem posed by the reports from all over the world, but especial-
ly in the U.S. , from people of high credibility, can be adequately studied, using
all methods available to modern science; and (2) that the U.S. seek the coopera-
tion of the United Nations in establishing a means for the impartial and free in-
terchange among nations of information about unidentified flying objects. State-
ment made at the Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Committee on Sci-
ence and Astronautics, House of Representatives, July 29, 1968.
----- Tne UFO gap. Playboy, v. 14, D~c. 1967: 144-146, 267, 269-271.
Author says that from what "hard" information he has, the U.S. S. R. may have
lx>en studyini; the UFO phenomenon with dispassionate thoroughness for years;
the U. S. is only now beginning to consid~r treating the problem seriously. He
outlinc•s what he believes to be a thorough and efficient way to obtain scientific
knowled~e of UFOs.
I nostri a(lerenti ci hanno chiesto. il parere sull' AIAS. Centro unico nazionale per
lo studio del fenomeni ritenuti di natura extraterrestre. Notiziario, no. 4,
1967: 1-4.
Repurt on founding in Home of l 'Associ.azione Italiana Avvistatori Spaziali which
proposes to scientifically study the UFC ~henomenon and to serve as an inter-
national clearinghouse for UFO information.
Keel, John. UFOs--the statistical problem. Flying saucers, Aug. 1968: 18-19.
Author states that random UFO sighting reports do not provide data of sufficient
depth or ''keye to the many hidden factors" of the pher.omenon. He suggests
that UFO researchers revise their approach to the subject and "search for new
and possibly illogical (by our standards) clues buried in the more controversial
cases."
Kor, Peter. Perspective: flying saucers--physical or psychic? Saucer news,
v. 13, Fall 1966: 10-12.
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