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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…
Inquiry into the language and concepts that have been used to determine the n<' -
ture of the l'FO phenomenon.
Kor, Peter. UFOs from the critic's corner: the myth of the flying saucer mystery.
Flying saucers, Dec. 1959: 48-53.
Author, a non-believer in UFOs, gives reasons for his non-belief and critically
analyzes current UFO "rese?.rch."
McDonald, James E. A need for un international study of UFOs. Flying saucer
review, v. 14, Mar. -Apr. 1968: 11.
Author writes an endorsement to Soviet scientist Zigel's plea for "a joint effort
of all the scientists of the world" to determine the nature of UFOs. From a
Dec. 10, 1967, New York Times story by Henry Kamm.
Malian, Lloyd. What we are doing about UFOs. Science & mechanics, v. ~8, Jan.
1967: 38-43, 62-67, 76.
Survey of activities of official and private organizations engaged in UFO research.
Maney, Charles A. Scientific aspects of UFO research. Flying saucer review,
v. 4, Sept. -Oct. 1958: 10-12, 30.
Maney discusses role of scientific method in UFO research in speech at open-
ing of Planetary Center, Detroit, Mich., June 14, 1958.
Margolis, Howard. The UFO phenomenon. Bulletin of the atomic scientists, v. 23,
June 1967: 40-42.
Problems and diificulties inherent in the UnivE:rsity of Colorado study of uniden-
tified flying objects are discussed by the author. He concludes that it is un-
likely that the final report will resolve the issue and speculates that it may
"add m'.lre fuel to the controversy. •·
Michel, Aime. A note on William of Occam. Flying saucer review, v. 14, Mar. -
Apr. 1968: 10-11.
Author points out that William of Occam's dictum that "for the purpo:;e of ex-
planation, things not known to exist should not. .. be postulated as existing" is
a dangerous intellectual narcotic. He asserts that all discoveries without ex-
ception have been made by rebels who rejected the "simplest hypothesis, " and
likens these pioneers to UFO researchers who refuse to adhere to the ''mis-
interpretation'' theory about. UFOs.
Miller, Max B. Report on the UFO. FatP, v. 9, Dec. 1956: 31-34.
Review of Edward J. Ruppelt's book about the U.S. Air Force's UFO investi-
gations, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (New York, Doubleday,
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