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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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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, 1956). - 162
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 419 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.