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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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Miller, Ste'Vart. On scientific dogma. Flying saucer review, v. 13, Mar. -Apr.
196'1: 26-27.
Speculation ab('lut UFOs must be expr~ssed within a coherent and consistent
framework, the author postulates; otherwise UFO researchers mui;t n~t level
ac.cusations of '.":\rrow-mindedness at those who point out mistakes.
Munday, John C. On the UFOs. Bulletin of the atomic scientists, v. 23. Dec.
1967: 40-4L
Ai.1thor urges independent, exhaustive studies into the UFO phenomenon.
Oberth, Hermann. Warum Ufoforschung? In Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft ftlr
Interplanetarik. Wien, J:;uropaischer-Verlag, 1961. p. 1-7.
After summarizing hypotheses that might explain the UFO phenomenon, the
author predicts that scientific institutions will enter seriously into UFO re-
search once the field has been more clearly defined so that it can be assigned
to the appropriate specialists and when enough evidence h:::.s been collected .so
that the facts can no longer be denied or ridic•1led.
Plenty going on in the ..;kies. U.S. news & world report, v. 36, Jan. 1, 1954: 27-
28.
Exrerpts from text of USAF report on its investigation of •midentified flying ob-
jects during 1952.
Priestly, Lee. Inside At~kO ... a saucer f::in club. Fate, v. 12, Jan. 19S9: 59-65.
Account of the c::.ctivities of the Aerial Phenomena Research ('Ir ·anization (APRO)
of Tucson, Arizona.
The Projec:t A report. Ada, Ohio, Ohio No&thern University. 1953. 9 p.
Scientific analysis of unidentified flying objects reported in the year 1952. Con-
ducted by the faculty and staff of Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio.
Psychoanalyzing the flying saucers. Air force, v. 33, Feb. 1950: 15-19.
Psychological study prepared by USAF's Aeromedical Laboratory. Writer con-
cludes that there are sufficient psychological explanations for the reports of
unidentified flying objects to provide plausible explanations for reports not
otherwise explainable. Errors in identifying real stimuli result chiefly from
inability to estimate speed, distance, and size.
Rehn, K. Gosta. The question of procf -- a new slant. Bromma, Sweden, The
Author. 1967. 5 p.
It is ~he author:.,; ~on~en.tion that in the study of the UFO phenomenon, philosophy
of science has 1ur1sd1chon and must rule on the problem, claiming precedence
over other disciplines.
163 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.