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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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Announcement that the Air Force had enlisted Dr. Edward U. Condon of the University of Colorado to head a 15-month study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) under~ :t313,000 grant. Sprinkle, R. Leo. Patterns of UFO reports. Laramie, Wyoming, The Author, 1967. 15p. References are cited which survey the literature on UFO reports, including ex- planatory hypotheses. Results of various investigators are summarized, with emphasis on evidence indicating that UFOs are spacecraft controUed by intelli- gent beings who are conducting an intensive survey of the earth. Suggestions are offered with regard to psychological procedures ~nd techniG_ues for investi- gating UFO reports, with emphasis on hypnotic !echniques and the pendulum technique for comparing the reliaLility of conscious and subconsdous informa- tion from UFO observers. Speech given at Sept. 1-5, 1968, meeting of Ameri- can Psychological Association, Washington, D. C., under title "Psychological Problems of Gathering UFO Data.'' ----- Some uses of hypnosis iri ~JFO r£Jt.arch. Laramie, Wyoming, The Author, 19GIL 18 p. A brief review of UFO literature is presented. Examples are described in the use of hypnotic techniques in investigation of persons who have observed UFO phenomena. Advantages an,· disadvantages of hypnosis are discussed in regard to obtaining more detailed information from UFO observers. Speculations are offered regarding possible relationships of paranormal or ESP processes and observations of UFO phenomena. Cases are described which indicate possible relationship;; of hypnotic and psychic experiences of UFO observers. Sugges- tions are presented for further investigation of UFO phenomena through use of hypnotic and parapsychological procedures. Speech delivered May 9, 1968, at Rocky Mountain Psychological Association Meeting. Szachnowski, Antoni. The necessity of a global international federation of UFO groups. BUFORA journal and bulletin, v. 1, Spring 1965: 5-9. L•?cture at the Southern Region UFO Research Groups Conference, Oxford, England, May 8, 1965. Tacker, Lawrence J. Flying saucers and the U.S. Air Fc;.·ce. Princeton, N. J., Van Nostrand, 1960. 164 p. Author, a former USAF public information officer on UFOs, discusses UFO sightings reported to Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center (Project Blue Book), Wright Patterson Air Force Base, from Summer 1947 through Summer 1960 in attempt to demonstrate that, in general, they were misinterpretations of known objects. He also gives history of USAF's research effort into UFO !)henomena, including Project Saucer and Project Grudge. UFOs again. Ordnance, v. 51, Mar. -Apr. 1967: 450 Announcement that USAF had awarded a~313,000 contract to the University of Colorado for scientific evaluation of UFOphenomenon. Project would be head- ed by Dr. Edward U. Condon. 165
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 419 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.