UFOs and Related Subjects (Lynn Catoe, 1969)

Author believes that the scient.ific way to process UFO data is to divide the prob-
lem into two parts: (1) consider all the reports from all available sources, try-
ing to explain them in terms of conventional objects; (2) when all identified cases
have been eliminated, the residue must contain reference to the UFO phenome-
non if it exists as an unconventional, objective agent in the generation of reports.
Vallee, Jacques. A survey of French UFO research groups. Flying saucer review,
v. 13, Sept. -Oct. 1967: 22-24.
Evaluation of the five major French publications devoted to UFO research:
Ouranos (Commission Internationale d' Enqu~tes Scientifiques Ouranos); GEPA
Bulletin (GroupemE>ct d' Etude de PMnomen~s Aeriens); lllnieres dans la"""N\i'it;
Letaurier Interplanetaire; and the CEREIC Bulletin (Centred' Etude et de
Recherche d' Elements Inconnus de Civilization).
----- A ten point research proposal. Flying saucer review, v. 12, Sept. -Oct.
1966: 12-14.
Author suggests thJ.t UFO research is an ordinary field of science and lists ten
problems which can be resolved by applying conventional scientific techniques
(i.e., problems which do not require t~~ development of new methods and do
not pre-suppose new discoveries in other fields of knowledge).
----- UFO research in the U.S. A. Flying saucer review, v. 11, Nov. -Dec. 1965:
~2-36.
Author lists civilian groups rictive in UFO research and attempts to assess their
reliability.
----- UFO research in the U.S. A. Flying saucer review, v. 12, Jan. -Feb. 1966:
6-11.
Author reports on his imprei:sions of trends--motivations and theories--in
American ·ufology.
Vall~e, Jacques and Janine Vallee. Les ph~nomenes insolites de l 'esp?..ce; le dos-
sier des mysterieux objets celestes. Paris, La Table Rond, 1966. 321 p.
Part I (Chapters 3-5) is devoted to a discussion of whether the location of sight-
ings foHows a precise law; Part II (Chapters 7-10) discusses variations in the
frequency of sighting reports and their possible correlation with known phe-
nomena; Part lil (Chapters 11-13) is an attempt to establish as accurate a clas-
sification categories as possible for different types of sighting reports and
descriptions or the physical characteristics of the objects sighted.
Veit, Karl L. Erforschung ausserirdischer Weltraumschiffe -- ein wissenschaft-
liches Anliegen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wiesbaden-Schierstein, Yentl.a-Verlag,
1963. 95 p.
Discussion of ideas on the current state of European astronomy is followed by
a report on UFO's by Ruppelt, by statements of scientists on life in the uni-
verse, a report on UFO research activities in the USA, reports of UFO land1ngs
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