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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.
“Condon”15 pages
Details of maneuvers of cogwheel-like mechanisms--possibly sonde devices from another world designe~ to record relief of earth's surface--sighted on Mar. 26, 1966, near Attigneville, France; on May 31, 1955, at Puy-Sajnt- Galmier, France; and on Feb. 8, 1855, in DevonsJ-Jre, England. Caputo, Livio. Anche gli astronauti hanno visto i dischi volanti. Epoca, v. LXIV, Aug. 28, 1966: 16-<!3. Report on UFO sightings, chiefly in the U.S. 1 from 1897 to 191Hi and on investt- gation of phenomenon by Project Blue Book. Research programs of NICAP and APRO are mentioned. Ciark, Jerome. A contact claim. Flying saucer review, v. 11, Jan. -Feb. 1965: 30-32. Noting 'the way in which the "beings" associated with the 1897 "airship" sightings seemed ~nteres.tcd in reinforcing the belief that the craft was of mundane origin, the author concludes that the extraterrestrials either were engaged in some un- known activity in which they did not want their real iden•ity made known, or that they chose to hide their existence realizing that the comparative unsophistica- tion of nineteenth century Americans would not permit them to accept the inter - planetary answer. ----- More on 1897. Flying saucer review, v. 13, July-Aug. 1967: 22-23. Story in the April 2::S, 1897, Harrisburg (Ark.} Modern News is quoted, relating the visit of an "airship'' and conversation of the ''aeronaut" with ~.n ex-Senator. ----- The strange case of the 1897 airship. Flying saucer review, v. 12, July- Aug. 1966: 10-17. Account of large numbers of piloted aircraft, carrying brilliant searchlights and hun1an-like passengers, capable of flying against the wind, landing and taking off when approached, which first appeared in northern California in November 1896 and reappeared all over the wester;; and midwestern United States in March 1897. Farish, Lucius. An 1880 UFO. Flying saucer review, v. 11, May-June 1965: 34- 35. A balloon describP.d as raving the shape of a fish and ''apparently guided by :i large fanlike apparatus" was seen, with occupants, over Gallisto Junction, N. M., on March 26, 1880. Account appf'ared in the Daily New Mexican, San- ta Fe, 1880, and in June 1964 _True West magazine. Unidentified ''airships" of the Gay Nineties. Fate, v. 19, Nov. 1966: 94-104. Newspaper items ~re cited as evidence of aerial activity over a large portion of the U.S. d'lring 1896-1897. Passengers of aircraft also reportedly observed. 170
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