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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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Got.Je, H. C. Did Jones ch<i.i."t Ciii iiiiAuuwn worid? Fate, v. 10, Ap;.-. 1957: 68-7\l. A.nal~•sis of the 700-page observations of Zodiacal Light made Apr. 4, 1853 to Feb. 3, 1855, by Rev. Jones, Chaplain of Commodore Perry's expedition to Japan, seems to indicate that some components of tb"J "tight'· were artificially- propelled luminous objects with behavior identical to that of UFOs. Hanlon, Donald B. TeJias odyssey of 1897. Flying saucer review, v. 12, Sept. - Oct. 1966:. 8-11. Wave of UFO sightings over Texas during 1897 as reported in the press is discussed. , Hanlon, Donald B. and ,Jacques Vallee. Airships over Texas. Flying saucer review, 7. !3, Jan. -Feb. 1967: 20-25. Article documents the analysis of the 1896-1897 wave of UFO sightL'1gs ever the U.S. by presenting thirty hitherto unpublished reports. Larson, Kenneth L. Charles Fort and the UFO. Flying saucers, July 1959: 20-23, 42. Speculates on whether sightings of unidentified flying objects between November 1896 and April 1897 reported by Charles Fort implied that an aerial survey of the world took place. Lore, Gordon and Harold H. Deneault. Mysteries of the skies: UFOs in perspec- tive. Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice-Hall, 1968. 237 p. Historical aspects of the UFO phenomenon are presented. The 1897 ''airship" reports are h·eated in detail. Miller, Robert W. and Rick R. Hilberg. The saucer enigma. Cleveland, Ohio, UFO Magazine Publications, 1968. 23 p. In "A Brief History of the Saucers," UFO sightings, 1619-1897, are listed; a general st.mmary of the UFO controversy follows. Ribera, Antol)io. El gran enigm:t de los platillos volantes, desde la prehistoria hasta la epoca actual. Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Barcelona, Editorial Pomaire, 1966. 431 p. Author summarizes worldwide reports of unexplained aerial phenomena (1800s- 1960s) with emphasi:; on U.S. accounts and on the 1954 wave of UFO sightings in France. Current theories on the possibility of life in other worlds are dis- cussed. Hypothese11 attempting to explain the UFO phenomenon are surveyed. Watson, W. H. 19th century paraglider? Flying saucer review, v. 13, Nov. -Dec. 1957: 21. 171
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.