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UFOs and Related Subjects (Lynn Catoe, 1969)

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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.

  • p. 18 …Discussion of activities of and reports of UFO sightings made to International Flying Saucer Bureau, organized…
  • p. 27 ----- :UFOs--an international scientific problem. Tucson, Ariz., The Author, 1968. 40 p. Summarizing his position, the…
  • p. 30 …Surveys UFO sighting reports and discusses current explanatory hypotheses. Includes a chapter on 'What to Do…
  • p. 31 …author's home a ''UFO reporting post," and CRIFO was lmown internation- ally as a "civilian…
  • p. 32 …Report includes statements reporting simultaneous U.tu sightings by ground obs'";rvers. United Press International. Flying…
  • p. 44 Review of UFO sighting reports, especially in the U.S. A., a.nd of theorie::> ad…
  • p. 52 …Proceedings of the 7th International UFO Congress, Mainz, Germany, Nov. 3-6, 1967. Vonkeviczky e gli…
  • p. 105 Discussion of activities of and reports of UFO sightings made to International Flying Saucer Bureau, organized…
  • p. 144 References are cited which f'.lXVey the liter2.ture en UFO reports, including explanatory hypotheses. F…
  • p. 146 …State-of-the-art report on theories and research relating to the UFO phenomenon. Author concludes…
  • p. 156 …Proceedings of ~he 7th International UFO Congress, Mainz, Germany, Nov. 3-6, 1967. Zinsstag, Lou. Conversations…
  • p. 179 …A need for un international study of UFOs. Flying saucer review, v. 14, Mar. -Apr. 1968…
  • p. 182 …Author, a former USAF public information officer on UFOs, discusses UFO sightings reported to Aerospace Technical…
  • p. 197 …Discussion of activities of and reports of UFO :::ightb1gs made to International Flying Saucer Bureau, organized…
  • p. 198 …Scientists were participating in 2nd International Geophysical Year 1956-58 exp2dition. Report supplied by UFO Chile…
  • p. 230 …Thant urging international COOPf}ration in studying the UFO phenomenon. Edwards, Frank. Arthur C. Clarke looks…
  • p. 233 …UFOs--an international scientific p!'oblem. Tucson, Ariz., The Author, 1968. 40 p. Summarizing his position…
  • p. 293 …Feature article en UFO reports in which there was alleged communication with the occupants or crew…
Book discusses UFO sightings, the persons who made them, the persons who
made evaluations of the sightings, and what people who thl'lk they'vt! made actu-
al contacts with aliens think these sightings mean.
Chartrand, Robert L. and William F. Brown. Facts about unidentified flying ob-
jects. Washington, Library of Congress, Legislative Reference Service, 1966.
29 p.
Includes the following: description of various types of UFOs; trends in UFO
activity; historical sightings of aerial phenomena; identification of flying ob-
jects (versus UFOs); U.S. Government monitoring of UFO activity; special
studies of UFOs; sptclal briefings on UFO activity; public reaction to UFOs;
Air Force Regulation 200-2.
Coelho Netto, Paulo. A realidade dos discos voadores. Rio de Janeiro, Editora
Minerva, 1966. 59 p.
Cohen, Daniel. Myths of the space age. New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1967.
278 p.
Author discusses "myths" -- including flying saucers -- that have persisted in-
to modern times"although mankind shouldby nowknowbetter .." In his discus-
sion of UFOs, he cites and oifrrs explanations for several classic sightings.
Cox, Donald W., ed. America's explorers of space, including a speciaJ report on
UFOs. Maplewood, N. J, , Hammond, 1967. 93 p.
Special rep' rt on unidentified flying objects gives brief overview oi the UFO
controve ··,y. Possible UFO sightings by Gemini astronauts Young and Collins
in mid- ~.:166 are discussed as well as attempts made to contact other worlds
under Project Ozma.
Cremaschi, Inisero and Guiseppe Pederiali. Dischi volanti: benvenuti. Bologna,
Carroccio, 1967. 157 p.
Summary of evidence in support of theory of extraterrestrial origin of UFOs.
UF'O photographs from many parts of the world are analyzed and discussed as
are contactee reports.
Da Silva, Renato I. No espaco nao estamoJ s6s. ffilo Paulo, Edart, 1966. 213 p.
Theories relating to possibility of life on the moon and other planets are sum-
marized. Parapsychological phenomena of mental telepathy precognition, ESP,
premonition, and astral projection are discussed as they might relate to con-
tact with extraterrestrial entities or intelligences.
Do.wid, Jay. The flying saucer reader. New York, New American Library, 1967.
244 p.
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