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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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Listing of worldwide sightings of UFOs from 1947 with emphasis on thost> viewl?d throughout Mexico in 1952. Chaloupek, Henri. Observations en Tchecoslovaquie et en Bulgarie. Phenomenes spatiaux, Mar. 1968: 20-24. Following UFO sightings are noted: (l} Ju.? 1, 1966, at Snopousov, Czecho- slovakia; (2) summer 1944 at Blovice, Czechoslovakia; and (3) Nov. 21, 1967, at Sofia, Bulgaria. Dagenis, Arleigh J. Do you believe in flying saucers? Michigan technic, Jan. 1960: 16-17, 50-51. Author summarizes details of June 1947 sighting by Kenneth Arnold of flyin~ disc-shaped objeds; the January 1948 crash of Capt. Mantell while chasing a UFO; and the June 1952 appearance of mysterious l)bjects over the White House and Capitol. He reviews the various explanatory theories. Edwards, Frank. Are our satellites hunting the saucers? Fate, v. 16, May 1963: 29-35. Within the 24-month period following 1947-1948 appearance of UFOs in the re- gion of the South Pole, Argentina, Chile, Austr.;lia, F1·ance, Great Britain, the United States, Sweden, and the Soviet Union sent expeditions to the Antarctic. Tangible developments were (1) motion and still pictures of disc-shaped ob~ects that circled ships under Chilean commander Orrego; and (2) realization tl•:it ob- jects presumably entered earth's atmosphere at polar r1o>gions for a reason. On March 2, 1958, telemetry from Explorer satellites confirmed existence of zone of intense radiation - Van \lien belt - encircling earth about 6JO miles out from equator. There- is no such belt above either of the polar regions. ----- To see or not to see. In his My first 10,000,000 sponsors. New York, Bal- lantine Books, 1956. p. 110-125. Reports are given of UFO sightings 1947-1954 by apparently reliable witnesses, especially airlines pilots, and subsequent apparent "muzzling'' of witnesses and suppression of news stories ostensibly by a Government agency. Everett, Eldon K. Saucers over Puget ~ound. Flying saucers, July-Aug. 1958: 52-60. Author relates experiences in flying saucer investigations from 1948 to 1954, including the Maury Island (Wash.) incident. Flying saucera definitely proved. Fate, v. 1, Winter 1949: 47-51. Story of a half-hour encounter Oct. 1, 1948, over Fargo, N. Dak., between an Air National Gu,ud plane and flying disc. Four witnesses confirm story. 174
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.