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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. 44 …three sure-fire perennial sensations--flying saucers, sea serpents (sometimes the Loch Ness monster), and Abominable…
  • p. 71 …More about UFOs and the sea. Flying raucer review, "· 11, Nov. -Dec. 1965: 17-18. Author…
  • p. 104 …Mysteries on the land, in the sea, in the air, and in outer space are discussed…
  • p. 113 …More about UFOs and the sea. Flying saucer review, v. 11, Nov. - Dec. 1965: 17-18…
  • p. 126 …Mysteries on the la.1d, in the sea, in the ai!', and in outer space are…
  • p. 158 …Saucer photographed at sea. Flying saucers, July 1959: 6-9. While author was with the British…
  • p. 213 …1966, a flaming object fell into the sea; there were many witnes!'\es. On Aug. 17…
  • p. 267 …an area west of the moon's Sea of Tran- quility released by NASA on Nov…
  • p. 339 …The mystery of flying saucers at sea. Rudder, v. 84, Feb. 1968: 21-23, 75. Account…
  • p. 340 …More about UFOs and the sea. Flying saucer review, v. 11, Nov. -Dec. 1965: 17-18…
  • p. 341 …UFOs atid the sea. Flying saucer revi£-w, v. 10, Nov. -l>C!c. !964: 8…
  • p. 343 …Descriptions of mysterious flames, phantom ships, and huge sea serpents given by pre-Fortean historians and…
  • p. 344 Mysterious aerial fire and similar phenomena on the earth and sea Mted by old Roman authors…
  • p. 367 …Ocean, opposite the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea, a large island--the remnant of an Atlantic…
  • p. 383 …converting Mars' atmosphere to N203 and its seas to nitric acid, thereby making the planet uninhabitable…
  • p. 387 …now inside the Parth and under the sea. The mode of speech of these beings is…
Descriptive and analytical study of 243 don estic and 30 foreign reported UFO
sightings between 1947 and 1948. Indh'idual cases are described in brief form
as an appt>ndix. Methods and reasoning applied in evaluating data are presented.
Project Sign was initiated by the Technical Intelligence Division, Air Materiel
Con1mand, on January 22, 1948.
U.S. _.\.ir Force. Air Materiel Command. Unidentified flying objects; Project
Grudge. Dayton, Ohio, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 1949. 366 p.
(Its Technical Report No. 102-Ac 49;15100)
Report discusses in full the history of Project Grudge, the problems encounter-
ed, and the procedures followed in the investigation and evaluation of reports
of unidentified flying objects through January 1949.
U.S. Air Force. Air Technical Int~lligence Center. Special report no. 14. (Anal-
ysis of reports of unider~tifiecl aerial objects}. Dayton, Ohio, Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base, 1955. 308 p. (Project no. 10073)
Results of 1953 study of UFOs by committee chaired by H. P. Robertson, theo-
retical physicist at California Institute of Technology. Examination of distri-
butions of important characteristics of sightings and study of siglitings evaluat-
ed as "unkn~wn'' led to conclusion that a combination of factors, principally the
reported maneuvers of the objects and unavailability of supplemental data such
as aircraft flight plans or balloon-launchir.g records, resulted in failure to
identify as "knowns" most of thereportsof objects classified as "unknowns.•·
Vallee, Jacques. Ghost rockets: a moment of history. Flying saucer review,
v. 10, July-Aug. 1964: 30-32.
Article cites reports in French press of strange lights, apparently Jnder intel-·
ligent control, seen in northern Europe during 1946.
What the Air Force beiieves about flying saucers. Fate, v. 2, Nov. 1949: 69-83.
Digest of official report of studies made by Project Saucer of the Air Materiel
Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Incidents involving
Kenneth Arnold (.June 24, 1947), Capt. Thoman F. Mantell (.Tan. 7, 1948),
Eastern Air Lines pilots Capt. C. S. Chiles and John B . .Vhitted(July 1948~
and North Dakota National Guard Lt. George F. Gorman (Oct. 1, 1948) are
discussed.
Wilkins, Harold T. Flying saucers uncensored. New 10rk, Citadel Press, 1955.
255 p.
Author catalogues UFO sightings and incidents over U. K., Western Europe,
U.S., and Australia from 1947 through 1955 and speculates that extraterres-
trial visitants :ire possibly established in bases on moon and other planets; a
cosmic general staff may receive reports on terrestrial affairs as well as bio-
logical and ecological samples from earth for purposes of study and
expt>rimentation.
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