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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…
1950s
An airline captain speaks out. The UFO investigator, v. 2, Oct. -Nov. 1962: 5-6.
Main details arr! given of July 14, 1952, UFO sighEng by Pan American
Airways pilot Capt. William B. Nash. Statement by Nash is published in
reply to Dr. Donald Menzel's rejection of his report.
Anderson, Carl. Two nights to remember. Los Angeles, New Age Publishing Co.,
1956. 55 p.
Flying saucers are allegedly viewed at close range by author and his family
on Apr. 4, 1954, on the Mojave Desert, California, and in August 1955 at
Yosemite National Park.
Barker, Gray. Chasing the flying saucers. Flying 3a•.1cers, Dec. 1958: 43-56.
Summary of UFO sightings and activities of UFO researchers during summer
1958.
----- Chasing the flying saucers. Flying saucers, Feb. 1959: 2•1-34.
Report on high incidence of UFO sightings in 1958.
----- Chasing the flying saucers. Flying saucers, July 1959: 24-37.
Feb. 24, 1959, UFO sighting by American Airlines pilot Capt. Peter Killian
is discussed i11 detail.
----- Chasing the flying saucers. Flying saucers, Fe!J. 1960: 15-24.
Describes interview with family of Weston, West Va., in which they described
hearing an intense whining noise on July 9, 1959, that ;::aused temporary
paralysis. Source of the sound see:ned to be a brightly glowing object back
of their house.
----- The monster and the saucer. Fate, v. 6, Jan. 1953: 12-17.
Account of auth0r's investigation of sighting on Sept0ml•er 12, 1952, near
Flatwoods, W. Va., of a "ten-foot, red-faced monster, which sprayed a foul,
sickening gas. " There were seven witnesses whose stories agreed.
Benard, Paul C. Who believes in flying saucers? Bluebook, v. 101, July 1955:
20, 110·-113.
Results of author's inquiry into 123 UFO sightings reported dur.i11g 1952-1955
near Blythe and Desert Center, Calif.
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