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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. 40 …Author postulates th ..,.t UFO research seems to have reached a crucial turning point and cites…
  • p. 44 …Survey of activitiee of official and private organizations engaged in UFO research. 29
  • p. 50 …Lecture at the Southern Region UFO Research Groups Conference, Oxford, England, May 8, 1965. 35
  • p. 83 …witness by Peter Norris, chairman of the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, and M. Thornhill. 66
  • p. 95 …The UFO investigator, v. 3, Nov. -Dec. 1965: 5. Experiments and research by Prof. Clyde E…
  • p. 121 …Peter Norris, chairman of Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, and M. Thornhill. The humanoids. Flying saucer…
  • p. 128 …London, British UFO Research Assn. , 1964 31 p. Details are given of the various natural and…
  • p. 129 …London, British UFO Research Assn. , 1964 31 p. Details are given of the various natural and…
  • p. 136 …Discusses three questions important in UFO research: (1) where do they ..~om~ from? (2) who crews…
  • p. 137 …UFOs: the greatest scientific problem of our times," delivered at the convention of the American Society…
  • p. 154 …General discussion of activities of UFO researchers and alleged contactees. Claims made by "Prince Neosom of…
  • p. 156 …Moseley, President of the Saucer and Unexplained Celestial Events Research Society; and Michael J. Campione, New…
  • p. 212 …Flying Saucer Research Society, Adelaide, Australia. Babcock, Edward J. and Timothy G. Beckley. UFO plagues N…
  • p. 216 …Koch, Publicity and Research Director of Universal Research Society of America, sighted a UFO on Apr…
  • p. 288 …Author surrnests the possibility that UFOs and poltergeists are among phenomena which could be "experienced, " with…
  • p. 398 …UFOs is the hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitations by intelligent beings." Reprinted in News Report, National Research…
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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