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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…
Bender, Albert K. Flying saucers and the three men. Annotated and with introd.
and epilogue by Gray Barker. Clarksburg, W. Va., Saucerian Books, 1962.
194 p.
Discussion of activities of and reports of UFO :::ightb1gs made to International
Flying Saucer Bureau, organized by Bender in April 1952 in Bridgeport, Corin, ,
and of Bender's alleged contact with extraterrestrial beings which he c!din:s
resulted in ~is dissolvin::; H'SB in J.'lovembtff 1G53.
Bessor, John P. Som·: str2nge meteors. Fate, v. 7, July 1954: 78-79.
Among str::i.;1ge aerial objects described is a six-foot-diameter purple globe that
land~d in a Philadelphia, Pa. , field in October 1950. When touched by a
iJ(lliceman, it dematerialized.
Bowen, Charles .. Cross country cog wheels. Flying saucer review, v. 12,
Sept-Oct. 1966: 16-17.
Details of maneuvers of cogwheel-like mechanisms--possibly sonde devices
from another world designed to record relief of earth's surface--sighted on
Mar. 26, 1966, near Attigneville, France; on May 31, 1955, at Puy-Saint-
Galmier, France; and on Feb. 8, 1855, in Devonshire, England.
----- A South American trio. Flying saucer review, v. 11, Jan. -Feb. 196f· 19-21.
Three UFO sighting cases from South America: (l) In April, 1957, a resident
of Cordoba, Argentina, allegedly encountered a landerl flying saucer and was
invited by one of the crew members to enter for an inspection tour; (2) On
Jan. 10, 1958; an unidentified floating object was viewed off the coast of
Smi Paulo, Brazil, by several witnesses before sinkir1g out of sight; (3)
During a fire near Slro Bernado do Campo, Brazil, in 1963, a flying saucer
landed amid the flames, and several tall, good-looking "people" emerged
from it and picked up pieces of burnt material, stones, and other debris.
A Brazilian contact claim. Flying saucer review, v. 7, Sept. -Oct. Hl61: 18-20.
Translation of report of contact with extraterrestrial beings and ride in fly 1ng
saucer by Prof. J oao de Freitas Guimaraes on Aug. 27, 1957, near S:to
Sebastiao, Brazil. Originally appeared in Discos Voadores, Bulletin No. 4,
July I, 1959, issued by Dr. W. Buhler in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Brief saucer review. Fate, v. 11, Mar. 1958: 14-17.
Resume of UFO sightings during November 1957 reported from around the
world.
Busson, Bern3.rd and Gerard Leroy. Visitors from the skies. In The last secrets
of the earth. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1956. p, 13-34.
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