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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. 1 …The site and materials made available on the site, such as this file, are for reference…
  • p. 16 …Force on UFOs. New Yvrk, Dell Pub. Co., 1967. l57 p. "From the files of the…
  • p. 23 …Documented report containing 746 UFO sighting cases selected from NICAP files and covering NICAP's investigations…
  • p. 27 …ln the files d. NICAP. Summarizes current theories and expla'lations of UFO phenomena. Translation of…
  • p. 28 …National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. NICAP Headquarters UFO Newspaper Clipping File, 1947-1966. Washington, D…
  • p. 40 …Presence of port- holes would then preclude a meteoric or other "natural'' explanation for a UFO…
  • p. 139 …information in the files of NICAP. Summarizes current theories and explanations of UFO phenomena. Miller, R…
  • p. 155 …This man knows UFOs. Canadian magazine, May 25, 1968: 9, 11. On July 6, 1967, Warren…
  • p. 160 …Two more facts for the UFO file. Flying saucer review, v. 8, July-Aug. 1962: 14…
  • p. 177 In setting up a scientific im·esti~ation into the UFO phenomenon, it is suggested that…
  • p. 192 …National Investigations Committee o,, Aerial Phenomena. NICAP Headquarters UFO Newspaper Clipping File, 1947-1966. Washington, D…
  • p. 201 …Documented report containing 746 UFO sighting cases selected from NICAP filE:s and covering NICAP's…
  • p. 204 …in the files of NICAP. Summari?.es current theories and explana~ ions of UFO phenomena. Translation…
  • p. 205 National Investlgations Committee on Aerial Pheno1:1ena. (NICAP Headquarters UFO Newspaper Clipping File, 1947-1966j. Wasbington…
  • p. 219 Documented report c0ntaining 746 UFO sighting cases selected f.r<•m NICAP files and covering NICAP…
  • p. 222 …National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. NICA P Headquarters UFO Newspaper Clipping File, 1947-1966 . Washington…
Creighton, Gordon. The extraordinary happenings at Casa Blanc;:i.. Flying saucer
review, v. 13, Sept. -Oct. 1967: 16-18.
On Aug. 22, 1955, a group of children pl.aying in the garden of a home in
Casa Blanca, California, allegedly first sighted silvery, spinning discs and
later 3-ft. -tall transparent beings who emerged from lanJed craft. Author
considers accounts of incident by Coral Lorenzen in Flying Saucer Review's The
Humanoids and by Winona Cromwell in a 1955 issue of the Journal of the --
Borderland Sciences Research Association.
----- UFOs in the South Atlantic. Flying saucer review, v. 14, Jan. -Feb. 1968: 13.
During the summer of 1952, "disc-shaped machims" were seen hovering a
meter or so above the south Atlantic off the coast of Itenhaem, Brazil. From
Os Discos Voadores-Fantasia e Realidad by Auriphebo Simoes (~o Paulo,
Livr~ia .Eaart,. 1957. p. 375-376).
Cruttwell, Norman E. G. Flying saucers over Papua in 1959; points out general
characteristics of series; and discusses their possible nature, origin,
and pu1·post:!, UFO activity at Boianai, Papua, June 26-27, 1959, where
humanoids were observed in hovering spacecraft by Anglican Mission director
Father William B. Gill is given particular attention.
----- What happened in Papua in 1959? Flying saucer review, v. 6, Nov. -Dec.
1960: 3-7.
Details and an:ilysis of sighting on June 26-27, 1959, at Boianai Mission~ Papua,
of UFO apparently manned by humanoids.
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 flying
disc-shaped objects; the January 1948 crash of Capt. Mantell while chasing
a UFO; and the June 19 52 appearances of mysterious objects over the White
House and Capitol. He reviews the various explanatory theories.
Dixon, William A. Saucers or illusions? Air facts, v. 14, Sept. 1, 1951: 37-43.
Report by TWA pilot Capt. Art Shutts of UFO sighting on Dec. 27, 1950
(Flight 361) near Bradford, Illinois. Crew me1.1bers Capt. Robert Kaddock
and hostess Mary Lind also saw object.
Dowling, J. Flying saucer over Durban. Outspan, v. 1449, Dec. 3, 1954: 14-17.
Edwards, Frank. Flying saucer:> over Brazil. Fate, v. 13, Sept. 1960: 42-49.
Reports UFO sightings in Brazil 1953-1958.
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