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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…
Towner, Cliff R. Silver chaff from the sky. Fate, v. 10, Mar. 1957: 94-98.
Apparent fall from the sky on Aug. 27, 1956, of metallic shreds concomitant
with reports of strange lights in the sky. Chickens consuming the material
died.
Towner, Larry E. The night of August 9th. Fate, v. 7, May 1954: 32-36.
Report of chief Ground Observer Corps observer or. UFO sighting the night of
August 9-10, 1953, over Moscow, Idaho.
The truth about the "Orion Belt" sightings. Flying saucers, July 1959: 14-19.
On Feb. 24, 1959, an American Airlines OC-6 piloted by Cavt. Peter Killian
sighted three UFOs. Crew and IJi.SSengers observed them for 45 minutes.
Other aircraft were radioed and also reported seeing the same three objects,
which were in the section of i.he sky where the constellation Orion was visible.
·rwo classic sightings. Flying saucer review, v. 9, May-June 1963: 11-12.
Summarizes information pertaining to UFO sightings near Nairobi, Kenya, in
February 1951 and off the Straits of Madagascar in June 1947.
Vallee, Jacques and Janine Vallee. Challenge to sci-encP-; the UFO enigma.
Chicago, H. Regnery Co. , 1966. 268 p.
Scientific study of UFO sightings reported tilroughout worldfron> 1951. Book
emphasizes global nature of Iitenomenon, showing how European sightings
illuminate observations in U. S. and other parts of the world. Sightings in
France are treated in detail and the methods developed for studying them
are sugge!:'ted as applicable to the phenomP.non as a whole.
Veit, Karl. Planeten-menschen. WieRhaden-Schierstein, Ventla-Verlag, 1961. 223p.
Author surveys scientific opinion on the possibility of life on other worlds and
summarizes UFO sighting reports from 1947 todatc. Dt!tails are given of
"contactee" reports and the alleged appearance and behavior of beings from
outer SIJi.Ce.
Vinther, Lawrence W. Another saucer mystery. Flying, v. 48, June 1951: 23, 56.
Author, a veteran Mid-Continent Airlines captain, gives details of UFO
sighting Jan. 20, 1951, near Sioux City, Iowa.
Vogt, Christian. Non dramatique incident. Ph~nom~nes spatiaux, Feb. 1965: 5-6.
A tragic accident allegedly occurred on May 24, 1954, near Las Vegas, Nevada,
when ar.. experimental jet aircraft was destroyed as it attempted to shoot
down a flying saucer.
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