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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…
Antics of a football-shaped flaming object on Nov. 12, 1965, in Plestan,
France, are described. Pcssiblity that phen01nenon was ball lightning is
discounted.
Rathbun, Mabel. Flying saucer over San Salvador. Fate, v. 19, Feb. 1966: 41-43.
Aug. 18, 1965, sighting of UFO over San Salvador is detailed.
. , 'Retour sur Attignev:ule: !'incident de Xertigny. Phenomenes spatiaux, Dec. 1966:
13-17.
Details of further inquiry into incident at Attign«fvme, Frat1ce, Mar. 26, 1966,
in which a strange white wheel with red spokes at its periphery was seen
traveling at a constant speed of about 30 kilometers an hour. A circular
der.ression discovered by a farmer at Xertigny, France, on Sept. 4, 1966,
that he originally thoughi was a meteor crater, is also discussed.
Ribera, Antonio. Cort~ge de souc'lupes volantes sur Andorre-la Vieille.
Phenomenes spatiaux, Dec. 1967: 29-30.
For over half an hour on Sept. 18, 1967, hundreds of people watct.->d
the acrobatics of a fleet of "flying saucers" over Andorre-la-Vieille, Andorra.
Report based on newspaper account.
----- L'etrange affaire de Nuria. Ph~nom~nes spatiaux, Mar. 1968: 27-30.
UFO sighting at Nuria, Spain, Sept. 25-26, and Nov. 18-19, 1967, accompanied
by parapsychological effect on witnesses, including a priest, is described.
----- El gran enigma de los platillos volantes, desc1.e la prehistoria hasta la epoca
actual. Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Barcelona, Editorial
Pomaire, 1966. 431 p.
Author summarizes worldwide reports of unexplained aerial phenomena (1800s-
1960s} with emphasis on U. S. accounts and on the 1954 wave of UFO sightings
in France. Current theories on the possibility of life in other worlds are
discussed. Hypotheses attempting to explain the UFO phenomenon are surveyed.
----- Midsummer sightings over Andorra. Flying saucer review, v. 13, Nov. -Dec.
1967: 25.
Report of UFO sightings around Andorra-la-Veille,Andorra, during June 17-22,
1967.
Ross, John C. State cops race 'flying saucer.' Fate, v. 13, Dec. 1960: 44-47.
On night of August 13-14, 1960, Patrolmen Stanley Scott and Charles A. Carson
sighted a football-shaped UFO near Corning, California, and pursued it for
over two hours.
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