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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…
Roussel, Robert. La roue d' Attigneville. Phenomenes spatiaux, June 1966:
25-31.
On May 31, 1955, a luminous disc-shaped object 3-3 1/2 feet in d1ameter,
encircled with spinelik~· projections of different lengths, was seen rolling
across the grass in ~y-Saint-Galmier, France. A similar objec.. was
seen on March 26, 1966, at Tranqueville-Graux, France.
Russians say that flying saucers exist. National enquirer, v. 42, Mar. 31J 1961: 1-3.
1960-1965 UFO sigMings in the U. s. S. R. are di?scribed. Dr. Felix Zigel,
assistant. professor of astronomy at Moscow Aviation Institute, is quoted as
stating that observations indicate that UFOs behave intelligently and that
"in a group formation flight, they maintain a pattern. " He als., said they
are often spotted over airfields, atomic stations, and other very new
engineering installations.
Sacksteder, Fred ·J. Horned UFO sighted at La Porte. Fly.:.Og saucers, Oct. 1966:
15.
Horned UFO sighted on Mar. 19, HJ66, near La Porte, Indiana, is described
as about the size of a railroad umk car, brilliant white, and surrounded by
misty whit\? rings; a round reddish light shone from near the center of the
object.
Sanderson, Ivan T. "Something" landed in Pennsylvania. Fate, v. 19, Mar. 1966:
33-25.
Details are given of the crash of a fiery ohject--flying rather than falling at
I, 062. S mph and observed to make a 25c turn--near Pitt~burgh, Pa. , on Dec. 9,
1965.
Saucer flap. The New Yorker; v. 42, Apr. 9, 1966: 32-33.
Possible significance of Michigan "flap" of UFO sightings during March 1966
is discussed with three ufologists: Jose Cecin, head of t.11e New York
Subcommittee of the National Investigations CommitteP. on Aerial Phenomena;
Jam es W. Moseley, president of the Saucer and Unexplained Celestial Events
Res<:arch Society; and Michael J. Campione, New Jersey representative of
the Amale;amated Flying Saucer Clubs of America.
Sch:mg, Casimiro A. r~cents incidents. Phenom~nes spatiaux, Sept. 1966: 25-28.
Newspaper accounts of UFO sightings in Argentina, November 1965-May 1966,
Sheffield's sensational week. Flying saucer :review, v. 8, Nov. -Dec. 1962: tl-9.
Report on wave of UFOs sighted and filmed over Sheffiel1, England, Aug.
19-SO, 1962.
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