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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.
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Vezina, Allan K. Canada 1967 -- a big year for UFO research. Flying saucers, Ju.ne ~ qs8: 8-10. Summarizes 1967 UFO incidents in Canada. Mentions power cut-offs and burning of an individual in a.ssociation with sightings. Disc-shaped UFO allegedly crash-landed into Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia; although there wen~ many 'Nitnesses, neither the UFO nor Hs wreckage was found. A well-witnessed 'invasion' -- by something. Life, v. 60, Apr. 1, 1966: 24-31. Illustrated report on numerous UFO sightings during March 1SS5 from Australia to Michigan. What the British press reports on flying saucers. Flying eaucers, Aug. 1966: 29-33. Newspaper accounts of uFO sightings August-October 1965. Reprinted from Orbit, journal of the Tynside., England, U. F.O. Sodety. Winder, R.H. B. Comment on the Angus Brooks sighting. Flying s~ucer review, v. 14, Jan. -Feb. 1968: 4-5. Speculating on the reason for the crosslike r:onfiguration during hover of th1:? UFO seen over England Oct. 26, 1967, by Angus Brooks, author suggests observations or measurements demanding instruments located at the four corners of a square or requiring two or four linear devices (possibly antennae, intersecting at right angles. Zigel, Felix. The UFO problem --a challenge to science. Flying saucers, June 1968: 25-26. The joint effort of all scientists in the world should be applied to discovering the nature of the UFO phenomenon, the author says. Details given of sightings in the U.S. S. R. 1965-1967. STATEMENTS Asimov, Issac. UFOs--what I think. Science digest, v. 59, June 1966: 44-47. Commenting on the compulsion of "believers" to identify unidentified flying objects, the author says that "its not what you see that is suspect, but how you interpret what you see." He suggests that persons who want to believe that the spacecraft crews are benevolent guardians of our welfare ar1. "insecure person/s/ clinging desperately to a fantasy of security." 212
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 419 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.