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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…
Confusion in the sky. Fate, v. 8, Mar. 1955: 24-29.
Article asserts that contradictory statements of the "experts" are responsible
for confusion in the publ~c's mind about the UFO phenomenon.
Dowding, Hugh C. I believe in flying saucers. Fate, v. 7, Nov. 1954: 24-26.
Author, Britain's Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding, states he is convinced
that "flying saucers" exist and that they are not mamdactured by any nation
on earth. He says he "can thc,·e:.ore see no alternative to accepting the
theory that they come from so.n1.~ e::..iraterrestrial :;ource. " Reprinted from
the London Sunday Dis patch.
Un document majeure: la declaration du Dr. McDonald. Phenomenes spatiaux,
Dec. 1967: 4-8.
Text of letter sent by Dr. James McDonald to u. N. Secretary-General
U. Thant urging international COOPf}ration in studying the UFO phenomenon.
Edwards, Frank. Arthur C. Clarke looks at the universe. Fate, v. 12, May 1959:
68-75.
Astronomer and science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke expresses his belief
that intelligent beings unquestionably exist in other parts "f the universe and
might visit our solar system.
----- An astronomer reports on UFOs. Fate, v. 12, Mar. 1959: 34-41.
Astronomer Frank Halstead, former curator of Darling Observatory, llniver-
sity of Minnesota, states his belief that UFOs are extraterrestrial spacecraft
and describes circumstances •.:nder which he personally made a sighting.
Frank Edwards' report. Fate, v. 10, July 1957: 27-31.
Dr. Maurice Ewing, director of Columbia Univ. 's Lamont Geological
Observatory, is quoted as saying that there is a gigantic rift extending in an
unbroken line about 45, 000 miles around the earth and beneath its surface;
presence of the rift possibly means the ~arth is in the process of change.
NACA Director Dr. Hugh Dryden is quoted as telling the House Appropriations
Committee on Feb. 19, 1957, that there is no such thing as a flying saucer.
Frank Edwards' report: Air Force warns flying saucers no joke. Fate,
v. 13, July 1960: 44-52.
Vlce Admiral Robert Hillenkoetter, USN, retired, gave the press copies of
an official USAF release issued December 24, 1959, by Major General
Richard E. O'Keefe, Acting lm:pector General, which stated in part:
"unidentified flying objects ... must be rapidly and accurately identified as
serious USAF business."
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