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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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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." 213
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 419 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.