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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. 83 …24, 1964, Gary Wilcox, who was working his farm in Newark Valley. N. Y. , allegedly saw…
  • p. 120 …24, 1964, Gary Wilcox, who was working his farm in Newark Valley, N. Y. , allegedly saw…
  • p. 258 …24, 1964, Gary Wilcox, wno was working nis farm in Newark Valley, N. Y. , allegedly saw…
  • p. 322 Wilcox, Hal. Zemkla, interplanetary avatar. Los Angeles, Galaxy Press, 1966. 57 p. Advanced metaphysical wisdom is…
  • p. 408 …280 Wilcox, Hal 305 Wilhelm, Kate 373 Wilkins, G. H. 34& Wilkins, H. Percy 87, 109…
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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