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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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In extension of remarks, Congressman Edgar W. Hiestand (D, -Calif.) caused an article by Hollywood Valle~ Times commentator Geor-ge Todt to be placed in the Congressio1;al Record July 15, 1959, Appendix, p. A6685). Article refers t0 NICAP's efforts to obtain open Congressional hearings on the UFO phenomenon. Statements of members of Congress in support of such hearings are quoted from June 1959 U, F,O, Investigator. Hynek, J. Allen. Are flying saucers real? The Saturday evening post, v. 239, Dec. 17, 1966: 17-21. Hynek, chairman of the department of astronomy at Northwestern Univ. and consultant to USAF's Project Blue Book, states that of the 15,000 cases of UFO sig:idngs that have come to his attention, "several hundred are puzzling, anc'. some of the puzzling incidents, perhaps one in 25, are bewildering. " He cites illustrative examples and urges a serious inquiry into the nature of the phenc:nenon. Jones, Harold S. The flying saucer myth. The spectator, v. 185, Dec. l5, 1950: 686-687. Author, the British Astronomer Hoyal, says that flying saucers are "improbable" and the extraterrestrial hypothesis "the strongest possible demonstration that the whole thing is a myth." Keyhoe, Donald E. Flying saucers--fact or fancy? The air Hue pilot, v. 22, Oct. 1953: 9-10. Majer Keyhoe furnishes official statements from USAF's Air Technical Intelligence Center refuting Dr. Donald Menzel's explanations that UFO sightings are attributable to natural atmospheric phenomena. He also cites "an official Air Force document" which states that an increasing number of officials linked with the investigation are convinced "that the saucers are interplanetary.·· Lear, John. A reply. Saturday review, Feb. 4, 1967: 73. SH's scie~1ce editor restates his position in the UFO controversy and answers Tcifln Fuller's criticisms of him for publishing excerpt., from Incident at Exeter (New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1966) without permission and out of context. McDonald, James E. Statement on unidentified flying object3, Tucson, Arizona, The Author, 1968, 39 p. In his statement, the author reviews his experiences in interviewing UFO witnessei:. in the U.S. and abroad and discusses ways in which his professional experience in the field of atmospheric physics and meteorology illuminates the past and present attempts to account for UFO phenomena. Presented at the Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Committee on Science and Astronautics, House of Reprt·c;entatives, July 29, 1968. 215
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.