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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. 40 …Author postulates th ..,.t UFO research seems to have reached a crucial turning point and cites…
  • p. 44 …Survey of activitiee of official and private organizations engaged in UFO research. 29
  • p. 50 …Lecture at the Southern Region UFO Research Groups Conference, Oxford, England, May 8, 1965. 35
  • p. 83 …witness by Peter Norris, chairman of the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, and M. Thornhill. 66
  • p. 95 …The UFO investigator, v. 3, Nov. -Dec. 1965: 5. Experiments and research by Prof. Clyde E…
  • p. 121 …Peter Norris, chairman of Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, and M. Thornhill. The humanoids. Flying saucer…
  • p. 128 …London, British UFO Research Assn. , 1964 31 p. Details are given of the various natural and…
  • p. 129 …London, British UFO Research Assn. , 1964 31 p. Details are given of the various natural and…
  • p. 136 …Discusses three questions important in UFO research: (1) where do they ..~om~ from? (2) who crews…
  • p. 137 …UFOs: the greatest scientific problem of our times," delivered at the convention of the American Society…
  • p. 154 …General discussion of activities of UFO researchers and alleged contactees. Claims made by "Prince Neosom of…
  • p. 156 …Moseley, President of the Saucer and Unexplained Celestial Events Research Society; and Michael J. Campione, New…
  • p. 212 …Flying Saucer Research Society, Adelaide, Australia. Babcock, Edward J. and Timothy G. Beckley. UFO plagues N…
  • p. 216 …Koch, Publicity and Research Director of Universal Research Society of America, sighted a UFO on Apr…
  • p. 288 …Author surrnests the possibility that UFOs and poltergeists are among phenomena which could be "experienced, " with…
  • p. 398 …UFOs is the hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitations by intelligent beings." Reprinted in News Report, National Research…
other stellar systems, perhaps to the planets of Tau-CE:ti and Epsilon Eridani,
two of the suns nearest to us and belonging to the same ~pectrographic type
as our own.
Ribera, Antonio. Professor Hermann Oberth revisits Barcelona. Flying saucer
review, v. ll, Sept. -Oct. 1965: 32.
In a radio interview during the First Astronautical Week in Barcelona,
May 3-9, 1965, Professor Hermann Oberth raade the following statement
on the UFO phenomenon: "We must c:onsider real a fact of which we .(Xlssess
eight thousand certain sightings, I cannot say if they are or are not inter-
planetary vehicles, but nobody can doubt any more their existence. "
Russians say that flying saucers exist. National enquirer, v. 42, Mar. 31, 1961:
1-3.
1960-1965 UFO sightings in the U. s. S, R. arl~ described. Dr. Felix Zigel,
assistant professor of astronomy at Moscow Aviation Institute, is quoted as
stating that observa:ions indicate that UFO~ behave intelligently and that
"in a group formation flight, they maintair, a pattern. " He also said they
are often spotted over airfields, atomic stations, and other very new
engineering installations.
Saucers and smoking. Newsweek, v. 52, Aug. ll, 1958: 85.
Swiss psychologist Carl Jung is quoted as having wraten in the Bulletin of the
Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (date not given) tha.t the postwar
sightings of flying saucers and other unidentified flying objects (UFOs) were
not hallucinations.
Sherman, Carl. Why is the UN censoring the truth about UFOs? Saga, v. 35,
Dec. 1967: 32-35, 5C-60, 62.
Author states that in May 1967, U. N. Secretary-General U Thant claimed
that the UFO mystery was one of t.he gravest problems facing humcnity
today--but later denied making the statement. He summarizes a statement
by Dr. Jam es McDonald to the U. N, Outer Space Affairs Group on June 7,
1967, urging immediate global action on the UFO problem.
Sightings by scientists. Flying saucers from other worlds, June 1957: 82-85.
Astronomers who have seen unidentified flying objects state their conclusions.
They include Dr. Clyde Tombaugh; Dr. Seymour L. Ress; Dr. G. Duncan
Fletcher; Dr. Frank Halstead, and D.r. H. Percy Wilkins.
UFOs for real? Newsweek, v. 168, Oct. 10, 1966: 70.
Astrophysicist J. Allen Hynek, consultant to USA F's Projer.t Blue Book is
quoted as saying about UFOs: "There is a phenomenon here. I've studied
this for eighteen years and it's not all nonsense. " He calls upon re~table
scientists to invesUgate UFOs seriously.
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