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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. 6 …research project at the University of Colorado under the direction of Dr. Edward U. Condon on…
  • p. 7 …exception of the addenda, to the University of Colorado project in the form of microfilm. The…
  • p. 14 Statements 212 University of Colorado Study 218 Miscellaneous 220 Bibliography 223 Origin of Life 224 Mankind…
  • p. 40 …2) establish- ment of the Condon ,roject at the University of Colorado to study UFO phenomena…
  • p. 45 …Problems and difficulties inherent in the University of Colorado study of un- identified flying objects are…
  • p. 50 …of the problem; and (2) the USAF-sponsored, 15-month study at the University of Colorado…
  • p. 58 …of UFO reports and sum- marizes aims of independent 15-month study by University of Colorado…
  • p. 154 …Air Force Office of Scientific Research which supported the University of Colorado's program to conduct…
  • p. 176 …of UFO reports and summa- rizes aims of independent 15-month study by University of Colorado…
  • p. 181 …Condon about procedures and techniques planned in UFO investigation he heads at the University of Colorado…
  • p. 182 …Condon of the University of Colorado to head a 15-month study of unidentified flying objects…
  • p. 235 …Df::tails of University of Colorado contract for 15-month sbidy of UFOs. Fuller, .Tohn G…
  • p. 236 …Condon of the University of Colorado to heaci a 15-month study of unidentified flying objects…
  • p. 237 …Condon in implementing a study of the UFO phenomenon at the University of Colorado under a…
  • p. 394 …Discussion of problems and controversy surrounding the University of Colorado study of UFOs directed by Edward…
  • p. 395 …Following conclusions emerged as the result of Industrial Research inquiry into status of University of Colorado…
  • p. 398 …Review of the University of Colorado report on nnidentified flying objects by a panel of the…
  • p. 399 Flnal report of the University of Colorado project studying UFOs under support provided by the Air…
  • p. 419 …C-0035 with the University of Colorado, entitled 11A .Scientific Study of Unidentified Fl.yinfl: Objects…
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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