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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. 53 …English version of original declaration made by Antonio Villas Boas that on the night of October…
  • p. 54 …15, 1957, Antonio Villas Boas, a Brazilian farmer, was allegedly taken aboard a flying saucer and…
  • p. 55 …English version of origina.l declaration made by Antonio Villas Boas that on the night of…
  • p. 56 …15, 1957, Antonio Villas Boas, a Brazilian farmer, was allegedly taken aboard a flying saucer and…
  • p. 81 …three alleged contact/landing incidents in Brazil, 1958-1959. ----- The Villa Santina Case. Flying saucer review…
  • p. 84 …for imysical examination and that of Antonio Villas Boas who was allegedly abducted by extraterrestrial beings…
  • p. 99 …The Villa Santina Italy Case; Few and Far Between b:.arading and occupant reports a rarity…
  • p. 107 …Author analyses details of Antoni1J Villas Boas story that he was taken aboard a landed flying…
  • p. 121 …The Villa Santina Italy Case; Few and Far Between fLanding and occui:nnt reports a rarity…
  • p. 185 …English version of original declaration made by Antonio Villas Boas that on the night of October…
  • p. 186 …Comments by the author on deposition by Antonio Villas Boas who claimed he was taken aboard…
  • p. 370 …Book is based on treatise Comte de Gabalis by French mystic Abbe de Villa.rs. Interprets…
  • p. 386 …Based in part on the experiences of a Brazilian farmer, Antonio Villas Boas, and the Americans…
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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