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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…
"UFOs"--they're back in new sizes, shapes, colors. U.S. news & world report,
v. 61, Aug. 22, 1966: SS-60.
Of 1966 UFO sightings, USAF officials say: (1) more variety in sizes and
shapes is reported; (2) there are lights v! all kinds concomitant with
sightings; (3) UFOs seem to be noisier than in the past; (4) appearance of
objects allegt!d!y seen during daylight hours is invariabiy that o! some
light-colored metal; (5) movement o{ reported UFOs continues to be
erratic; (5) no "little green men" have appeared; (7) sightings have been
concentrated mort: in the northeastern u. S. tha11 in the ~st; and (8) objects
exhibit apparent tenC:.ency to follow power lines.
Waithman, Robert. These flying saucers. The spectator, v. 184, Apr. 14, 1950:
489-490.
C ·Jmmentary on the flying saucer controversy.
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO STUDY
Condon to head UFO study. Science, v. 154, Oct. 14, 1966: 244.
Fuller, Curtis. Air Force grants $313, 000 to study UFOs. Fate, Ft:i,. 1967: 32-39.
Df::tails of University of Colorado contract for 15-month sbidy of UFOs.
Fuller, .Tohn G. Flying saucer fiasco. Look, v. 32, May 14, 19138: 58, 60-64.
Incidents in the University of Colorado's UFO study leadine; to dismissal of
Drs. Norman Levine and David Saunders and the resignation of the project's
administrative assistant are discussed.
Lear, John. Research in America: University of Colorado study of UFOs.
Saturday Review, v. 49, Dec. 3, 1966: 87-89.
Dr. Edward U. Condon, head of the USAF-financed independent study of
the UFO phenomenon by the University of Colorado, describes his projected
general plan of operation in long-distancf' tdephone conversation with
SR's science eciitor.
Libel suit may develop f:to!!l UFO hassle. Scientific research, v. 3, May 13, 1968:
11-!2.
Article re1:x>rts that David R. Saunders and Norman E. Levine may sue
Edward U. Condon for allegedly calling them "incompetent" when he fired
them from the Air Force-sponsor~d University of Colorado UFO investi-
gation. Events leading to the firings are detailed.
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