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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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Petersen, Clarence. Big money in swamp gas. Book world, Washington Post, Sept. 10, 1967: 33. Author observes that Paperbound Books in Print lists 30 titles currently avail- able on U::-'Os and related subjects. Discussed as examples are Edward J. Ruppelt's Report on Unidentified Flying Objects; Frank Edwards' Flying Saucers--Serious Business; Coral E. Lorenzen's Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of liivasion from Outer Space; John G. Fuller's Iiictdent at Exeter and Interrupted Journey; and Harold T. Wilkins' Flying Saucers on the Attack and Flying Saucers Uncensored. Smith, Stephen L. The bent beams case. BUFORA journal and buHetin, v. 1, Autumn 1966: 4-5. Motorist nearly crashed off the road when his car headlight beams suddenly appeared to bend to the right. Incident occurred Apr. 8, 1966, in Victoria State, Australia. As he stopped his car, a UFO .vas seen to rise out of a nearby field. ----- The bent beam~ case. Flyinr; saucer review, v. 12, Sept-Oct. J.966: iii. Report that car headlight beams bent as automobile approached UFO on road between Bendigo and St. Arnaud, Victoria, Australia, in April 1966. Sprinkle, R. Leo. Personal and sci£ntific attitudes: a survey of persons interested in UFO reports. Laramie, Wyoming, The Author, 1968. 11 p. A questionnaire survey on attitudes towards UFOs was conducted among three groups: 26 Ph. D. faculty and graduate students in a university Psychology Departme11t; 59 graduate students enrolled in a NDEA Guidance Institute; and 259 members of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). It was hypothesized that there would be no differences between the scores of the three groups on foe Personal Attitude Sur.vey (Form D. Dogmatism Scale, Rokeach, 1960) and the Scientific Attitudes Survey (Sprinkle, 1962). Results showed significant differences (P:> 0. 001) between the thr£:e group::; with respect to their mean scores on both inventories, with the NI CAP group scoring higher on both "dogmatic" and "scientific'' inventories, followed by the guidance group and the psychology group, respecti·1ely. Investigation was supported by Grants-in-Air Committee, Scoiety for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (a division of the American Psychological Association). UFO terminology. Cleveland, Ohio, Flying Saucer Digest, 11968 1 • 6 p. Vocabulary used by UFO researchers. Wright, Eric. UFO lands near pond and the water freezes in 50° weather. National enqu.u.·:>1". July 14, 1968: 32. Minutes after a UFO was seen landing on Vashou Island near Seattle, Washington, a pond near the landing site froze although the temperature was 50°F. Incident. occurred Feb. 18, 1968. 222
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