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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…
Muller, Hermann J. Out of the ni~ht: a biol~ist's view of the future. New York.
',ianguard Press, 1935. 127 p.
Discussion of the possible courses tha: man's evolution might t<Jte.
Slater, Alan E. The probability of intelligent life evol\'ing on a planet. In VIIIth
International Astronautical Congress, Barcelona. 1957. Pr()('eedin~s. Vienna,
Springer-Verlag, 1958. p. 395-402.
Report trJ.ces briefly the evolutbn of the human species from primitive life
forms and shows that the differentiati.:n1 that e\'entually led to man was far from
inevitable. Concludes that it seemF imμrobable that othe:- forms i..:f intelli~ent
life will be found by voyagers thrn~gh space.
Smith, S. L. The problems of exobiology. Part II: life in the solar system.
BUFORA journal and bulletin, v. 1, Spring 1966: 13-18.
Article discusses whether the processes that led to the evolution of man could
have occi;r'!'ed beycnd the solar system.
----- The problems of exobiology. Part III: life beyond the solar syst~m. DUFOHA
journal and bulletin, v. 1, Summer 196fi: lv-14.
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Considers whether a process similar to that which led to th~ evolution of man
could !lave occurred beyond the solar system; and if not, are there any ether
possible chemical processes that could lead to an alien form of life?
Barton, Michel X. Flying saucer revelations. Los Angeles, Futura Press,
1957. 38 p.
Discusses role of interplanetary beings in man's origin and evolution.
Considers stories of contact between extraterrestrials and earth men
and the implications. Reports on flying saucer sighting ·at Giant Rock
Airport, Yucca Valley, (..alif., on Mar. 12, 1955, during Interplanetary
Spacecraft Convention.
Becquerel, P. La vie terrestre prc·;:.cnt-elle d'un autre monde? Astronomie,
v. 38, 1924: 393-417.
Bible. Old Testament Apocryphal Books. Enoch. Transl. by R. H. Charles,
London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 191'7. 154 p.
Book of Enoch, especialif verses VI-XI, is often cited as an historical
ac~ount of extraterrestrial influences in man's origin.
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