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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. 18 …Discussion of activities of and reports of UFO sightings made to International Flying Saucer Bureau, organized…
  • p. 27 ----- :UFOs--an international scientific problem. Tucson, Ariz., The Author, 1968. 40 p. Summarizing his position, the…
  • p. 30 …Surveys UFO sighting reports and discusses current explanatory hypotheses. Includes a chapter on 'What to Do…
  • p. 31 …author's home a ''UFO reporting post," and CRIFO was lmown internation- ally as a "civilian…
  • p. 32 …Report includes statements reporting simultaneous U.tu sightings by ground obs'";rvers. United Press International. Flying…
  • p. 44 Review of UFO sighting reports, especially in the U.S. A., a.nd of theorie::> ad…
  • p. 52 …Proceedings of the 7th International UFO Congress, Mainz, Germany, Nov. 3-6, 1967. Vonkeviczky e gli…
  • p. 105 Discussion of activities of and reports of UFO sightings made to International Flying Saucer Bureau, organized…
  • p. 144 References are cited which f'.lXVey the liter2.ture en UFO reports, including explanatory hypotheses. F…
  • p. 146 …State-of-the-art report on theories and research relating to the UFO phenomenon. Author concludes…
  • p. 156 …Proceedings of ~he 7th International UFO Congress, Mainz, Germany, Nov. 3-6, 1967. Zinsstag, Lou. Conversations…
  • p. 179 …A need for un international study of UFOs. Flying saucer review, v. 14, Mar. -Apr. 1968…
  • p. 182 …Author, a former USAF public information officer on UFOs, discusses UFO sightings reported to Aerospace Technical…
  • p. 197 …Discussion of activities of and reports of UFO :::ightb1gs made to International Flying Saucer Bureau, organized…
  • p. 198 …Scientists were participating in 2nd International Geophysical Year 1956-58 exp2dition. Report supplied by UFO Chile…
  • p. 230 …Thant urging international COOPf}ration in studying the UFO phenomenon. Edwards, Frank. Arthur C. Clarke looks…
  • p. 233 …UFOs--an international scientific p!'oblem. Tucson, Ariz., The Author, 1968. 40 p. Summarizing his position…
  • p. 293 …Feature article en UFO reports in which there was alleged communication with the occupants or crew…
----- Flj.ing saucers: top secret. New York, Putnam, 1960, 283 p.
Evidence on UFO sightings presented by NIC AP to individual congressmen and
committee chairmen in attempt to secure open Congressional hearings on sub-
ject. Details of NICAP's behind-the-scenes battle against USAF censorship.
Main points are backed by documents available at NIC AP office ln Washington.
D.C.
Knaggs, Oliver. Let the people know. Cape Town, South Africa, Howard Timmins,
1966. 113 p.
References to fiying saucers that go bac-k as far as the 14th century are cited
to ''prove" that flying saucers are not something of the present generation.
Author concludes that there are definite grounds for believing military authori-
ties are keeping details of UFO activities from the public to avoid possible pan-
ic since there are so many factors they eaMot explain themselves.
Kraspedon, Dino. My contact with flying saucers. Translated from the Portuguese
by J. B. Wood. London, Neville Spearman, 1959. 205 p.
Discusses in detailed technical terms the forces that UFOs use to navigate in
earth's atmosphere and to travel through space on interplanetary voyages. Pre-
sented in question-and-answer form, information synthesizes series of five al-
leged meetings between author and captain of an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
Le Poer Trench, Hon. Brinsley. The flying saucer story. London, Neville
Spearman, 1966. 208 p.
Author presents evidence to support his belief that UFOs are extraterrestrial
and that they have visited earth for millenia.
Leslie, Desmond and George Adamski. Flying saucers have landed. London,
Werner Laurie, 1953. 232 p.
Account of alleged contact by Adamski with a landed extraterrestrial spacecraft
anda meeting with a man fronl Venus on Nov 20, 1952, near Desert<:enter, CW.f.
Photographs of spacecraft. Review by Leslie of material from old manuscripts
referring to sightings of unidentified objects nying through the air from earliest
times.
Loftin, Robert. Identified flying saucers. New York, David McKay Co., 1968.
General summary of the various aspects of the UFO controversy. Author states
that although evidence he has gathered over a fifteen year period would tend to
support the extraterrestrial hypothesis, it is still an hypothesis.
Lore, Gordon and Harold H. Deneault. Mysteries of the skies: UFOs in perspec-
tive. Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice-Hall, 1968. 237 p.
Historical aspects of the UFO phenomenon are presented. The ld97 "airship''
reports are treated in detail.
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