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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…
----- 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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