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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…
Solar System
GENERAL REFERENCES
Arrhenius, Svante. The destinies of the stars. Transl. by J. E. Fries. New York
and London, G. P. Pub~am's Sons, 1918. 256 p.
Collection of articles on pre-history of the evolution of the planets. Included
are (l) Origin of Star-Worship; (2) The Mystery of the :V:.ilky Way; (3) The
Climatic Importance of Water Vapor; (4) Atmosphere and Physics of the
Stellar Bodies; (5) Chemistry of the Atmos9here; (6) The Planet Mars; and
(7) Mercury, the Moon, and Venus. Translation of Sjarnornas oden.
Berger, Rainer. The solar system and extraterrestrial life. In . .:1.nces in the
astronautical sciences. v. 13. North Hollywood, Calif., Western Periodicals
Co., 1963.
Discusses current experimental results, opm10n, and speculation in research on
problem of extraterrestrial life. Theories on chemical and prebiological
evolution in space are examined in connection with theories on origin of life.
BerriH, Norman John. Worlds without end: a reflection on planets, life, and time.
New York, Macmillan, 1964. 240 p.
Speculative investigation of possibilities of life on other planets: nearest and
best-known planets are compared with earth; hypothetical planets similar to
earth but with one or another feature altered in some manner are eYamined in
order to predict. how familiar living things might be affecied; life on earth is
evaluated to determine which characteristics may be ri:igardcd as universal
under certain circumstances and which are Epecial; and imaginative efforts of
speculative writers to conceive and describe creatures different from those
known to us on earth are presented.
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