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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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Stellar life histories are briefly discussed as well as prerequisites for a life-supporting planet. It is suggested that most single stars of the main sequence between F5 and K5 could probably support life of an advanced form on the planets revolving around them. Temperature and atmosphere of Mars and Venus are discussed in detail and speculations made as to the existence of life there. Life on other plao.ets ~- what are the possibilities? Flying saucers, Oct. 1966: 8-11. Summar; ot current scientific data on the possibility of intelligent life on other planets in our solar system. Reprinted from the BUFORA (England) Journal and Bulletin. Limits of organic life in our solar system. American review of i·eviews, v. 43, Feb. 1911: 242-243. MJOre, Patrick. The worlds around us. New York, Abelard-Schuman, 1956. 157 p. Outlines conditions under which carbon-based life can survive and applies them to sun, moon, planets, satellites, and asteroids in the solar system. Hypothesizing that this is the only kind of life possible in the universe, author concludes that men on earth are alone in the solar system. Asserts that reports about visits to earth by extraterrestrial spacecraft are only good stories. Munitz, Milton K, Theories of the universe from Babylonian myth to modern science. Glencoe, Ill., The Free Press, 1957. 437 p. Survey of current trends in scientific cosmology against the background of earlier efforts and achievements. Beginning with one of the earliest ventures in the form of myth, materials are included exhibiting the principal stages of progress in cosmological inquiry from antiquity up to the present time. Ogden, Richard C. The creation of the solar system. Flying saucer review, v. 4, July-Aug. 1958: 14-18. Author reveals that there are more than nine planets in our solar system and gives locations of three newly-discovered planets; that our solar system contains more than one asteroid belt; and gives information on how man can dei, gravity and apply this knowledge toward building a spacecraft that can maneuver outside earth's atmosphere. Ovenden, Michael. Life in the universe. Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, 1962. 160 p. Recent discoveries in biology, chemis1;ry, and physics that may provide clues to possibilities of life in Solar System and beyond are discussed, T'~rrain and atmospheres of Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn are considered as well as r>robability of similar conditions existing on planets of other stars. 236
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 419 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.