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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…
Possibility of life on Mars is discussed in terms of the Martian atmos-
phere and in terms of tile hypothesis that tne Martian surface mark-
ings a re causert by vegetation.
Cade, C. Maxwell. Are we alone in space? Discovery, v. 24, Apr. 20,
1963: 27-29.
Various theories of origin of life on earth are reviewed witn reference
to possible devel0pment of similar life forms on other planets of other
solar systems. Extraterrestriai origin of life on earth (panspermia
hypothesis) is discussed critically from moment of a spore's escape from
another planet to the arrival on earth's surface. Life on Mars, Venus,
and other planets is briefly discussed. Conclusion of speculation is that
intelligent life does exist in other parts of the universe.
Calvin, Melvin. Communication: from molecules to Mars. In A. I. B. S.
Bull., v. 12, Oct. 1962: 29-44.
Current knowledge of chemical evolution on earth and the generation of
molecular communities which give rise to terrestrial organisms is re-
viewed. It is hypothesized that given a corresponding set of molecules,
temperature, and environment anywhere else in the universe, a simila:r
sequence of evolution might have occurred as on earth. Mars is considered
the most likely possibility for organic life.
Cross, C. A. Conditions on Mars. In Gatland, Kenneth W. , ed.
Spacefli.ght today. London, Iliffe Books, Ltd., 1963. p .. 192-203.
Purpose of chapter is to show how knowledge of Mars can be deduced
from what is actually observed astronomically. Author suggests that
well-established deductions, which can confidently be nccepted, can then
be distinguished from co11flicting hypotheses which await U1e accumulation
of evidence before tney can be accepted or rejected.
Cyr, Donald L. Mars revisited. Philadelphia, Dorr:rnce & Co., 1959. 131 p.
A concept is advanced to aid in understanding the phenomenon of the
variable sudace markings of Mars.
DuckwE'll, W. E. Life in Mars. Popnlar astronomy, v. 49, Nov. 1941:
479-485.
Edwards, Frank. Frank Edwards' report: Soviet scientists claim life on
Mars. Fate. v. 14, Ap<. 1961: 40-46.
Views by Soviet scientists on the plurality of i1111abited worlds are given.
Among those who feel that Mars is inhabited by intelligent beint:s are V.
Komarov, lecturer at Moscow planetariu.i1; Dr. M~rtynov, direci.JJ" uf
tlu.1 Shternberg Astronomical Institute; and Prof. N. Zhirov.
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