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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…
Pittenger, Norman W. Christianity and the man o:i l\t.ars. C!uistian century,
v. 73, June 20, 1956: 747-748.
Quiroga, R. A. La conquista de los grandes planetas. Revista Nacional de
Aeronautica Espacial, v. 21. Jan. 1961: 8-9.
Discussion of the atmospheric and other characteristics of Mars and V.!nus
which are of importance 'hilh respect to their habitability. The "population
explosion'' on earth is noted and the possibi!ity of colonizing other planets
is considered briefly, as is the possible existence there of living beings
resembling man.
Rea, D. G. Evidence for life on Mars. Nature, v. 200, Oct. 12, 1963:
114-116.
Author states that while observations of seasonal changes on Mars seem
to favor the probability of organic life, he [irefers an inoq~anir explana-
tion involving appropriate combinationG of volcanic ash, lava, and winds.
Rember, Winthrop A. Eighteen visits to Mars. New York. Vantage Press,
1956. 439 p.
Narrative of journeys to, and exploration of the planet Mars, Oct. 6,
1892-Sept. 16, 1894. Througn a phase of mediumship called ''semi-
automatism," discarnate spirits ciictate observations and expederwes.
Based on Sara Weiss' Journey to the Pianet Mars; or Our Mission to Ento,
Rochester, N. Y. , Austin Publishing Co. , 19()5.
Russian report: Is there life on Mars? Fate, v. 13, Apr. 1960: 27-33.
Theories and data are presented supporting the view that conditions favor-
able to carbon-based life might exist on Mars. G. A. Tikhov, correspond-
ing member of the U.S. S. R. Academy of Science, photographed Mars
through colored heliofilters, obs~rveci the changing colors through the seasons,
and concluded that they parallel the changing colors of the evergreen taiga in
Siberia. He also concluded that if vegetati...m exists on lV&ars it does nc;t show
presence of chloroJJhyll but !)hotographs white as do earth's Arctic plants.
Translate<J from A Guest from the Cosmos by Aleksandr l<azantsev, Moscow,
House of Geograμhical Littrature, 1958.
Sagan, Carl. Biological exploration of Mars. In Morgenthaler, George W..
ed. Exploration of Mars. Nortil Hollywood.Calif., WJstecn Periodicals
Co., 1963. p. 571-581 (Advances in the astronautical sciences. v. 15}
Present evidence strongly suggests, 00.t does not conclusively prove, that
life exists on Mars, the author states. He notes tnat intercomparison of
Martian and terrestrial organisms, botn on the biochemical and on t;ic
morphological levels, can provide a general perspective wi1ic11 is eurrently
laci{ing in biology because all the life forms known to date have probably
evolved from a sing~e instanc€' foe origin of life.
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