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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…
Sagan. C.i.rl and W. W. Kellogg. The atmospheres of Mars and Venus.
Washington, D. C •• National Academy of Sciences - National Researcn
Council, 1961. 151 p. (National Research Council. Publication 944)
Discusses in detail lhe state of our knowledge and some of the controversies
concerning planetary atmospheres and explores experimental approaches most
likely to lead to the resolution of these controversies. An expanded summary
of a report by the Ad Hoc Panel on Planetary Atmospheres of the Space
Science Board, National Academy of Sciences.
Salisbury, Frar.k. The inhabitants of Mars. Engineering anJ science, v. 18,
Apr. 1955: 23-32.
Evidence for the existence of life on Mars is given. The influence of the
Martian environment on foe form this life may ta.ce is discussed, and
problems demanding further investigation presented.
Schiaparelli, G. V. Mars den gidefulde planet. {Oversat af E. Slej.]
Randers, Denmark, UFO-NYTs Forlag, 1965. 73 p.
Surface features of Mars, especially its "canals, '' are discussed as pos-
sible indications of intelligent life on that planet. Translation of article
entitled "Uber die beobarhteten Erscheinungen auf der OberfHtche des
Planeten Mars" in Himmel und Erde. v. 1, 1889.
Serviss, Garrett P. Curiosities of the sky. New York, Harper & Bros.,
1909. 268 p.
A broad, general view of the chief mysteries and problems of astronomy
is given; possibility of life and intelligence on the moon and on Mars is
discussed.
Shaple1, Harlow. The probable environment on other planets. In Pirie,
N. W.. ed. The L~ology of space travel. London, The Institute of
Biology, 1961. p. 107-116.
Discussion topics include: ozone barriers, the lunar surface and atmos-
phere, cosmochemistry--the local sampling, the Venus greenhouse and
Martian deserts, foe origin of life as one step in cosmic evolution, and
life on the Lilliputian stars.
Shneour, Elie A. and Eric A. Ottesen, comp. Extraterre1:..trial life: An
anthology and bibliography. Washington, National Academy of Sciences--
National Research Council, 1966. 478 p. (National Research Council.
Publication 1296A)
Supplement to "Biology and the Exploration of Mars, " report of study
under auspices of Space Science Board and published as NAS-NRC Publi-
cation lrn6. Contains selected papers, including Mariner IV and sound-
ing rocket observations of' Mars made in 1965, and bibliograp11y of 2,000
selcct:::d references to world literature publislled through mid-1964 witil
addendum of papers published from I.hat date throug;, late 1965.
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