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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…
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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