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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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Possibility of life forms in the universe based on Rilicon is considered and it is concluded th·~rl' are ho favorable possibilities with a life form based on an Si-0-Si bonding. The first is with an atmosphere of NH3 with the body functions carried out th;:1111gh changes in pH, t~mperature, and concentration of an alkaline solution of silicates. The second case is with an atmosphere of HF where digestio1: is carried out through aquf'ous HF and respiration would involve exhalation of Si F4 and water. Bracewell, R. N. Life in the galaxy. In Camercn, A.G. W., ed. Interstellar communication. New York, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., 1963. p. 232-242. Author establishes coocept that the other stars and star systems have planets and that some of these planets are inhabitable. He postulates tt.at life thereon is less advanced than that of earth. Radar C'ommuoication in the "galactic club'' is a fact, but not from intelligent source; howe· t.r, we should be alert for signals. It J.s speculated that sufficiently highly developed stellar communities o.re common but that contacting them, or its reverse, would be a matter of chance. Bradbury, Ray. A serious search for weird worlds. Life, v. 49, Oct. 24, 1960: 116-118, 120, 123-124, 128-1~8, 130. Sketches are shown of strange r.rea~:ires who may represent what creatures on other inhabited planets look like. Explanation is made that although grotesque by earth standards~ they could develop this way in response to different environments of other worlds. Project Ozma, the radio-telescope search for life on other worlds, is discussed. Brewster, David. More worlds than one. New York, Robert Carter & Bros., 1854. 265 p. Author defends doctrine of plurality of inhabited worlds by citing current astronomical di!:icoveries and by analyzing and refuting objections. Briggs, Michael H. The distribution of life in the solar system: an evaluation of the present evidence. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, v. 18, Sept.-Dec. 1962: 431-437. Indirect evidence inilicative of the existence of extt"aterrestrial life is given. -----. Terrestrial anrt extraterrestrial life. Spaceflight, v. 2, Oct. 1959: 120-121. Hypothesis for o:igin of life on earth is given based on three assumptions: (1) intelligent life existed somewhere in the universe prior to the beginning of life on earth; (2) interplanetary flight .is possible by these intelligences; and (3) lifeless earth was visited by extraterrestrials who either deliberately or accide·:itally left microbes behind when they departed. \Tai'iations of and objeC'tions to hypothesis are givi:n. 258
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