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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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Uethier, Vincent G. Life on o!"ht:r planets. Catholic world, v. tsa, j;ui. 1964: 245-250. Drake, W.R. Mercury, Jupiter, and others: can life exist? Flying sancer revlew, v. 6, Seit. -Oct. 1960: 18-22. Survey of facts and spec1•lations on possibility of life on Mercury, Jupiter and lesser known bodies in earth's solar system. Drawert, Friedrich. Estraterrestrisches Leben. Naturwissensc!laftliche Rundschau, v. 14. Feb. 1961: 68-70. Ecosphere may shape life on distant planets. Science newslett~r, v. 80, Oct. 21, 1961: 272. Edwards, Frank. Frank Edwards' report: you can break the UFO barrier. Fate, v. 11, Nov. 1958: 77-83. Astronomical evidence is presented to support speculation that life exists in solar systems other than earth's. Readers are urged to write their Congressmen asking them to require the Government to end secrecy regarding UFOs. Ewing, Ann. 1964: 199. Life in all solar systems? Science newsletter, v. 86, Sept, 26, Fears, Francis R. Silicon and extraterrestrial life forms. Journal of space flight, v. 2, Nov. 1950: 5-6. A life form based on silicon metabolism which would remotely resemble the life on our planet cannot exist under such P.nvironmental conditions as are found 011 earth. It might exist in an entirely alien set of circumstances which are at present beyond our conception. Firsoff, V. A. An ammonia~based life. Discovery, v. 23, Jan. 1963: 36-42. Development of inorganic polymers which tear a resemblance to organic com- pounds hut have, wholly or partly, a differc.nt chemical basis hasled to speculatious on various alternative life schemes. When liquid ammonia replaces water as a universal solvent, ammonolysis of the analogue compounds in an ammono-organic chemistry can replace hydrolysis in the process of digestion. The same reactions of chemical degradation which yield energy by oxidation in our system would be performed in that of ammonia throuin the agency of nitrogen. Instead of water and carbon dioxide as final products, ammonia and cyanogen C2N2 which is the ammonia analogue of C02, would be produced. Equivalent organic compounds in a nitrogen-based lift: system are given, 261
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 419 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.