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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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Firsoff, Valdemar Axel. Life beyond the earth. New York, Basic Books, Inc., 1963. 320 p. Origin of life on earth and elsewhere is discussed, its subsequent evolution and present condition, and such forms of it as deviate most from human standa!'ds and thereby promise insight into alien structures that may exist on other worlds. Range of environments are examine-.1 \Jithin which life as we know it is JY'SSible as well as organic chemistries til:U: would be viable in environ- ments where terrestrial life could not exist. Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de. Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes. Paris, Editions de la Nouvelle France, 1945. 201 p. Combines a popular defense of Copernican aatronomy and Cartesian physics with an amusing and fanciful discussion of the plurality of inhabited worlds. Hayatsu, Ryoichi. Orgueil met~orite--organic nitrogen contents. Science, v. 146, Dec. 4, 1964: 1291-1293. Analysis of Orgueil meteorite is described in detail. Purines, amino derivates of sym-triazine and substituted guanidines are isolated and identified by chromatographic, spectroscopic, and other techniques. ResuJts are discussed in terms of value as evidence of extraterrestrial life. Heintze, Carl. Search among the stars. Princeton, N. J. , Van Nostrand, 1966, 175 p. Non-technical speculative discussion of whether there is intelligent llfe in the universe. Holmes, David C. The search for life on other worlds. New York, Sterling Publishing Co. , 1966. 240 p. Non-technical discussion of man's pla1:!e in the cosmos and possibility of intelligent life throughout the universe. Horowitz, Norman. Is there life on other planets? Engineering and science, v. 2~: Mar. 1961: 11-15. Possible existerice on Mars and Venus of terrestrial form of living matter baseci on proteins and nucleic acids is discussed. Huang, Su-Shu. Occurrence of life in the universe. American scier.tist, v. 47, Sept. 1959: 397-402. Prerequisites for the occurrence of life, especially in an advanced form, are discussed in the light of current knowledge of the stars and thei::· evolution. 262
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.