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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…
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.
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