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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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Revelle, R. Sailing in new and old oceans. A. I. B. S. Bulletin, v. 12, Oct. 1962: 45-47. If modern theories aboi;t the format!on of star::; are correct, probably the great majority of stars have planets around them. On at least some of these, life may have evolved in a beneficent realm of light and liquid water and in an atmosphere of oxygen and nitrogen to a level as high and perhaps much higher, than the highest life known on earth. Communication with intelligent beings in planets of other stars would be alma;t impossible because cf the distance involved. Ross, John C. A scieatist looks at life on other worlds. Fate, v. 12, Apr. 1959: 86-89. Nobel prize winner Dr, Melvin Calvin asserts that life is inevitable on other worJds throughout the universe and that we may expect to find life forms more intellectually developed than man. Rublowsky, John. Is anybody out there? New York, Walker and Co., 1962. 118 p. Surveys recent findings in biology, physics, and astronomy and focuses them on question of whether life exists in the universe. Rush, Joseph H. Life the universe. In The dawn of life. Garden City, N. Y., Hanover House, 1957. p. 188-217. - Appraisal of the possibility of life on the solar planets and beyond the solar system. Sagan, Carl. On the origin and planetary distribution of life. Radiation research, v. 15, Aug. 1961: 174-192. Author discusses current opinion and speculation concerning the origin an<l early history of life on earth, with particular emphasis on the role that radiation may have played, and with application to the problem of extra- terrestriai life. -----. Tile quest for life beyond the earth. In Smithsonian Institution. Annual report of the board of regents for the yearending June 30, 1964. Washington, D. C., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1965. p. 297 .. 306. Questions on the possibility of extraterrestrial life and the origin of life are discussed and alternative interpretations of available data given. 8hapley, Harlow. Extraterrestrial life. Astronautics, v. 5, Apr. 1960: 32-33, 50, 52. It is postulated that homo sapiens as a species may be unique, but there is good reason to expect that there are habitable planets with higher forms of life in other sola1· syste'lls. 266
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.