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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…
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.
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