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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.
“Scientific American”22 pages
Author surveys scientific opinion on th~ possibility of life on other worlds and summarizes UFO sighting reports from 1947 to date. Details are given of "con~ctee" reports and the alleged appearance and behavior of beings from outer space. Williams, Henry S. Are the pianets inhabited? Hearst's magazine, v. 24, Aug. 1913: 284-286. Young, Richards. Exobiology. In NASA-University Conference on the Science and Technology of Space Exploration. - Proceedings. v. 1. Chicago, 1962. p. 423- 429. Reports on NASA exobiology program, including laboratory studies on organic compound synthesis under primitive eartt conditions, analysis of meteorites, and life detection apparatus. -----. Extraterrestrial tiology. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. 119 p. Text is a discussion of life as it is found on earth and of the properties of life which suggest it might exist in more than one place in the universe. Younghusband, Francis. The living universe. London, John Murray, 1933. 252 p. Author postulates that the universe is a living universe and that the primordial germ of life appeared as the result of the interaction of the earth with life in the universe as a v.'!lole. He suggests that there may be the same myriad forms of life on different planets as there are on earth. All life is "derived from the same original source, and infor~ by the same Spirit." COMMUNICATION Ascher, Robert and Marcia Ascher. Interstellar communication and human evolution. Nature, v. 193, Mar. IO, 1962: 940-94!, The authors postulate that the potential of a search for signals from oth<:r civilizations is largely dependent on the adequacy of guesses about the probability of the existence of extraterres\.~ial technical civilizations, the probable stage of development of a civHization which we might contact, the longevity "f attempts at contact following success or failure, and the result of possible contact and exchange, Article indicates steps in in:!reasing the reasonableness of the guesses. Barton, Michael X. Secrets of higher contact. Los Angeles, Futura Press, 1959. 30 p, 253
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.