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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…
Discussion of three principal way;. in which alien intelligences could communi-
cate with us: (1) direct visitation; {2) remote c0mmunications; (3) ambassa-
dorial liaison.
Cade, C. Maxwell. A long, cool look at alien intelligence. Part IV -- Possible
significance of parapsychology. Flying saucer review, v. 13, Nov. -Dec. 1967:
13-15.
Discussion of ways in which prosopesis (alternating personalities) and ideoplasty
(an idea manifesting as a bodily change in the same person) are related to the
subject of flying saucers. It is suggested that many of the strange mental dis-
turbances which we put down to madness, genius, hysterical dissociation, or
drunkedness, are the eariy stirrings of ideoplastic concepts induced by cosmic
telepathy.
----- A long, cool look at alien intelligence: Part V -- It's all i.n the mind. Flying
saucer review. v. 14, Mar. -Apr. 1968: 7-9.
Author surrnests the possibility that UFOs and poltergeists are among phenomena
which could be "experienced, " with completely convincing realism, rlue to ef-
fects of electromagnetic fields. He also suggests that this electromagnetic iadi-
ation could be either terrestrial or extraterrestrial in origin; it could be either
a stochastic natural process or the planned product of an alien intelligence.
Calvin, Melvin. Chemical evolution. In Cameron, A. G. W., ed. Interstellar
communication. New York, W. A.-Benjamin, 1963. p. 33-77.
Fro questions on the nature and characteristics of life, the author proceeds
through theories on chemical evolution with the establishment of an e Inter-
stellar communication. New York, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., 1963. p. 309-31~.
Fields of research that c'l.n contribute in a more direci. way to guesses about
the nature of extraterrestr:ial societies are discussed. Nearest communicative
civilization should be expected to be about 87 parsecs away (284 light-years).
For civilizations on planets near the very faint stars which have been proposed
as likely to exist, the laser may be the obvious way of communication, since
the signal-to-noise ratio of their optical transmissions should be orders of
magnitude better than that calculated for the i:,un by Schwartz and Townes.
Cameron, A. G. W., ed. Interstellar ('Omn111'1ication. ;~ew York, W. A.
Benjamin, Inc., 1963. 320 p.
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