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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.
“The Invaders”14 pages
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.
271 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.