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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. 40 …Author postulates th ..,.t UFO research seems to have reached a crucial turning point and cites…
  • p. 44 …Survey of activitiee of official and private organizations engaged in UFO research. 29
  • p. 50 …Lecture at the Southern Region UFO Research Groups Conference, Oxford, England, May 8, 1965. 35
  • p. 83 …witness by Peter Norris, chairman of the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, and M. Thornhill. 66
  • p. 95 …The UFO investigator, v. 3, Nov. -Dec. 1965: 5. Experiments and research by Prof. Clyde E…
  • p. 121 …Peter Norris, chairman of Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, and M. Thornhill. The humanoids. Flying saucer…
  • p. 128 …London, British UFO Research Assn. , 1964 31 p. Details are given of the various natural and…
  • p. 129 …London, British UFO Research Assn. , 1964 31 p. Details are given of the various natural and…
  • p. 136 …Discusses three questions important in UFO research: (1) where do they ..~om~ from? (2) who crews…
  • p. 137 …UFOs: the greatest scientific problem of our times," delivered at the convention of the American Society…
  • p. 154 …General discussion of activities of UFO researchers and alleged contactees. Claims made by "Prince Neosom of…
  • p. 156 …Moseley, President of the Saucer and Unexplained Celestial Events Research Society; and Michael J. Campione, New…
  • p. 212 …Flying Saucer Research Society, Adelaide, Australia. Babcock, Edward J. and Timothy G. Beckley. UFO plagues N…
  • p. 216 …Koch, Publicity and Research Director of Universal Research Society of America, sighted a UFO on Apr…
  • p. 288 …Author surrnests the possibility that UFOs and poltergeists are among phenomena which could be "experienced, " with…
  • p. 398 …UFOs is the hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitations by intelligent beings." Reprinted in News Report, National Research…
Publication contains mc;nographs and reprints on specialized aspects of inter-
stellar communication with criticai commentary.
----- Stellar life zones. In Cameron, A. G. W., ed. Interstellar communication.
New York, W. A. Benjamin, Inc. 1963. p. 107-110.
Conclusion is reached that all single stars in space (except those with very low
heavy-element contents) have a life zone containing an average of about 1.4
planets of undetermined size.
Cocconi, Guiseppe and Philip Morrison. Searching for interstellar communications.
Nature, v. 184, Sept. 19, 1959: 844-846.
Speculates on optimum channel thnt might be used by an intelligent extrater-
restrial civilization to contact earth. Concludes that the most promising radio
emission line to search for would be at 1420 Mc/s fa. 2lcm) of neutral hydrogen.
Creighton, Gordon W. What the Soviets are sayin[:,. Flying saucer review, v. 10,
Sept. -Oct. 1964: 26.
Summary of articles in Soviet press 1960-1964 about probable existence of ex-
traterrestrial civilizations and possible means of communicating with them.
Crenshaw, James. What can we expect of ''dvilization" in outer space? Fate,
v. 20, Jan. 1967: 79-89.
Thought-provoking views on what may happen when and if earth's scientists put
us in contact with an outer-space civilization superior, inferior, or equivalent
to ours.
aJa Silva, Renato I. No espaco nao estamos sos. Sio Paulo, Edart, 1966. 213 p.
The1lries relating to possibility of life on the moon and other planets are sum-
marized. Parapsychological phenomena of mental telepathy, precognition,
ESP, premonition, and astral projection are discussed as they might relate to
contact with extraterrestrial t!ntities or intelligences.
Drake, Frank D. Intelligent life in space. New York, Macmillan, 1962. 128 p.
Summary of facts that seem to indicate existence of many civilizations in space
and discussion of ways in which men on earth might contact such civilizations.
----- Project Ozma. In Cameron, A. G. W. Interstellar communication. New
Yo::k, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., 1963. p. 176-177.
First systematic, high sensitivity search for manifestations of extraterrestrial
intelligent life are described. Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani were chosen as
subjects because they are the nearest single sunlike stars observable from tele-
scope site. Preliminar)' observations uncovered n'J signals of extraterres-
t:ial origin, but radar freq11encies otill appear to offE;r the greatest hope !or
success in the search.
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