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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…
Drake, Frank D. Project Ozma. Physics today, v. 14, Apr. 1961: 40-46.
Theory of the origin of life is given and possibilities of contact with intelligent
extraterrestrial life discussed. Author hypothesizes that frequencies near
1420.405 Mc/sec may be used by an extraterrestrial civilization attempting to
signal earth.
----- Radio emission from the planets. Physics today, v. 14, Apr. 1961: 30-34.
Predictions based on optical infrared studies of Venus, Mars, Jupit<:r, and
Saturn are compared with radio emission data. Biological significan.-:e of in-
frared surface conditions--based on radio emission data--is assessed.
----- The radio search for intelligent extraterrestrial lile. In Mamikunian, Gregg
and M. H. Briggs. Current aspects of exobiology. Pasadena: Calif., Jet Pro-
pulsion Laboratory, 1965. p. 323-345.
It is concluded that microwave radio signals are the most common means of in-
terstellar communication; that terrestrial technology is capable of carrying on
a successful search for signals but that the project, if it is to cope with all the
reasonable possibilities, must be one of very great expense, complexity, and
duration. It is also suggested that there are many other possible ways in which
manifestation of intelligent Jife might be found, but at present few, if any, ap-
pear to offer enough hope of success to justify their active pursuit.
Dreyer, H. R. The man who knows the languages of the stars. Fate, v. 12, Aug.
1959: 78-79.
An inmate in a psychiatric institute in Prague, Czechoslovakia, believes he is
in continual contact with other planets and records their speech in fine detail.
Dye, Clarkson. Radio to other worlds. F:ite, v. 8, Mar. 1955: 88-96.
Account of the experiments of David Henry Wilson (London, England, circa
1915) with a specially-constructed wireless set and of messages he received
irom entities that were not inhabitants of earth.
Dyson, F. J. Search for artificial stellar sources of infrared radiation. Science,
v. 131, June 3, 1960: 1667.
If extraterrestrial intelligent beings exist and have reached a high level of tech-
nical development, one by-product of their energy metabolism is likely to be the
large-scale convr.rsions of star-light into infrared radiation. It is proposed
that a search fo1· sources of infrared radiation should accompany the search for
inkrstellar communications.
Flammario~, Camille. Inter-astral communication. American review of reviews,
v. 5, Feb. 1892: 90.
Fuller, Curtis. Porpoise research: exploring an alien iiltelligence. F~te. '" 16,
Nov. 19fi3: 52-60.
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