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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
within reach and which are believed to be able to support life of an advanced form. Sint::e our present technology is perhaps inferior to that of others who can communicate with us, it is suggested that our h:1·-.:;mitting station be used solely, at least for the next hundred years or so, for responding to intelligent messagea from outer space that have been detected. Jackson, C. D. and R. E. Hohmann. An historic report on life in space. New York, American Rocket Society, 1962. 7 p. (ARS Paper no. 2730-62) Investigations and experimental data of Nikola Tesla, Guglielmo Marconi, and D..:.vid Todd are presented. During the years 1899-1924 these experimental scientists, working independently of each other, observer! laboratory dal:l and related phenomena which suggested they wne monitoring interplanetary com- munications. During the same period, the Russian theorist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky deduced a model Gf an intelligence existing independently ofter- restrial influence. Data are first brought together in an historical model (1899- 1924) and then are shown to be the natural complement of a current theoretical model (1959-1962). Krasovskiy, lu. Astronautics and extraterrestrial civilizations. Flying saucer re- view, v. 7, Sept. -Oct. 1961: 3-5. Author discusses earth's objectives in the conquest of extraterrestrial space; possibility of life in other worlds; possibility of communicating with extrater- restrial civilizations; and the possibility of receiving intelligent signals from other worlds. Lamb, Peter. Pictures from outer space. Spacelink, v. 4, Summer 1967: 13-l 7. Details are given of what may have been the fi:o-st recorded reception of picture transmission between planets. McCla.in, Edward F. The 600-foot radio telescope. Scientific American, v. 202, Jan. 1960: 45-51. The ''-'~1-id's largest steerable telescope, under construction near Sugar Grove, V.'. Va., provides power to gather radio waves and resolve celestial radio sources. Miles, Max B. Scientists track space r:!<lio signals. Fate, v. 12, ,Tune 1959: 57- 58. Mysterious radio signals ,vhose absence of Doppler effect indicated travel away from the earth were monitored on frequencies of 20 and 40 megacycles for three hours in late November, 1958, from an A'.r Force Missile Test Center instal- lation at Cape Canaveral. Hiller, E. Conrad and J. L. Smith. Some considerations rE'garding the possibility of contact with intelligent extraterrestrial beings. BU FORA journal and bul - letin, v. 1, Winter 1964: 4-7. 2'/5
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.