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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.
“Ray Palmer”20 pages
Article slates it is possible that contact will be made in the relatively near fu- ture with extrate1 rest rial btelligences and that this contact may occur as a sbip to ship meeting in Interplanf.tary space. Earth's crews should be briefed to take nC' possible acticn that could be deemed hostile and to take defensive measures only in the last resort for sell-preservation. An effort should be made to determine whether it is possible to develop messages suitable for ini- tial contact with an alien intelligenct. Mysterious broadcast from space ship? Flying saucCc"rs, Feb. 1959: 35-37, 46. A mysterious broadcast was allegedly received on Aug. 3, 1958, on 75 meter intern':\tional banrl in which the voke of a man saict he ..,as ''Necoma" from the planet Jupiter and wus broadcasting from a space ship 50,000 miles from e?.rth. Incident was reported in a southeast U. S. newspaper. The mystery of other worlds revealed. Greenwich, Collll., Fawcett Publications, 1952. 144 p. Chapter headiJlbS include: life on other worlds; communication with other worlo:ls; the expanding universe; possibilities !or an invasion base Oil the moon: a case for flying saucers; investigation of the Carolina saucer; are the flying saucers Russia.-;, owned? Oakley, C. 0. Math, our link with space people. Science digest, v. 49, June 1961: 7-13. Oberth, Herman."'l. Katechismus der Uranldem. Wiesbaden-Schierst.:?in, Ventla- Verlag, 1966. 160 p. Communication with an extraterrestrial being through a psychic med.i.um has caused Oberth to a:iopt th~s view: there is a soul which outlives the body; this world serves as a training-ground for the soul; the soul will c1..11.tinue life (on ~ planet where conditions are in ker:ping with its degree of development) after death. Pascalis, Bernardino. Werkelijkheid of fantasie? Panorama, Feb. 21-27, 1967: 31-38. Feature article en UFO reports in which there was alleged communication with the occupants or crew of the objects. Pearman, J. P. T. Extr::terrest:-ial intelligent life and interstellar communication: an informal discussion. In Cameron, A. G. W., ed. Interstellar communica- tion. New York, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., 1963. p. 287-293. From consideration of the prospects for existence of other societies in our galaxy and the problems involved in establishing communication with them, it is concluded that, if the more optimistic values of communicative lifetime are chosen, the number of civilizations becomes 105 to 109 and the distance of the nearest civilization is estimated at ten to a few hundred light-years. 276
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.