UFOs and Related Subjects (Lynn Catoe, 1969)

Ascher, Robert and Marcia Ascher. Interstellar communication and human evolu-
tion. Nature, v. 193, Mar. 10, 1962: 940-941.
The authors postulate that the l'otential of a search for signals from other civi-
lizations is largely dependent on the adequacy of guesses about the probability
of the existence of extraterrestrial technical civilizations, tlie probable stage
of development of a civilization which we might contact, the longevity of attempts
at contacc following success or failure, and the result of possible contact and
exchange. Article indicates steps in increasing the reasonableness of the
guEsses.
Asimov, Isaac. Is anyc.ne there? Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday & Co., 1967.
320 p.
Collection of articles on scien'!e, speculation and science fiction that have ap-
peared in popular magazines. The probability of intelligent life on worlds
other than ours is the general theme.
Berrill, Norman John. Worlds without end: a reflection on planets, life, and timt"
New York, Macmillan, 1964. 240 p.
Speculative investigation of possibi!ities of life on other planets: nearest and
best-known planets are compared with earth; hypothetical planets similar to
earth but with one or another feature altered in some manner are examined in
order to predict how familiar living things might be affected; hie on earth is
evaluated to determine which characteristics may be regarded as universal un-
der certain circumstances and which are special; and imaginative efforts of
speculative writers to conceive and describe creatur,:!s diffuent from those
known to us on earth are presented.
Bieri, Robert. Humanoids on other pl~r.ds? American scientist, v. 52, Dec. 1964:
542-458.
Arguments are presented to support the view that if life has evolved on other
planets in other solar systems and if some population has reached the level of
conceptual thought, it is highly probable that the organisms so endowed will
bear a strong resemblance to homo sapiens.
Bradbury, Ray. A serious search for weird worlds. Life, v. 49, Oct. 24, 1960:
116-118, 12G, 123-124, 126-128, 130.
Sketches are shown of strange creatures who may represent wh?..t creatures on
other inhabited planets look like. Explanation is made that although grotesque
by earth standards, they could develop this way in response to different envi-
ronments of other worlds. Project Ozma, the radio-telescope search for life
on other worlds, is discussed.
Breig, Joseph A. Are there rational beings on planets far away? Ave Maria,
v. 89, Mar. 7, 1959: 19.
Brewster, David. More worlds than one. New York, Robert Carter & Bros., 1854.
265 p.
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