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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…
Harford, J. Rational beings in other worlds. Jubilee, May 1962: 17-21.
Helntze, Carl. Search among the stars. Princeton, Van Nostrand, i966. 175 p.
Non-tt~chnical speculative discussion c.f whether there is intelligent life in the
universe.
Heuer, Kennet~&. Men of other planets. L-0r.don, Vicior Gallancz, Ltd., 1{151.
160 p.
Text combines scienc£o and fancy in speculation about p!urality of inhabited
worlds. Author hypothesizes that there are worlds without end of every con-
ceivable description in the universe; they are inhabited by intelligent beings
whose forms, organs, and number of senses are infinitely diverse as result of
physicai conditions peculiar to their particular worlds.
Holmes, David C. The search for life on other worlds. New York, Sterli~ Pub-
lishing Co., 1966. 240 p.
Non-technical discussion of man's place in the cosmos and possibility of intel-
ligent life throughout the universe.
Howe1: s, W. Would other humans look like us': In Mankind in the making, New
York, Doubleday & Co., 1959. p. 53-58.
Speculations are made on the probable form of extraterrest: ial intelligent lif~.
This life would be similar to man in many respects: a supporting structure,
a liquid nutrient system, a nervous system, a large brain. Two sexes seem
likely; beings would be land dwelling. Symmetry and coordination dictate pro-
bability of two arms each with multiple fingers, but there may be four legs in-
stead of two. H man were eradicated, it is likely that intelligent life would have
to evol.ve all over again since present animals have pas~eri the point of
differentiation.
Hoyle, Fred. Man in the universe. New York and London, Columbia University
Press, 1966. 81 p.
In astronomy, the author says, we are facecl by contradictions. Not all the ap-
parent data of the moment can be correct; we do not know which fragments are
right and which are wrong. Because we cannot experiment with the universe,
we live in a kind of shifting uncertainty, shifting because as the years pass the
balance of certainty of a given piece of data changes.
Huang, Su-shu. Occurrence of life in the universe. American scientist, v. 47,
Sept. 1959: 397-402.
Prerequisites for the occurrence of life, espechilly in an advanced form, are
discussed in the light of current knowledge of the stars and their evolution.

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