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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.
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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. 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.