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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…
Stranges, Frank E. Flying saucerama. New York, Vantage Press, 1959. 115 p.
Catalogue lanetary F1ying Obj~ds)
operations from September 1955 when the Air Defelil:e Command designated
the author's home a ''UFO reporting post," and CRIFO was lmown internation-
ally as a "civilian cl~aringhouse for saucer information. " Author concludes
that UFOs are interplanetary vehicles and that the world governments with
technlci!l know-how also believe this to be the answer.
Tacker, Lawrence J. Flying saucers and the U.S. Air Force. Princeton, N. J.,
Van Nostrand, 1960. 164 l>·
Author, a former USAF public information officer on UF"Os, discusses UFC·
sightings reported to Aerospa:~e Technical Intelligence Center (Project Blue
Book), Wright Patterson Air Force Base, from Summer 1947 through Summer
lfl60 in attempt to demonstrate that, in general, they were misinterpretations
ol' known objects. He also gives history of USAF's research effort into UFO
phenomena, including Project Saucer and P:.·oJe~~ Grudge.
1be True report on fiying saucers. Greenwich, Conn., Fawcett Publications, 1967.
96 p.
Reprint of articles on UFO controversy for True by Donald E. Keyhoe, John A.
Keel, Edward Ruppelt, William B. Nash and William H. Fortenberry, and
Lloyd Malian.
Twitchell, Cleve. The UFO saga. Lakemont, Ga., CSA Press, 1966. 94 p.
Summary of experiences of individuals who claim to have seen UFOs, or rid-
den in them, or communicated with their crews.
Tyler, Steven. Are the invaders coming? New York, Tower Publications, 1968.
139 p.
Survey of basic UFO literature such as Edward R:ippelt's writings, and extracts
from the publications of NICAP and APRO. Supports the "Air Force conspir-
acy'' hypothesis.
UFO: fiying saucers. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Western Publishing Co., 1968. 64 p.
Comic book. Accounts of UFOs in ancient history, UFO kidnapph:~s. and
"classic" sightings and landing cases, including those where occupants were
allegedly seen.
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