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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. 40 …Author postulates th ..,.t UFO research seems to have reached a crucial turning point and cites…
  • p. 44 …Survey of activitiee of official and private organizations engaged in UFO research. 29
  • p. 50 …Lecture at the Southern Region UFO Research Groups Conference, Oxford, England, May 8, 1965. 35
  • p. 83 …witness by Peter Norris, chairman of the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, and M. Thornhill. 66
  • p. 95 …The UFO investigator, v. 3, Nov. -Dec. 1965: 5. Experiments and research by Prof. Clyde E…
  • p. 121 …Peter Norris, chairman of Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, and M. Thornhill. The humanoids. Flying saucer…
  • p. 128 …London, British UFO Research Assn. , 1964 31 p. Details are given of the various natural and…
  • p. 129 …London, British UFO Research Assn. , 1964 31 p. Details are given of the various natural and…
  • p. 136 …Discusses three questions important in UFO research: (1) where do they ..~om~ from? (2) who crews…
  • p. 137 …UFOs: the greatest scientific problem of our times," delivered at the convention of the American Society…
  • p. 154 …General discussion of activities of UFO researchers and alleged contactees. Claims made by "Prince Neosom of…
  • p. 156 …Moseley, President of the Saucer and Unexplained Celestial Events Research Society; and Michael J. Campione, New…
  • p. 212 …Flying Saucer Research Society, Adelaide, Australia. Babcock, Edward J. and Timothy G. Beckley. UFO plagues N…
  • p. 216 …Koch, Publicity and Research Director of Universal Research Society of America, sighted a UFO on Apr…
  • p. 288 …Author surrnests the possibility that UFOs and poltergeists are among phenomena which could be "experienced, " with…
  • p. 398 …UFOs is the hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitations by intelligent beings." Reprinted in News Report, National Research…
Mugler, c. Deux themes de la cosmologie grecque: devenir cyclique pluralite
des :nondes. Paris, Librarie C. Klincksieck, 1953. 192 p.
Survey of Greek literature for indications of a belief in the extraterrestrial
origin of man and the existence of intelligent life throughout the universe.
Munitz, Milton K. Theories of the universe from Babylonian myth to modern sci-
ence. Glencoe, Ill., The Free Press, 1957. 437 p.
Survey of c.irrent trends in scientific cosmology against the background of
earlier efforts and achievements. Beginning with one of the earliest ventures
in the form of myth, materials are included exhibitir.g the principal stages of
progress in cosmological inquiry from antiquity up to the present time.
The mystery of other worlds revealed. Greenwich, Conn., Fa·.vcett Publications,
1952. H~ p.
Chapter headings include: Ule on other worlds; communication with other
worlds; the expanding universe; possibilities of an invasion base on the moon;
a case for flying saucers; investigation of the Carolina saucer; are the flying
saucers Russian-owned 'i
Ordway, Frederick I., Ill. Life in other sokr systems. New York, E. P. Dutton,
Inc., 1965. 96 p.
Reviews growing indirect and direct evident·e of life-supporting extra-solar
planetary systemf with intf lligent communities and speculates on the nature of
extra-solar beings.
Pearman, J. P. T. Extraterrestrial !ntelligent life and interstellar communication:
an informal discussion. In CamH:m, A. G. W., ed. Interstellar communica-
tion. New York, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., 1963. p 287-293.
From consideration of the prcc;;pects for existenc'! ..;f other societies in our
galaxy an1 the problems involved in establishi1.g communication with them, it
is concluderi 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.
Perego, Angelo. Rational life beyond the earth'? Theology digest, v. 7, Fall 1959:
177-178.
Posi.1, Daniel Q. Life beyond our planet. New York, MacGraw-Hill. 1962. 128 p.
Non -technical discussion of planets of solar system, consideration of whether
life of any kind exists on them, and discussion of ways of communicating with
these or planets of other snlar systems.
Quarnstrom, Gunnar. Dikkn uch · .C'\I 1:'-'.·a vc•tens!<.a,11"n. L'"1'c1' Sweo'en C w K- ·' " ... - ' ' . . .Gleer~p, 1961. 300 p.
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