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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…
Menzel, Donald H. Life in the universe. [ n.p., 1965] 219 p.
The chances of finding intelligent life within our own solar system are discus-
sed Md it is concluded th~t they appear "vanishingly small. " It is suggested
that the Milky Way might contain up to a million planets inhabited by intelligent
life; however, the chances are that the nearest such inhabited planet is so far
away that if we were to send out a radio signal, we should have to wait 2,000
years for the reply. Reprinted from The graduate journal, v. 7, Winter 1965:
195-219.
----- The universe in action. Birmingham, Ala., The Rushton Lectures Founda-
tion, 1962. 71 p. (The Rushton lectures, 1957)
Discussion of the universe as it was, is now, and will be in the far diDta.nt fu-
ture through evolutfon. The belief is expressed that life, even human or super-
human, may exist in millions of places in the universe.
Moore, Patrick. '!'he worlds around us. New York, Abelard-Schuman, 1956.
157 p.
Outlines conditions under which carbon-based life can survive and applies them
to sun, moon, planets, satellites, and asteroids in the solar system. Hypothe-
sizing that this is the only kind of life possible in the universe, author concludes
that men on earth are alone in the solar system. Asserts that reports about
visits to earth by extraterrestrial spacecraft are only good stories.
Moreux, Theophile. Les autres mondes, sont-ils habites? Paris, Editions Scien-
tifica, 1912. 134 p.
Analyzes current information and theories bearing on existence of human life
forms on other planets of the solar system. New edition published in Paris
(G. Doin) 1950.
Motz, Lloyd. Extra-terrestrial intelligence and stellar evolution. New York,
Institute of the Aerospace Sciences, 1963. 16 p. (IA.:; Paper no. 63-49)
Author postulates that in view of modern theories on the origin of the solar sys-
tem, it is reasonable to conclude that all stars like the sun that are not binary
systems are the centers of i.lanetary systems like our own. Analysis of the
role that d~nsity distribution in the original solar nebula and the solar tidal
action and turbulence played in th·~ formation of the planets leads to the con-
clusion that in each of the stellar planetary systems there are planets like the
earth, Mars, and Venus that are capa·ole of supporting intelligent life.
Muller, Wolfgang D. Man among the stars. New York, Criterion Books, 1957.
307 p.
Mental t.our of the solar system and speculation about the living beings that
may reside in other worlds. Translation of Du wirst die Erde sehn als Stern
(Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1955). ·--
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