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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…
Scienti!ic study of UFO sightings re11orted throughout world from 1951. Book
empt.asizes global nature of phenomenon, showing how European sightings
illuminate observations in U. S. and other parts of the world. Sightings in
France are ·treated in detail and the methods deveJuped for studying them are
suggested as applicable to· the phenomenon as a whole. Published also in
paperback edition by Ace Books (H28), New York.
Vallee, Jacques and Janine V~e. Les phenomenes insolites de l 'espace; le dos-
sier des mysterieux objets celestes Paris, La Table Rond, 1966. 321 p.
Part I (Chapters 3-5) is devcted to a discussion of whether the location of
sightings follows a precise law; Part Il (Chapter·s 7-10) discusses variations in
the frequency of sighting reports and their possible correlation with known phe-
nomena; Part m (Chapters 11-13) is an attempt tu establish as accurate clas-
sification categories as possible for different lyfit:s of sighting reports and
descriptions or-physical characteristics of obj ds f!ighted.
Vogt, Cristian. El misterio de los platos voladores. Buenos Aires, Editorial
"La Mandragora" [1956] 190 p.
Contains general discussion of UFO phenomenon and summaries of explanatory
hypotheses relating to it. Activities of governmental and private research pro-
jects and contactee claims are also reported.
Weor, Samael. Los platillos voladores. San Salvador, The Author, 1966. 28 p.
Overview of the UFO controversy with emphasis on thie plausibility of the e..11:-
traterrestrial hypothesis.
Wilkins, Harold T. Flying saucers uncensored. New York, Citadel Press, 1955.
255 p.
Author caWogues UFO sightings and incidents over U.S., Western Europe,
U.S., and Australia from 1947 through 1955 and speculates that extraterres-
trial visitants are possibly established in bases on moon and other planets; a
cosmic general staff may receive reports on terrestrial affairs as well as bio-
logical and ecological samples from earth for purposes of study and experi-
mentation. Published also in British edition (London, Arco, 1956), and in
paperback edition by Pyramid Pubns., Inc. (Tl651), New York.
Williamson, George Hunt and John McCoy. UFOs confidential! ; the meaning behind
the most closely guarded secret of all time. Corpus Christi, Tex., Essene
Press, 1958. 100 p.
Zeirabi, J. El misterio de los discos voladores. Santiago de Chile, The Author,
1953. 77 p.
Account of author's alleged contact with landed flying saucer and its Martian
crew and trip to Mars aboard spacecraft. He describes in detail physical fea-
tures of Mars, its science, culture, and political institutions. Experience
reportedly took place in September 1952.
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