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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. 1 …The site and materials made available on the site, such as this file, are for reference…
  • p. 16 …Force on UFOs. New Yvrk, Dell Pub. Co., 1967. l57 p. "From the files of the…
  • p. 23 …Documented report containing 746 UFO sighting cases selected from NICAP files and covering NICAP's investigations…
  • p. 27 …ln the files d. NICAP. Summarizes current theories and expla'lations of UFO phenomena. Translation of…
  • p. 28 …National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. NICAP Headquarters UFO Newspaper Clipping File, 1947-1966. Washington, D…
  • p. 40 …Presence of port- holes would then preclude a meteoric or other "natural'' explanation for a UFO…
  • p. 139 …information in the files of NICAP. Summarizes current theories and explanations of UFO phenomena. Miller, R…
  • p. 155 …This man knows UFOs. Canadian magazine, May 25, 1968: 9, 11. On July 6, 1967, Warren…
  • p. 160 …Two more facts for the UFO file. Flying saucer review, v. 8, July-Aug. 1962: 14…
  • p. 177 In setting up a scientific im·esti~ation into the UFO phenomenon, it is suggested that…
  • p. 192 …National Investigations Committee o,, Aerial Phenomena. NICAP Headquarters UFO Newspaper Clipping File, 1947-1966. Washington, D…
  • p. 201 …Documented report containing 746 UFO sighting cases selected from NICAP filE:s and covering NICAP's…
  • p. 204 …in the files of NICAP. Summari?.es current theories and explana~ ions of UFO phenomena. Translation…
  • p. 205 National Investlgations Committee on Aerial Pheno1:1ena. (NICAP Headquarters UFO Newspaper Clipping File, 1947-1966j. Wasbington…
  • p. 219 Documented report c0ntaining 746 UFO sighting cases selected f.r<•m NICAP files and covering NICAP…
  • p. 222 …National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. NICA P Headquarters UFO Newspaper Clipping File, 1947-1966 . Washington…
Ball Lightning and Fireballs
Arnold, Kenneth. Are space visitors here? Fate, Summer 1948: 4-21.
Reports of apparent meteor and fireball activity during 1948 are examined.
Author suggests that they are not aerial phenomena but extraterrestrial
spacecraft.
BenedicitS, Carl. Theory of the lightning-balls and its application to tne
atmosphere pnenomenon called ''flying saucers. " Arkiv fOr geofysik,
v. 2, no. :i, 1954: 1-11.
Author theorizes that reported UFO sightings are in reality ball lightning
and gives data supporting his position.
Brand, Walther. Der Kugelblitz. HamlJUrg, Henri Grand, 1923. 170 p.
Theories in explanation of ball lightning are given. Characteristics that
distinguish ball lightning from other meteorological phenomena (sucn as
line lightning and meteors) are r.oted.
Cade, C. Maxwell. Fireballs and flying se1.ucers. Flying saucer review,
v. 13, Jan. -Feb. 1967: 10-12.
Case histories are given of sigt:tings whkh very probably were due to
ball lightning. Author warns, however, that it is more "unscientific" to
try to dismiss all unexplained aerial pheno'llena than it is to hold lnc open-
minded view that SC'me of them may be the artefacts of extraterrestrial
communities.
Constance, Arthur. The inexplicable SKy. London, W. Laurie, ld55: 308 p.
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