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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.
“Condon”15 pages
Or. Dec. 24, 1965, meteoritic fragments fell in a restricted area in and about the village of Barwell, Leicestershire, England. Sighting of three bright fireballs and the associated sonir. effects were recorded over rw area. One of these resulted in the fall at Barwell. No evidence has yet be1?n found for meteoritic falls associated witn tne other two lireballs. Miles, h. G. and A. J. Meadows. Fireballs associated with the Barwell meteorite. Nature, v. 212, Dec. 17, 1966: 1339. Article contains additional information on the fireballs associated with the meteorite fall at Barwell, Leicestershire, England, on December 24, 1965. Original report indicated existence of two fireballs; additional data imply existence of a third. Rayle, Warren D. Ball lightning characteristics. Washin5ton, D. C. , NASA, 1966. 38 p. (NASA TN D-3188). . Surveys of NASA Lewis Research Center personnel were conducted to ob- tain information about ball lightning occurrences. Comparison of the frequency of observation of ball lightning with that of ordinary lightning im- pact points reveals that ball lightning is not a particularly rare phenomenon. Contrary to widely accepted ideas, the occurrence of ball lightning may be nearly as frequent as that of ouiinary cloud-to-ground strokes. Romig, Mary F. and Donald L. Lamar. Anomalous sounds and electromagnetic effects associated with fireball entry. Santa Monica, The Rand Corp., 1963. 60 p. (Rand Corp. Memorandum RM-3724-ARPA) Memorandum describes nature of certain hissing sounds and electromagnetic effects associated with the passage of very bright meteors or fireballs and discusses their possible origin from the standpoint of atmospheric electricity and reentry physics. Study was motivated by possibility that a better under- standing of these phenomena will lead to new techniques for deter mining the size, na~ure, and path of any large body entering earth's atmospi1ere. Ruppelt, Edward J. Mystery of the green fireballs. Fate, v. 10, June 1957. Fireball activity in New Mexico during winter 1954 is discussed and theories as to its possible nature outlined. S'agissait-il de foudre globulaire"? PMnomenes spatiaux, June 1969: 17-23. Newspaper accounts of unusual atmospheric phenomena that may have been ball lightning. Sykes, Egerton. Flying saucers and negative matter. Atlantis, v. 5, Sept. 1952: 49-51. 316
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 419 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.