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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…
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.
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