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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.
“Scientific American”22 pages
Descriptions of disc-like aircraft: Couzinet "aerodyne", Adrian
Phillips' "Sauc~rcraft"; Chance Vought XFSU-1 "Flying Pancake";
Chance Vought V-173 "Flying Flapjack"; Otis T. Carr "OTC-X";
Hilton Re-entry Vehicle; HilJ.er "Flying Platform"; National Research
Associates' "Flying Saucer :Ude"; Weygers' "Discopter"; Swedenborg
Saucer; Ryan Disc; General Dynamics' Lenticular Re-Entry Vehicle;
V-7.
ni Soir, W. E. The saucer that didn't fly. Fate, v. 12, Aug. 1959:
32-34.
Account of Otis T. Carr's unsuccessful attempt in April 1958 to launch
a prototype model of a saucer-sha9ed aircraft. Propulsion was to have
been by ''utron'' energy.
Fry, Daniel W. Steps to the stars. Lakemont, Ga. , CSA Publishers,
1956. 83 p.
The basic physical concepts underlying the construction and operation of
a vehicle that could undertake interplanetary travel are discussed.
Fuller, Curtis. Canada builds a saucer. Fate, v. 12, Sept. 1959: 70-73.
Avro Canada, Ltd., is preparing to test-fly a saucer-shaped craft which
r~portedly can move sidewise, hover, or skim close to the ground to avoid
radar detedion.
Haggerty, James J. and Cornelius Ryan. The Navy comes up with a real
flying saucer. Collier's, v. 135, Apr. 29, 1955: 30-35.
Description of a circular one-man aircraft that can hover, climb, and
dart sideways using the "duc;ted fan" propulsion principle; a propeller
operating in a Ehallow cylinder sucks air through the vehicle, generating
a downward thrust force which supplies vtrtical lift. Aircraft was built
by Hiller Helicopters, Palo Alto, Calif. , under direction of the Office
of Na.val Reseatch in 1954.
Is this the real flying saucer? Look, v. 19, June 14, 195C: 44-4G.
Design study for a flying-saucer fighter prepared for Looi< by Republic
Aviation Cm·p. engineer Thomas Turner. Sketches indicate appearance
of a craft that would fulfill following requirements: (1) ability to take off
and land vertically; {2) high speed of over Mach 2.; (3) high rate of climb;
(4) ex:.:ellent maneuverability; (5) heavy armament; (6) ability to operate
at 60.000 ft.
John~·. Cr.rnelius. Flyi11g saucers swamp the Vietcong. Argosy, v. 356,
Jan. 1968: 30-31. 66, 68-69.
Role of air-cushion vehicles in the Viet1iam war is discussed.
319 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.