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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.

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“UFO Research Society”16 pages

  • p. 40 …Author postulates th ..,.t UFO research seems to have reached a crucial turning point and cites…
  • p. 44 …Survey of activitiee of official and private organizations engaged in UFO research. 29
  • p. 50 …Lecture at the Southern Region UFO Research Groups Conference, Oxford, England, May 8, 1965. 35
  • p. 83 …witness by Peter Norris, chairman of the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, and M. Thornhill. 66
  • p. 95 …The UFO investigator, v. 3, Nov. -Dec. 1965: 5. Experiments and research by Prof. Clyde E…
  • p. 121 …Peter Norris, chairman of Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, and M. Thornhill. The humanoids. Flying saucer…
  • p. 128 …London, British UFO Research Assn. , 1964 31 p. Details are given of the various natural and…
  • p. 129 …London, British UFO Research Assn. , 1964 31 p. Details are given of the various natural and…
  • p. 136 …Discusses three questions important in UFO research: (1) where do they ..~om~ from? (2) who crews…
  • p. 137 …UFOs: the greatest scientific problem of our times," delivered at the convention of the American Society…
  • p. 154 …General discussion of activities of UFO researchers and alleged contactees. Claims made by "Prince Neosom of…
  • p. 156 …Moseley, President of the Saucer and Unexplained Celestial Events Research Society; and Michael J. Campione, New…
  • p. 212 …Flying Saucer Research Society, Adelaide, Australia. Babcock, Edward J. and Timothy G. Beckley. UFO plagues N…
  • p. 216 …Koch, Publicity and Research Director of Universal Research Society of America, sighted a UFO on Apr…
  • p. 288 …Author surrnests the possibility that UFOs and poltergeists are among phenomena which could be "experienced, " with…
  • p. 398 …UFOs is the hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitations by intelligent beings." Reprinted in News Report, National Research…
Nollet, A. R. Flying saucers ... a hard looit. Marine corps gazette, v. 43,
Dec. 1959: 20-25.
States that hopes for a U.S. scientific breakthrough based on Apr. 29,
1959, article in U.S. News and World Report entitled "Flying Saucer Age
for the U.S. --It's Getting Nearer" were misplaced since the saucers
turned out to be Ground Effect Vehicles. Describes the different types of
GEV's 'Yorldwide and suggests military uses.
One man's flying saucer. Pace, v. 11, Aug. 1966: 62-63.
A flying-saucer-shaped personal commuter aircraft designed by Univ. of
California aerodynamics professor Pz.d Moller is discussed. Eignt feet,
in diameter, it weighs 400 lbs., will reach 5,000 ft. altitude, and attain
speed of 150 mph.
Russia claims "flying saucer.'' The UFO investigator, v. 2, Dec. -Jan. 196~-
1964: 1-2.
Krasnaya Zvezda is cited in article as having reported early in 1963 that
Soviet engineers had successfully tested a "flying saucer" aircraft. State-
ments fro&n U.S. S. R. on UFOs 1952-1961 are listed.
Saucer blue book. Time, v. 66, Nov. 7, 1955: 52.
Secretary of the Air Force Donald A. Quarles released information about
a vertically rising jet aircraft soon to be tested by Ryan Aeronautical Co.
that might be mistaken for a flying saucer. He also released a Project
Blue Book analysis of 4,965 reported flying saucer sightings.
Saucer-eyed dragons. Time, v. 55, Apr. 17, 1950: 52-54.
Discussion of controversy surrounding statement in U.S. News & World
Report (Apr_. 7, 1950) that the Navy had developed a revolutionary air-
craft, a combination of helicopter and jet plane, capable of outflying any
other. This plane was said to be "t11e flying saucer."
Stine, G. Harry. The prowling mfod of Henri Coanda. Flying, v. 80, "Mar.
1967: 64-68.
Among inventions of Henri Coanda was ?. lenticular aerodyne (flying saucer)
designed in 1935. Coanda effect (tendency of a moving jet of air or water
to adhere to an adjacent surface) would be used to create vertical lift without
forward motion and to control aircraft. Although aerodyne was never built,
tests on critical portions of it were made in France and results indicate it is
practical.
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