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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…
Gould, Rupert T. Enigmas. New Hyde Park, N. Y., University Books, 1965. 248 p.
Information about mysteries which have not been resolved up to the present day.
Evidence that there were once giants on the earth and relating to the probability
of intelligf>nt life on Mars is disc11ssed.
----- Oddities. New Hyde Park, N. Y., University Books, 1965. 228 p.
Collection of facts relating to incirlents and phenomena which have not at
present been satisfactorily explained. Among the topics mentioned are "the
devil's hoofmarks," Orffyreus's wheel, and the planet Vulcan.
Jessup, Morris K. The ca,~e for the UFO, unidentified flying objects. Introd. by
Frank Edwards. New York, Citadel Press, 1955. 239 p.
Author analyzes and correlates many paranormal phenomena of dCientifir
record and theorizes that objects such as stonea, ice, water, colored rain,
organic matter, living organisms, and vegetable matter ttat have fallen to
earth from the heavens come from intelligently operated extraterrestrial
spacecraft or are in some way formed, guided, or influenced by the operators
of such spacecraft.
Splitter, HenryW. Wonders from the sky. Fate, v. 6, Oct. 1953: 33-40.
Typically ''Fortean" phenomena of strange things that have fallen from the sky,
including to::i.ds, green rain, mud, rocks, angleworms, iish, blood and meat
are reported.
Towner, Cliff R. Silver chaff from the sky. Fate, v. 10, Mar. 1957: 94-98.
Apparent fall from the sky on Aug. 27, 1956, of metallic shreds concomitant
with reports of strange lights in the sky. Chickens consuming the material
died.
Weideman, June E. Mysterious foam in St. Lc•uis. Fate, v. 9, Dec. 1956: 20-21.
Fall from the sky of a strange, warm, odorless, for., J, white substance is
described. Incident allegedly occurred ever St. Louis on Aug. 20, 1956.
Wilkins, Harold T. "Damned" phenomena--fire a!ld monste"f:· Fate, v. 6, Dec.
1953: 68-73.
Descriptions of mysterious flames, phantom ships, and huge sea serpents
given by pre-Fortean historians and annalists (209 B. C. -17th century) are
listed.
----- Did ancients see flying saucers? Fate, v. 6, Oct. 1953: 28-32.
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