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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. 74 …UFO by policeman Lonnie Zamora near Socorro, New Mexico, on April 24, 1964; alleged sighting of…
  • p. 135 …near Exeter, New Hampshire, and to an alleged saucer landing in Socorro, New Mexico. Klemin, Alexander…
  • p. 332 …Exeter, New Hampshire, and to an P,lleged saucer landing in Socorro, Ne~ Mexico. Lauritzen, Hans…
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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