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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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Reeve, Bryant and Helen Reeve. Flying saucer pilgrimmage. Amherst, Wis., Amherst Press, 1957. :104 p. Account of two-year private research by authors into UFO phenomenon which involved 23,000 miles of travel to interview individuals claiming contact with extraterrestrial beings. Religious, philosophic, and prophetic implications of UFO appearances are also discussed. Ribera, Antonio. What happened at Fatima? Flying saucer review, v. 10, Mar. -Apr. 1964: 12-14. Resum~ of the miracle at Fatima. north of Lisbon, Portugal, which ex- tended from May 13 to Oct. 7, 1917, in context of the UFO phenomenon. Author suggests that UFO occupants may present themselves in terms familiar to "contactees, " usually as divine manifestations. The saucer question. The Catholic digest, v. 16, Oct. 1952: 121. Father Francis J. Connell, dean of Catholic University's School of Sacred Theology, summarizes the Church's position on the question of invaaers from outer space. Theologically speaking, outer space dwellers might fall into four principal classes: (1) they might have received a super- natural destiny from God; (2) God could have created them with a natural but eternal destiny; (3) they might be rational beings who si1U1ed against God but were never given the .:hance to regain grace; and (4) they might have received supernatural gifts and kept them, leading the paradisical existence of Adam and Eve before they ate the forbidden fruit. The theology of saucers. Time, v. 60, Aug. 18, 1952: 62. Fatlter Francis J. Connell, dean of Catholic University's School of Sacred Theology, summarized his church's position on the question of invaders from outer space. He noted that ''the principles of [Catholic J faith are entirely reconcilable with even the most astounding possibilities regarding life on other planets. " Viney, Basil. Invasion ..·om space. The contemporary review, v. i.;,J, Oct. 1255: 257-260. After briefly reviewing what is known and what is speculated about flying saucers, the author says it does not appear that interplanetary or inter- stellar or j1!ter-galaxial communication could ha\'e any effect on the genuine religious fundamentals. He believes the vision o! the being of God would be magnified and that the prospect of human brotherhood on a cosmic scale never before conceived would uplift us from all petty world-parochial qllarrels. 331
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.