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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. 67 …Los Angeles, The Author, 1968, 30 p. The Great Pyramid architect incorporated geometrical and engineering designs…
  • p. 68 …Flying saucers, fact or fiction? Los Angeles, Trend Books, 1957. 12 8 p. Survey of references…
  • p. 89 …Los Angeles, Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, 1960. 18 p. Author relates his claim that…
  • p. 110 …Los Angeles, New Age Press, 1949. 175 p. An "invisible hierarchy" is postulated by the author…
  • p. 113 …26, 1968, before the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautir.s, Los Angeles, Calif. Marais, D…
  • p. 132 …Halsey, Wallace C, Cosmic end-time secrets. Los Angeles, Futura Press, 1965. 102 p. Contains collected…
  • p. 137 …26, 1968, before the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Los Angeles, Calif. ----- Science, technology, and…
  • p. 248 …Los Angeles. 1'he Aetherius Society, 1963. 200 p. Gives a concise account of man's…
  • p. 249 …Los Angeles, Baumgardt Publishing Co., 1905. 423 p. High attainments of the Atlanteans before engulfment of…
  • p. 259 …Los Angeles, The Planetary Space Center Wc>rking Committee, 1964. 152 p. 242
  • p. 291 …Los Angeles;-wescon, 1962. 15 p. {Paper no. 4. 4.) Estimate of the probability of communi…
  • p. 315 …Los Angel~s, The Author, 1945. 198 p. Histo:-y of the earth and planets from…
  • p. 318 …Cosmic end-time secrets. Los Angeles, Futura Press, 1965. 102 p. Contains collected writings, lect1.1res…
  • p. 321 …Los Angeles, DeVorss & Co., 1967. 32 p. Description of the topography of the plane~ Mercury, its…
  • p. 324 …Los Angeles, New Age Publishing Co., 1955. 76 p. Ora.Ke, W. Raymond. Gods or spacemc11…
  • p. 368 …Los Angeles, Baumgardt Publishing Co., 1905. 423 p. High attainments of the Atlanteans before engulfment of…
  • p. 384 …Los Angeles, Sherbourne Press, 1968. 181 p. UFO "thriller" based on "clasic" UFO sighting cases. Gibson…
ComeHa, Thomas M. Why the real saucer is interplanetary, Fate, v. 8, Dec.
1955: 17-23.
Postulating that the maneuvers and speeds of the "saucers" reported by reliable
witnesses are proof that thef operate ''by some totally revolutionary process
which outdates rocket and jet propulsion;• the author reviews "evidence" in sup-
port of the extraterrestrial-origin hypothesis.
Confusion in the sky. Fate, v. 8, Mar. 1955: 24-29.
Article asserts that contradictory statements of the "experts" are responsible
for confusion in the public's mind about the UFO phenomenon.
Cort, David. Saucery and flying saucers. The nation, v. 189, Nov. 7, 1959: 331-
332, 340.
Compares pract~ce of alchemy with belief in flying saucers, postulating that
both are based on ''the event for which there are no data. "
Crum, Norman J. Flying saucers and book selection. Library journal, v. 79,
Oct. 1, 1954: 1719-1722.
Survey of library experiences and policies in adding fJ.y!ng saucer books to
the .!ollections.
Current comment: What goesonup there? America, v. 87, Aug. 23, 1952: 489.
Article states reported USAF position on flying sauce:·s: they are not space-
craft from distant planets; they are not secret enemy weapons.
L<t.genis, Arleigh J. Do you believe in flying saucers? Michigan technic, Jan.
1960: 16-17, 50-51.
Author summarizes details of June 1947 sighting by J<:enneth Arnold of flying
disc-shaped objects; the January 1958 crash of Cai. t. \r1antell while chasing a
UFO; and the June 1952 appearance of mysterious object':l over the White House
a11d Capitol. He reviews the various explanatory theories.
Daniel-Rops. Une enigme sous nosycm:. France illustration, v. 7, May 5, 1951:
490.
Day, Langston. Flying saucers: fact or fiction? Chambers's journal, Nov. 1950:
688-670.
Edwards, Frank. An a&tronomer reports on UFOs. Fate, v. 12, Mar. 1959: 34-
41.
Astronomer Frank Halst0ad, former curator of Darling Observatory, Univer-
sity of Minnesota, states his belief that UFOs are extraterrestrial spacecraft
and describes circumstances under which he personally made a sighting.
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