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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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Mentions theory of Prof. B. Lfopunov of the U.S. S.. R. Academy of Science that a "cosmic ship" intended to land in Mongolia crashed in Siberia because of mechanical difficult!es. Statement was made after analysis of report by 1957 Russian expedition to site of devastating explosion (1908) previously th Jught to be caused by big meteor impact. Dempster, Derek. Does Siberia hold the proof? Flying saucer review, v. 8, Jan. -Feb. 1962: 4-6. Summarizes the history of the Tungus (Siberia) meteorite of June 30, 1908-- videly P1ought to be a nuclear-powered spacecraft--and reports the latt!st news on the subject from the U.S. S. R. Edwards, Frank. Did a space ship explode over Siberia? Fate, v. 12, Oct. 1959: 44-51. On the basis of a 1958 scientific expedition to the Tunguska region of Siberia, Soviet scientist Alexander Kazantsev has developed the theory that the 1908 explosion there was an atomic-powered spacecraft which disintegrated at an altitude of I. 2 miles. Kazantsev, Alexander. Gosti iz kosmosa [Guests from space] Moscow, Moskovskii Rabochii, 1963. 612 p. A collection of science-fiction stories which present Kazantsev's ideas of purported invaders from other planets. A S(•ries of 23 photographs ls included mostly of paintings on rocks found in the Sahara Desert, one from Delhi, and three from Siberia which show the fallen trees following the Tunguska catas- trophe which the author claims was caused by a nuclPar explosion or by an extraterrestrial space ship. ----- The Martian. In A visitor from outer space, science fiction stories by Soviet writers; Violet L. Dutt, translator. Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1961, p. 149-162. Fiction. An electronic computer deciphers the diary written on. earth by a Martian left behind when his spacecraft exploded in the Tunga taiga, Siberia, on June 30, 1908. ----- A visitor from outer space. In A visitor from outer space, science fiction stories by Soviet writers; VioletL. Dutt, translator. Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1961, p. 110-148. Fiction. Exploits the hypothesis of an extraterrestrial i:.pacecraft explosion in Tunga, Siberia, on June 30, 1908. While many sdentists believe that deva.station of a forest there over an area with a r:dius of about 50 kilometers was due to explosion of a bolide, the meteor was ;.ut recovered and no crater waE discovered. 357
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