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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. 40 …Author postulates th ..,.t UFO research seems to have reached a crucial turning point and cites…
  • p. 44 …Survey of activitiee of official and private organizations engaged in UFO research. 29
  • p. 50 …Lecture at the Southern Region UFO Research Groups Conference, Oxford, England, May 8, 1965. 35
  • p. 83 …witness by Peter Norris, chairman of the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, and M. Thornhill. 66
  • p. 95 …The UFO investigator, v. 3, Nov. -Dec. 1965: 5. Experiments and research by Prof. Clyde E…
  • p. 121 …Peter Norris, chairman of Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, and M. Thornhill. The humanoids. Flying saucer…
  • p. 128 …London, British UFO Research Assn. , 1964 31 p. Details are given of the various natural and…
  • p. 129 …London, British UFO Research Assn. , 1964 31 p. Details are given of the various natural and…
  • p. 136 …Discusses three questions important in UFO research: (1) where do they ..~om~ from? (2) who crews…
  • p. 137 …UFOs: the greatest scientific problem of our times," delivered at the convention of the American Society…
  • p. 154 …General discussion of activities of UFO researchers and alleged contactees. Claims made by "Prince Neosom of…
  • p. 156 …Moseley, President of the Saucer and Unexplained Celestial Events Research Society; and Michael J. Campione, New…
  • p. 212 …Flying Saucer Research Society, Adelaide, Australia. Babcock, Edward J. and Timothy G. Beckley. UFO plagues N…
  • p. 216 …Koch, Publicity and Research Director of Universal Research Society of America, sighted a UFO on Apr…
  • p. 288 …Author surrnests the possibility that UFOs and poltergeists are among phenomena which could be "experienced, " with…
  • p. 398 …UFOs is the hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitations by intelligent beings." Reprinted in News Report, National Research…
Ley, Willy. The wheels of Poseidon; and Too much imagination. In For your
information: on earth and in the sky. New York, Doubleday & Co., 1967.
J!. 69-88, 157-168.
A phenomenon is described that occurs in the Indian Ocean and that has teen
described by several eyewitnesses: a pulsating near-circular disturbance
roughly I, 000-1, 500 feet in diameter is seen with streaks of light like the
beams of a searchlight radiating from its center and revolving counter-
clockwise. Views are given su;>porting speculation that the Podk.amennaya
TUnguska meteorite of Central Siberia (1908) was in fact an exploded extra-
terrestrial spacecraft.
Plekanov, G. F. and others. 0 vliiamii vzryva tungusskogo meteorita na geomag11i-
tnoe (,>Ole. ~The effect of the Tunguska meteorite explosion on the magnetic
field J. (d>ologiya i geofizika, no. 6, 1961: 94-96.
Analysis of magnetograrns sh~ws that the fall of the TUnguska meteorite on
June 30, l908t pr..>duccd magnetic effects similar to those that would be
produced by a nuclear explosion. English translation published December 1961
by U. S. Joint Publications Research Service, its translation JPRS· 11R08.
Report from tne Soviet Union: Did the Tungus meteorite contain anti-matter? F1yin~
saucers, Dec. 1966: 29-30.
Hypothesis to the effect that the Tungus meteorite ''explosion" on the Siberian
taiga in 1908 was the result of annihilation of anti-matter has been supported
in article Ly Soviet Si)ecialists Konstantinov, Brcdov. Beliavsky, and Sokolov,
printed in the Cosmic Research BuJletin.
Sharp, P. F. 'The search for life beyond the earth. F1ying saucer review, v. 7,
Nov. -Dec. 1961: 12-15.
Arguments are advanced on the possibility of life existing throughout the
galaxy; ways in which man can dttempt to detect it positively are suggested.
Mentions that the Tunguska n et.'?oritc of 1908 may have been an exploded
extraterrestrial spacecraft.
Tungusskoe divo [Tunguska wonder]. Tekhnika molodezhni, no. 2, 1966: 10-13.
Suinmary of opi:i.ions expressed by reputable Russian scientists regarding the
Tunguska explosion: a map shows the devasted area. The consensus is that
the exp.iosion was neither a meteorite nor a comet but an unKnown pher..amenon
resembang a nuclear blast.
Zigel'. Felix Yu. lade.rnii yzryv f Nuclear explosion over the taiga] . Znaniye-sila,
0€C. 1961: 24-2'!.
Evidence is presented to support author's view that the cause of the explosion
in the Tunguska taiga on June 30, 1908, could not have been a meteorite, not
even one of very great mass.
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