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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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version of H. G. Wells' novel, The War of the Worlds, adapted by Howard Koch and presented by Orson Welles on Mercury Theater c.f the Air over CBS on Oct. 30, 1938. A form of life resembling radio waves and dependent on the movement of the ether, invades earth in The Waveries, by Frederic Brown. Extraterrestrials hoping to meet earthmen as equals and colleagues conclude that earth's life class is too primitive and full of hostilities and aggressions for contact to be feasible in Edward Grendon's Crisi:;. Creatures from a highly-advanced planet are eager to help promote advancement of earth's civilization in Angel's Egg, by Edgar Pangborn. In William Tenn's Will You Walk a Little Faster? an alien civilizaUon assigned to inhabit earth after humanity extinguishes itself makes a proposition designed to expedite matters. A polymorphous creature from Mercury that devours metal invades first the earth and then the moon in Henry Norton's The Man in the Moon. In Pictures Don't Lie, by Katherine McLean, submicroscopic aliens evolved on a high- gravity planet with thin atmosphere that is situated near a blue-white star, can only see objects in the ultra-violet range. The Greatest Tertian is Anthony Boucher's burlesque on the scholarly efforts of a posthuman race to understand earth's vanished civilization. Craigie, Dorothy. The voyage of the Luna I, by David Craigie [ pseudJ London, Eyre & epottiswoode, 1948. 272 p. Science fiction. Twin teenagers -- stowaways onarocketlaunched to the moon-- explore the lurain. They encounter half-bat~ half-fish creatures and uncover evidence there was once human life on the moon with technological capability. Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien. Other worlds. London, New York, Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1965. 232 p. Author is the hero of two vayages in space, first to the moon and then to the sun. Original French edition with title Histoire Comique published in 1950. De Camp, L. Sprague. Divide and rule. Reading, Pa. Fantasy Press, 1948. 231 p. Rodent-like oviparous invaders from outer space conquer earth and maintain their supremacy by keeping men ignorant and split into small, quarreling, feudal states. DerJeth, August W., ed. Beachheads in space. New York, Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1952. 320 p. - Science fiction anthology on theme of interplanetary exploration. In The Star, by David Keller, citizens of a nearby star receive information that earth is planning an invasion and find a means to save their nation. Earth is under surveillance from a vantage point on the moon in Jack Williamson's The Man from Outside. In Beachhead, by Clifford Sim:Jc, an intergalactic scientific mission discovers that although they were protected against the obvious and imaginabl~, taey Wl'rP defenseless against the unknowable and unimaginable. The Years Draw Nigh by Lester del Rey, depicts a dying cosmos. A vast 364
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 419 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.