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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. 374 …Tunguska region of Siberia, Soviet scientist Alexander Kazantsev has developed the theory that the 1908 explosion…
  • p. 375 …0 vliiamii vzryva tungusskogo meteorita na geomag11i- tnoe (,>Ole. ~The effect of the Tunguska meteorite explosion…
  • p. 376 …one from a chemical explosion, one from a nuclear explosion, and that frcm ::be Tunguska explosion…
MIRAGES
The first four references are among the most useful standard texts on physical
meteorology. All contain adequately detailed treatment of the general theory of
mirages.
Fleagle, Robert G. and Joost A. Businger. An introduction to atmospheric
physics. New York, Academic Press, 1963, pp. 272-302.
~umphreys, W.J. Physics of the air. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co.,
3rd edition, 1940, pp. 455-475.
Johnson, John C. Physical meteorology. New York, The Technology Press of
M.I. T. and John Wiley & Sons, 1954, pp. 1-30.
Tverskoi, P.N. Physics of the atmosphere. Jerusalem, Israel Program for
Scientific Translations, 1965, pp. 457-478.
Durst, C. S. and G. A. Bull. A!l unusual refraction phenomenon seen from a high-
flying aircraft. Meteorological Magazine, London, 85 (1010), August 1956:
237-242.
Discusses the rarely seen mirage caused by refraction ol light through an
elevated layer of warm air. The optical effects of such layers have often been
invoked to explain UFO sightings. This article clarifies the severe restrictions
on elevation angle at which such mirages are possible.
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