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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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Fleagle, Robert G. The optical measnreme11t of lapse rate. B.llletin of the American Meteorological Society, 31(2), February 1950: 51- 55, The author develops a method to measure the change of temperature with height by optically measurL1g the apparent change in elevation of a light source. Nomograms are provided which show the difference between ?.pparent and true elevations as a function of lapse rate and length of optical path. Gordon, J. H. Mirages. Washington, D. C., Smithsonian Institution Publication 4398, 1959, published 1960. A non-technical article that describes mirage formation as dependmg on a lens of air similar in function to lenses in cameras. Haug, Odd. On the theory of superior mirages. Meteorologiske Annaler, Oslo, 3(12), 1953: 295-310. A full discussion of light passing through a strong inversion. ten Kate, H. Luchtspiegelii.gen. Hemel en Dampkring, 49(5), 1951: 91-94. Clear explanations, with good illustrations, of the th-eory of mirages. Kohl, G. ErkUlrung einer luftspiegelung nach oben aus radiosondierungen. Zeitschrift fur Meteo,·ologie, 6(11), November 1952: 344-348. A mirage in Fichtelgebirge is explained quantitatively from radiosonde data. Minnaert, M. Light and colour in the open air. New York, Dover Publication, 1954. A superb example of non-technical exposition covering not only mirages but also nearly every other aspect of visual and optical phenomena in the sky and the landscape, from rainbows to the spoke-patterns in bicycle wheels. Ozorai, 7.oltan. Legkroi tUkrozgd~sek nullamgeluteken (Mirages on wave surfaces) IdS°jar:l:s, 58(3), May-June 1954: g3-153. Classical mirage theory on!y handles the formation of three images. The author proposes to handle more than three images by considering reflections from wave surfaces on inversions. Pernter, J.M. and F. M. Exner. Meteorologische optik. Leipzig and Vienna, Wilhelm Braumuller, 2nd edition, 1922, pp. 57-238. The classical work on meteorological opti - The theory of mirages is developed in great cletail and a number of striking cases are carefully examined. 375
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 419 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.