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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.
“The Invaders”14 pages
In talk to the Burro Club luncheon meeting on June 3, 1968, Rayburn Building, Washington, D.C., author asks for a Congressional inquiry into the UFO phenomenon; He emphasizes that the inquiry should be assigned to a committee primarily concerned with matters of science and technology. Mayfield, Melburn R. The rise of gravity in the 17th century; or a life in the day of Isaac Newton. Physics today, Jun"? 1968: 42-46. Satirical verse purporting to "bring a powerful new insight into some of the long- standing mysteries concerning the personal and professional life of Sir Isaac Newton": the source of his "philosophical innovations" and "mathematical elegancies" was a beautiful female flying saucer occupant. Moller, P.S. Eng1neering professor teaches UFO course at the University of California. American engineer, May 1968: 32-34. Students discuss social and technical implications of worldwide UFO sightings in an experimental course, "Flying Saucers: The Social a.1d Technological Implications," given at the University of California at David. Morse, Robert F. UFOs and the technological community. American engineer, May 1968: 24-28. Noting that reports of unidentified flying ob1ects have been with us for at least two decades, the author says the time has come to enlist the full resources of the technological community, worldwide, in an examination of these persistent and as yet unexplained sighting reports. Natural lasers cause UFOs? 'The laser weekly, v. 1, no. 2~: 2. According to Victor T. Tomberg of the Biophysics Research Lab at New York Medical College, natural laser action in space may be responsible for UFO phenomena. Tomberg maintains that natural laser and maser action should exist in outer space. He also claims that this concentrated radiation may be aimed at our sky and might explain some of the unidentified flying objects that have been reported. Page, Thorton. Letters: French UFOs. Science, v. 161, August 16, 1968: 631. Author insists on the accuracy of his claim that no telescope or observatory has taken a picture of~ UFO. He says that photographs taken at Forcalquier Observatory, Fra11ce, May 3-4, 1957, described by Jacques Vallee in Challengg_ to Science (Chicago, Henry Regnery, 1966) do not fit the hypothesis of extra- terrestrial bodies entering our atmosphere at 5 to 7 miles per second. ------------- Photographic sky coverage for the detection of UFOs? Science, v. 160, June 14, 1968: 1258-1260. 380
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.