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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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Author says that in connection with a course on flying saucers that he taughl at Wesleyan University, it was determined that over a period of 20 year~>, during which there were at least 11, 000 visual sightings uf UFOs, no astronomical photograph has recorded one, even though artifical satellites, meteors, and asteroids are frequently noted. Article s~~c~lates on what frequency of random UFO tracks could t:>e mis:;t:d by astronimical telescopes .~c.w in use. Powers, William T. UFO in 1800: meteor? Science, v. 160, June 14, 1968: 1260. Article contains reprint of William Dunbar's report in Transactions of the American Philosopical Society (v. 6, no. 25, 1804) of an aerial object that was never positively identified. Powers comments tilat Dunbar's drawing of the object was not very different in shape from some of the phenomena reported currently. Review of the University of Colorado report on nnidentified flying objects by a panel of the National Academy of Sciences. NAS, 1969. 6 p. NAS panel headed by Dr. G'3rald M. Clemence, Yale University, concurs with scope, methodology and findings of the Colorado Project (Condor.} report. Concludes "On the basis of present knowledge the least like).y explanation of UFOs is the hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitations by intelligent beings." Reprinted in News Report, National Research Council (NAS-NAE}, XlX(2), Feb. 1969: 6-8. Also printed by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information in hard copy and microfo.tm. Salisbury, Frank B. F.xobiology. Fort Collins, Colorado, The Author, 1964. 9 p. Author outlines the kinds of evidence for extraterrestrial life and comments briefly on some of the more pertinent points. He cites testimony of witnesses who claim to have experienced or seen a visitation by an extraterrestrial intelligent being. Paper delivered at the First Annual Rocky Mountain Bio- engineering Symposh1m held at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, May 4- 5, 1964, sponsored by the USAF Academy and the Committee on Electrical Techniques in Medicine and Biology of the Inst!tute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Saunders, David R. and R. Roger Harkins. UFOs? yes~, where the Condon Committee went wrong. New York, Signet Books, 1968. 256 p. Bias and mis-direction of the Condon investigation at the University of Colorado is alleged by an ex-m(:mber of the group and collaborator, with introduction by John Fuller. Scientific Study of unidentified flying objects, conducted by the University of Colorado unde1· contract No. F44620-67-<:-0035. Dr. Edward l'. Condon, acientific director. Daniel S. Gillmore, editor. Boulder, 1968, three volumes, 1, 465 p. 80 plates. 381
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.