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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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Review of UFO sighting reports, especially in the U.S. A., a.nd of theorie::> ad- vanced by members of the scientific community to explain the phenomenon. - - - - - A reporter at large: something in the sky. The New Yorker, v. 28, Sept 6, 1952: 68-89. Discussion of USAF's Project Saucer investigat!on into reports of "strange celestial objects. " Lear, John. A reply. Saturday review, Feb. 4, 1967: 73. ~ science editor restates his position in the UFO contrmrersy and answers John Fuller's criticisms of him for publishing excerpts from Incident at Exeter (New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1966) without permission and out of context. Le Poer Trench, Brinsley. The three W's. Saucer news, v. 11, Dec. 1964: 7-10. Discusses three questions important in UFO l'esearch: (1) where do they come from? (2) who crews them? (3) why are they coming? Lyustiberg, Villen. "Letaiushchie tarelki "? Mif! [Are flying saucers a myth?] Pravda ukrainy, no. 40, Feb. 17, 1968: 2. Flying saucers are described as a well camouflaged means of misinforming masses of people: ''whenever magazine or newspaper circulation lags, when- ever the reader gets sated with economics and politics, whenever he has to be distracted from asking embarrassing questions, then Western businessmen use one of three sure-fire perennial sensations--flying saucers, sea serpents (sometimes the Loch Ness monster), and Abominable Snowmen.'' McDonald, James E. A need for an international study of UFOs. Flying saucer review, v. 14, Mar. -Apr. 1~68: 11. Author writes an endorsement to Soviet scientist Zigel 's plea for "a joint effort of all the scientists of the world" to determine the nature of UFOs. From a Dec. 10, 1967, New York Times sto1·y by Henry Kamm. ----- UFOer -det st¢rste videnskabelige problem i vor tid? Randers, Denmark, UFO-NYTis Forlag, 1967. 64 p. Translation of '1JFOs: the greatest scientific problem of our times," delivered at the convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D. C., April 22, 1967. Malian, Lloyd. What we are doing about UFOs. Science & mechanics, v. 38, Jan. 1967: 38-43, 62-67, 76. Survey of activitiee of official and private organizations engaged in UFO research. 29
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.