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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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Transitions of UFOs from half-transparent to invisible state might be related to creation of artificial gravity fields. Oberth "would bet 100 to one that some of the ·contact persor..s are normal and have seen and experienoa:lsomething." Oberth, Hermann. Warum Ufoforschung? In Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft fur Interplanetarik. Wien, Europilischer-Verlag, 1961. p. 1-7. After summarizing hypotheses that might explain the UFO phenomenon, the author predicts that scientific institutions will enter seriously into UFO re- search once the field has been more clearly defined so that it can be assigned to the appropriate specialists and when enough evidence has been collected so that the facts can no longer be denied or ridiculed. ----- Wir werden beobachtet. Deutsche illustrierte, Sept. 11, 1954: 10-11, 24-28. Discussion of UFOs, their behavior and characteristics is followed by examples of UFO sightings.· It is concluded that in the light of current scientific and technological knowledge and research, they are too advanced to have been built by man and must have been constructed by extraterrestrial beings especially adapted biologically to space travel. Author urges serious research by the scientific community and that official agencies make available all records in their possession. Official Air Force statements on unidentified flying objects. The UFO investigator, v. 1, Jan. 1958: 25-26. Period 1947-1952 is covered. Ogles, George W. What does the Air Force really know about flying saucers? Washington, D. c., The Airman, 1967. 8 p. Reprinted from The Airman, v. 11, July 1967, p. 4-9; Aug. 1967, p. 26-31. Survey of the UFO controversy and statement of the Air Force position: the Air Force has never denied the possibility of life on other planets; what it does say is that no evidence has been received nor discovered which proves the ex- istence and intraspace mobility of extraterrestrial life. Some widely publicized "sightings" are also discussed. Ormond, Ron. Is Siam a secret base for flying saucers? Flying saucers, May 1959: 51-56. Story is told of big fiery wheels that come out of the sky and land near the village of the Lahus, an aboriginal tribe inhabiting the northern sector of Thailand. Out-of-the-blue believers. The New Yorker, v. 35, Apr. 18, 1959: 36-37. Commentary on a symposium relating to UFO phenomena sponsored by Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York. Pacic, Warren E. Interview with Donald Keyhoe. Fate, v. 12, Aug. 1959: 86-90. 32
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 419 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.