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UFOs and Related Subjects (Lynn Catoe, 1969)

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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.

  • p. 74 …UFO by policeman Lonnie Zamora near Socorro, New Mexico, on April 24, 1964; alleged sighting of…
  • p. 135 …near Exeter, New Hampshire, and to an alleged saucer landing in Socorro, New Mexico. Klemin, Alexander…
  • p. 332 …Exeter, New Hampshire, and to an P,lleged saucer landing in Socorro, Ne~ Mexico. Lauritzen, Hans…
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.
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