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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. 18 …Discussion of activities of and reports of UFO sightings made to International Flying Saucer Bureau, organized…
  • p. 27 ----- :UFOs--an international scientific problem. Tucson, Ariz., The Author, 1968. 40 p. Summarizing his position, the…
  • p. 30 …Surveys UFO sighting reports and discusses current explanatory hypotheses. Includes a chapter on 'What to Do…
  • p. 31 …author's home a ''UFO reporting post," and CRIFO was lmown internation- ally as a "civilian…
  • p. 32 …Report includes statements reporting simultaneous U.tu sightings by ground obs'";rvers. United Press International. Flying…
  • p. 44 Review of UFO sighting reports, especially in the U.S. A., a.nd of theorie::> ad…
  • p. 52 …Proceedings of the 7th International UFO Congress, Mainz, Germany, Nov. 3-6, 1967. Vonkeviczky e gli…
  • p. 105 Discussion of activities of and reports of UFO sightings made to International Flying Saucer Bureau, organized…
  • p. 144 References are cited which f'.lXVey the liter2.ture en UFO reports, including explanatory hypotheses. F…
  • p. 146 …State-of-the-art report on theories and research relating to the UFO phenomenon. Author concludes…
  • p. 156 …Proceedings of ~he 7th International UFO Congress, Mainz, Germany, Nov. 3-6, 1967. Zinsstag, Lou. Conversations…
  • p. 179 …A need for un international study of UFOs. Flying saucer review, v. 14, Mar. -Apr. 1968…
  • p. 182 …Author, a former USAF public information officer on UFOs, discusses UFO sightings reported to Aerospace Technical…
  • p. 197 …Discussion of activities of and reports of UFO :::ightb1gs made to International Flying Saucer Bureau, organized…
  • p. 198 …Scientists were participating in 2nd International Geophysical Year 1956-58 exp2dition. Report supplied by UFO Chile…
  • p. 230 …Thant urging international COOPf}ration in studying the UFO phenomenon. Edwards, Frank. Arthur C. Clarke looks…
  • p. 233 …UFOs--an international scientific p!'oblem. Tucson, Ariz., The Author, 1968. 40 p. Summarizing his position…
  • p. 293 …Feature article en UFO reports in which there was alleged communication with the occupants or crew…
Keyhoe discusses UFO sightings by reliable observers and states the determi-
nation of NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena) to
obtain pllblic Congressional hearings on the phenomenon.
Palmer, Ray. New report on the flying saucers. Fate, v. 4, .Jan. 1951: 63-81.
Excerpts from article entitled "The Flying Saucers--Fact or Fiction" printed
in July 1950 Flying. Reports alleged UFO sightings on March 31, 1950, by
Chicago and Southern Air Lines pilots Capt. Jack Adams and G. W. Anderson,
Jr., near Little Rock, Ark.; in July 1948 by Eastern Air Lines pilots Capt.
Clarence S. Chiles and John B. Whitted southwest of Mongomery, Ala.; on
April 27, 1950, by Trans-World Air Lines pilots Capt. Robert Adickes and
Robert Manning near South Bend, Ind.; and on May 29, 1950, by American
Airlines pilot Capt. William T. Sperry near Washington, D.C.
Pastorino, Luiz P. The flying discs and the U.S. S. R. BUFORA journal and bul-
letin, v. 1, Spring 1967: 4-6.
The people who see ''flying saucers." The UFO investigator, v. 1, Jan. 1958:
23-24.
Listing of witnesses to UFO sightings; pr'Jfesslons are given.
Posin, Dan Q. An eye on space. Popular mechanics, v. 113, Feb. 1960: 103.
Commentary on reports of "hair-raising sights in the sky. " Unnamed scientist
is quoted as saying that while it is not probable that extraterrestrial spacecraft
have visited earth, "they can come and they might come--any day. "
Pravda i vynsysel ob UFO [Trutr. and fantasy about UFOs]. Tekhnika molodezhi,
No. 8, 1967: 23-27.
A series of articles by Alexander Kazantsev and Jacques Vallee, Yu Makerov,
and George Campbell.
Priestly, Lee. Inside APRO... a saucer fan dub. Fate, v. 12, Jan. 1959: 59-65.
Account of the activities of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO}
of Tucsor., Arizona.
Prytz, John. The Air Force opinion on UFOs. Flying saucers, Oct. 1966: 26-27.
Author states that although officially USAF disclaims the reality of flying sau-
cers, a high percentage of USAF personnel believe in the seriousness of
phenomenon.
Rankow, Ralph. The disc with the domed top. Fate, v. 19, Aug. 1966: 54-61.
Highway inspector describes encounter with soundless aerial object that he
was able to photograph.
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