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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. 40 …Author postulates th ..,.t UFO research seems to have reached a crucial turning point and cites…
  • p. 44 …Survey of activitiee of official and private organizations engaged in UFO research. 29
  • p. 50 …Lecture at the Southern Region UFO Research Groups Conference, Oxford, England, May 8, 1965. 35
  • p. 83 …witness by Peter Norris, chairman of the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, and M. Thornhill. 66
  • p. 95 …The UFO investigator, v. 3, Nov. -Dec. 1965: 5. Experiments and research by Prof. Clyde E…
  • p. 121 …Peter Norris, chairman of Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, and M. Thornhill. The humanoids. Flying saucer…
  • p. 128 …London, British UFO Research Assn. , 1964 31 p. Details are given of the various natural and…
  • p. 129 …London, British UFO Research Assn. , 1964 31 p. Details are given of the various natural and…
  • p. 136 …Discusses three questions important in UFO research: (1) where do they ..~om~ from? (2) who crews…
  • p. 137 …UFOs: the greatest scientific problem of our times," delivered at the convention of the American Society…
  • p. 154 …General discussion of activities of UFO researchers and alleged contactees. Claims made by "Prince Neosom of…
  • p. 156 …Moseley, President of the Saucer and Unexplained Celestial Events Research Society; and Michael J. Campione, New…
  • p. 212 …Flying Saucer Research Society, Adelaide, Australia. Babcock, Edward J. and Timothy G. Beckley. UFO plagues N…
  • p. 216 …Koch, Publicity and Research Director of Universal Research Society of America, sighted a UFO on Apr…
  • p. 288 …Author surrnests the possibility that UFOs and poltergeists are among phenomena which could be "experienced, " with…
  • p. 398 …UFOs is the hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitations by intelligent beings." Reprinted in News Report, National Research…
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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