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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…
The truth about the book "The report on unidentifJ~d flying objects" by Edward J.
Ruppelt. Flying saucers, Dec. 1958: 35-42, 56.
Ruppelt's ''report" is challenged, specifically his statement that the Maury
Island incident was "the dirtiest book in UFO history" and was perpetrated by
Ray Palmer.
UFO: an objective look at unidentified flying objects. Science & mechanics, v. 37,
Dec. 1966: 30-39, 57-58, 62-76.
Illustrated directory of all major sightings through December 1966. Detailed
case histories of the 12 most mysterious UFO sightilgs.
Vallee, Jacques. How to classify and codify sa\!cer sightings. Flying saucer re-
view, v. 9, Sept.-Oct. 1963: 9-12.
Article sets forth briefly 1'rinciples which can be used in the classification and
coding of flying saucer sightings.
----- How to select significant UFO reports. Flying saucer review, v. 11, Sept. -
Oct. 1965: 15-18.
Auther believes that the scientific way to process UFO data is to divide the prob-
lem into two parts: (1) consider all the reports from all available sources, try-
ing to explain them in terms of conventional objects; (2) when all identified cases
have been eliminated, the residue must contain reference to the UFO phenome-
non if it exists as an unconventional, objective agent in the generation of reports.
----- UFO research in the U.S. A. Flying saucer review, v. 12, Jan. -Feb. 1966:
6-11.
Author reports on his impressions of trends--motivations and theories--in
Ameril'!an ufology.
Vallee, Jacques, and Aleksandr Kasantsev. What is it that is flying in our skies?
Flying saucer review, v. 13, Nov. -Dec. 1967: 11-12.
General discussion of theories relating to the UFO phenomenon. ''Classic"
UFO sighting cases are cited.
Vallee, Jacques and Janine Vallee. Astronomers' verdict: flying saucers are real.
Fate, v. 20, Apr. 1967: 62-72.
An objective review of major hypotheses on origin of UFOs leads author to con-
clude that (1) all sightings cannot be attributed to conventional causes; (2) ex-
istence of alien i'ltelligence must be considered; (3) extreme caution must be
used in developing latter hypothesis because of phenomenon's complexity. Ex-
cerpted from Challenge to Science: UFO Enigma, published in Chicago by
H. Regnery Co., 1966,
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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.