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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…
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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