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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.
“Los Angeles Times”17 pages
FOREWORD The subjed of unidentified flying objects is a popular phenomenon of the period from 1947, evoking widl',Jpread speculation, and producing a literature of great variety and scope. This body of literature and documentation is source material for readers seek- ing better understanding of this question, which has involved the U.S. Air Force as well as other official groups. This is believed to be the most comprehensive bibliography published to date on the subject, and includes the extensive UFO collection of the Library of Congress, as well as related material useful in understanding the nab;.re of the question. The bibliography was produced by the Library's Division of Science and Technology with support provided by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, a Wlit of the Office of Aerospace Research, the research agency of the U.S. Air Force. The bibliographer is Miss Lynn E. Catoe, who also collected the books, journal articles, pamphlets, conference proceedings, tapes, original manuscripts, and other material listed here, a total of more than 1, 600 items. This literature survey was requested by AFOOR to assist a scientific research project at the University of Colorado under the direction of Dr. Edward U. Condon on unidentified flying objects. The research began 1 November 1966, and has been carried out with support provided by AFOSR at the direction of the Secretary of the Air Force under contract F4_4620-67-C-0035. The preparation of the bibliography was accomplished under AFOSR project orders 67-0002 and 68-0003.
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 419 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.