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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…
----- Why the Air Force can't inves~te UFOs. Fate, v. 16, May 1963: 26-28.
Author postulates that there is sufficient proof to establish the actuality of
real, navigating space travel by intelligence from outer space.
Miller, Max B. Report on the UFO. Fate, v. 2, Dec. 1956: 31-34.
Review of Edward J. Ruppelt's book about the U.S. Air Force's UFO investi-
gations, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (New York, Doubleday,
1956).
Ogles, George W. What does the Air Force really know about flying saucers?
Washington, D. C., The Airman, 1967. 8 p.
Survey of the UFO controversy and statement of the Air Force position: the
Air Force has never denied the possibility of life on other planets; what
it does say is that no evidence has been received nor discovered which
proves the existence and intraspace mobility of extraterrestrial life. Some
widely publicized "sightings" are also discussed. {Reprinted from The Airman
v. 11, July 1967, p. 4-9; Aug. 1967, p. 26-31.)
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
saucers, a high percentage of USAF personnel believe in the seriousness of
the phenomenon.
Quintanilla, Hector. Unidentified flying objects. Dayton, Ohio, The Author,
[196- ] 37 p.
Summary of UfiAF investigation of the UFO phenomenon.
Ruppelt, Edward J. Inside story of the saucers. Science digest, v. 39, Apr. 1956:
35-41.
Condensed from a chapter of the book, The Report on Unident1fied Flying
Objects, published in New York by Doubleday, 1956. Author describes his
activities as head of USAF's Project Blue Book, 1951-1953. He states
that while balloons, airplanes, stars, and many other common objects have
been reported as UFOs, there are hundreds of other UFO reports which
'~arry the verdict, "Conclusion Unknown. "
-----The report on unidentified flying objects. Garden City, New York, 1956.
315 p.
Author, a former chief of USAF's Project Blue Book, writes a factual account
of Air Force investigation of UFO sighting reports and discusses all aspects
of the UFO controversy. Published also in inperback edition by Ace Books
(G537), New York.
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