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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…
----- Report on unidentified fiying objects. ft'ate, v. 10, Apr. 1957: 27--13.
An Air Force F-86 jet pilot, paced by a fiying saucer d•'l"l.ng summer 1952,
opened fire on it. Account excerite<f from author's t?ook, The Report on
Unidentified Flying Objects (Garden CJty, N. Y. , Doubleday, 1956).
----- What our Air Force found out about flying saucers. True, May 1954: 19-20,
22, 24, 26, 30, 124-134.
H·.Jppelt. in charge of USAF's Project Blue Book from 1951 to 1953, reports
what he learned about fiying saucers durklg this period. He states his
opinion that the saucers 3.l'e either interplanetary or do not exist.
ScientUic Advisory Panel on UntdentUied Flying Objects. Report of meetings of
Scienillic Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, January 14-18,
?953. Washingtcm, D. C. , '953. 24 p.
Report of the scienillic panel on untdP.ntified flying objects, under the
chairmanship of H.P. Robertson. Conclusions were: (1) that the evidence
presented un unidentified fiying objects showed no indication that these
phenomena constitute a direct physical threat to national security; and (2)
that the continu~d emphasis on the reporting of these phenomena results in
a threat to t.1te orderly functioning of the protective organs of the body
politic. It .tecommended: (1) that the national security agencies take
immediate steps to strip the unidontUied fiying objects of the special
status they have been given and the aura of mystery they have unfortunately
acquired; and (2) that the national security agencies institute policies on
intelligence, training and p.ibllc education designed to prepare the material
defenses and the morale of the country to recognize most promptly and to
react most effectively to true indications of hostile U1''0 intent or acb.on.
Serious flaws in AF Special Report 14 revealed by NICAP analysis. The UFO
investigator, v. 1, Jan. 1958: 16-18.
Analysis of the main points of USAF Project Blue Book report.
Shalett, Sidney. What you can believe about flying saucers. Part I. Saturday
evening post, v. 221, Apr. 30, 1949: 20-21, i36-139.
Reports on USAF probe of 250 reports on unidentified flying objects and
concludes that "if there is a scrap of bona fide evidence to support the
notion that our inventive geniuses or any potential enemy, on this or any
other planet, is spewing saucers over America, the Air Force has been
unable to locate it. "
Stringfield, Leonard H. Inside saucer post •.• 3-0 blue. Cincinnati, Civilian
Research, Interplai1etary Flying Objects, 1957, 94 p.
"Inside story" of CRIFO (Civilian Research, fatP.rplanetary Flying Objects)
operations from September 1955 when the Air Defense Command designated
the author's home a "UFO reporting post," and CRIF'O was known inter-
nationally as a "civilian clearinghouse for saucer information." Author
concludes that UFOs are interplanetary vehicles and that the world governments
with technical know-how also believe this to be the answer.
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