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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…
Tacker, Lawrence J. Flying !Jaucers and the u. s. Air Force. Princeton, N, J. ,
Van Nostrand, 1960. 164 p.
.\uthor, !1 former UNAF piblic information officer on UFOs, dlscusses UFO
sightings reported to Aerosi-.ce Technical Intelligence Center (Project Blue
Book), Wright Patterson Air Force Base, from Summer 1947 through Summer
1960 in attemit to demonstrate that, in general, they were? misinterpretations
of known objects. He also gives history of USAF's research effort m•.o UFO
J,ilenomena, including Project Saucer and P:roject Ol'Udge.
Tyler, Steven. Are the invaders com!ng? New York, Tower Publications, 1968.
139 p.
Survey of basic UFO literature such as Edward Ruppelt's wi•ltings, and
extracts from the publications of NICAP and APRO. Supports the "Air F .irce
conspiracy" hypothesis.
"UFOs"--they're back in new sizes, shapes, colors. U. s. news & world report,
v. 61, Aug. 22, 1966: 59-60.
Of 1966 UFO sightings, USAF officials say: (l) more variety in sizes and shapes
is reported; (2) there are lights of all kinds c~:ieomita.'lt with sightings; (3)
UFOs seem to be noisier than in the JBSt; (4) appearance of objects allegedly
seen during daylight hours is invariably that of some llght-t.'.c.lored metal;
(5) movement of reported UFOs continues to be erratic; (6) no "little green
men" have appearod; (7) sightings have been concenti-a•ed more in the
northeastern u. s. than in the past; and (8) objects ex.JU.bit apparent tendency
to follow power lines.
U.S. Air Force. Aids to identification of flying objects. Washington, D. C., U. s.
Govt. Print. Off. , 1968. 35 p.
Introduction is a brief history of UFO reports and studies and provides some
information on scientific observations and analyses; the section "Aids to
Identification of Flyin~ Objects" gives in-depth information on flying objects
and natural phenomena; the "Questions and Answers" section responds to
many of the questions commonly asked about UFOs.
U.S. Air Force. Air Materiel Command. Unidentified aerial objects; Project
Sign. Dayton, Ohio, Wright-Patterson Air F.:>rce Base, 1949, 35 p.
(Its Technical Report No. F-TR-2274-IA}
Descriptive and analytical study of 243 domestic and 30 foreign reported UFO
sightings between 1947 and 1948. Individual cases are described in brief
form as an appendix. Methods and reasoning applied in evaluating data are
presented. Project Sign was initiated by the Technical Intelligence Division,
Air Materiel Command, on January 22, 1948.
----- Unidentified flying objects; Project Grudge. Dayton, Ohio, Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base, 1949, 366 p. (Its Technical Report No. 102-AC 49/15100)
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