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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. 53 …English version of original declaration made by Antonio Villas Boas that on the night of October…
  • p. 54 …15, 1957, Antonio Villas Boas, a Brazilian farmer, was allegedly taken aboard a flying saucer and…
  • p. 55 …English version of origina.l declaration made by Antonio Villas Boas that on the night of…
  • p. 56 …15, 1957, Antonio Villas Boas, a Brazilian farmer, was allegedly taken aboard a flying saucer and…
  • p. 81 …three alleged contact/landing incidents in Brazil, 1958-1959. ----- The Villa Santina Case. Flying saucer review…
  • p. 84 …for imysical examination and that of Antonio Villas Boas who was allegedly abducted by extraterrestrial beings…
  • p. 99 …The Villa Santina Italy Case; Few and Far Between b:.arading and occupant reports a rarity…
  • p. 107 …Author analyses details of Antoni1J Villas Boas story that he was taken aboard a landed flying…
  • p. 121 …The Villa Santina Italy Case; Few and Far Between fLanding and occui:nnt reports a rarity…
  • p. 185 …English version of original declaration made by Antonio Villas Boas that on the night of October…
  • p. 186 …Comments by the author on deposition by Antonio Villas Boas who claimed he was taken aboard…
  • p. 370 …Book is based on treatise Comte de Gabalis by French mystic Abbe de Villa.rs. Interprets…
  • p. 386 …Based in part on the experiences of a Brazilian farmer, Antonio Villas Boas, and the Americans…
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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