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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.
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-----Spacemen in Saxon times. Flying saucer review, v. 10, Sept. -Oct. 1964: 10-12. References in Anglo-Saxon literature to phenomena tha.t might corr~spond to appearances of UFOs and their extraterrestrial crews are listed. -----Spacemen in the ancient East. London, Neville Spearman, 1968. Traditions are cited whrch tell of "supermen" from the skies, ''Divine Dynasties," who ruled on earth in India, Tibet, China, Japan, an.:l :.Jabylonia. ----- UFOs over ancient Rome. Flyblg saucer review, v. 9, Jan. -Feb. 1963: 11-13. Passages from the works of classical historre.ns that may record visits to earth of extraterrestrial spacecraft are cited. Drury, Neville. Flying ships in "Oahspe." AuRtralian flying saucer review, no. 9, Nov. 1966: 40-41. Pasmges from Oahspe are cited that would seem to describe spa.cecraft of extraterrestrial origin. Enoch and other cosmonauts; Soviet theories. Time, v. 75, Feb. 22, 1960: 26. Evans, Gordon H. UFOs in history and myth. Science a.'ld mechanics, v. 38 1 Feb, 1967: 52-55, 86, 88, 90, Survey of references to unexpla: ,d aerial phenomena from Biblical times through the 19th century. Simil...rities between ancient and modern accounts are noted. Author suggests that mythology and the literature of the supernatural (including the Irish leprechaun) may have been derived from contact between human and extratei-restrial beings. Farish, Lucius. Myths, legends, and UFO~. Flying saucer review, v. 11, Nov. - Dec. 1965: 19-21. Author cites possible references to the UFO phenomenon found in Rushton M. Dorman's treatise on Ame.r.ican Indian mythology and folklore, The Origin of Primitive Superstitions, published in 1881. Hansen, L. Taylor. He walked the Americas. Amherst, Wisc., Amherst Press, 1963. 256 p. A collection of American Indian legends lhat refer to a saintly teacher who performed miracles of healing, and who may have been an extraterrestrial. Helland, Albert E. They caught a spaceman. Fate, v. ll, Mar. 1958: 62. Author quotes from ancient manuscript to cite instance when an apparently extraterrestrial being was captured and released during the 13th century. 49
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 419 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.