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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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Article suggests that in the days before flying mr,chines were considered posslble, the rationalization employed to accomodate the inexplicable took an occult form. Old legends are examined to determine whether the form in which they now appea.t· is really the result of such a fanciful embroidery of an actual UFO sighting i11 the remote past. Lesli~, De~::io1'd and George Adarr.ski. Flying saucers have landed. London, Werner Laurie, 1953. 232 p. Account of contact by Adamski with a landed extraterrestrial spacecraft and a meeting with a man from Venus on Nov. 20, 1952, near Desert Center, Calif. Photographs of spacecraft. Review of material from old manuscripts referring to sightings of unidenti!ie~ objects flying through the air. J...ovitch, A. UFOs--science or sorcery? Engineering digest, v. 61, Feb. 1967: 29-34. Historical reports of strange aerial phenomena from 45, 000 B. C. to 1952 are cited. Postulating that centuries of recorded reports must reflect response to unknown phenomena that deserve scientific study, the author discusses feasibility of flying saucers from proIXJlsion, structural, and biological tolerance points of view. Michell, John F. The flying saucer vision: the holy grail restor~. London, Sidgewick & Jackson, 1967. 176 p. Establishes the existence in the }.llSt of a ilying saucer cult and examines its origins. Suggests some of the ways in which the current revival of our belief in these objects is likely to affect us in the years to come. Postulates that it is essential that the true basis of mythology be recognized and the origins of our civilization examined in the light of what we can now suspect of extraterrestrial influences in the past. Miller, Max B. Flying saucers, fact or fiction? Los Angeles, Trend Books, 1957. 12 8 p. Survey of references to UFOs in literature from earliest written records t" 1957 and state-of-the-art review of research relating to subject. Non-technical. Misraki, Paul. Les extraterrestres, par Paul Thomas 1 pseud. 1• Paris, Plan, 1962. 224 p. Develops hypothesis that from earliest antiquity to modern times, extra- terrestrial beings have kept earth under surveillance, have at times visited this planet, and have frequently modified the course of history by means of spectacular appearances, Cites biblical p:;issages and ancient manuscripts. First English edition translated by Gavin Gibbons and published unde.r title Flying Saucers Through the Ages (London, Neville Spearman, 1965). 51
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 419 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.