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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…
Author traces reports of cosmic visitors !::i earth's skies as far back as 729
A. D. Conjectures t.hat sir&!stcr or brJstile Lrr:~s of unknown inte::.·planetary
origin may act to keep space explo1·ers from earth well within limits of
substratosphere. London ed. has title: Flying Saucers from the Moon.
Wilkins, Harold T. 1, 000 years of flyin~ saucers. Fate, v. 4, Apr. 1951: 23-30.
Accounts are reported from archives of the British Royal Scciety, med11~val
chronicler$., 17th century astronomers' epheme.-ides. and from rare volumes
in Latin of strange lights and flying objects seen in the sky for the pa.st l, 25Q
years.
WilU.amson, George H\mt. Other tongues--other n~sh. Amherst, Wis. , Amherst
Press, 1952. 448 p.
Author affirms that extraterrestrial visitors have been coming to earth in
spacecraft for several mill"'nia and quotes references to them in the Bible,
ancient mythology, and old documents. He relates technological and
sociological progress on earth to influence of space intelliget·~.es and cites
references from latest authenticated UFO sightings to support theory that
visitors from space are now making themselves known to the Wllfld as a
whole to lead mankind to a new, enllghtened age.
-----. Road in the sky. London, N. Spearman, 1959. 248 p.
Develops hypothesis that there is a coooection between the flying ~::iucerEi of
the past and present and the legends of mankind that attempt to explain God
and the supernatural. Cites instances of past ext.rat'?rrestrial visitations
recorded in legends and myths of ancient civilizations and the American
Indians.
Zaitsev, Vyacheslav. Visitors from outer since. Sputnik, v. 1, Jap,, 1967:
162-179.
Author reports on thirty years of research to .;ubstantiate th~ory that
intelligent beings from outer space have had contact with earth. Among evidence
cited are hieroglyphics deciphered by Chinese archeologist revealing that
extraterrestrial spacecraft landed on earth 12, 000 years ago; legends sup-
porting information in the hieroglyphics and vestiges of graves and skeletons
that serm to confirm the legc1:.is; myths, biblical passages, and apocrypha(
legends; and frescoes dating fr:m1 1350 at Dechaney Monastery, Yugoslavia.
ANGEL HAIR
"'ottage, Barrie. Ring clouds and angel hai.'. Flying saucei: "eview, v. IO,
May-June 1964: 14-16.
Listing of unusual cloud formati0n sightings that may have a coor.ection wilh
UFO pheno.nenon. An instance of the fall o[ "angel hair" is cited.
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