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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…
Edwards, Frank. Flying saucers, serious business. New York, Lyle Stuart,
Inc. , 1966. 319 p.
Report on worldwide sightings of UFOs and attack on"veil of secrecy" that
governments of the world have drawn around the matter. Data cited
authenticated by NICAP.
Frank Edward~' report: Do you still believe in flying saucers? Fate,
v. 13, .June 1960: 27-34.
Author cites instances where military and scientific authorities attemited
to discredit the subject of UFOs through ridicule.
Frank Edwards' rt!port: is the UFO "curtain" lifting? Fate, v. 11, June
1958: 47-54.
Cites instances of apparent suppression of UFO news by the Air Force and
analyzes cunent official actions that seem to indicate it change in policy.
Frank Edwards' report: some answers to the saucer. Fate, v. 11, July
1958: 45-51.
Author outlines several IXlSSible reasons that the Air Force has remained silent
on the question of the reality of UFO activity. He postulates that there is
official recognition of the phenomenon although such recognition is denied
JXIblicly.
The plot to silence me. Fate, v. 10, June 1957: 17-23.
Author claims that in August 1954 he was fired from his job as news com-
mentator for the Mutual Broadcasting System because the president of the
sponsoring organization (AFL) said he ''talked too much about flying saucers."
He says he was later offered a well-paid job by the Pentagon "to silence him."
The spies from outer space. Real, v. 5, Nov. 1954: 20-21, 58-60.
Evidence is given by the author to support his belief that a ''blanket of
silence" imposed by the Government is preventing the public from getting all
the fact~ about unidentified flying objects. He also suggests that flying saucers
are ex'£raterrestrial and engaged in reconnaissance activities. '
To see or not to see. In his My first 10, 000, 000 sponsors. New York,
Ballantine Books, 1956. p. 110-125.
Reports are given of UFO sightings 1947-1954 by apparently reliable witnesses,
especially airlines pilots, and subsequent apparent "muzzling'' of witnesses
and suppression of news stories ostensibly by a Government agency.
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