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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. 27 …an international scientUic problem; (4) there has never been a thorough sci- entific investigation of UFOs…
  • p. 46 …for guidance and control that gives a never-before-reached degree of precision. He documents his…
  • p. 47 …the Air Force has never denied the possibility of life on other planets; what it does…
  • p. 60 …the Air Force has never denied the possibility of life on other planets; what it does…
  • p. 99 …the meteor that never was. Flying saucer review, v. 9, Seit. -OCt. 1963: 3-7. Details…
  • p. 122 …Prairie, Minn., is reported. Keel, John A. Never mind the saucer! Did you see the guys…
  • p. 139 …for guidance and control that gives a never-before-reached degree of prP.cision. He documents…
  • p. 166 …for guidance and control that gives a never-before-reached degree of precision. He documents his…
  • p. 231 …and technological phenomena; (2) he himself has never seen a UFO and his belief in whether…
  • p. 233 …international scientific problem; (4) there hc>s never been a thorough scientific investigation cf UFOs; (5…
  • p. 337 …Although aerodyne was never built, tests on critical portions of it were made in France and…
  • p. 342 …province of no known science, they have never been properly investigated. Gallegos, Faustin. The pulsing hor…
  • p. 348 …beings who si1U1ed against God but were never given the .:hance to regain grace; and (4…
  • p. 364 …Ted Serios has apparent ability to produce photographs of places he has never been, never seen…
  • p. 385 …future blended, but also time tracks that never h4ppened. Pcoxima Centauri is the tale of an…
  • p. 398 …25, 1804) of an aerial object that was never positively identified. Powers comments tilat Dunbar's…
Lear, John. The disputed CIA document on UFOs. Saturday review, Sept. 3, 1966:
45-50.
Discussion of quMtions raised by CIA editing of the Robertson panel minutes
before the document was declassified. It is suggested that vital information
of long-range si~ificance regarding possible visits to earth by extraterrestrial
S!llCecraft may nave been withheld for strategic reasons.
Scully~ Frank. Behind the flying saucers. New York, Henry Holt, 1950. 230 p.
Presents information to support position that UFOs are real and that official
disclaimers of their existence by DOD are calculated to deceive the public.
Published also in British edition (London, Gollancz, 1950).
Steiger, Brad. What μice silence? Flying saucers, June 1968: 31.
A private citizen investigates an alleged UFO landing and is given a piece of
metal that supposedly fell from the machine. The metal sample is taken away
from him during a visit by what seemed to be representatives of "the men in
black."
Steiger, Brad and Joan Whritenour. Flying saucers !Xlnic U.S. airlines. Saga,
v. 36, Aug. 1968: 33-35, 82-84, 86, 88-90.
Newark Star-Leciger reporter John Lester quotes a pilot as saying that any
pilot who did not maintain maximum secrecy after sighting a UFO was subject
to a possible 10 years in prison and a fine of $10, 000. Organization of the
Volunteer Flight Officer's Network which includes 68 airlines, 50 of which
are outside the U. s., is mentioned; memher crewmen would attempt to
amass ';>hotographic evidence of UFOs.
White House is hiding the truth about flying saucers. Midnight, v. 14, May 20,
1968: 14-15.
Unnamed "UFO expert" states that the flying saucer mystery has been solved
but that the U. N. and "'orld heads of state have entered a conspiracy of
silence, releasing as little information to the public i.1.s possible.
Young, Mort. UFO: top secret, New York [Essandess Special Editions] 1967,
156 p.
Author relies heavily on official documents to present "a convincing
account of how for two decades the United States Government caused you and
me to believe that people who saw unidentified flying objects were mistaken
or were fools or were charlatans. "
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