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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. 1 …The site and materials made available on the site, such as this file, are for reference…
  • p. 16 …Force on UFOs. New Yvrk, Dell Pub. Co., 1967. l57 p. "From the files of the…
  • p. 23 …Documented report containing 746 UFO sighting cases selected from NICAP files and covering NICAP's investigations…
  • p. 27 …ln the files d. NICAP. Summarizes current theories and expla'lations of UFO phenomena. Translation of…
  • p. 28 …National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. NICAP Headquarters UFO Newspaper Clipping File, 1947-1966. Washington, D…
  • p. 40 …Presence of port- holes would then preclude a meteoric or other "natural'' explanation for a UFO…
  • p. 139 …information in the files of NICAP. Summarizes current theories and explanations of UFO phenomena. Miller, R…
  • p. 155 …This man knows UFOs. Canadian magazine, May 25, 1968: 9, 11. On July 6, 1967, Warren…
  • p. 160 …Two more facts for the UFO file. Flying saucer review, v. 8, July-Aug. 1962: 14…
  • p. 177 In setting up a scientific im·esti~ation into the UFO phenomenon, it is suggested that…
  • p. 192 …National Investigations Committee o,, Aerial Phenomena. NICAP Headquarters UFO Newspaper Clipping File, 1947-1966. Washington, D…
  • p. 201 …Documented report containing 746 UFO sighting cases selected from NICAP filE:s and covering NICAP's…
  • p. 204 …in the files of NICAP. Summari?.es current theories and explana~ ions of UFO phenomena. Translation…
  • p. 205 National Investlgations Committee on Aerial Pheno1:1ena. (NICAP Headquarters UFO Newspaper Clipping File, 1947-1966j. Wasbington…
  • p. 219 Documented report c0ntaining 746 UFO sighting cases selected f.r<•m NICAP files and covering NICAP…
  • p. 222 …National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. NICA P Headquarters UFO Newspaper Clipping File, 1947-1966 . Washington…
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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