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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. 40 …Author postulates th ..,.t UFO research seems to have reached a crucial turning point and cites…
  • p. 44 …Survey of activitiee of official and private organizations engaged in UFO research. 29
  • p. 50 …Lecture at the Southern Region UFO Research Groups Conference, Oxford, England, May 8, 1965. 35
  • p. 83 …witness by Peter Norris, chairman of the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, and M. Thornhill. 66
  • p. 95 …The UFO investigator, v. 3, Nov. -Dec. 1965: 5. Experiments and research by Prof. Clyde E…
  • p. 121 …Peter Norris, chairman of Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, and M. Thornhill. The humanoids. Flying saucer…
  • p. 128 …London, British UFO Research Assn. , 1964 31 p. Details are given of the various natural and…
  • p. 129 …London, British UFO Research Assn. , 1964 31 p. Details are given of the various natural and…
  • p. 136 …Discusses three questions important in UFO research: (1) where do they ..~om~ from? (2) who crews…
  • p. 137 …UFOs: the greatest scientific problem of our times," delivered at the convention of the American Society…
  • p. 154 …General discussion of activities of UFO researchers and alleged contactees. Claims made by "Prince Neosom of…
  • p. 156 …Moseley, President of the Saucer and Unexplained Celestial Events Research Society; and Michael J. Campione, New…
  • p. 212 …Flying Saucer Research Society, Adelaide, Australia. Babcock, Edward J. and Timothy G. Beckley. UFO plagues N…
  • p. 216 …Koch, Publicity and Research Director of Universal Research Society of America, sighted a UFO on Apr…
  • p. 288 …Author surrnests the possibility that UFOs and poltergeists are among phenomena which could be "experienced, " with…
  • p. 398 …UFOs is the hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitations by intelligent beings." Reprinted in News Report, National Research…
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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