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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…
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Davidson, Leon. ECM +CIA=' UFO. FlyJng saucer review, v. 6, Mar. Apr.
1960: 9-12.
Author p01:;tnlates that UFO r:.henomena are created by the CIA as part of the
cold war and explains techniques that could be •.ts~d to produce "authentic"
radar sightings of U!"Os.
An open lettel' to saucer researchers. Flying saucers, no. FS-24,
Mar. 1962: 36-51.
Author states what he believes to be the true explanation of the UFO phenom-
enon: "The Central Intelligence Agency ... took over the public image of the
'flying saucer' created by secret flights of U.S. aircraft and artificial meteor
research, etc., during the period 1947-48. By W50, the CIA had set in motion
a plan encouraging public belief in interplanetary travel through a psycho-
logical technique of 1:.uiding the release of planted information, ordering se-
cret tests of authentic military developments whi.ch gave misleading :lmpres-
sic:'s to observers, etr.. CIA delegated the Air Force to act as the official
"investigator" to stave off public inquiry. It secredy sponsored the formation
of saucer study groups and contact clubs, including NICAP ... The CIA set up
many saucer publishers, sponsored the publicizing of Adamski's books and
others, and sponsored the wave of saucer articles in 1952 in 'Life' and 'Look,'
etc. The CIA also condttcted the hoaxes played upon Adamski and Fry, in-
cluding Adamski's desert contacts, his 'train disappearance,' etc. , in ad-
dition to other activities of this nature.
Why I believe Adamski. Flying saucers, Feb, 1959: 38-46.
Author postulates that the C. I. A. or its subsidiaries were involved in
"causing" the Adamski contacts, and that the extraterrestrial "Brothers"
were agents or operatives of these agencies. Adamski, subject of a CIA-
engineered hoax, was honestly and sincerely reporting what he was told,
the author believes.
Why I believe Adamski. Flying saucer review, v. 6, Jan. - Feb. 1960:
3-8.
Author suggests that Adamski was sincere in his reports of ~ontact with
extraterrestrial spacecraft and their crews but was victim of deception
perpetrated by CIA as a mo\e in the cold war.
Lear, John. The disputed CIA document on UFOs, Saturday review, Sept. 3,
1966: 45-50.
Discussion of questions raised b-· CIA editing of the Robertson panel
minutes before the document ·vas dt:ciassified. It is suggested that vital
information of long-range significance rt:!garding possible visits to earth
by extraterrestrial spacecraft may have been withheld for strategic
l'easons.
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