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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.
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A large part of the available UFO litel'ature is closely linked with mysticism and the metaphysical. It deals with subjects like mental te!.epathy, automatic writing, and invisible entities as well as phenomena like poltergeist manifestations and "possession." One school of thought holds that flying saucers are Biblical "signs in the sky" that portend the Second Coming. Another believes that an invisible fourth- or other-dimensional world is involved. Some groups have concluded that mankind is being, and may have always been, manipulated by extraterrestrial forces -- the UFO occupants. Others detail the endless battle between "good" and "evil'1 believing that the UFOs play an int\"!gral part in this "war." Unearthly ,,police forces" are desclibed and explained. Many of the UFO reports now being publis!~ed in the popular press recount alleged incidents that are strikingly similar to demoniac possession and psychic phenomena which have long been known to theologians and parapsychologists. Therefore, references to these subjects have been included as well as references to occult works which have similarities to the general tone and content of the UFO literature. A major objective of this bibliography was to gather material from the physical sciences which related to the UFO phenomrJnon. The results of this intensive effort were a collection of articles which appeared in scientific and technical journals. Some discussed UFOs in general terms in light of the limitations of present physical theories, and others explore peripheral areas, such as ball lightning and interstellar travel, which relate to certain theoried regarding UFOs. Admittedly the number of such "hard science" references is small, but they fill an important place in this collection. For his very useful contribuHon, the section on mirages, I wish to thank Lt. Col. Daniel H. Lufkin, USAF, Chief of the Aerospace Sciences Division of the Environmental Technical Applic·ations Center, Military Airlift Command, U.S. Air Force. The references are thf: best treatments, theoretical and practical, of this classical subject. Because of its special nature, I have incorporated his bibliography separately as appendix 1. These items are not included in the author index, nor are others in the addenda. This two-year survey of the growing UFO literature reveals many publications that are the result of painstaking research, yet in its entirety, contradictions are far more common than consistencies. It is also noteworthy that points of view are taken up by factions, each of which seems convinced that its answer to the UFO riddle is the right one and the only one. iv
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 419 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.