The Aliens Speak – and Write Examining Alien Languages Mark Newbrook
From Magonia 85, July 2004 Many UFO reports involve linguistic or quasi-linguistic phenomena: scripts loosely resembling hieroglyphics or Indian devanagari associated with crashed UFOs, long stretches...
View ArticleThe Myth of the Authorised Myth. Hilary Evans
From Magonia 16, July 1984 By ‘authorised myth’ we understand a belief or set of beliefs which, despite inadequate scientific evidence for its existence, obtains the sanction of widespread acceptance...
View ArticleOur Unreliable ‘Eyewitnesses’. Paolo Toselli
From Magonia 13, 1983 ‘I saw it with my own eyes!’ How many times we have listened to this statement designed to avoid doubt, to reinforce certitude.Usually, but erroneously, one believes that the...
View ArticleUFOs, Phantom Helicopters and Contemporary Panics. Peter Rogerson and John...
In Merseyside UFO Bulletin, volume 6, number 2, August 1973, Peter Rogerson wrote: UFOs AND CONTEMPORARY PANICS A few weeks ago, in a collection of clippings on UFO events, loaned to me by Nigel...
View ArticleClose Encounters and Dream States Ian Cresswell & Granville Oldroyd
From Magonia 9, 1982 Despite frustrating investigators and researchers throughout the past 35 years in their search for the meaning of the UFO phenomenon the occurrence of ‘strange’ incidents has had...
View ArticleThe Abduction Experience: The Birth Trauma Hypothesis. Alvin Lawson
First published in Magonia 10, 1982 Those who believe that UFO abductions relate to alien beings, parallel universes, or other exotic origins will ultimately have to explain – along with the lack of...
View ArticleObjections to the Birth Trauma Hypothesis. Ian S. Creswell
From Magonia 11, 1982 While one must congratulate Dr Lawson for a most original and mentally stimulating piece of theoretical writing [link here] on the apparent similarity between relived birth...
View ArticleAbductions: Who’s Being Taken for a Ride? John Rimmer
From Magonia 36, May 1990 Are UFO abductions finally moving where they belong, i.e. out of the hands of ufologists? This question is prompted by several recent books, and news of new directions in UFO...
View ArticleWhat’s Up Doc? Shams and Shepherds: The Seventies and So Forth Martin Kottmeyer
From Magonia 46, June 1993. Unless Colman von Kevicsky’s characterisation of the 1973 wave as an invasion should be taken seriously, the last significant expression of the invasion fear occurs in...
View ArticleLiving Laboratories. Peter Rogerson
Published as Northern Echoes, Magonia 47, October 1993 In a rather more serious Northern Echoes than usual I intend to continue the themes of my article in this issue (Fairyland’s hunters), and look at...
View ArticleIndexing the Machine Elves. David Sivier
From Magonia 90, November 2005 Fairy Tale Motifs in UFO Narratives One of the most fascinating developments in folklore has been its extension to include UFOs and abduction accounts. Since the rise of...
View ArticleGodships. Matthew J. Graeber
From Magonia 52, May 1995 Although we might expect to make little headway towards resolving today’s UFO enigma by comparing it to past mysteries, we may, nevertheless, examine both present and past UFO...
View ArticleNot the E.T.H.Jenny Randles
This articles was first published in Magonia 17, October 1984, which was a special issue reviewing the current status of the extraterrestrial hypothesis. Related articles include: People of a Different...
View ArticleWhich Way Madness Lies?Hilary Evans
This article is now archived here: http://magoniamagazine.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/which-way-madness-lies.html
View ArticleIn the Light of Experience. Thomas E. Bullard
From Magonia 44, October 1982 In Magonia 42 Hilary Evans and Peter Rogerson take me to task as they speak out again in favour of a psychosocial explanation for UFO abductions. Their interests are...
View ArticleAmerica Strikes Back Further Rumblings from Across the Atlantic Thomas E....
From Magonia 37, October 1990 Little did I imagine that my ‘American Way’ article in Magonia 34 would provoke such an uprising of criticism as I find in Magonia 35. Peter Rogerson, Martin Kottmeyer,...
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