Transformation of Ufology, Part 1: UFO Idols With Feet of Clay

Matt Graeber
Magonia 95, May 2007

There has been a great deal written about the ’Transformational Effects’ of the UFO experience upon the observers and the interfacers with alien creatures. Many times these incidents are alleged to have produced an enhanced form of spiritual awakening, heightened awareness, or a realisation of one’s cosmic connection with the universe and its many intelligent life forms. In extreme instances, the UFO experience is even said to have produced “Hybrid” half-human and half-alien beings that are presently walking amongst us.

Transformation of Ufology, part 2: A Look Behind the Scenes

Matt Graeber

Magonia 95, May 2007

Let’s see what the ‘List’ and the 'Leaders’ have to say about this growing internet UFO group phenomenon in their midst. How do they feel about their own organizations dwindling membership, declining journal subscriptions and public appeal in the age of the internet saucer-hucksters? (I have changed the names of the e-mail writer’s on this topic to avoid embarrassing the complacent and/or woefully inattentive). .

Aztec, That Terribly Romantic Yet Horribly Aromatic Desert Bloom is in Flower Again!

Michael McClellan and Matt Graeber

Magonia 89, August 2005

The 1948 Aztec, NM downed UFO retrieval story is one of saucerdom’s legends that seems to have defied all the attempts to explain it away as a clumsy and very obvious hoax. However, the many “resurrections” of this story, in various forms, is just about as remarkable and interesting as the original tale itself. In fact, one fellow on the Internet describes it as the “Dracula” of saucerdom which simply will not die no matter how may stakes are driven through its heart.

Ufoology: As Much Fun as a Barrelful of Aliens

Matt Graeber
Magonia 83, December 2003

About ten years ago, I coined the term “ufoology” in a letter to Jim Moseley, who is the publisher and editor of the USA’s longest-running newsletter on the UFO enigma. Jim’s Saucer Smear is legendary as a gossip and scandal sheet that has been exposing the intellectual short-comings and indiscretions of the self-appointed UFO experts, some of their “star-witnesses” and, of course, the UFO group leaders that have endorsed the rantings of these individuals.

The Raefield Affair

Matt Graeber
Magonia 82, August 2003

In Magonia 78 Matt Graeber discussed a `down-to-earth’ variety of UFO experience that he called `a dynamic display’. Graeber believes that such displays are “unique symbolic dramatisations” of the observer’s personal life status at the time of their UFO encounter; and that the UFO event seems to reflect both the ‘situational’ and `confrontational’ character of the witness’s problems. In this case study he takes another look at a dynamic display (or UFO ‘self perception) that took place on a busy highway in broad daylight.

On Down-to-Earth UFO Experiences



Matthew J. Graeber

Magonia 78, June 2002

 

Is there a signal in the noise of the UFO experience, or does meaningfullness follow silently in its wake? While examining UFO reports over the last 30 years, I have come to realise that some UFO sightings and close encounter experiences have an extraordinarily symbolic relationship to the observer’s psychical status at the time of their experience.

A Fatal Illusion

Matthew J. Graeber

Magonia 62, February 1998

 

In recent times the tragic suicide of 38 American UFO cult members has graphically illustrated the extremes that fixation and identification with alien life forms can have upon certain individuals. For not only did these troubled souls believe that by taking their lives they were also going to rendezvous with an extraterrestrial space ship that was skirting a comet’s tail, but several of them had even shaved their heads and castrated themselves (perhaps in an effort to mimic the purely cerebral, highly spiritual and, presumably, asexual appearance of the space creatures that they anticipated meeting).

Godships

Matthew J. Graeber
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 events as being comprised of optically perceived images or imagery that occasionally have an extraordinary effect upon the individual(s) who either observe or come into close proximity with them.