It would appear that in certain quarters this magazine has gained the reputation of being part of the ‘it’s all to the mind brigade’, whatever that might menu. It seems worthwhile therefore to give a resume of the sort of ideas about which Magonia's editors are speculating. 
Over the past few years a growing number of French ufologists have become increasingly doubtful about the existence of UFOs as a genuinely original physical phenomenon. I should like to analyse briefly the origins and limits of this doubt. The first French ufologist to have said “the emperor has no clothes” was Michel Monnerie, in two hotly debated books.