“Fire in the Sky”

Nigel Watson
Magonia 46, June 1993.

Aduction stories are not new to the cinema, indeed many SF films of the 1950s anticipated (helped create?) the obsessions that dominated the minds of ufologists since the 1980s. What makes Fire In The Sky different is that it takes UFOs seriously. Rather than use them as an excuse to wonder at the possibilities of life elsewhere, or reflect the paranoid concerns of Soviet invasion, atomic warfare, the progress of science, etc, Fire In The Sky plays an apparently straight bat.

Satanism Update 2

Roger Sandell

Magonia 46, June 1993

 

Since Magonia last looked at the Satanism panic, there have been no new cases of the Rochdale or Nottingham type in Britain. However, the official report on the Orkney allegations has appeared. Unfortunately this throws little light on the Satanism allegations, while accusing the social workers involved of failing to follow official guidelines, an approach which is not very enlightening.

What’s Up Doc? Part Three: Shams and Shepherds

Martin Kottmeyer
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 Raymond Fowler’s UFOs – Interplanetary Visitors (1974). It is presented as a possibility among a range of intentions that aliens might possess. The idea of friendly contact is raised, but is muted by concerns over loss of national pride as allegiance is transferred to their superior force.

Fairyland's Hunters: Notes Towards a Revisionist History of Abductions. Part One

Peter Rogerson
Magonia 46, June 1993

The thesis of this series of articles is a simple one: it is that the history of the growth of the abduction stories is a far more tangled affair than the ‘entirely unpredisposed’ official history would have us believe. In it I have collected material from my own INTCAT [1], Eddie Bullard’s catalogue [2] and other sources, and arranged them in a rough chronology of reportage and investigation.