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

Peter Rogerson
Magonia 47, September 1993

A study of the literature, even at my fairly superficial level, shows that far from being a unique event, the Hill abduction was just one of a number of such stories to have emerged in the early 1960s. The best publicised case before the publication of the Hill and Villas Boas stories, and the one which softened up the UFO community for the Hill story was the disappearance of Rivalino Mafra da Silva in August 1962, a story resonant with motifs of taboo and vengeful fairies.

Living Laboratories

Peter Rogerson

'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 a range of recent publications which span a variety of ideological positions reflecting the increased splintering of the American abduction scene.

UMMO: The Planet of the Anonymous Correspondents

Luis R. González

Magonia 47, October 1993.

 

In 1958 Donald Franson wrote a short SF story The Time for Delusion (1) about a debunker who, in order to make a fool of every cultist once and for all, decide to publish (under a pen name) his own hoax, a book describing several phone talks with a Venusian. Among all the nonsense he planted many hidden clues, proving its fallacies.