Abduction Updates

Peter Rogerson
Magonia 54, November 1995

We can now tie up a few loose ends on a couple of the early abduction cases. Firstly, Antonio Villas-Boas. Thanks to Luis Gonzalez, who supplied me with photocopies, I can confirm that the SBEDV Bulletin of April-July 1962, which published the AVB case was written in English (after a fashion!). It was the export and exchange magazine for the Brazilian group, so it was clear that a number of English-speaking ufologists must have known about the case before its appearance in Flying Saucer Review.

Communion Cups and Crashed Saucers; part 1, Holy Violence

Peter Brookesmith

Magonia 54, November 1995.

No doubt to the amazement of many, this series does not exercise great sarcasms – well, not very great ones – against the claims of any UFO percipient, abductee, expert, crank, skeptic, or anyone else involved in the UFO syndrome. For the sake of my argument I have to treat all of them as if they’re telling the truth. Because, dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to join these two in matrimony: the mystery of ufology, pregnant as that is with the strange bounty of the crashed saucers, and the mystery of God.

Invasion of the Barbarian Monsters from Heaven and Hell

Nigel Watson

Magonia 54, November 1995.

UFOs are the key to discovering Heaven and Hell. It is appropriate that our modern technological societies have incorporated the old Gods and religions into ‘new’ technological belief systems. Since the 1950s the question ‘Was God An Astronaut?’ has been put forward and popularised. From there it didn’t take a genius to equate reports of UFOs in our own time with the Return of the Gods.

Gill Again: The Father Gill Case Reconsidered

Martin Kottmeyer

Magonia 54, November 1995

In a 1979 survey of ninety leading ufologists, Ron Story found the case of Father Gill of Papua New Guinea was most mentioned when he asked for the strongest UFO evidence. [1]Jerry Clark had acclaimed it as “History’s Best Case” in an article for Fate magazine the year before. [2] J. Allen Hynek termed it a “classic” and said he was impressed by the quality and number of witnesses and the character and demeanour of Reverend Gill. [3]