The Decline and Fall of the Psychosocial Hypothesis

Anthony R. Brown
Magonia 72, October 2000

There are, in ufology, two basic schools of thought. The first claims that some or all UFOs are extraterrestrial craft, and that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of individuals are abducted by aliens and undergo traumatic experiences at their hands. This school we may term the extraterrestrial establishment. The second school claims that UFOs are misperceptions or hoaxes, and that abduction claims are either hoaxes or the result of "psychological need". This school we may term the psychosocial establishment.
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"First Do No Harm..."

"The Pelican"

Magonia 72, October 2000.

The UFO abduction enthusiasts enthusiasts are still flourishing, especially in the USA, and it has occurred to the Pelican to wonder just what they think they are doing. Do they regard themselves as psychotherapists, using abduction fantasies as a means to help people to discover what is really bothering them? Or do they believe that the Greys are real entities who beam down from physically real flying saucers? Whatever they believe, or say they believe, are they doing good or doing harm?

Monorail Dreaming

Peter Rogerson

‘Northern Echoes’, Magonia 72, October 2000

  

Every so often in 2000, the undead but prematurely buried twentieth century has given the odd twitch of life. The fall of Concorde is one such twitch, for it is the end of the last survivor of the forgotten age in which this magazine came into being. Magonia was born in 1966 as the Merseyside UFO Research Group Bulletin; and in that year the teenagers of Warrington were asked to write essays on the future, including their visions of the year 2000.