Like Ball Lightning: A Memory of Ralph Noyes

Dennis Stacy

Magonia 64, August 1998

I’m sure I’ve got a picture of Ralph Noyes around here somewhere, but he was so unprepossessing, you never know. Besides, he wasn’t the kind to pose for pictures, and now there will be no more pictures of Mr Noyes at all. He died on May 24, 1998, as a result of a fall at his London home. “Ralph Noyes was born in the tropics,” according to the biographical note on the dust jacket of his 1985 novel, A Secret Property, “and spent most of his childhood in the West Indies...

Alien Abortion, Avenging Angels.

Dennis Stacy and Jake Kirkwood

Magonia 44, October 1992

The basic structure of the typical abduction scenario has been well-known, ever since the publication of folklorist Eddie Bullard’s massive two volume study of the phenomenon in 1987. Drawing on almost 300 cases then extant in the world UFO literature, Bullard isolated and identified eight discrete, sequential stages as follows: capture, examination, conference, tour, otherworldly journey, theophany, return, and aftermath.

Moore and the Military

Dennis Stacy

Magonia 34, October 1989

In the July 1989 Magonia Peter Rogerson postulates an interesting, but largely incomplete scenario regarding John Lears’s UFO ravings, particularly the latter’s call for the impeachment of the President and Congress for having entered into a ‘diplomatic’ arrangement or treaty whereby the little ‘greys’, the malevolent aliens, were allowed to abduct humans for their own purposes in exchange for advanced ‘alien’, i.e. UFO technology.

MJ-12: Above Top Secret, Below Top Drawer

Dennis Stacy

Magonia 28, January 1988

 

In drama, the fatal flaw of a character is often the essential ingredient around which the whole tragic recipe revolves. In the documentary or non-fiction world, however, it is just as often the slam of the oven door that causes the whole soufflé to collapse. The latter seems to be the case with Above Top Secret, a prodigious project ultimately marred by reliance on US government ‘UF0′ documents of a considerably dubious nature.