More Views on the Gill Case

Philip Klass, Thomas E. Bullard, et al.
Magonia 55, March 1996.

Following Martin Kottmeyer's article in Magonia 54 suggesting the famous 'Father Gill' case - when an Anglican missionary and some of his parishioners in Papua New Guinea saw a UFO with humanoid occupants - was actually the misidentification of brightly illuminated squid boats in the nearby bay, Magonia received letters challenging this theory, including one from celebrity skeptic Philip Klass, who has himself been vigorously challenged for his own contention that the affair was a joke which ran out of hand.

In the Light of Experience.

Thomas E. Bullard

Magonia 44, October 1992

In Magonia 42 Hilary Evans and Peter Rogerson take me to task as they speak out again in favour of a psychosocial explanation for UFO abductions. Their interests are friendly, but they leave me in need of saving myself from my friends, and my friends from themselves. To begin on an agreeable note. I agree with much of what they say. Peter Rogerson is quite right to point out that variation is present in abduction narratives. The beings described are far from copies of one another, the plots and details differ as well.

Variation Enigmas

Thomas Bullard

Magonia 41, November 1991

Dennis Stillings writes (Magonia 39) that “concerns about variation … seem to me to have only peripheral significance when dealing with abduction accounts.” He adds that variation has no bearing on the central meaning of folklore, while personal, social and cultural modifications are irrelevant to the underlying experience. He objects that I have taken both variation and lack of variation in abduction reports to support a case for genuine aliens.

America Strikes Back: Further Rumblings from Across the Atlantic

Thomas E. Bullard
Magonia 37, October 1990

Little did I imagine that my American Way article in Magonia 34 would provoke such an uprising of criticism as I find in Magonia 35. Peter Rogerson, Martin Kottmeyer, Hilary Evans and Dennis Stillings take aim at my article or other writings with lethal intent and often deadly effect. Surrounded from every side, like any good American I must circle the waggons and defend my scalp.
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The American Way: Truth, Justice and Abduction.

Thomas Bullard

Magonia 34, October, 1989

Americans have turned a deaf ear to social and psychological explanations for UFO phenomena, by and large. Magonia and its predecessors have long provided a voice for these ideas, a voice the editors must have felt was crying in the American wilderness, unheeded for these many years. Times have changed. The editors can take cheer that their magazine now provokes almost as many grumbles among American ufologists as the Skeptical Inquirer.