Why Have all the UFOs Gone?

Peter Rogerson
Magonia, 7, 1981.

Introduction: The film ‘Close Encounters’ was expected to provoke a huge UFO wave, it didn’t, and by 1981 when this article was written the subject had all but disappeared. This article didn’t actually succeed in answering why, though I used the question to write the big psycho-social history. Note it gives psychosocial explanations of the rise of the skeptics movements and psychosocial UFO theories themselves, something we are often accused of not doing.

From Conspiracy to Contactees. Part 2, The UFO Connection

Roger Sandell

First published in Magonia 7, 1981.

One of Major Donald Keyhoe’s UFO books of the fifties was entitled The Flying Saucer Conspiracy. in this book Keyhoe argued that the United States government was deliberately suppressing information, an idea which has continued to appeal to ufologists ever since.But, if one accepted the idea of an official UFO cover-up, what was the motive?