Who's Watching the Ufologists?

John Rimmer

Magonia 28, January 1988

 

So finally abductions have joined adultery, ambition and AIDS as a fit subject for the TV soap operas. The final scene of The Colbys as one of the female characters was enticed aboard a cut-price Spielberg saucer produced reactions ranging from bafflement to hilarity (and not much between) amongst the viewing public. Now we hear that other soaps. including our own deer Crossroads are falling over themselves to work this jolly wheeze into their plot lines.

Cathars and Templars

Roger Sandell

Magonia 28, January 1988.

 

Southwest France in the 12th century was an area marked by a unique culture. It had first been civilised by Greek settlers, it had escaped the worst of the barbarian invasions. As a result it had preserved continuities with Roman civilization and it was a neighbour of Islamic Spain. It was also an area where the religion of the Cathars, regarded by the Church as a diabolic heresy had been embraced by much of the population.

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.

Transvection and Ufology

Manfred Cassirer

Magonia 28, January 1988

The archetypal midnight hag on her broomstick has a comic Disney touch about her, a fact which did not always escape earlier students who were not above lampooning it. But at one time she was a grim reality, even if there was the occasional judge who ruled that nocturnal flights were not illegal. We are talking about the supposed phenomenon of ‘transvection’, which is closely related, if at all distinguishable, to a whole variety of other subjects (no less controversial) for which there is yet reasonably good evidence.

Missing Time, Missing Links.

Dennis Stillings

Magonia 28, January 1988

After the first day’s sessions of the fourth annual meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) several ufologists and I repaired to the motel bar to continue a variety of discussions begun earlier in the day. After a few minutes it became quite clear that I was the only one present who did not accept the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) to account for certain aspects of the UFO phenomenon.