Sex, Science and Salvation. Notes Towards a Revisionist History of Abductions – Part 3:

Peter Rogerson

Magonia 49, June 1994

In the autumn of 1966 the abduction narratives emerged from the cosy world of the ufologists with the almost simultaneous publication of the Hill story in the Saturday Evening Post and in book form as Interrupted Journey, and the publication of the Villas-Boas (ABV) story in Coral Lorenzen’s Startling Evidence. This was an update of her 1962 title, The Great Flying Saucer Hoax, aiming to cash in on the massive increase of interest in UFOs in mid-sixties America.

In Search of the Real UFOs

John Harney

Magonia 49, June 1994

At a very early stage in the investigation of UFO reports it became generally accepted that if a significant number of verified reports remained unexplained after exhaustive investigation then these UFOs must be interplanetary spacecraft. Some people argued that there were no really good cases and that the whole business was just a manifestation of human irrationality and gullibility. Students of the subject thus became divided into believers and sceptics.

Alienating Fancies: The Influencing Machine Fantasy. Part One

Martin Kottmeyer
Magonia 49, June 1994

Does free will exist? Is Man a meat puppet dangling on strings controlled by higher powers in the universe? Variations on these questions have fascinated thinkers throughout history. Arthur Koestler believed the dramatic motif of Volition against Fate and Puppet on Strings is one of the most powerful archetypes in literature and has appeared in countless forms. (1) Threats to individual or collective freedom arouse very primal human fears and can yield a drama of intense emotions when free will is affirmed.