Crashed Cups. An Interim Response to Peter Brookesmith

David Sivier
Magonia 61, November 1997

In issues 54 and 56 of this magazine, the erudite Peter Brookesmith ran the first two of a three-part article entitled Communion Cups and Crashed Saucers. Therein, he attempted to locate the origin of the saucer mythos squarely within Western religious experience, particularly that of the ‘American Religion’. It was an impressive piece. Brookesmith is an elegant writer with a deep understanding of the scientific and religious issues. He applies Occam’s razor with almost surgical skill.

The Mystic and the Spy: Two Early British UFO Writers

Philip Taylor

Magonia 61, November 1997

Looking back over 50 years of the UFO phenomenon, it is easy to forget just how few books were written on the subject in the early years, compared with their almost daily publication now. The early Flying Saucer story unravelled almost entirely in the pages of newspapers and magazines in the USA and the UFO scholar has to search hard to find anything on library bookshelves that comes from the first 5 years of the 1947 era. UFO material from this period published outside the USA is even more elusive.

Getting It Right at East Gate

Jenny Randles

Magonia 61, November 1992

 

I first came across a young American called Larry Warren in the spring of 1983. He was 21 going on 22, living in New England and had just given a statement to authors Larry Fawcett and Barry Greenwood for their forthcoming book about American government UFO documents. This was to be published in 1984 as Clear Intent. Warren was alleging that he was an eyewitness to what are now the infamous Rendlesham Forest encounters from December 1980.