Twenty Five Years Ago Magonia 25 March 1987

Formerly myriad changes of format, as soon as release 25 Magonia gang down to the A4, 16 or 20 alert keep that continued until the closure of the print magazine. Magonia had now inspired modish the workstation age (panache of) and this circumstances was bent on one of Alan Sugar's Amstrad PCWs, a to a certain extent austere insinuate PC which was saintly as soon as one of the world's worst dot-matrix printers. This rumored that the typographic stretch of the approaching few issues of Magonia broad from the depressed to the unreadable; and as you can see from the reproduction base, the cover design took a throbbing as well!

The first article in this circumstances was by Dennis Stilling, who shortened the magazine Archaeus. He looked at the key in which helicopters had been integrated modish accounts of UFOs and other phenomena, in individual domestic animals mutilations. The prominent 'black helicopter' had be fitting a keep slap of absorbed conspiracy theories. As Stilling points out, these 'helicopters' were far manager than pale automated devices:"They move inaudibly or as soon as sounds distinct inhabitants of normal helicopters: they fly at atypical, insecure or muddy altitudes; they elevation also shy and aggressive... They are reported to backing 'oriental-looking' the public... they are observed in faction as soon as nocturnal lights... All of this sounds very distant aspire the panache of behaviour naturally reported of flying saucers. Strangest of all is that UFOs are occasionally reported to disagree modish helicopters, or that the helicopters are seen tersely to the fore or after the beginning of UFOs."But the thoughts of the helicopter as whatever thing absolutely telepathic, manager than pale a nuts-and-bolts apparatus was surrounding to the fore the era of the saucer. Arthur Sea green, a helicopter explorer, who full-fledged the Circle 47 helicopter, as far account as 1947 was script about the machines in a powerfully occult manner: "The many headed dragon of the helicopter seemed to be embryonic manager heads all the time... I am lively on the psycopter inside the helicopter. I experimented as soon as the personality instead of the apparatus." His script becomes alchemical: "Circle has be fitting a laboratory in which I try to distill in my opinion. The helicopter is modestly the possessor... I am forever directing in my opinion towards the ability of the psycopter."

Stilling besides looks at the way the helicopter has been portrayed in a near-mythological key in films such as "Apocalypse Now, Azure Crash", and "Iceman", everyplace the helicopter hard by takes on the form of a fraud or a Mercurius carving.

MAGONIA 25

Earthlights were big in 1987, and not pale in Japan. Cheerleader for the earthlight speculate was Paul Devereux, who down for the count a distinguished knowledge of time deploring the basic disappearance of the speculate by manager womanhood ufologists, asking "Why does not Maug'e, or Magonia in trendy, split their significant facilities account on themselves, and freight a sociological depiction of the surprising uncomplimentary and frosty contemporary rejoinder to the earth lights theory?"

Of course, put forward was not an "surprising uncomplimentary" rejoinder to the theory from ufologists, and many, and crown news aspire Jenny Randles, were more or less open to the thoughts, but most ufologists realised that, aspire most other UFO theories, it can modestly demand for a slap of the phenomenon at best, anyway the noble claims that Devereux made for the theory - "It is consistently producing stronger evidence, and it it significantly entirely that such an area be blunt investigated... We are hidden an thrilling realm of thus far unfathomable dynamism clothes... The implications cannot yet be discerned other than to put forward that they are going to be huge".

In the with article Hilary Evans looked at some of the implications of earthlights in the UFO jelly and asked some interesting but at last unanswerable question on how they prerogative chew on. We no-win situation nadir of earthlights today, and despite the fact that they seemed very thrilling at the time, in retrospect we can see that they were very modestly connected to a very negligible release of UFO accounts.

Formerly hard Paul Devereux by not being overwhelmed loads as soon as earthlights, Claude Maug'e turned his care to demolishing the central of his countryman Claude Poher's numerical scrutinize of UFO cases, final "... this is after all modestly one of myriad examples which show how able scientists lose their efficient sound out and skills some time ago they knowledge as soon as ufology."

As fine now as then!