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From Pat Deveney's database:
Magonia.
Other titles: Magonia Review
1968—2009 Quarterly
New Malden, Surrey, United Kingdom.
Editor: John Rimmer.
Succeeds: Merseyside UFO Bulletin (MUFOB)
1, 1968 (as MUFOB); then no. 1, 1969-no. 99, April 2009.
£1.75/$5.00 a year 30-32 pp. The journal began as a typewritten and mimeographed effort and continued until 2024 as an online journal mainly devoted to book reviews after the print edition ceased in 2009. The title of the journal was taken from Jacques Vallee's Passport to Magonia (1969) which led the attempt to move the UFO discussion away from simple physical explanations and towards a more social and folkloric view of UFOs as yet another example of the mysterious and unexplained. The journal sought to encompass all Fortean, weird and unexplained topics like UFOs, occultism, ouija boards, hypnotic regression, pagan mysteries, glossolalia, alien abductions and supernatural assaults, folklore, the plurality of worlds, Men in Black, corn circles, Utopian schemes, etc., and to treat them as cultural phenomena and examples of genuine human experience rather than as objects of blind belief. "Magonia," first noted by Agobard, a ninth-century bishop of Lyon, is the mysterious land beyond the clouds whence came "aerial sailors" who carry off the corn beaten from the stalks by terrible storms caused by Storm Wizards. Unlike many journals devoted to the UFO phenomenon, this journal had a strong sense of humor and a keen sense of the ridiculous.
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