Magonia (magazine)
Magonia is a British magazine focused on the UFO phenomena. Its name comes from Passport to Magonia, a book by Ufologist Jacques Vallée—Vallée in turn had borrowed the term from a magical land described in French folktales.
The magazine also explores related areas of belief and unusual behaviour, focusing on the sociology and social history of UFO believers and other adherents to fringe belief systems. The writers, columnists, and editors of Magonia do not support the extraterrestrial hypothesis, which theorizes that UFOs are vehicles from an advanced extraterrestrial civilization. Instead, Magonia promotes the psychosocial hypothesis to explain UFO sightings and incidents. According to this theory, UFOs are not "real vehicles" in a physical sense, but can instead be explained as a product of psychological and/or social factors acting upon both individuals and large groups of people.
Contributors to Magonia have often been critical of ufologists (particularly American ufologists) who promote the extraterrestrial hypothesis. They have also criticized Jerome Clark, a prominent American Ufologist and historian, but have praised his work on several occasions
See also
- List of magazines of anomalous phenomena
External links
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