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Fortean Times #33 (Autumn 1980)

• Cover price: 95p $2.50
• 56 pages (60 w/covers)
• Cover art by William Rankin

UFO Abduction - Symbols & Psychology; Enfield Polt p10; New Nessie Photos p28

Articles

• 04 Stay, you Imperfect Speakers by Guy L Playfair
• 06 Abducted by an Archetype by Hilary Evans
  • The Problem
  • What would Charles Fort have done?
  • A clue
  • Four kinds of report
  • The significance of myth
  • Where reality starts and ends
  • Paradox to the rescue!
  • Conclusion
• 10 Ask Aristotle by Paul Sieveking
• 12 Gateways to Mystery, pt 3 by David Fideler & Bob Tarte
  • Some Archetypal Dminsions of the UFO Mythos
  • Perception, Projection, and the Paranormal
  • The Evolution of the Flying Saucer
  • A Mythopoeic Exit or Flying Saucer Symbolism Under-The-Eye
  • Acknowledgements: Jerry Clark, Loren Coleman, Anthony Nugent, Allen H. Greenfield and the entire FT staff.
• 18 Man Bites Man! by Paul Sieveking
  • Chicken Girls
  • Drought and Death
  • Fossil Footprints
  • Double Takes
  • Man Bites Man

Comix

• 11 Telly Kinex - JH Szostek
• 21 Phenomenomix - Hunt Emerson
• 53 Facts You Might Forget - Pokkettz

Columns

• 38 On the Trail by Loren Coleman
  • On the Trail of Giant Snakes
    • The Peninsula Python
    • Other American Monster Serpents
• 40 Tales From the Yellow Emporium by Steve Moore
• 42 Enigma Variations by Nigel Watson

Notes

• 22 Illnesses - Mass Hysteria by RJMR
  • The Hollinwell Incident
  • The Theories
  • Aftermath
  • Mass Hysteria
  • Reactions
  • Last Thoughts
  • Credits: Janet & Colin Bord, Keith Chapman, J Chetwynd, Peter Christie, Mark A Hall, Nick Malloret, Valerie Martin, Sam, PR Thomas, Andy Townsend, Ion Will
  • Other Relateable Incidents
  • Credits: Valerie Martin, Sam, PR Thomas, Andy Townsend, UFO Newsclipping Service, Ion Will, Mr X's Res Bureaux Bulletin
• 27 Strange Encounters - More C3Ks by PRAdeGS
  • Aliens in Russia
    • Filaments in the Firmament
    • Farmer Wolsky and the Green Men
    • The Abducted Vet and the Frayed Briefcase
    • Dwarf Aliens visit East Prussia
  • The Alien Formula for Giant Vegetables (Jose Carmen Garcia)
  • Strange Truck Journey in Virginia (Harry Turner)
  • Stood Up by the Jovians (Edilicio Barbosa)
  • Credits: Loren Coleman, Mark A Hall, David MacAdam, Sam, Ted Schultz, Dwight Whalen, Ion Will
• 28 Images - Simulacra by RJMR
  • The Crack of Doom
  • Men on the Moon
  • Credits: Chris J Holtzhausen, Sam, Nigel Watson
• 32 Trends - Lumps in our Data
  • Arrowing Experiences by RJMR - Michael Hoffman, Dwight Whalen, Ion Will
  • Grave Humour by PRAdeGS & RJMR - Mark A Hall, Chris J Holtzhausen, Peter Hope-Evans, Valerie Martin, Nigel Pennick, Ion Will
  • St Helens Revisited by RJMR - Sam, Paul Screeton
  • Religion Watch by RJMR - J Chetwynd, Mike Crowley, Mark A Hall, Peter James, Michael Hoffman, Peter Hope-Evans, Sam, Joe Swatek, R Watson, Dwight Whalen, Ion Will
    • Pious Fraud
    • Sacrilege I: Violence in the church
    • Sacrilege II: Blasphemy, Desecration etc.
    • Leaders and the Lost
• 36 Unidentified - Nessie Hunter + Pix by RJMR
  • Introducing Jeoff Watson
  • Loch Ness 3 Sept 1978
  • Falmouth Bay
  • Future Plans

Usual Stuff

• 01 Editorial by Bob Rickard
• 20 News
• 44 Reviews
• 54 Classified Exchange
• 57 Subscription info

Letters

• 02 Whale Tales (Whale Tumor/Urban Legend stories) - Colin Bord
• 02 Oahspe Tulpoids - Mrs Phyllis Hall
• 03 Time Slips? - Judith Gee
• 03 Nymph Away! - Alf Debnam
• 03 Bigbird Notes - Joseph Trainor
• 03 Fortean Art - Peter Horton
• 56 More on Manna - Nigel Pennick
• 56 Landscape Zoo - Graham McEwan

Masthead

• Editor - Robert JM Rickard
• Editorial Assistants - Steve Moore and Paul Sieveking
• Contributing Editor - David Fideler
• Art Director - Richard Adams
• Comix Editor and section heading artwork - Hunt Emerson

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