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Fortean Times #380 (Jun 2019)

• Release date: 23 May 2019
• Cover price: £4.50
• Cover Photo: NASA
• Final Image Composition: Etienne Gilfillan
• All header icons throughout the magazine by Capucine Deslouis
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Contents

• 23 The Farfield phone mystery - solved?
• 24 Victorian moonscapes
• 34 Mooning the facts: Mysteries and myths of the Apollo missions
• 46 Freaks and fakes

Features

34 Mooning the Facts (cover story)
It's five decades since man first set foot on the Moon - yet rather than celebrate that unique historical achievement, some prefer to focus on astronaut anomalies, unexplained sightings, and imprecise images.Brian J Robb explores the myths and mysteries of the Apollo missions.

42 The Man from the Ministry
David Clarke spoke to fellow FT contributor Andrew May about his time as a scientific advisor for the MoD, and asked him about his run-ins with Top Secret projects, alien tech, Defence Intelligence spooks and the MoD's 'UAP project'.

46 Freaks and Fakes
Alexis Turner presents a taxidermist's eye view of the teratological landscape and explains how the origins of the modern museum can be found in 16th-century Cabinets of Curiosities.

Reports

24 Moonscapes - Lunar-inspired art goes on display David V Barrett

58 Building a Fortean Library - Marpingen The Hierophant's Apprentice

Forum

53 Dark side of the forced by Lisa Gledhill

54 Silver, epilepsy and the Moon by Mark Greener

56 Elements, oil and æther by Matt Salusbury

Strange Days

A digest of the worldwide weird, including: Somerset burping cult, haunted furniture, child-snatching panics and much more...

• 14 Science
• 16 Archæology
• 18 Ghostwatch
• 22 Alien Zoo
• 27 Mythconceptions
• 28 The UFO Files

Regulars

• 02 Editorial
• 61 Reviews
• 73 Letters
• 78 Reader Info
• 79 Phenomenomix
• 80 Strange Deaths

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