FT176
Fortean Times #176 (November 2003)
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- Release date: 20 Sep 2003
- Cover price: £3.20
- US Edition is dated December 2003 with a cover price of $7.25 USA (CAN $7.50)
- Cover: Corbis
Contents
- 40 Trots in Space! - Taking the Revolution off-world
- 20 The Saucer and the Stones - A UFO over Avebury?
- 54 United States of Amnesia - How the fourth estate handled the attacks
Features
32 JFK - Case Closed (Cover Story)
Forty years on, who really ordered the fatal shooting of the USA's 35th President? Robin Ramsay reveals all.
40 Trots in Space
The surprising tale of flying saucers on the left. Matt Salusbury looks at the Trotskyite leader who wanted to contact the aliens.
46 Notes from the Underground
Conspiracy theorists talk up their favourite plots amid the usual accusations. Kenn Thomas follows the paranoia trail round the convention circuit.
Forum
53 Temporal Tall Tales - Time travel hoaxes.
54 United States of Amnesia - 9/11: Unanswered questions and media silence.
56 Sink the Spook Ship! - How a US/Israeli incident nearly ignited WWIII.
Reports
38 Fortean Bureau of Investigation - No 54. The Cannock croc - Hot on the trail of the Cannock Crocodile.
76 Fortean Traveller - No 26. The Tattoo Festival at Wat Bang Phra, Thailand - Thailand's festival of magical tattoos.
Strange Days
Irish cat flap, Brazilian foam flood, auto-cannibalism, insects inside their insides, the luckiest men alive, death of killer catfish, monster sightings and much more...
- 05 Extra Extra
- 14 Science
- 16 Classical Corner
- 17 The Heirophant
- 17 Konspiracy Korner
- 18 For all the Saints
- 20 UFOlogy
- 22 Medical Bag
- 26 Alien Zoo
- 30 Mythconceptions
- 31 Strange Deaths
Regulars
Editorial
- 02 Parapolitics, paranoia and Posadistas
Subscriptions
- 52
Back Issues
- 27
Reviews
- 59 Books
- 64 Film & DVD
- 66 Games
Letters
- 71
Simulacra Corner
- 71
It Happened to Me
- 75
Competition
- 67
Comix
- 79 Phenomenomix
Tales from the Vault
- 80
Coming Next Month
- 30 years of Fortean Times - We celebrate three decades of high strangeness with a special birthday issue looking back at the weird and wonderful history of Fortean Times and featuring the very best from our 30-year archive of oddities.
- Fortean Times Issue 177 on sale 18 Oct 2003
Reader Info
- 51
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- Founding Editor - Paul Sieveking
- Art Director - Etienne Gilfillan
- Junior Sub Editor - Owen Whiteoak
- Picture Researcher - Winnie Liesenfeld
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- Contributing Editor - Ian Simmons
- Contributing Editor - Joe McNally
- Contributing Editor - Mark Pilkington
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