Official UFO Rides Again
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- Author
- KRandle
- Published
- December 18, 2025
Original excerpt
Back in the mid-1970s, there were a half dozen magazines devoted to UFOs and at their peak some had a publishing schedule of nine times a year, and others, six times but that was eventually reduced to quarterly. If you had contacts in the UFO community and could put a complete sentence together, you could supplement your income by writing for them. That many magazines publishing that
Key claims
- →In the mid-1970s, about half a dozen UFO magazines were published
- →Some of these magazines had schedules of up to nine issues per year
- →Publication frequency later fell to quarterly for some titles
Kevin Randle's piece recalls the mid-1970s boom in UFO magazines, when several titles published frequently and freelance writers with community contacts could earn income. The excerpt is a personal retrospective and does not report a new UFO event.
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