Remembering a great UFO believer
By T.W. Paterson, Special to The Citizen
April 17, 2009
I'm forever amazed at what one can find by surfing the Internet. It can cut both ways, however. I'm often amazed (not to mention frustrated) when subjects that strike me as being obvious haven't caught the attention of those invisible, robotic search engines.
When a recent overhaul of my ever-growing library/archives turned up a copy of Canadian UFO Report, Volume 1, Number 1, it put me in mind of the late John Magor. Out of curiosity, I ran his name by Google (which wondered if I really didn't mean the British PM, John Magor?) and found several listings for his books.
The onetime publisher of the Cowichan Leader chose early retirement to take up the full-time journalistic investigation of UFOs in the late 1960s. (That's Unidentified Flying Objects -- Flying Saucers -- to the uninitiated.) John wrote three books: Aliens Above, Always; Our UFO Visitors and Pagans In My Blood, as well as publishing the short-lived magazine, UFO Report....
....John Magor introduced his new publication in January 1969 thus: "A list compiled by Brian Cannon, of Winnipeg, director of the Canadian Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, shows that in Europe and the Americas, without counting Asian countries, there are more than 100 organizations and periodicals devoted to the serious and single purpose of studying unidentified flying objects. If we add to these the countless individuals who are scientifically interested and the countless words given to the subject in public media, we begin to have some small idea of the impact of the UFO mystery..."...............
Complete article:
http://www.canada.com/Remembering%2Bgreat%2Bbeliever/1504331/story.html
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