''UFO Magazine'' was an American

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that was devoted to the subject of

unidentified flying object An unidentified flying object (UFO) is an object or phenomenon seen in the sky but not yet identified or explained. The term was coined when United States Air Force (USAF) investigations into flying saucers found too broad a range of shapes ...

s (UFOs), the

extraterrestrial hypothesis The extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH; ''synonymous with'' interplanetary aircraft ) proposes that some unidentified flying objects (UFOs) are best explained as being physical spacecraft occupied by intelligent extraterrestrial organisms ( non- ...

(ETH), as well as

paranormal Paranormal events are purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as being beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding. Not ...

and

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ean subjects in general.

History and profile

UFO Magazine (USA) was founded in 1986 by journalists Vicki Ecker and Sherie Stark, and its contents remained under their stewardship for over a decade with the help of Vicki Ecker's husband, Research Director Don Ecker. For several years after that, it was published by

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and edited by his wife, Nancy Hayfield Birnes. With the term "''UFO''" trademarked in 1998, ''UFO Magazine'' was initially published quarterly, then monthly, then bi-monthly, then erratically for several years. It was one of the few magazines in print primarily devoted to the UFO phenomenon, and the only one that remained in operation for more than a few years. ''UFO Magazine'' was published in the

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and had covered every major breaking UFO story from the disclosure that a

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spacecraft had encountered a UFO, to the

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astronauts' accounts of an alien presence on the

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, along with more widely publicized events such as the UFO encounter of a Japanese airliner and the controversial Roswell and

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UFO incidents. It featured columnists such as

Stanton T. Friedman Stanton Terry Friedman (July 29, 1934 – May 13, 2019) was an American–Canadian nuclear physicist and professional ufologist who was based in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Early life Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Friedman was rai ...

Nick Redfern Nicholas Redfern (born 1964) is a British author of books on unidentified flying objects, cryptozoology, conspiracy theories and similar subjects. Several of his books have been best-sellers. Redfern is an active advocate of official governm ...

, Larry Bryant,

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, Camille James Harman and Colin Bennett, and included writers such as Ann Druffel, Nigel Watson, and

Jaime Maussan José Jaime Maussan Flota (born 31 May 1953) is a Mexican journalist, television personality, and ufologist. He has promoted claims of supposed alien remains that have turned out to be hoaxes. Career Since 1970 he has been a reporter at vari ...

, among others. ''UFO Magazine'' broke the story of Lieutenant Colonel Philip J. Corso's revelations about his involvement in the research of extraterrestrial technology recovered from the 1947 Roswell UFO Incident. It also broke the story of Lieutenant Colonel Marion M. Magruder's handling of the Roswell crash debris and face-to-face meeting with the Roswell alien; as well as Colonel Jesse Marcel, Jr., M.D.'s story of the night his father brought the Roswell debris back to his home before taking it to the

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. There were a total of 158 issues. The final issue, Volume 24, No. 5, Issue #158, was published in early 2012.

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