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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/UFO_Magazine > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/UFO_Magazine.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_Magazine > Source revision: 1305111158 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American magazine dedicated to UFOs, extraterrestrials, and paranormal phenomenon}} {{about|the American magazine|the British magazine of the same title|UFO Magazine (UK)}}{{Sources exist|date=August 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox magazine | title = UFO Magazine | logo = | logo_size = | image_file = UFO Magazine 1 cover.jpg | image_size = | image_alt = | image_caption = Issue 1 | editor = | editor_title = | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = [unidentified flying object](/source/unidentified_flying_object)s (UFOs), the [extraterrestrial hypothesis](/source/extraterrestrial_hypothesis) (ETH), as well as [paranormal](/source/paranormal) and [Fort](/source/Charles_Fort)ean subjects in general | frequency = initially published quarterly, then monthly, then bi-monthly, then erratically for several years | format = | circulation = | publisher = | paid_circulation = | unpaid_circulation = | circulation_year = | total_circulation = | founder = Vicki Ecker and Sherie Stark | founded = 1986 | firstdate = | finaldate = | finalnumber = Volume 24, No. 5, Issue #158 (2012) | company = | country = USA | based = | language = English | website = {{URL|www.ufomag.com}} | issn = | eissn = | oclc = }} '''''UFO Magazine''''' was an American [magazine](/source/magazine) that was devoted to the subject of [unidentified flying object](/source/unidentified_flying_object)s (UFOs), the [extraterrestrial hypothesis](/source/extraterrestrial_hypothesis) (ETH), as well as [paranormal](/source/paranormal) and [Fort](/source/Charles_Fort)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 [Bill Birnes](/source/William_J._Birnes){{Cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology |publisher=[Gale Group](/source/Gale_Group) |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-8103-9488-9 |editor-last=Melton |editor-first=J. Gordon |editor-link=J. Gordon Melton |edition=5th |location=Detroit |page=1601–1602 |language=en |chapter=UFO Magazine}} and edited by his wife, [Nancy Hayfield Birnes](/source/Nancy_Hayfield). 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 [United States](/source/United_States) and had covered every major breaking UFO story from the disclosure that a [Soviet](/source/Soviet_Union) spacecraft had encountered a UFO, to the [Apollo](/source/Project_Apollo) astronauts' accounts of an [alien](/source/Alien_race) presence on the [Moon](/source/Moon), along with more widely publicized events such as the UFO encounter of a Japanese airliner and the controversial [Roswell](/source/Roswell_UFO_incident) and [Gulf Breeze](/source/Gulf_Breeze) UFO incidents. It featured columnists such as [Stanton T. Friedman](/source/Stanton_T._Friedman), [Nick Redfern](/source/Nick_Redfern), Larry Bryant, [George Noory](/source/George_Noory), Camille James Harman and Colin Bennett, and included writers such as Ann Druffel, Nigel Watson, and [Jaime Maussan](/source/Jaime_Maussan), among others. ''UFO Magazine'' broke the story of Lieutenant Colonel [Philip J. Corso](/source/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](/source/Marion_M._Magruder)'s handling of the [Roswell](/source/Roswell_UFO_incident) 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 [Roswell Army Air Field](/source/Roswell_Army_Air_Field). There were a total of 158 issues. The final issue, Volume 24, No. 5, Issue #158, was published in early 2012. It was described in [J. Gordon Melton](/source/J._Gordon_Melton)'s ''Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology'' as "the primary English-language UFO newsstand periodical" and noted they "were not above fabricating stories to fill space". It operated out of Los Angeles.{{Cite news |date=2000-10-08 |title=Son plans to post UFO memoirs online |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/florida-today-son-plans-to-post-ufo-memo/178561183/ |access-date=2025-08-10 |newspaper=Florida Today |location=Cocoa, Florida |page=42 |via=Newspapers.com}} ==See also== *[List of magazines of anomalous phenomena](/source/List_of_magazines_of_anomalous_phenomena) *[''UFO Magazine'' (UK)](/source/UFO_Magazine_(UK)) == References == {{reflist}} ==External links== *{{official website|http://www.ufomag.com/}} {{UFOs}} {{italic title}} Category:Science and technology magazines published in the United States Category:Bimonthly magazines published in the United States Category:Monthly magazines published in the United States Category:Quarterly magazines published in the United States Category:Magazines established in 1986 Category:Magazines disestablished in 2012 Category:Paranormal magazines Category:UFO-related literature Category:Defunct magazines published in the United States --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [UFO Magazine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_Magazine) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_Magazine?action=history)). 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