The Unexplained: Mysteries of Mind Space and Time was a magazine series from 1980, published by Orbis. It was one of those things where they take a book, cut it up into 12 smaller pieces, and make you collect it each month and put it in a binder until it was complete. This probably cost twice as much as the book would have done in the first place.
This is the only copy of The Unexplained I have, annoyingly. Although, as this contains aliens, spaceships and the Loch Ness monster, I’m not really sure what else they could have had in the previous 11 issues. Crop circles I suppose, and maybe the Crabbus Man.
The best article in it is the one about close encounters with aliens, due to the illustrations.
I really want to meet an alien I think.
I found the magazine in a box full of my dad’s old physics magazines from the 70s in the loft. Inside it was a cutting from a Southend newspaper about UFOS. Although I’m not sure if he’d kept the cutting because of that or because of the beautiful lady on the other side.
I’m not sure which would be a worse and more guilty secret for a physicist - an obsession with UFOs orwith grubby Essex page 3 knock-offs. Or maybe he just really wanted a fur coat.
You can read the whole of this issue of The Unexplained below if you dare.
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