UFO Magazine is an American magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 that is devoted to the subject of unidentified flying object

Unidentified flying object

A term originally coined by the military, an unidentified flying object is an unusual apparent anomaly in the sky that is not readily identifiable to the observer as any known object...

s (UFOs) and the extraterrestrial hypothesis

Extraterrestrial hypothesis

The extraterrestrial hypothesis is the hypothesis that some unidentified flying objects are best explained as being extraterrestrial life or non-human aliens from other planets occupying physical spacecraft visiting Earth.-Etymology:...

 (ETH). It was founded in 1986 by Vicki Ecker and Sherie Stark, and is now published by Bill Birnes and edited by his wife Nancy Hayfield Birnes

Nancy Hayfield

Nancy Hayfield is an author, editor, and publisher. In 1979, she graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University. Nancy Hayfield's first novel, Cleaning House was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1980. In 1985, writing under her married name of Nancy Birnes, Ms. Hayfield published...

. It is one of the few magazines in print devoted exclusively to UFO phenomena.

With the term UFO trademarked in 1998, UFO, the Magazine is published bi-monthly in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 and has covered every major breaking UFO story from the disclosure that a Soviet spacecraft had encountered a UFO to the Apollo

Project Apollo

The Apollo program was the spaceflight effort carried out by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration , that landed the first humans on Earth's Moon. Conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after President John F...

 astronauts' accounts of an alien presence on the moon

Moon

The Moon is Earth's only known natural satellite,There are a number of near-Earth asteroids including 3753 Cruithne that are co-orbital with Earth: their orbits bring them close to Earth for periods of time but then alter in the long term . These are quasi-satellites and not true moons. For more...

. Featuring columnists such as Stanton Friedman, Nick Redfern

Nick Redfern

Nicholas "Nick" Redfern born 1964 in Pelsall, Walsall, Staffordshire is a British best-selling author, Ufologist and Cryptozoologist now living in Dallas, Texas, U.S.....

, Larry Bryant, George Noory

George Noory

George Ralph Noory is a Lebanese-American radio talk show host.As of 2010, he is the weekday host of the late-night radio talk show Coast to Coast AM. He is heard across the United States and Canada on many AM and FM stations as well as on XM Satellite Radio. His show is one of the most listened...

, and Colin Bennett and including writers such as Ann Druffel, Nigel Watson and Jaime Maussan

Jaime Maussan

José Jaime Maussan Flota is a Mexican journalist and Mexico's leading ufologist.- Career :Jaime Maussan studied journalism at the UNAM and the Miami University in Ohio, United States....

, UFO Magazine was the first publication to break the story of Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso

Philip J. Corso

Philip J. Corso was an American Army officer.He served in the United States Army from February 23, 1942, to March 1, 1963, and earned the rank of Lieutenant Colonel....

's revelations. It has also broken the story of Lt. Col. Marion Magruder's handling of the Roswell

Roswell UFO incident

The Roswell UFO Incident was the recovery of an object that crashed in the general vicinity of Roswell, New Mexico, in June or July 1947, allegedly an extra-terrestrial spacecraft and its alien occupants. Since the late 1970s the incident has been the subject of intense controversy and of...

 crash debris and face-to-face meeting with the Roswell alien as well as Jesse Marcel, Jr.'s story of the night his father brought the Roswell debris back to his home before taking it to the Roswell Army Air Field.

See also

• List of magazines of anomalous phenomena
• UFO Magazine (UK)
  UFO Magazine (UK)
  UFO Magazine was a British magazine devoted to the subject of unidentified flying objects and extraterrestrial life. It was founded in 1981 by brothers Graham and Mark Birdsall of Leeds, Yorkshire. The magazine was one of the success stories of ufology, with an international reputation for quality...