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Fortean Times founded as 'The News'

When: Nov 1973
Sources: 1 public source

The logo of Fortean Times, which began in 1973 as the newsletter The News TM/Diamond Publishing Ltd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Bob Rickard started a small newsletter called The News in November 1973 to continue Charles Fort's cataloging of odd events. Renamed Fortean Times in 1976, it became a long-running magazine covering UFO reports alongside other anomalies.

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OtherFortean Times (opens in a new tab)Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology (via Encyclopedia.com)

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