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EDITORIAL

IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO TODAY…

This issue marks another major milestone in the storied history of Fortean Times: exactly 50 years since the appearance of the very first issue of The News (as FT was known for its first 15 issues) in November 1973. We’re certainly delighted – and, we must say, rather surprised – to have come this far: 438 issues over half a century, and a gradual evolution from an occasional photocopied newsletter to a ‘proper’ newsstand magazine that appears every four weeks.

So, we look both backwards and forwards in this issue, remembering some past highlights and speculating about what the future holds. One obvious question, of course, concerns the current state of strange phenomena: has science solved the mysteries that exercised

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