Back in the summer of 1996, Paul Marshall who was the drummer of 'Obssession' and a good friend of mine was living in New Zealand.

He had formed a new band called "Hangar 18". The name, famous in U.F.O. folklore, came from a 'supposed' hangar in Area 51 Nevada, U.S.A. where the government was alleged to hold a crashed U.F.O. and was attempting to learn from the technology since 1947.

On one of his visits back to the U.K, Paul had asked me if I could produce a small monthly "newsletter" based on U.F.O's that could accompany their fan newsletter "The Inquisitive Alien Club" that they distributed at their gigs and so 'GREY matter' was born.

Created from news sources obtained from internet news groups and magazines, I wrote articles, scanned in pictures and laid out the mag on an Amiga 1200 computer using a desktop publishing program called 'Pagestream 3' by softlogik. Keeping most of the news stories relevent to Australasia made 'GREY matter' feel more 'local' to the readers and it proved popular. It ran for 18 months before the band split up.

Hopefully I will be able to get the original files from my Amiga 1200 and post them here as hi resolution 'clean' images, but for now, I have scanned the archive copies I kept for your amusement.

Click the issue number below to see a scan of each edition.

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