Jacques Vallée

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Jacques Vallée (right) with J. Allen Hynek

Jacques Fabrice Vallée (born September 24, 1939 in Pontoise ) is a French astronomer and computer scientist , best known for his contributions to ufology .

life and career

Vallée studied mathematics at the Sorbonne and graduated from the University of Lille with a master's degree in astrophysics . He then worked as an astronomer at the Paris Observatory , before moving to the United States moved, where he attended the at University of Texas Austin worked and at the MacDonald Observatory for NASA to Mars mapped.

In 1967 he received his PhD in computer science from Northwestern University . In the 1970s, Vallée worked on behalf of the National Science Foundation to develop computer networks , particularly with regard to the Arpanets .

Since the 1980s, he has been involved in setting up venture capital funds in the high-tech sector .

Jacques Vallée lives in San Francisco with his wife Janine . You have two children.

Ufology

His interest in UFOs arose in his youth when he spotted an unidentified flight object in his home country in 1955. In 1961, according to his statements, he witnessed at the Paris Observatory how tapes on which the trajectories of mysterious objects were recorded were destroyed.

At first he tended to the extraterrestrial hypothesis , i.e. the view that UFOs were spaceships of an extraterrestrial civilization . Towards the end of the 1960s, however, he came to the conclusion that many aspects of the UFO phenomenon could not be explained with it, and from then on he worked with hypotheses that classify it into the larger area of paranormal phenomena (e.g. with the interdimensional hypothesis of a non-human consciousness that is not bound to our spacetime structure).

In detail, he lists five arguments which, in his opinion, speak against the extraterrestrial hypothesis:

“(I) unexplained close encounters are far more numerous than would be necessary for a physical study of the earth; (Ii) the humanoid physique of the alleged “extraterrestrials” probably did not originate on another planet and is not biologically adapted for travel in space; (Iii) the behavior described in thousands of reports of abductions contradicts the hypothesis that an advanced race was conducting genetic or scientific experiments on humans; (IV) the existence of this phenomenon throughout recorded human history shows that UFOs are not a modern phenomenon; (V) the apparent ability of UFOs to manipulate space and time suggests completely different and much more interesting possibilities ... "

- Jacques Vallée : Revelations. P. 279 f.

Like his mentor J. Allen Hynek , a renowned American astronomer, Vallée is also concerned with the scientific classification of UFO sightings. He strongly criticizes both UFO believers and skeptics for the bias with which these two groups examine the evidence. He takes a similar stance towards conspiracy theories . Although he sees indications that secret services are manipulating the UFO scene, he firmly denies that this also proves “secret knowledge” at government level about the true origin of UFOs. Vallée is assigned to "Fortian Ufology" alongside John A. Keel because he, like Charles Fort in his collection of puzzling celestial phenomena at the beginning of the 20th century, takes the socio-cultural background of the phenomena seriously.

Vallée was the model for the character of the French scientist Claude Lacombe in Steven Spielberg's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind .

Publications

UFO research

  • Anatomy of a Phenomenon. Henry Regnery, Chicago 1965; Ballantine, 1974, ISBN 0-345-24287-4
  • with Janine Vallée: Les Phénomènes Insolites de l'Espace. La Table Ronde, Paris 1966
    • Challenge to Science. The UFO Enigma. Henry Regnery, Chicago 1966; Ballantine, 1974, ISBN 0-345-24263-7
  • Passport to Magonia. From Folklore to Flying Saucers. Henry Regnery, Chicago 1969; Contemporary, Chicago 1993, ISBN 0-8092-3796-2
  • The Invisible College. EP Dutton, New York 1975, ISBN 0-525-13470-0
  • with J. Allen Hynek : The Edge of Reality. A progress report on Unidentified Flying Objects. Henry Regnery, Chicago 1975
  • Messengers of Deception. UFO Contacts and Cults. And / Or, Berkeley 1979; Daily Grail, 2008, ISBN 0-9757200-4-X
  • Dimensions. A Casebook of Alien Contact. Contemporary, Chicago 1988; Anomalist Books, 2008, ISBN 1-933665-28-9
  • Confrontations. A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact Random House, New York 1990; Anomalist Books, 2008, ISBN 1-933665-29-7
  • Revelations. Alien Contact and Human Deception. Random House, New York 1991; Anomalist Books, 2008, ISBN 1-933665-30-0
  • UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union. A Cosmic Samizdat. Ballantine Books, New York 1992, ISBN 0-345-37396-0
  • Forbidden Science.
    • Journals 1957-69. North Atlantic, Berkeley 1992; Documatica Research LLC, 2008, ISBN 0-615-18724-2
    • Volume Two: Journals 1970-79. Documatica Research LLC, 2008, ISBN 0-615-24974-4
  • Estimates of Optical Power in Six Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity Characteristics. In: Journal of Scientific Exploration. Vol. 12, No. 3, autumn 1998, pp. 345–358 ( PDF; 1.23 MB )
  • Physical Analyzes in Ten Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Material Samples. In: Journal of Scientific Exploration. Vol. 12, No. 3, autumn 1998, pp. 359–375 ( PDF; 1.61 MB )
  • with Chris Aubeck: Wonders in the Sky. Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times. Jeremy P. Tarcher / Penguin, 2010, ISBN 978-1585428205

Other subjects

fiction

under the pseudonym Jérôme Sériel
  • Le Sub-Espace. Hachette, Paris 1961
  • Le Satellite Sombre. Denoël, Paris 1962
  • Stories in Fiction Magazine:
    • Les Calmars d'Andromède. No. 94, September 1961
    • L'Oeil du Sgal. No. 107, October 1962
    • Les Planètes d'Aval. No. 110, January 1963
    • Le Satellite Artificiel. Special No. 4, 1963
    • Le fabricant d'événements ineluctables. No. 145, December 1965 ( PDF )

literature

  • Colin Wilson : The Labyrinthine Pilgrimage of Jacques Vallee. In: Alien Dawn. An Investigation into the Contact Experience. Virgin Books, 1998, ISBN 1-85227-746-7 , pp. 83-117

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Differing page for Jacques F. Vallée and the Canadian astronomer Dr. Jacques P. Vallée ( Memento of January 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ See also Jacques F. Vallée: Five Arguments Against the Extraterrestrial Origin of Unidentified Flying Objects. In: Journal of Scientific Exploration. Vol. 4, No. 1, 1990, pp. 105–117 ( PDF; 1.12 MB ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jacquesvallee.net
  3. Jump up ↑ Jacques F. Vallée: A System of Classification and Reliability Indicators for the Analysis of the Behavior of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (PDF; 87 kB). 1990
  4. ↑ Ulrich Magin: Fortianische Ufologie ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: CENAP (Ed.): UFO reporting office - The download page. August 2, 2008 (PDF; 446 kB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / data5.blog.de
personal data
SURNAME Vallée, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vallée, Jacques F .; Vallée, Jacques Fabrice (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French astronomer, computer scientist and ufologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Pontoise