Jacques Vallée

“the theories of Jacques Vallee, the famous researcher, astronomer, and computer scientist”

“the French scientist Jacques Vallée, who had US government clearances related to the investigation of UAP.”

“As a young researcher, Vallée worked with and organized the papers of Dr. Hynek of the Air Force’s Project Blue Book.”

“We had correspondents such as Jacques Vallée and many other leading ufologists who supplied material for the magazine.”

“Many astronomers must have known what I knew from my days at Paris Observatory, namely that we were tracking unidentified objects, and even photographing them. There were films, too.”

“In 1964 I had established that landings tended to occur in desolate places, a fact that was first apparent in the computer analysis of French cases.”

“Allen Hynek and I later verified it, using Air Force data.”

“Dr. Hynek and I traveled to Boulder to brief the Condon group.”

“the bulk of the information was provided by the three thousand punched cards I had turned over to the committee.”

“the team split into two violently opposed factions.”

“An early internal memorandum was discovered and published by the minority group as evidence that the Condon Committee had never intended to look seriously into the UFO problem.”

“Publication of this document so outraged Condon that he fired the minority group and ran the project without serious consideration of the possible reality of the phenomenon.”

“I apply the expression "first coverup" to the efforts that are made by men in a position of authority to discourage the reporting of a UFO incident. This can range from the laughter of a local deputy sheriff to intimidation of pilots by their commanding officer.”

“This is what I call the Second Coverup: the release of official "explanations" that do not explain anything but which provide skeptics with an excuse for dismissing the story.”

“The very fact that a new study was recommended seems to show that any suppression of information or any leaking of wild rumors was not the result of a secret military policy on the UFO subject or the work of a sinister "Silence Group" but more likely a product of the confusion that was evident at all levels of the bureaucracy.”

“My wife and I investigated this sighting during a research trip through the west of France in December 1973.”

“She went to Carteret less than ten days after the occurrence and spoke to one of the witnesses and to the police investigators while I was checking other information.”

“There is a large radar installation near Cherbourg, at a place called Mauperthuis, located thirty-eight kilometers away from Carteret. The range of the antenna is two hundred kilometers.”

“At 6:10 A.M. on that particular morning it picked up an echo in the southwest, moving to the north of Cherbourg. An object flying from the direction of Carteret toward Great Britain would have followed this course.”

“the military radar operators in Cherbourg have received orders to deny their statements of the night in question”

“in view of the frequently observed magnetic perturbations in the vicinity of a UFO, it can be hypothesized that its magnetic navigation system gave erroneous indications.”

“In March, 1974, the French Minister of Defense, Mr. Robert Galley, agreed to participate in a series of radio interviews that included reports from witnesses and statements by three French scientists who had studied the UFO phenomenon for many years: Dr. Pierre Guerin, of the Paris Astrophysical Institute; Dr. Claude Poher (head of scientific studies for the French equivalent of NASA); and myself.”

“THE LORD IS AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL WHO HAS RETURNED IN A FLYING SAUCER. Order of Melchizedek, rue Jules Valles Paris XI”

“1 apologized for the unusual hour of my visit but she stopped me: "Do not worry, you have come at the appointed time."”

“My wife, Janine, and I went there and paid our three dollars each.”

“A catalogue of contactee themes, compiled from interviews I have conducted, includes the following.”

“Sometimes in my observations of these groups I have run into the same people, equally blissful under the influence of Sri Chinmoy, of Reverend Moon, and of Werner Erhard.”

“The similarities of this old esoteric fraternity to some of the modern UFO contactee groups are quite obvious... The H.I.M. sect, for instance, speaks of regeneration, transformation, and contact with a higher level in the same terms as Hiram Butler”

“It is not difficult to imagine a combination of economic and social circumstances under which contactee groups could capitalize on the public’s fear.”

“He talks about how if suddenly there was a mass appearance of UFOs in the world... those cults could suddenly blossom whilst trust in the government collapses. And that's one of the fears that he's got.”

“He was a friend of Andrija Puharich, was deeply involved in the Uri Geller affair, and claimed to be psychic himself. Not only was he psychic, but he had had a number of UFO encounters”

“In some cases all three factors are gathered around a single person, and then the complexity of the research becomes truly fantastic. Uri Geller, of course, is a case in point.”

“He's talking with Vallee about, what if it's possible that people created flying saucers during the war? And he points to 1943 and he says, you know, what if someone was experimenting with this technology? It turns out its real advantage wasn't its flight capabilities, but its psychotronic effect.”

“We were all well acquainted with the theories of Jacques Vallee, the famous researcher, astronomer, and computer scientist. Vallee's approach addressed three aspects: the physical aspect, which Tyler represented; the testimonial aspect, represented by experiencers; and the social aspect, how belief in the phenomenon persists regardless of whether there is any verifiable evidence to support it.”

“James, like me, counted Vallee as one of his major influences and mentors...Jacques and James formed an instant bond.”

““Jacques has achieved his status precisely because he has never concluded the phenomenon is anything specific.””

“In fact, Jacques has infuriated most ufologists because he won’t fall in line. All Jacques has ever claimed is that the phenomenon seems infinitely variable.”

“Jacques, one of the first truly innovative thinkers on the subject, suggests that the UFO might not be an object, but some kind of “window” into another dimension.”

“Instead, he suggests an analysis based on social effects, identifying both apparitions and UFOs as manifestations of a single control mechanism that works like a schedule of reinforcement.”

“Jacques is not claiming that the apparitions are UFO events or, conversely, that modern UFO events are apparitions. He ceases to define what they are, and instead breaks them down into their constitutive parts, noting their patterns, which he then graphs. He places these data points side by side in a table that he calls a "Morphology of Miracles."”

“that the entire sequence of observations of an entity thought to be the Holy Virgin had begun two years previously with a fairly classical sequence of UFO sightings.”

“He refuses to believe or disbelieve, for example, that Betty and Barney Hill received messages from extraterrestrials from the star system of Zeta Reticuli, which is what they claimed. He does not, however, dismiss the experiences as not having been real.”

“He was steeped in information studies, computer science, and studies of remote viewing and telepathy.”

“His work on ARPANET, the prototype of the internet, occurred within the rich, mind-bending environment of Silicon Valley in the 1970s.”

“The French scientist and accomplished researcher Jacques Vallée had also independently verified the happenings.”

“Will flew to California with a small team that included Colm Kelleher, a biochemist who was the deputy administrator for BAASS during AAWSAP, and the French scientist Jacques Vallée, who had US government clearances related to the investigation of UAP.”

“Vallée had obtained materials recovered from this incident.”

“He suspected the multicolored lights seen in the sky by witnesses came from a wobbling craft in distress.”

“Nolan and Vallée had explored the composition of the 1977 Iowa molten metal aggregate and had uncovered another mystery for us to solve.”

“he 260,000 cases, like I said, the Capella database that he made and the levels of analysis that he did”

“This is Jacques Vallée, Eric Davis, Hal Puthoff, all the same people.”

“these conversations really were going on, which was then further validated by Jacques Vallée ... You read his journals, it absolutely did happen.”

“Vallee, who is, I think generally quite skeptical about, you know, the modern disclosure movement”