And we also saw and heard many, deep into madness*,* alienated from so much stupidity*, that they believe and say that a certain country exists, named Magonia, from where, through the clouds, come boats...* Vallée served as the real-life model for Lacombe, the researcher portrayed by François Truffaut in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. [8] He also attempted to interest Spielberg in an alternative explanation for the phenomenon. In an interview on Conspire.com, Vallée said, "I argued with him that the subject was even more interesting if it wasn't extraterrestrials. If it was real, physical, but not ET. So he said, 'You're probably right, but that's not what the public is expecting— this is Hollywood and I want to give people something that's close to what they expect.'" [9] Filmography [ edit ] Estimates of Optical Power Output in Six Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity Characteristics." Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 12, no. 3 (1998) pp.345–358. ISSN 0892-3310. Vallée's opposition to the popular ETH was not well received by prominent U.S. ufologists, hence he was viewed as something of an outcast. Indeed, Vallée refers to himself as a " heretic among heretics". It would be tempting and reassuring to believe that these are purely psychological phenomena (hallucinations and the like), but the physical traces, radar data, and corroboration of independent witnesses rules this out.

Here’s the thing, bluntly : Vallée doesn’t give a damn about UFOs. He believes in psychism. He only uses UFOs as an ad for his religious supernatural beliefs. All these points are just tools to put the UFOs as secondary, as a justification for his other beliefs. Presented at the Eighth Annual Conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration, Boulder, Colorado, June 1989." Electronic Meetings: Technical Alternatives. Addison-Wesley Series on Decision Support. Addison-Wesley Publishing (July 1979). ISBN 0201034786. I shouldn’t need to write anymore after such a dishonest depiction of a source, but know that as an inspiration, Vallée quotes a XVIIth century author named Henri de Montfaucon de Villars :The Heart of the Internet: An Insider's View of the Origin and Promise of the On-line Revolution. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Pub. Co. (2003). ISBN 978-1571743695. Agobard's works were lost until 1605, when a manuscript was discovered in Lyon and published by Papirius Masson, and again by Baluze in 1666. For later editions see August Potthast, Bibliotheca Historica Medii Aevi. The life of Agobard in Ebert's Allgemeine Geschichte der Literatur des Mittelalters im Abendlande (1880), Band ii., is still the best one to consult. For further indications see A. Molinier, Sources de l'histoire de France, i. p.235. Yes. Those high schoolers did crop circles in one night using just wooden planks (sorry, it’s in french, i know)... Vallee presents a convincing and comprehensive survey of both fairy encounters and UFO reports, highlighting the similarities between them.

What happened? Do you suppose that ignorant age would so much as reason as to the nature of these marvellous spectacles? The people straightaway believed that sorcerers had taken possession of the Air for the purpose of raising tempest and bringing hail upon their crops. The learned theologians and jurists were soon of the same opinion as the masses. The Emperor believed it as well; and this ridiculous chimera went so far that the wise Charlemagne, and after him Louis the Debonair, imposed grievous penalties upon all these supposed Tyrants of the Air. You may see an account of this in the first ehapter of the Capitularies of these two Emperors. In conclusion, his own conclusion is a confused mix of fallacies : argument from ignorance, confusing correlation and causality. unexplained close encounters are far more numerous than required for any physical survey of the earth; a b c Tattoli, Chantel (February 18, 2022). "Jacques Vallée Still Doesn't Know What UFOs Are". Wired . Retrieved February 27, 2022. As well as the occult and esoteric I am very deeply interested in UFOs and alien beings. I don't post those books here because this isn't what this sub is about, but this particular book crosses over between all kinds of different subjects, UFOs included. Vallee's correlations between UFOs and folklore is just fascinating and this book is an absolute staple in the UFO community. Recommended reading.

A Century of UFO Landings (1868-1968)

Excerpted from wikipedia: Jacques Fabrice Vallée (born September 24, 1939 in Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France) is a venture capitalist, computer scientist, author, ufologist and former astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California. Vallée uses a story debunked in the very and only source by the very author of the source, using a parody he can’t even understand ! In 1979, Robert Emenegger and Alan Sandler updated their 1974 UFOs: Past, Present, and Future documentary with new 1979 footage narrated by Jacques Vallée. The updated version is entitled UFOs: It Has Begun.

The Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist. Berkeley: And/Or Press (1982). ISBN 0140071172. Vallée's ideas about Miracle at Fatima and Marian apparitions are that they are a class of UFO encounters. Vallée is one of the first people to speculate publicly about the possibility that the " solar dance" at Fatima was a UFO. Vallée has also speculated that UFO activity may have caused other religious apparitions, including Our Lady of Lourdes and the revelations of Joseph Smith. Vallée believes that religious experiences such as these should be studied outside of their religious contexts. [5] [6] [7] I have not written this book for such people, but for those few who have gone through all this and graduated to a higher, clearer level of perception of the total meaning of that tenuous dream that underlies the many nightmares of human history, for those who have recognized, within themselves and in others, the delicate levers of imagination and will not be afraid to experiment with them." Vallée is also an important figure in the study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), first noted for a defense of the scientific legitimacy of the extraterrestrial hypothesis and later for promoting the interdimensional hypothesis. The analysis of the way he reported the Magonia case should be enough to not even give attention to his knowledge of folklore but : not only folklore is by definition vague, varying, unreliable, what he does here is confusing correlation and causality :And among those, blinded by such a deep stupidity that they believed those things possible, we saw many in a certain assembly of men, show tied up four persons, three men and one woman, as if they fell from those famous boats.” of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars Passport to Magonia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds by Jacques F. Vallée Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth