Obviously, and the author states this directly, all of this needs to be taken with a large grain of salt.

He presents the argument that many similarities can be drawn between the UFO phenomenon and stories of old from flying objects, similar entities, gases, food and interactions. Visitation by beings apparently from other dimensions, or perhaps just beyond the reach of our physical perception, are legion and as old as our existence on the planet.It is less often pointed out, however, that our age has generated, and continues to generate, mythical material almost unparalleled in quantity and quality in the rich records of human imagination. Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. Some of the standout examples for me are: Juan Diego's tilma and the sky anchor that was left behind in 1211 a.

The great number of them who were put to death by fire and water throughout the kingdom is incredible.In conclusion, his own conclusion is a confused mix of fallacies : argument from ignorance, confusing correlation and causality. Y en ese sentido es muy interesante, Vallée habla de los diversos folclores de varias culturas, con un cierto sesgo hacia los escoceses, irlandeses e ingleses, y te entretiene mucho con las míticas historias que cuenta en el libro, heck, hasta el relato de la virgen de guadalupe lo hace interesante y todo esto lo empieza a entremezclar con esos relatos de naves flotantes de tanto de siglos de ayer y hoy y te lo envuelve en un paquete bonito para decirte que siempre ha sido lo mismo.

Valle�� takes the reader through millennia of tales and one comes out the other end with the sense that reality might be a bit stranger than we’ve been lead to believe. Drawing no conclusions about the nature of all these sightings and experiences, Vallee proposes one theory that I find much more credible that the prospect of living beings travelling millions of light years through space in mechanical craft to reach us -- the demonic theory.Improved instrumental techniques, including isotopic analysis, applicable to the characterization of unusual materials with potential relevance to aerospace forensics," with Garry P. And for those who are interested in continuing the conversation, save yourself some time : you can keep to yourself your credentialism (“but he has a PhD and was in a Spielberg movie”, irrelevant to the fallacies, forgeries, bad reasoning he provided in the rest of his career), your concerns about age (“how dare you criticize an old man”, irrelevant. The second half of the book has hundreds of encounters between the mid 19th and mid 20th century to consider in light of the themes mentioned in the first half of the book.

In 1979, Robert Emenegger and Alan Sandler updated their 1974 UFOs: Past, Present, and Future documentary with new 1979 footage narrated by Jacques Vallée. It desperately needs an update- the material having been collected in the 1960s [published in 1967] and there are a few clangers in as a result such as mentioning Hill 60 Gallipoli incident where at the time it was a reported a regiment of British troops disappeared into a cloud that ascended into heaven.Despite a handful of PhDs who fall into the ‘ufologist’ bucket, and Avi Loeb’s latest project notwithstanding, I would say that ufology as a ‘scientific’ endeavor stubbornly refuses to achieve escape velocity from the orbit of folklore or religious studies.