“Best UFO Cases” by Isaac Koi
PART 5: Consensus lists : Jacques Vallee’s poll (1965)
As discussed earlier in this series of articles (see PART 1: Top 100 UFO Cases: Introduction and PART 2: Challenges to produce lists of top cases), various skeptics have complained that ufologists have failed to put forward their “best cases”, or to agree amongst themselves which cases are the “best”.
Those complaints have generally not been addressed, or apparently considered, in any depth by most ufologists. However, Brad Sparks has contended that the skeptics are simply wrong and contended that two such “consensus lists” exist.
The earlier of the two lists relied upon by Brad Sparks was published by Jacques Vallee in 1966 (discussed below) and the second is said by Brad Sparks to have been published by Ronald Story and Richard Greenwell in 1981 (this claim in addressed in the next part of this article - see PART 6: Consensus lists : Ronald Story’s poll (1979)).
This article looks into the first of those polls, i.e. the poll conducted by Jacques Vallee during 1965.