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Jacques Vallee

Brief comments to be added on this individual.

 

 

 

 

 

Books by this person include:

YEAR

 

BOOK

1965

Vallee, JacquesAnatomy of a Phenomenon: UFOs in Space” (1965) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

1966

Vallee, Jacques and Vallee, Janine “Challenge to Science – The UFO Enigma” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

1970

Vallee, JacquesPassport to Magonia” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

1975

Vallee, JacquesThe Invisible College” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

1975

Vallee, JacquesUFOs : The Psychic Solution” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (Formerly "The Invisible College")

1975

Hynek, J Allen and Vallee, JacquesThe Edge of Reality” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

1979

Vallee, JacquesMessengers of Deception” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

1988

Vallee, JacquesDimensions” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

1990

Vallee, JacquesConfrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

1991

Vallee, JacquesRevelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

1992

Vallee, JacquesForbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

1992

Vallee, JacquesUFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

2006

Vallee, JacquesForbidden Science : Volume 2 (Journals 1970-1979)” (2008) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK)

 

As noted in Part 3 of Isaac Koi’s “Best UFO Cases” article (i.e. in the Part entitled “Existing lists by various individuals”), Jacques Vallee has referred to the data of “our circumspect ‘Invisible College’ (a network of scientists who are privately investigating the mystery)” as being “probably the most detailed and best-investigated set of UFO cases ever selected”. Unfortunately, he failed to indicate the relevant selection of cases (see Footnote 3.50).

In another of his books, Jacques Vallee indicated that he considered that “The Valensole case is the best-authenticated close encounter incident in continental Europe” (see Footnote 3.51 and Case 22 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article).

It may be possible to draw inferences as to Jacques Vallee’s views on the “best” cases from some comments he made in a yet further book. He has complained that many ufologists confuse “the most publicized cases” with “the most convincing”. In particular, he has complained that the following cases “seem to be totally unknown” (see Footnote 3.52, and see also the discussion in Part 5 of this article), possibly indicating that he considered that these cases are among the most convincing:

(1) the Kelly landing,
(2) the Bismarck case,
(3) the Walesville incident (Case 92 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article),
(4) the Loch Raven Dam (Case 100 in Isaac Koi's “Top 100” article). 

 

 

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

There is a rapid turnover of UFO material on the Internet. Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date. Therefore, instead of giving many links to specific webpages I have instead included below a search box which can be used to search various leading UFO websites at the same time. You can then click on tabs at the top of the search results to list only results from forums, only results from websites I have labelled as "skeptical" etc. I have included tabs for a couple of specific websites that I find particularly useful, including the valuable archives of the UFO UpDates email discussion List. The relevant websites are all listed in the discussion of the "UFO Searchillion" search engine in Section 2.4 of the "Free UFO Researcher Starter Pack" and continues to evolve...

 

The relevant search box is one of the two main tools on this website which are intended to help reduce the amount of reinvention of the wheel within UFOlogy. The other main tool is the collection of tables of references to discussion of UFO incidents, personalities and other matters in various books. Those tables can be sorted by author, length and date. I hope these tools are useful.

 

 

 

Book References

The table below includes references to relevant discussions in UFO/SETI books noted by Isaac Koi during a review of approximately 963 UFO/SETI books during the period 2003-2006 (with a few later additions). The table can be sorted by author, date and length of discussion by clicking on the relevant word in the top line of the table.

Many of the tables of references on this website are considerably longer than the references to books found on most other UFO websites. Indeed, some are probably the longest that have been collated in relation to some events and personalities. Together with the "UFO Searchillion" search box, I hope that these tables are found to be a useful contribution to UFOlogy.

For discussion of Vallee see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1999

Achenbach, Joel in his “Captured by Aliens” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 390 (in the Notes) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition.

1

1993

Andrews, George C in his “Extra-Terrestrial Friends and Foes” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 36 (in Chapter 1) of the Illuminet Press softcover edition.

1

1999

Baker, Alan in his “The Encyclopaedia of Alien Encounters” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 249 (in an entry entitled “Vallee, Dr Jacques Francis”) of the Virgin hardback edition.

1

1995

Berliner, Don with Marie Galbraith and Antonio Hunees in their “UFO Briefing Document : The Best Available Evidence“ (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 198-199 (Part 3:Quotations, section entitled “Scientists”) of the Dell paperback edition.

2

1995

Bryan, C D B in his “Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at MIT” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 423-424 (in Chapter 20) of the Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Knopf hardback edition and the Penguin Arkana softcover edition) at pages 571-573 of the Orion paperback edition.

2

1990

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 1 – UFOs in the 1980s” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 213-214 (in an entry entitled “Vallee, Jacques Francis (1939- )”) of the Apogee hardback edition.

2

1996

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 3 – High Strangeness” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 374-378 (in an entry entitled “Paranormal and Occult Theories about UFOs”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

5

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) in Volume 2:L-Z at pages 968-971 (in an article entitled “Vallee, Jacques Francis (1939- )”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

4

1998

Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning - 2nd edition” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) in Volume 2:L-Z at pages 702-703 (forming part of the entry entitled “Paranormal and Occult Theories about UFOs” at pages 696-713) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition.

2

1989

Conroy, Ed in his “Report on Communion” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 169 (in Chapter 4) of the Avon paperback edition.

1

2003

Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “Vallee, Jacques F. (1939- )”. The relevant entry is available online at: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/V/Vallee.html

1

2001

Denzler, Brenda in her “The Lure of the Edge” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 116-118 (in Chapter 4) of the California hardback edition.

3

1998

Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 149-150 (in Chapter 5) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

2

1996

Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 287-288 (in Chapter 6) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

2

2003

Druffel, Ann in her “Firestorm : Dr James E McDonald's Fight for UFO Science” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 74-75, 76 (in Chapter 4), 141-142, 147-148 (in Chapter 7), 161-162 (in Chapter 8) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition.

9

1997

Emmons, Charles F in his “At The Threshold: UFOs, Science and the New Age” (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 94-95 (in Chapter 5) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition.

2

1983

Evans, Hilary in his “The Evidence for UFOs” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 145-146 (in Chapter 7) of the Aquarian softcover edition.

2

1997

Kanon, Gregory M in his “The Great UFO Hoax” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 6-8 (in Chapter 1) of the Galde Press softcover edition.

3

2000

Koerner, David & LeVay, Simon in their “Here Be Dragons” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 189 (in Chapter 8) of the Oxford softcover edition.

1

2001

Kottmeyer, Martin S in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 362-363 (in an entry entitled “Mind Control By Aliens”), 589-590 (in an entry entitled “threat, UFO-ET”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 353-354, 577 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

4

2001

Kottmeyer, Martin S in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 438-440 (in an entry entitled “Mind Control By Aliens”), 706 (in an entry entitled “threat, UFO-ET”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

4

1969

Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in their “UFOs: The Whole Story” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 128-129 (in Chapter 5) of the Signet paperback edition.

2

1998

Matheson, Terry in his “Alien Abductions : Creating a Modern Phenomenon” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 279-280 of the Prometheus hardback edition.

 

1990

Mauge, Claude and Clark, Jerome in Jerome Clark’s “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 1 – UFOs in the 1980s” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 113 (in an entry entitled “French Ufology”) of the Apogee hardback edition.

1

1977

Peters, Ted in his “UFOs-God's Chariots?: Flying Saucers in Politics, Science & Religion” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 73 (in Chapter 4) of the John Knox hardback edition.

1

1996

Pope, Nick in his “Open Skies, Closed Minds” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 57 (in Chapter 3) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition, with the same page numbering in the Pocket Books paperback edition.

1

1999

Randles, Jenny in her “The Complete Book of Aliens and Abductions” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) a page 178 (in Part 5) of the Piatkus hardback edition.

1

1981

Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Study” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 223-224 (in Chapter 18) of the Hale hardback edition.

2

1984

Rimmer, John in his “The Evidence for Alien Abductions” (1984) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 120 (in Chapter 5) of the Aquarian softcover edition.

1

1994

Ritchie, David in his “UFO : The Definitive Guide” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 223 (in an entry entitled “Vallee, Jacques, French-born American astronomer and UFO investigator (1939- )”) of the MJF hardback edition.

1

1996

Rux, Bruce in his “Architects of the Underworld” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 52-54 (in Chapter 2) of the Frog softcover edition.

3

1997

Rux, Bruce in his “Hollywood Vs. the Aliens” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 19 (in the Introduction) of the Frog softcover edition.

1

1980

Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 351-352 (in an entry entitled “Vallee, Jacques F.”) of the Corgi softback edition.

2

1997

Sagan, Carl in his “The Demon Haunted World” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 122 (in Chapter 7) of the Headline softcover edition.

1

1968

Saunders, David R and Harkins, R Roger in their “UFOs? Yes!” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 60-61 (in Chapter 5) of the Signet paperback edition.

2

1997

Schnabel, Jim in his “Remote Viewers : The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 255 (in Chapter 16) of the Dell paperback edition.

1

2005

Smith, Paul in his “Reading the Enemy’s Mind” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 72 of the Forge hardback edition.

1

2001

Story, Ronald in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 627-628 (in an entry entitled “Vallee, F Jacques”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at pages 614-615 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition).

2

1980

Story, Ronald in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 377-378 (in an entry entitled “Vallee, Jacques”) of the NEL hardback edition.

2

2001

Story, Ronald in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 753-754 (in an entry entitled “Vallee, F Jacques”) of the Robinson softcover edition.

2

1991

Thompson, Keith in his “Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 117-119 (in Chapter 10) of the Fawcett softcover edition.

3

1992

Turner, Karla in her “Into the Fringe” (1992) at pages 21-22 (in Chapter 2) of the Berkley paperback edition.

2

1987

Westrum, Ron in “UFO: 1947-1987” (1987) (edited by Hilary Evans with John Spencer) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 325 of the Fortean Tomes softcover edition (in Chapter 5.2, entitled “UFOs and Scientists”).

1

1998

Wilson, Colin in his “Alien Dawn” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 105-109, 113-142 (in Chapter 4) of the Virgin softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Virgin paperback edition).

35

1998

Wright, Susan in her “UFO Headquarters” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 199-200 (in Chapter 10) of the St Martin’s Press softcover edition.

2

 

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