Jacques Vallée, UFOs, and the Case Against Aliens

For more than 20 years after the flying saucer frenzy of the late 1940s, the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) remained the default explanation for UFOs. Jacques Vallée, a French astronomer and ufologist, was the first to challenge the ETH, and he followed the UFO data towards some unorthodox and fascinating conclusions.

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Sources:

Jacques Vallée. Anatomy of a Phenomenon: Unidentified Objects in Space - a Scientific Appraisal Chicago: Henry Regency Company, 1965

Jacques Vallée and Janine Vallée. Flying Saucers: A Challenge to Science. New York: Ace Books, 1966.

Jacques Vallée. Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers. Chicago: Henry Regency Company, 1969.

Jacques Vallée. The Invisible College: What a Group of Scientists has discovered about UFO Influences on the Human Race. San Antonio: Anomalist Books, 2014 (1975).

Jacques Vallée. Messengers of Deception: UFO Contact and Cults. Berkeley: And/ Or Press, 1979.

Jacques Vallée and J. Allen Hynek. The Edge of Reality: A Progress Report on Unidentified Flying Objects.Chicago: Henry Regency Company, 1975.

Jacques Vallée. Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact. New York: Ballantine Books, 1988.

Jacques Vallée. Confrontations: A Scientists Search for Alien Contact. New York: Ballantine Book, 1990.

Jacques Vallée. Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception. New York: Ballantine Books, 1991.

Jacques Vallée. UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat. New York: Ballantine Books, 1992.

Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck. Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Anomalies from Antiquity to Modern Times. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/ Penguin, 2009.

[Psycat]

The whole aliens actually being from another dimension and changing their form through the years thing is blowing my mind right now. God, I love this channel.

[cleanriver]

Vallee is releasing a new book in May, 2021 called "The Best Kept Secret", focusing on recovered physical evidence.

[FilthyTheDog]

Coming to this comments section very late but as someone who has studied the phenomenon for decades, Vallée's theories are the key to what is actually going on here and should be seen as the way forward for contemporary UFO research. We are being played with. Great videos, by the way. I've been hooked for a while now.

[indridcold]

Some corrections and additions: the UFO that Vallee saw when he was 16, was also observed by a friend who lived 3 streets away. Vallee noticed it first and called his friend on the phone, who observed it later through a binocular. It was disc shaped with a dome on top.
The 'bright' object orbiting the earth, was not visually observed but by radar (so we are not sure they were bright), and also actually 3 objects were detected instead of one and were performing an oscillating, retrograde flight. Retrograde flight was impossible in the 60's to perform by any satellite.

[cartiermccloud]

"A good researcher should not be afraid to change his mind; he should not feel desperate because his comforting beliefs leave him as soon as he begins to think critically."

Jacques Valle - Passage to Magonia

[BGjigs]

Take it from a scholar who has actually read Vallee's books, this video is an outstanding encapsulation of his history & hypotheses. For those who think he did a disservice to ufology by abandoning the ETH, remember that he did so *because* he is a scientist. He went where the data led him. Misinformed armchair theorists like to say this places the phenomenon outside the reach of science, yet anyone taking the time to read his work knows this simply is not true. As Vallee clearly elucidates in "Confrontations, " many aspects of the phenomenon yield easily to scientific inquiry. In one particular case, he & the witness (who by sheer luck happened to be a physics professor) arrived at a minimal energy output of 500 megawatts for the object, placing it somewhere in the range of a small nuclear reactor. They were able to do this because its luminosity drowned out the witness' headlights (a known quantity) thereby allowing computations based on the auto's distance from the object, etc. Through such cases, and especially those w/ physical trace evidence, Vallee contends that not only can science be done, it's a rare & precious opportunity for "good science" to be practiced with the capacity for breaking new ground across several disciplines.

[blazinchalice]

You are putting a lot of effort into your videos, I am sure it will pay off! Well done.

[rickroscoe]

Passport to Magonia is one of the greatest books of all time. It addresses this phenomena in a way that is truly ingenious. It is best to consider his hypothesis with the work of Joseph Campbell who studied Mythologies of the world. As Carl Jung had called them, UFOs are the Earth's newest "modern mythology."

[onaughto]

Great stuff man. You have by far the best approach to this phenomena of any of the YT channels I've come across. Excellent work.

[tomhamilton]

This channel is a wonderful discovery for me. Very well put together videos and research into topics that require a steady hand to prevent going off the deep end. I think your tone is just right - grounded (as much as possible in these subjects) but with an honest open minded approach. Thank you and I look forward to more.

[brandonxpagano]

One of my favorite YT channels ever. Thanks for the videos!

[CYOND]

My favorite mysteries channel. I love your scientific approach to the subjects which is for some reason a rare thing among Youtube paranormal channels.
I hope you will keep making high quality, analytical and unbiased videos about the unknown.

[TheDude]

Man, this channel deserves more subs! I'm in and spreading the word!

[EQOAnostalgia]

Look up Griffis Airforce base. I grew up out there. Iv'e seen UFO's since i was a kid. I even used to draw sketches. In almost all cases there were jets that scrambled to intercept. That was the ONE component that told me the UFO's were likely not of human origin. The way they moved flew in the face of reason. It's hard to explain the feeling unless you've seen it, but its somewhere in the pit of your stomach, and it rises, and it's pretty scary for most people. It's a sudden realization that we are very vulnerable. It's not very pleasant at first, but it's very hard to get out of your head, and can easily become an obsession for many observers.

I could go on and on, about the size, shape, movements, how many, when and where, also the weather. I will say they seem to love thunder storms, at least out here in Central NY. Anyways, keep looking up people!

[dwightrush]

Excellent video, well thought out and very accurate, I have been following UFO research since I was a kid and Jaques Vallee's theories have always fascinated me. You have a new subscriber 👍😎

[j.d.waterhouse]

Our brain interprets what we are seeing, it doesn't simply show us the light entering our pupils. It forms an image based on previous experiences, using logical cues.

[ricardopenamcknight]

They're fucking with us. That's the conclusion I've drawn from watching this video.

[moepskie]

Awesome work as usual. Keep it up. I'm greatly appreciating the effort you put into your videos.

[wildman]

Great video, TA. I have been following Mr. Vallee and his research for many years, having read most of his books more than once. While you may not agree with all of his suppositions, he is one of the most thoughtful and critical thinkers in the field. I came across a 17-page PDF on the internet a few years back that is very interesting. From 2003, It's a paper he co-authored with Eric Davis, titled: Incommensurability, Orthodoxy and the Physics of High Strangeness: A 6-layer Model for Anomalous Phenomena -- Jacques F. Vallee and Eric W. Davis (*). I recommend it highly.

[TerryLightfoot]

Great video. From all that I've read, Mr Vallee is the researcher that, to me, makes the most sense out of the ufo strangeness and it's contradicting information.