One of the most quoted authors in the field of Ufology, Silicon Valley
entrepreneur Jacques F. Vallee discussed his work on UFO phenomena, as
well as his interest in remote viewing and parapsychology. Remote viewer
Paul H. Smith joined in during the conversation, noting that Vallee
will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Remote Viewing Conference in
Las Vegas.
Vallee, who distanced himself from ufology for a
number of years, said the study of UFOs became less focused on science
and more embroiled in a debate over belief systems. He spoke about first
witnessing a saucer-shaped craft in 1955, and his years working with
investigator J. Allen Hynek. Over time, Vallee began to doubt the
extraterrestrial hypothesis for UFOs. He looked at unusual sightings
dating back centuries, where such incidents were thought to be
associated with ghosts, demons or supernatural forces. The phenomena is
saying we don't understand space-time, and that our universe is a subset
of something else, he asserted.
Vallee discussed his
long-standing friendship with Ingo Swann (considered the father of
remote viewing) and their participation at SRI at the very beginning of
the RV program in 1971. Remote viewing's funding by intelligence
agencies such as the CIA has been both a blessing and a curse, said
Vallee. Mission-oriented projects were pushed forward before the science
was fine tuned, he explained.
Biography:
Dr. Jacques F.
Vallee was a senior researcher at the DARPA-funded Augmentation Research
Center at SRI at the very beginning of the RV program initiated by Dr.
Puthoff and Russell Targ in 1971. Given his long-standing interest in
consciousness research, he became informally associated with the program
and is credited by Ingo Swann for suggesting the approach that led to
the coordinate remote viewing protocol. In the mid-eighties, Dr. Vallee
was brought back to SRI as a consultant. He was cleared for Grill Flame,
went through formal training with Ingo Swann, and contributed to the
methodology research that Dr. Ed May later led at SAIC. His experience
spans the entire life of the program and gives him a special position as
an observer and commentator on the reality of remote viewing.
Dr.
Vallee also has long been interested in the UFO phenomenon and has
earned the reputation of being one of the most rigorous and credible
researchers in the field. He was the model for the French scientist
figure played by Francois Truffaut in Steven Speilberg's classic film
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
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.
In
mainstream science, Vallée is notable for co-developing the first
computerized mapping of Mars for NASA and for his work at SRI
International in creating ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet.
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.
In May 1955, Vallée first sighted an
unidentified flying object over his Pontoise home. Six years later in
1961, while working on the staff of the French Space Committee, Vallée
witnessed the destruction of the tracking tapes of an unknown object
orbiting the earth. The particular object was a retrograde satellite --
that is, a satellite orbiting the earth in the opposite direction to the
earth's rotation. At the time he observed this, there were no rockets
powerful enough to launch such a satellite, so the team was quite
excited as they assumed that the Earth's gravity had captured a natural
satellite (asteroid). A superior came and erased the tape. These events
contributed to Vallée's long-standing interest in the UFO phenomenon.
In
the mid-1960s, like many other UFO researchers, Vallée initially
attempted to validate the popular Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (or ETH).
Leading UFO researcher Jerome Clark[4] argues that Vallée's first two
UFO books were among the most scientifically sophisticated defenses of
the ETH ever mounted.
Vallée began exploring the commonalities
between UFOs, cults, religious movements, demons, angels, ghosts,
cryptid sightings, and psychic phenomena. Speculation about these
potential links were first detailed in Vallée's third UFO book, Passport
to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers.
As an alternative
to the extraterrestrial visitation hypothesis, Vallée has suggested a
multidimensional visitation hypothesis. This hypothesis represents an
extension of the ETH where the alleged extraterrestrials could be
potentially from anywhere. The entities could be multidimensional beyond
space-time, and thus could coexist with humans, yet remain undetected.