With the recent cultural spotlight on unidentified phenomena and the government’s alleged covering up this seemed like a perfect time to read deeper into UFOs beyond my childhood fascination with aliens. Given that I haven’t heard any followup from the congressional hearing (not that I am seeking it out) I’m assuming nothing came of it.

Electronic Meetings: Technical Alternatives. Addison-Wesley Series on Decision Support. Addison-Wesley Publishing (July 1979). ISBN 0201034786. Let us come to the point now. It would be nice to hold on to the common belief that the UFOs are craft from a superior space-civilization, because this is a hypothesis science fiction has made widely acceptable, and because we are not altogether unprepared, scientifically and even, perhaps, militarily, to deal with such visitors. Unfortunately, however, the theory that flying saucers are material objects from outer space manned by a race originating on some other planet is not a complete answer. However strong the current belief in saucers from space, it cannot be stronger than the Celtic faith in the elves and the fairies, or the medieval belief in lutins, or the fear throughout the Christian lands, in the first centuries of our era, of demons and satyrs and fauns. Certainly, it cannot be stronger than the faith that inspired the writers of the Bible—a faith rooted in daily experiences with angelic visitation.”Some of the standout examples for me are: Juan Diego's tilma and the sky anchor that was left behind in 1211 a.d. at a church in Cloera, Ireland. And, Aleister Crowley's run in with two gnomes or aliens.

In the 70’s, Vallee served as one of the Principal investigators of DARPA and led the team which built the world's first software collaboration system, running on Arpanet, the prototype for the Internet. Joining Stanford Research Institute and the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, Vallee formed friendships with Hal Puthoff, Russell Targ, and Kit Green and consulted on SRI’s classified remote viewing programs (including the Stargate Project), which were supported by several government agencies. In 1978, Vallee was part of a panel of experts (which included NASA Astronaut Gordon Cooper, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, military and government officials) that presented a plan for UFO research at the United Nations. tried to explained crop circles by micro wave radiations (source : Jacques Vallée, Crop Circle : 'Signs' From Above or Human Artifact - Some personal speculations on a fractal theme, New Age, sep 1991 ; Jacques Vallée, In Search of Alien Glyphs (or are they microwave blasters?), Boing Boing, 2010) when it can be explained by kids doing a joke during the night with wooden planks :

Vallee, Jacques (2021). "Archives of the Impossible Oral Histories". Archives of the Impossible Oral Histories, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University. Rice University. hdl: 1911/111924. It would be tempting and reassuring to believe that these are purely psychological phenomena (hallucinations and the like), but the physical traces, radar data, and corroboration of independent witnesses rules this out. Six Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity Characteristics." Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 12, no. 3 (Autumn 1998) pp.345–358. ISSN 0892-3310. is just another argument from ignorance. We don’t know their technology therefore interdimensional beings/psychism etc...

a b c Tattoli, Chantel (February 18, 2022). "Jacques Vallée Still Doesn't Know What UFOs Are". Wired . Retrieved February 27, 2022. His scientific career began as a professional astronomer at the Paris Observatory. Vallée co-developed the first computerized map of Mars for NASA in 1963. He later worked on the network information center for the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet, as a staff engineer of SRI International's Augmentation Research Center under Douglas Engelbart.I shouldn’t need to write anymore after such a dishonest depiction of a source, but know that as an inspiration, Vallée quotes a XVIIth century author named Henri de Montfaucon de Villars : In this story there is only one (yes, ONE, which should already incite to prudence) source, Agobard’s very writings, from which the story is quite interesting and surprising : Mahar, Ted. "UFO Scientist Says Search Needs Skeptics Jacques Vallee Employs both Respect and Analysis." Oregonian (June 4, 1990) p. D1. Vallée's ideas about Miracle at Fatima and Marian apparitions are that they are a class of UFO encounters. Vallée is one of the first people to speculate publicly about the possibility that the " solar dance" at Fatima was a UFO. Vallée has also speculated that UFO activity may have caused other religious apparitions, including Our Lady of Lourdes and the revelations of Joseph Smith. Vallée believes that religious experiences such as these should be studied outside of their religious contexts. [5] [6] [7]

Jacques F. Vallee was one of the first scientists to closely study UFO phenomenon. He goes beyond a simple examination and compares it to the fairy religions and mythologies from the past. Passport to Magonia is one of his most well-known works. This man was the Bishop of Lyon, one of the biggest towns of France (it was the case in antiquity, it was the case in Agobard’s time and it’s still the case today). Agobard made the center of his career out of critcising superstitions and fighting remainders of paganism, considering that in too many cases, the christianisation that the church started a few centuries before him was too superficial. Forbidden Science, Volume Three: Journals, 1980-1989 — On the Trail of Hidden Truths (self-published with Lulu Press, 2016)The analysis of the way he reported the Magonia case should be enough to not even give attention to his knowledge of folklore but : not only folklore is by definition vague, varying, unreliable, what he does here is confusing correlation and causality : Vallee compares the stories of UFO sightings and kidnappings with the Celtic "Fairy Faith" and other indigenous traditions involving fairies, elves, dwarves, leprechauns, trolls, etc. from around the globe and finds definite similarities. Citing newspaper articles, police reports, church records, and mythologies, he finds stories of "flying ships," behaving in impossible ways in the skies. The flying ships land, contain beings of various descriptions who kidnap people into the crafts or take them to their own worlds, releasing them later with memory lapse, unexplained time lapses, and nightmares about needles and medical experiments performed upon them. He then examines how these beings and craft appear differently to observers and victims according to the culture and collective psychology in which they live. Supported by National Science Foundation Grant GJ-35 326X and Advanced Resesrch Projects Agency Contract No. DAHC 15 72 C 0165." Other materials [ edit ] Plerosque autem vidimus et audivimus tanta dementia obrutos, tanta stultitia alienatos, ut credant et dicant quamdam esse regionem, quae dicatur Magonia, ex qua naves veniant in nubibus,...