Jacques Fabrice Vallée (; born September 24, 1939) is an Internet pioneer, computer scientist,

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, author, ufologist and

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currently residing in

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and

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. His scientific career began as a professional astronomer at the Paris Observatory. Vallée co-developed the first computerized map of

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for

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in 1963. He later worked on the network information center for the

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, a precursor to the modern

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, as a staff engineer of

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's Augmentation Research Center under Douglas Engelbart. Vallée is also an important figure in the study of

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s (UFOs), first noted for a defense of the scientific legitimacy of the extraterrestrial hypothesis and later for promoting the interdimensional hypothesis.

Early life

Vallée was born in Pontoise, France in 1939. He completed his undergraduate degree in mathematics at the

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in 1959 and received the equivalent of an MS in

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from the University of Lille Nord de France in 1961. He began his professional life as an astronomer at the

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in 1961. He was awarded the Jules Verne Prize for his first

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novel, ''Le Sub-espace'' (1961), published under the pseudonym of Jérôme Sériel.

Academic and business career

Vallée moved to the United States in 1962 and began working as a research associate in astronomy under Gérard de Vaucouleurs at the

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. While at McDonald Observatory, he compiled

's first detailed informational map of

with de Vaucouleurs. In 1963, Vallée relocated to

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. He was initially employed as a systems analyst at nearby

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while continuing to pursue non-institutional ufological research with his mentor,

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, the chair of the University's astronomy department. Professionally, he began to conduct early

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research and received a

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and

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from the institution in 1967. Thereafter, he briefly worked for

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(in

) and the RCA Service Company (in Cherry Hill, New Jersey) as an engineer before joining the Stanford University Computer Center as manager of information systems in 1969. In 1970, Vallée became a consultant to Stanford applied physicist

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's Institute for Plasma Research. Upon learning that Vallée had written several books about UFOs, Sturrock felt a professional obligation to peruse Vallée's work, prompting his own research in the subject. In 1971, Vallée left Stanford to join the Engelbart group as a senior research engineer. His tenure at ARC coincided with the group's immersion in Erhard Seminars Training and other social experiments, ultimately prompting his departure. While at the Institute for the Future as a senior research fellow from 1972 to 1976, he succeeded Paul Baran as principal investigator on the large

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project for

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, which developed one of the first ARPANET conferencing systems, Planning Network (PLANET), predating

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by many years. The technology was spun off into InfoMedia, a

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founded by Vallée in 1976. Although the firm formed several international spinoffs and partnered with a variety of prominent firms and governmental organizations (including

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and NASA), it failed to attain long-term profitability. Following its sale in 1983, Vallée entered the venture capital sphere as a partner at Sofinnova. From 1987 to 2010, he served as a general partner of several funds in

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, most notably as the co-founder of the family of three Euro-America Ventures funds in North America and Europe. As a private investor, he continues to serve as executive manager of Documatica Financial, a San Francisco boutique focused on early-stage healthcare and technology startups.Official biographical profile.
''jacquesvallee.net''. Among the companies for which he spearheaded early-stage financings, fourteen achieved

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s, including

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, Accuray (developers of the " CyberKnife" for cancer surgery), NeoPhotonics (developers of

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for optical networks), Mercury Interactive, P-Com, Isocor, Regeneration Technologies, Harmonic Lightwaves, Ixys, Integrated Packaging, E.Piphany, Sangstat Medical, Com21 and Synaptic Pharmaceuticals (which specialized in

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biology). Other companies financed by Vallée (most notably HandyLab, which produced an instrument recognized as being "transformative for

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") were successfully acquired by Becton-Dickinson,

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Lucent Lucent Technologies, Inc. was an American Multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey, Murray Hill, New Jersey. It was established on September 30, 1996, through the dives ...

, AOL, Cisco,

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and Intuitive Surgical. He has also served on the National Advisory Committee of the

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College of Engineering and authored four books on high technology, including ''Computer Message Systems'', ''Electronic Meetings'', ''The Network Revolution'', and ''The Heart of the Internet''.

Paranormal research

According to Vallée, he sighted an

over his Pontoise home in May 1955. Six years later in 1961, while working on the staff of the French Space Committee, Vallée claims to have 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). He claims that an unnamed superior came and erased the tape. These events contributed to Vallée's lifelong interest in the UFO phenomenon. Vallée began to correspond with Aimé Michel (who would become a key mentor and research collaborator) in 1958. In the mid-1960s, like many other UFO researchers, Vallée initially attempted to validate the popular Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (or ETH). However, by 1969, Vallée's conclusions had changed, and he publicly stated that the ETH was too narrow and ignored too much data. Vallée began exploring the commonalities between UFOs,

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s, demons,

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s, cryptid sightings, and psychic phenomena. His speculation about these potential links was first detailed in his 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; thus they could coexist with humans, yet remain undetected. Vallée's opposition to the popular ETH was not well received by prominent U.S. ufologists, hence he was viewed as something of an outcast. Indeed, Vallée refers to himself as a " heretic among heretics". Vallée's opposition to the ETH theory is summarised in his paper, "Five Arguments Against the Extraterrestrial Origin of Unidentified Flying Objects", Journal of Scientific Exploration, 1990:

Scientific opinion has generally followed public opinion in the belief that unidentified flying objects either do not exist (the "natural phenomena hypothesis") or, if they do, must represent evidence of a visitation by some advanced race of space travellers (the extraterrestrial hypothesis or "ETH"). It is the view of the author that research on UFOs need not be restricted to these two alternatives. On the contrary, the accumulated data base exhibits several patterns tending to indicate that UFOs are real, represent a previously unrecognized phenomenon, and that the facts do not support the common concept of "space visitors". Five specific arguments articulated here contradict the ETH: # unexplained close encounters are far more numerous than required for any physical survey of the
earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. While large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water. About 71% of Earth's surf ...
; # the humanoid body structure of the alleged "aliens" is not likely to have originated on another
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and is not biologically adapted to space travel; # the reported behavior in thousands of abduction reports contradicts the hypothesis of genetic or scientific experimentation on humans by an advanced race; # the extension of the phenomenon throughout recorded human history demonstrates that UFOs are not a contemporary phenomenon; and # the apparent ability of UFOs to manipulate space and time suggests radically different and richer alternatives.

Vallée's ideas about Miracle at Fatima and

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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

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. Vallée believes that religious experiences such as these should be studied outside of their religious contexts. Via professional association with SRI and independent friendships with

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and

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analyst Kit Green (who obtained a temporary

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for him in 1974), Vallée was intermittently consulted on classified remote viewing research (including the Stargate Project) throughout the 1970s and 1980s. During the early SRI experiments (led by Puthoff and Russell Targ in conjunction with Green as CIA contract monitor), he became acquainted with

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, Edgar Mitchell, Charles Musès, Andrija Puharich, Jack Sarfatti, Arthur M. Young, Edwin C. May, Pat Price and

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. In 1973, Doubleday editor Bill Whitehead introduced Vallée to Ira Einhorn, a close confederate of Puharich; their association would span Vallée's business and paranormal networks until Einhorn was charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend in 1979. More recently, he has been associated with

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as a consultant to the National Institute for Discovery Science and a member of the scientific advisory board of Bigelow Aerospace.

In popular culture

Film appearances

In 1979, Robert Emenegger and Alan Sandler updated their 1974 '' UFOs: Past, Present, and Future'' documentary with new 1979 footage narrated by Jacques Vallée. The updated version is entitled '' UFOs: It Has Begun''. Vallée served as the real-life model for Lacombe, the researcher portrayed by

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’s '' Close Encounters of the Third Kind''. He also attempted to interest Spielberg in an alternative explanation for the phenomenon. In an interview on Conspire.com, Vallée said, "I argued with him that the subject was even more interesting if it wasn't extraterrestrials. If it was real, physical, but not ET. So he said, 'You're probably right, but that's not what the public is expecting — this is Hollywood and I want to give people something that's close to what they expect.'"

Filmography

* '' UFOs: It Has Begun'' (1979) * ''Witness of Another World'' (2018) * ''The Phenomenon'' (2020)

''X-Files''

Episode " Jose Chung's ''From Outer Space''" of '' X-Files'' which aired on April 12, 1996 had fake alien pilots named Jacques Sheaffer and Robert Vallee. According to Robert Sheaffer this was a joke by the ''X-Files'' creator Chris Carter to name the characters after Vallee and Sheaffer. Sheaffer further states that "the

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who later arrested them

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was Sgt. Hynek", a reference to ufologist

. Sheaffer, Robert
"New X-Files Renews Cover-Up Conspiracy Claims."
''

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'', vol. 40, no. 3 (May 2016): 14–15. .

Personal life

Vallée is married to Janine Saley. They have two children.

Publications

Journal articles

* "An Automatic Question-answering System for Stellar Astronomy," with

. '' Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific'', vol. 78, no. 463 (August 1966): 315-323. . . * "UFO Consensus" (letters), with Richard J. Rosa,

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, Thomas R. P. Gibb, Jr., Philip C. Steffey, Isabel R. A. García, and

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. ''

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'', vol. 158, no. 3806 (December 1967): 1265-1266. . . * "Group Communication Through Electronic Media: Fundamental Choices and Social Effects," with Robert Johansen and Richard H. Miller. ''Educational Technology'', vol. 14, no. 8 (August 1974): 7-20. . . * "Computer Conferencing" (letters), with Hubert Lipinski, Robert Johansen, and Thaddeus Wilson.

, vol. 188, no. 4185 (April 18, 1975): 203. . .
"Remote Viewing and Computer Communications: An Experiment."
'' Journal of Scientific Exploration'', vol. 2, no. 1 (1988) pp. 13–27. .
"Five Arguments Against the Extraterrestrial Origin of Unidentified Flying Objects."
'' Journal of Scientific Exploration'', vol. 4, no. 1 (1990): 105-117.
archived
::"Presented at the Eighth Annual Conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration, Boulder, Colorado, June 1989."
"Estimates of Optical Power Output in Six Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity Characteristics."
'' Journal of Scientific Exploration'', vol. 12, no. 3 (1998) pp. 345–358. .
"Physical Analyses in Ten Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Material Samples."
'' Journal of Scientific Exploration'', vol. 12, no. 3 (1998) pp. 359–375. .
"Six Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity Characteristics."
'' Journal of Scientific Exploration'', vol. 12, no. 3 (Autumn 1998) pp. 345–358. .

Books

Finance * ''The Four Elements of Financial Alchemy: A New Formula for Personal Prosperity''. Berkeley:

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(2000). . . Novels * ''Fastwalker'', with

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. Berkeley: Publ. Frog Ltd. (June 1996). . * ''Stratagème'' (in French). (January 2006). . ** English: ''Stratagem'' (July 2007). . Science Fiction * ''Le Sub-Espace'' 'Sub-Space''(as Jérôme Sériel). Sub-Space (1961) * ''Le Satellite Sombre'' 'The Dark Satellite''(as Jérôme Sériel). (1963) * ''Alintel'' (1986) ::Provided partial basis for ''Fastwalker''. * ''La Mémoire de Markov'' (1986) Technical * ''Computer Message Systems''. Data Communications Book Series. New York:

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(August 1984). . * ''Electronic Meetings: Technical Alternatives''. Addison-Wesley Series on Decision Support.

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(July 1979). . * ''The Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist''. Berkeley: And/Or Press (1982). . * ''The Heart of the Internet: An Insider's View of the Origin and Promise of the On-line Revolution''. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Pub. Co. (2003). . UFOlogy
''Anatomy of a Phenomenon: Unidentified Objects in Space – a Scientific Appraisal''.
NTC/Contemporary Publishing (January 1965). . ** Reissue: ''UFO's In Space: Anatomy of A Phenomenon'' (paperback).

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(April 1987). . * ''Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma'' – with Janine Vallée (NTC/Contemporary Publishing, 1966) * * * ''The Edge of Reality: A Progress Report on Unidentified Flying Objects'' – Jacques Vallée and Dr. J. Allen Hynek (Quality Books, 1975) * * * * * ''UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat'' (Ballantine Books, 1992) * ''Forbidden Science: Journals, 1957-1969'' (North Atlantic Books, 1992; ) * ''Forbidden Science, Volume Two: Journals, 1970-1979 — California Hermetica'' (San Francisco: Documatica Research, 2009; ) * * ''Forbidden Science, Volume Three: Journals, 1980-1989 — On the Trail of Hidden Truths'' (self-published with

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, 2016) * '' Forbidden Science 4: The Spring Hill Chronicles, The Journals of Jacques Vallee 1990-1999'' (self-published with

, 2019) * ''TRINITY: The Best-Kept Secret'' (Documatica Research, 2021; )

Reports

''Group Communication Through Computers, Vol. 1: Design and Use of the FORUM System''
with Hubert M. Lipinski and Richard H. Miller. Menlo Park, Calif.: Institute for the Future (July 1974). ::"Supported by

Grant GJ-35 326X and Advanced Resesrch Projects Agency Contract No. DAHC 15 72 C 0165."

Other materials

''Report from the Field: Scientific Issues in the UFO Phenomenon''
(presentation).

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(November 8, 2002).
"Crop Circles: 'Signs' From Above or Human Artifacts? Some personal speculations on a fractal theme."
''ufocasebook.com.''
"Are UFO Events related to Sidereal Time? Arguments against a proposed correlation."
''jacquesvallee.com.''

References

External links

Official website

Jacques Vallée
at

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Interview: Jacques Vallée – A Man of Many Dimensions (2006)

Interview: Jacques Vallée Discusses UFO Control System with Jerome Clark (1978)

* ttp://ourstrangeplanet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=76&Itemid=39 Interviewwith Chris O'Brien (1992) *
The "Pentacle Memorandum" Including text of correspondence from Dr. Jacques Vallée (1993)

Foreword to book: ''UFOs and The National Security State'' – Vallée

French biography of Dr. Jacques Vallée

Anatomy of a Hoax: The Philadelphia Experiment 50 Years Later by Dr. Jacques Vallée
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