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Jacques Vallée is a French-born computer scientist, astronomer, and UFOlogist. He worked at Stanford Research Institute and carried a top-secret security clearance, being assigned to the SRI psychic research program as a "de facto unpaid consultant"1.
In early 1973, Vallée was working on a classified Department of Defense contract for ARPA involving a multiuser military computer network called ARPANET, which later became the Internet. His expertise in information technology and computer programming, combined with his dedication to the study of Unidentified Flying Objects, made him a relatable figure for Ingo Swann1.
Vallée observed Swann's frustration with the Outbounder-Beacon Experiment, which Swann felt were a "trivialization of my abilities." Vallée suggested Swann approach the problem from the perspective of information technology, asking, "What do you do [when remote viewing]? Do you move your consciousness around?" Swann replied, "Yes, I can position it anywhere"1.
Vallée drew an analogy between long-distance Telepathy and his work on the ARPANET, suggesting that a "virtual addressing" scheme could be applied to Remote Viewing. This idea, that accessing a virtual address was a means of accessing data beyond sensory grasp, inspired Swann to develop the concept of Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV)1.
Vallée also commented on the mysterious death of Pat Price, noting that when the FBI learned Price was a Scientologist, the church became a suspect in his death1.
Publications
- Forbidden Science 2
Footnotes
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Jacobsen, Annie. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis. Little, Brown and Company, 2017. ↩︎