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Jacques Vallée is a French-born computer scientist and ufologist whose journals describe a destroyed 1961 satellite-tracking tape; he addressed the United Nations in 1978 and sat on the NIDS advisory board. 1939-09-24 Pontoise, France 2025-08-05 2026-10-12
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Jacques Vallée (born September 24, 1939) is a French-born computer scientist, astronomer and UFOlogist who worked at the Paris Observatory in 1961, with J. Allen Hynek at Northwestern University in the 1960s, on National Science Foundation-funded computer conferencing in the 1970s, as a consultant to the Stanford Research Institute remote-viewing program in 1986 and 1987, and as a venture capitalist from 1987. His journals for 1957 to 1969 were published as Forbidden Science; he describes them as a record of "the appearance of new classes of phenomena" that "were deliberately denied or distorted by those in authority within the government and the military," and writes that science "never had fair and complete access to the most important files."12

Paris Observatory and the 1961 tape

In the journal entry dated Paris, August 12, 1961, Vallée recorded a sighting in Pontoise, France on a bright afternoon in 1955 and wrote that he wished to learn what research might be carried out in "high places" and what data was kept in official files. He had been a government employee since June of that year, on the staff of the artificial satellite service of the Paris Observatory at Meudon, which he described as part of a recently created Space Committee reporting to the Prime Minister.3

The service was headed by Paul Muller. Its work was to track orbiting objects and compute orbital elements, and its reduced data were punched onto Telex tape for the United States Navy in Paris and passed on to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Vallée wrote that on 11 July at 10:35 p.m. he saw a satellite brighter than second magnitude. On another occasion several staff members recorded no fewer than eleven points, and the next morning, Vallée wrote, Muller "simply confiscated the tape and destroyed it," although a similar object had just been tracked by astronomers at Besançon and by a satellite expert in Saint-Malo.3

Vallée asked Muller why the data were not sent to the Americans. He recorded Muller's reply: "The Americans would laugh at us." Vallée wrote that Muller seemed terrified that the morning papers might carry the headline "Paris Observatory tracking something it cannot identify."3

Northwestern, the Condon Committee and the Invisible College

Vallée's entries from 1966 and 1967 record his work with Hynek, then scientific consultant to the United States Air Force on Project Blue Book, at Dearborn Observatory on the Northwestern campus in Evanston. In a Chicago entry of November 5, 1966, he recorded Hynek's remark over dinner that if the Condon Committee were to conclude that UFOs existed, responsibility for their study would be taken from him, as Enrico Fermi and J. Robert Oppenheimer had ceased to be free academic physicists when the Atomic Energy Commission was created.4 On November 13, 1966 he wrote that he had returned with Hynek from two days in Boulder with the Condon team, and recorded Hynek's remark on the drive from Denver that he had been waiting for the occasion all his life.5

In a Chicago entry of May 27, 1967, Vallée recorded that Hynek had begun calling their small group "the Invisible College," in reference to the scientific movement that preceded the creation of the Royal Society in the early 1660s, "at a time when it was very dangerous to be interested in natural philosophy."6

The entry of June 18, 1967 records that Vallée, sorting the Air Force files that Hynek kept at his house, found among the material on the history of Projects Sign and Grudge a letter dated January 9, 1953, stamped in red ink "SECRET" with a security-information legend, signed by a man Vallée calls "Pentacle," and addressed to Miles E. Coll at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for transmittal to Captain Edward J. Ruppelt. Vallée wrote that the letter, which opens with a recommendation to the Air Technical Intelligence Center on future methods of handling the UFO problem, bears on the period of the Robertson Panel and of Report #14.7 On June 30 he wrote that he kept thinking about the letter and had shown it only to a colleague named Fred; Fred's comment, as Vallée recorded it, was that references to what could and could not be discussed in Washington were "clearly referring to a manipulation of the Robertson Panel."8

The Condon report's discussion of UFO reports near Martian oppositions states that the claimed correlation "is quite unfounded; the idea is not supported by observational data," followed by the citation "(Vallee and Vallee, 1966, p. 138)," the 1966 book Challenge to Science by Jacques and Janine Vallée.9

In September 1969 Vallée wrote that he would have little time to keep the journal once he started working at Stanford University, having first visited the campus on July 1 of that year.10

Computer conferencing

The National Science Foundation made four awards with Vallée as principal investigator between 1975 and 1980, each on computer-based group communication. Three went to the Institute For the Future in California: an investigation of computer-based group communication in geoscience (award 7505297, $166,200, April 1975 to October 1977),11 an extended field test of computer conferencing covering social, managerial and economic issues (award 7505298, $133,700, January 1975 to July 1977),12 and an evaluation of computer conferencing for research and development productivity (award 7600512, $154,200, November 1975 to April 1978).13 The fourth, award 7820720, went to Infomedia Corporation for the development of formal representations of computer-based group communication ($41,704, February 1979 to May 1980).14

Vallée's own biographical note, printed as an appendix to a 2025 review of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena science of which he is a co-author, states that as one of the principal investigators for the Advanced Research Projects Agency in 1972 he led the team that developed the first network conferencing system on the ARPANET.15

Remote viewing through computer conferencing

In October 1976 the Proceedings of the IEEE published "Remote viewing experiments through computer conferencing" by Vallée, Arthur Hastings and Gerald Askevold (pp. 1551-1552). The paper is cited in the reference list of a 1977 conference proceedings held in the CIA reading room.16

Harry Snyder's review of remote-viewing research, Report RV-79-1, describes the design: twelve participants in New York, Florida, Quebec and California, each with a computer terminal at home or work, attempted to describe ten mineral samples held in a geologist's hand at 7:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Pacific time, with five of the samples sealed in envelopes as a "double-blind" pool; 33 descriptions from six persons were judged by five judges. The review records that the correct target received the highest score in 8 of 33 responses, against 3.3 expected by chance, and tabulates the scores as "Table 17. Results of Vallee, et al. (1976)." It notes that the paper was received in early May 1976 and, answering Hal Puthoff's criticism of multiple-subject studies, lists the Vallee, Hastings and Askevold work among the experiments with simultaneous subjects that returned positive results.17

A 1977 paper by Puthoff and Russell Targ for the IEEE ELECTRO 77 convention describes a series in which an experimenter in New York City and a subject in the SRI laboratory in Menlo Park, California communicated only by the "ARPA computer net."18

Annie Jacobsen's 2017 account says Vallée held a top-secret clearance and was assigned to the SRI psychic research program as a "de facto unpaid consultant." She writes that in early 1973 he worked on a classified Department of Defense contract for the DARPA involving a multiuser military computer network called ARPANET, which later became the Internet, and that this expertise, together with his study of UFOs, made him a sympathetic figure to Ingo Swann. Swann, according to her account, called the Outbounder-Beacon Experiment a "trivialization of my abilities." Vallée asked, "What do you do [when remote viewing]? Do you move your consciousness around?" and Swann replied, "Yes, I can position it anywhere." Vallée drew an analogy between long-distance Telepathy and his ARPANET work and suggested that a "virtual addressing" scheme could be applied to Remote Viewing, accessing a virtual address being a means of reaching data beyond sensory grasp; in her telling, this idea led Swann to develop Coordinate Remote Viewing. Her account also records Vallée's comment that when the Federal Bureau of Investigation learned that Pat Price was a Scientologist, the church became a suspect in Price's death.19

SRI and the DACOS classifier

The final technical report for SRI Project 1291, the Enhanced Human Performance Investigation, covering October 1, 1986 to September 30, 1987, was written by Edwin May.20 The report states that SRI asked Vallée to act as a consultant and supplied him with the NExpert expert-system shell from Neuron Data of Palo Alto: "Acting as a consultant, Dr. Jacques Vallee was to undertake the initial steps towards the development of such a system."21

Vallée's system, called DACOS (Description and Classification of Sites), grouped the 200 targets in the program's target pool into 40 categories made up of combinations of 27 attributes in six types: Water, Structures, Interfaces, Contours, Land and Features. The report describes DACOS as a hierarchical system.21

The report tested DACOS on 30 transcripts from a single 1987 experiment. "Overall, the DACOS performed only marginally better than chance." Water was identified correctly 17 times, structures 13 times, and the full target classification twice. The report says the series "did not show a significant RV effect, and thus proved a poor test case."22

The Secret Onion and the Wilson interview

Vallée's journal entry of October 2, 2003, written in Austin, Texas, records that Puthoff met him at the airport and told him the thread began in the late 1980s with "a supposedly top-secret UFO study group for Army Intelligence started by John Alexander," which Vallée had heard of through Col. Ron Blackburn of Lockheed Corporation and which was nicknamed "the Secret Onion." Vallée places its advanced-physics meetings between May and August 1985 at the offices of the BDM Corporation.23 The same entries describe a transcript of an April 1997 interview of Admiral Thomas R. Wilson, then of the Defense Intelligence Agency, by Eric Davis at EG&G in Las Vegas, in which, as Vallée summarizes it, Wilson searched the records of special access programs, found three programs related to UFOs and was referred to a fourth group. Vallée quotes the answer as "We're a reverse engineering program."23

The 1978 United Nations initiative

On July 7, 1978, Grenada's deputy permanent representative asked that an item on the establishment of a United Nations agency or department for research into unidentified flying objects be included in the agenda of the thirty-third General Assembly. The item was allocated to the Special Political Committee on September 20, 1978.24 The Assembly had heard from Grenada on the subject in each session since 1975, and in the committee on November 27 Prime Minister Eric Gairy stated that several scientists formed part of Grenada's delegation.25

The committee's summary record of the 35th meeting, on Monday, November 27, 1978, lists Gairy, Minister of Education Wellington Friday, and Hynek (designated as speaking for Grenada), followed by a statement by "Mr. VALLEE," whose entry in the record carries no delegation designation, and then by Lt. Col. Coyne on an October 18, 1973 helicopter encounter over Ohio. Vallée told the committee that the UFO phenomenon had three aspects: a physical manifestation that could be investigated with available instruments, a psycho-physiological phenomenon, and a social belief system created in all nations by the expectation of space visitors. He said he had spent over 15 years studying reports from official and unofficial channels in France and the United States, supported by extensive computer statistics, and that the scientists with whom he was in contact would welcome a structure within which to share data.25

Gairy introduced draft resolution A/SPC/33/L.20, which proposed a group of experts under the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. On December 8, 1978, at the 47th meeting, the committee agreed by consensus on a substitute text.26 The General Assembly adopted it as decision 33/426 on December 18, 1978. It took note of Grenada's statements and draft resolutions, invited interested Member States to coordinate scientific research on extraterrestrial life, including unidentified flying objects, at the national level and to inform the Secretary-General, requested the Secretary-General to transmit Grenada's statements to the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space for its 1979 meeting, and provided that the committee would permit Grenada to present its views at its next session.2427 The Ralph Bunche Institute, in a June 1, 2026 post, describes the 1978 effort as backed by researchers including Vallée and Hynek, and says the United Nations dismissed the initiative, citing political and scientific resistance.28

Vallée's journal records earlier approaches. In a Chicago entry of June 21, 1966, he recorded that Hynek had gone to New York to see the author John Fuller and U Thant, the Secretary-General, who was anxious to know what the United States would do about the UFO question because some member nations had expressed concern; U Thant said that the initiative could only come from member nations, and Vallée wrote that Hynek asked for his help, that he would ask Aimé Michel to arrange a meeting with a French government representative, and that he would write to Dr. Fontes to prompt similar action by Brazilian authorities.29 On November 5, 1966 he wrote that a French official had not answered his group about France's possible interest in a debate at the United Nations, and that "I feel I have been used."4 In a Chicago entry of May 15, 1967, he recorded that Hynek had given him advice on the steps to take with the Russians and with the United Nations, which "seem to have a continuing interest in all this."30

Council Bluffs and Haynesville

A paper by Garry Nolan, Vallée, Sizun Jiang and Larry G. Lemke, "Improved instrumental techniques, including isotopic analysis, applicable to the characterization of unusual materials with potential relevance to aerospace forensics," appeared in Progress in Aerospace Sciences, volume 128, in January 2022.31 A 2025 review of UAP science to which Vallée and Nolan contributed describes the material it analyzes as a mass of molten metal that witnesses reported falling from a hovering object into Big Lake Park in Council Bluffs, Iowa on December 17, 1971. It records that Vallée retained some of the material, that Nolan, Jiang and Lemke reanalyzed it by secondary ion mass spectrometry, and that the titanium, iron and chromium isotope distributions were consistent with terrestrial material, with local homogeneity but considerable diversity in elemental ratios across subsamples. The review quotes the paper's statement that the sample "was incompletely mixed at the time of deposition," and adds that the nature and origin of the material remain unknown.32

Luis Elizondo wrote in his 2024 book Imminent that Vallée and Nolan collaborated on a paper analyzing a metallic slag recovered from a 1977 UAP crash in Council Bluffs, that the material's magnesium and iron isotopes were arranged in a highly structured and deliberate manner, a feat Elizondo describes as beyond current technological capability, and he places the work within the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). Elizondo describes Vallée's approach to UAP as focused on data analysis and the development of a classification system for sightings, writes that Vallée worked closely with Hynek, and lists among his books Passport to Magonia and Anatomy of a Phenomenon, which he says explore parallels between modern UAP encounters and historical folklore and mythology.33

An August 24, 2025 interview page for The Good Trouble Show describes a peer-reviewed paper by Vallée and two co-authors, accepted by Progress in Aerospace Sciences, that re-examines the 1966 Haynesville case. The page says the case is hidden in the 1968 Condon report and describes "a small object radiating the power output of a nuclear power plant."34

Lacombe

Elizondo wrote that Vallée was the inspiration for the character of the French scientist Claude Lacombe in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.33 Jason Colavito, in a 2018 post on Vallée's public account of his career, wrote that it is part of Vallée's personal mythology that he served as the inspiration for Claude Lacombe, the French ufologist played by François Truffaut in Steven Spielberg's film (1977).35 Colavito reports that Mark O'Connell's biography of Hynek, The Close Encounters Man (2017), identifies the French astrophysicist Claude Poher as the more likely model for the character. Colavito also wrote that, according to O'Connell, Vallée sent a message objecting to the book, and quotes O'Connell: "Turned out he really was concerned that my book was being used as a vehicle for CUFOS," the Center for UFO Studies.36

Trinity

In 2021 Vallée and Paola Harris self-published a book on a claimed crash in August 1945 near the Trinity Test site in San Antonio, New Mexico. Colavito reported that Vallée pulled the book, then titled "The Best-Kept Secret," on the day of its May 4, 2021 release, and that a revised edition titled "Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret" was to appear on June 1. According to the press release Colavito quoted, the authors reconstructed the observations of three witnesses, two of whom are still living, who described the recovery of a nearly intact flying vehicle and its occupants by an Army detachment. The release describes the craft as avocado-shaped, and says Vallée analyzed a piece of debris held by one witness and would suggest that it was of extraterrestrial origin.37

Venture capital

In September 2006 NASA named a team of venture capitalists to run a strategic venture fund called Red Planet Capital, based in San Mateo, California. The principals were Peter Banks, co-founder and partner of XR Ventures, Graham Burnette, general partner of the EA-Capital Fund, and Vallée, co-founder of the EA-Capital Fund. NASA was to provide strategic direction and technical input, with a NASA investment of about $75 million over five years. The fund was to focus on eight sectors, including information technology, communications, biomedical support, environmental systems and advanced materials, and the principals could invest as much as about $5 million per company over several rounds.3839 Vallée's biographical note states that after 1987 he was co-founder and general partner of the Euro-America Ventures group of funds, which invested in over 60 startups, and that in 2006 he and his two partners were selected by NASA to form Red Planet Capital.15

Vallée's own account, in a seminar text published in the Revue française de comptabilité in May 2006, describes him as a general partner of the SBV fund, named for Sigefi, Burnette and Vallée, and as co-founder of the EuroAmerica fund series, which the note to that text says produced eighteen Nasdaq exits since 1988. Vallée wrote that EuroAmerica I ended in 2000 with a net internal rate of return of 15.4 percent and that EuroAmerica II, then in liquidation, stood at 14.7 percent.40

National Institute for Discovery Science, NARCAP and the Sol Foundation

The National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), founded by Robert Bigelow, listed Vallée on its Science Advisory Board. The personnel page as captured on December 6, 2000 names Warren Burggren as chairman of the board and lists Vallée with Douglas P. Ferraro, Albert A. Harrison, Edgar Mitchell, Melvin Morse, Martin Piltch, Puthoff, Theodore Rockwell, John F. Schuessler, Jessica Utts and Jim Whinnery; the same capture lists Bigelow as president and founder, Colm Kelleher as deputy administrator, John B. Alexander as discreet project scout and Eric Davis for aerospace physics and astrophysics.41 The page as captured on June 22, 2000 includes Peter A. Sturrock on the board as well. By the capture of August 6, 2001, Puthoff is named chairman, and captures from October 2002 and April 2004 list Alexander on the board; the capture of May 9, 2008 still lists Vallée.42

Vallée is also named in the 2025 review as a member of the advisory board of the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP).43

Vallée spoke at the inaugural symposium of the Sol Foundation, held November 17 to 18, 2023 in Palo Alto, California, hosted by the Nolan Laboratory and the Stanford School of Medicine, alongside Avi Loeb, Diana Walsh Pasulka, Larry Maguire, Christopher Mellon, Tim Gallaudet and Karl Nell. Nolan opened the symposium by saying "The objective here is to legitimize and professionalize and then to seek from you your ideas."44

Publications

Vallée's books include Passport to Magonia (1969), which compares modern sightings with folklore and mythology,45 Anatomy of a Phenomenon, and Forbidden Science 2, in addition to the journals described above.

Footnotes

  1. Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969, foreword, p. vii. https://archive.org/details/vallee-jacques-forbidden-science_202407 ↩︎

  2. Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science, vol. 5, chapter "September Eleven," entry "New York. Tuesday 23 September 2003" and entry for 24 September 2003 ("This is my 64th birthday"), p. 200 ff. ↩︎

  3. Vallée, Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969, entry "Paris. 12 August 1961," pp. 40-42. https://archive.org/details/vallee-jacques-forbidden-science_202407 ↩︎

  4. Vallée, Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969, entry "Chicago. Saturday 5 November 1966." https://archive.org/details/vallee-jacques-forbidden-science_202407 ↩︎

  5. Vallée, Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969, entry "Chicago. Sunday 13 November 1966," pp. 226-227. https://archive.org/details/vallee-jacques-forbidden-science_202407 ↩︎

  6. Vallée, Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969, entry "Chicago. Saturday 27 May 1967." https://archive.org/details/vallee-jacques-forbidden-science_202407 ↩︎

  7. Vallée, Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969, entry "Chicago. Sunday 18 June 1967," pp. 278-280 (the Pentacle letter of January 9, 1953); the later discussion of the letter and the January 1953 meeting report by Frederic C. Durant addressed to the CIA Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence is at pp. 426-427. https://archive.org/details/vallee-jacques-forbidden-science_202407 ↩︎

  8. Vallée, Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969, entry "Chicago. Friday 30 June 1967," pp. 283-284. https://archive.org/details/vallee-jacques-forbidden-science_202407 ↩︎

  9. University of Colorado (Edward U. Condon, director), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, vol. 1 (1968), discussion of Martian oppositions, citing "Vallee and Vallee, 1966, p. 138," and the bibliography entry for Jacques and Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1966). https://archive.org/details/DTIC_AD0680975 ↩︎

  10. Vallée, Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969, chapter 20, entries "Stanford, California. Tuesday 1 July 1969" and "Stanford. Sunday 7 September 1969," beginning p. 398. https://archive.org/details/vallee-jacques-forbidden-science_202407 ↩︎

  11. National Science Foundation, award 7505297, "An Investigation of Computer-Based Group Communication in Geoscience," Institute For the Future (California), principal investigator Jacques Vallee, April 15, 1975 to October 31, 1977, $166,200. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=7505297 ↩︎

  12. National Science Foundation, award 7505298, "Extended Field Testing of Computer Conferencing, an Investigation of Social, Managerial, and Economic Issues in Computer-Based Communication," Institute For the Future (California), principal investigator Jacques Vallee, January 1, 1975 to July 31, 1977, $133,700. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=7505298 ↩︎

  13. National Science Foundation, award 7600512, "An Evaluation of the Use of Computer Conferencing to Improve Productivity in Research and Development," Institute For the Future (California), principal investigator Jacques Vallee, November 15, 1975 to April 30, 1978, $154,200. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=7600512 ↩︎

  14. National Science Foundation, award 7820720, "Development of Formal Representations of Computer-Based Group Communication," Infomedia Corporation, principal investigator Jacques Vallee, February 15, 1979 to May 31, 1980, $41,704. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=7820720 ↩︎

  15. Kevin H. Knuth et al., "The New Science of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena (UAP)," arXiv:2502.06794v2 (March 30, 2025), Appendix A.17, "Dr. Jacques F. Vallée, Documatica Research," p. 145. The ARPA principal-investigator and fund statements are Vallée's own biographical note. https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06794 ↩︎

  16. Jacques Vallee, Arthur Hastings and Gerald Askevold, "Remote viewing experiments through computer conferencing," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 64, October 1976, pp. 1551-1552, as listed in reference 6 of the proceedings of the International Conference on Cybernetics and Society, September 19-21, 1977, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080055-4. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00787r000200080055-4 ↩︎

  17. Harry L. Snyder, Summary and Critical Evaluation of Research in Remote Viewing, Report RV-79-1, section K (Vallee, Hastings and Askevold), pp. 237-245, Table 17, and the discussion of simultaneous-subject experiments, CIA-RDP96-00787R000100260003-2. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00787r000100260003-2 ↩︎

  18. Harold E. Puthoff and Russell Targ, "Direct Perception of Remote Geographical Locations," invited paper, IEEE National Convention ELECTRO 77, New York, April 12, 1977, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080008-6. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00787r000200080008-6 ↩︎

  19. Annie Jacobsen, Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis (Little, Brown and Company, 2017), passages on Vallée's clearance, his SRI consultancy, the 1973 contract, Ingo Swann, Pat Price and virtual addressing. ↩︎

  20. Edwin C. May, Enhanced Human Performance Investigation (U), Final Technical Report, SRI Project 1291, December 1987, covering October 1, 1986 to September 30, 1987, title page and authorship block. CIA-RDP96-00789R002200150001-1. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00789r002200150001-1 ↩︎

  21. May, Enhanced Human Performance Investigation (U), December 1987, sections (2) "Initial Goals" and (3) "Description and Classification of Sites (DACOS)." CIA-RDP96-00787R000300100001-9. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00787r000300100001-9 ↩︎

  22. May, Enhanced Human Performance Investigation (U), December 1987, sections (4) "Results of Testing DACOS with Actual Remote Viewing Data" and (5) "Shortcomings of DACOS." CIA-RDP96-00787R000300100001-9. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00787r000300100001-9 ↩︎

  23. Vallée, Forbidden Science, vol. 5, chapter "September Eleven," entries "Hummingbird. Monday 29 September 2003" and "Austin. Thursday 2 October 2003," pp. 200-205. ↩︎

  24. United Nations General Assembly, 33rd session, document A/33/512, "Establishment of an agency or a department of the United Nations for undertaking, co-ordinating and disseminating the results of research into unidentified flying objects and related phenomena: Report of the Special Political Committee," December 16, 1978, paras. 1-9 and the recommended decision. https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/660888 ↩︎

  25. United Nations General Assembly, 33rd session, Special Political Committee, summary record of the 35th meeting, November 27, 1978, A/SPC/33/SR.35, paras. 1-22 (statements of Mr. Gairy, Mr. Friday, Mr. Hynek, Mr. Vallee and Lt. Col. Coyne). https://documents.un.org/api/symbol/access?s=A%2FSPC%2F33%2FSR.35&l=en&t=pdf ↩︎

  26. United Nations General Assembly, 33rd session, Special Political Committee, summary record of the 47th meeting, December 8, 1978, A/SPC/33/SR.47, paras. 1-8 (working paper 1 adopted by consensus). https://documents.un.org/api/symbol/access?s=A%2FSPC%2F33%2FSR.47&l=en&t=pdf ↩︎

  27. United Nations General Assembly, 33rd session, 87th plenary meeting, December 18, 1978, A/33/PV.87, decision 33/426. https://documents.un.org/api/symbol/access?s=A%2F33%2FPV.87&l=en&t=pdf ↩︎

  28. Juan Acevedo, Ralph Bunche Institute post on Jacques Vallée and the United Nations, June 1, 2026. https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/jacques-vallee-uap-and-the-united-nations-a-global-call-ignored/ ↩︎

  29. Vallée, Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969, entry "Chicago. Tuesday 21 June 1966," pp. 189-190. https://archive.org/details/vallee-jacques-forbidden-science_202407 ↩︎

  30. Vallée, Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969, entry "Chicago. Monday 15 May 1967." https://archive.org/details/vallee-jacques-forbidden-science_202407 ↩︎

  31. Garry P. Nolan, Jacques F. Vallee, Sizun Jiang and Larry G. Lemke, "Improved instrumental techniques, including isotopic analysis, applicable to the characterization of unusual materials with potential relevance to aerospace forensics," Progress in Aerospace Sciences 128 (January 2022), article 100788, doi:10.1016/j.paerosci.2021.100788. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paerosci.2021.100788 ↩︎

  32. Knuth et al., "The New Science of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena (UAP)," arXiv:2502.06794v2, section 5.3.2 "Council Bluffs, Iowa USA," citing Vallée, "Physical analyses in ten cases of unexplained aerial objects with material samples," Journal of Scientific Exploration 12 (3) (1998) 359-375, and the Nolan et al. paper. https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06794 ↩︎

  33. Luis Elizondo, Imminent (William Morrow, 2024), passages on the Council Bluffs slag analysis, AATIP and Vallée's career. ↩︎

  34. The Good Trouble Show, "Jacques Vallée on the First Peer-Reviewed UFO Paper in Progress in Aerospace Sciences," August 24, 2025. https://thegoodtroubleshow.substack.com/p/jacques-vallee-on-the-first-peer ↩︎

  35. Jason Colavito, "A Strange Account of Jacques Vallée's Efforts at Reputation Management," January 18, 2018. https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/a-strange-account-of-jacques-vallees-efforts-at-reputation-management ↩︎

  36. Mark O'Connell, The Close Encounters Man (2017), as reported in Colavito, "A Strange Account of Jacques Vallée's Efforts at Reputation Management" (January 18, 2018). https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/a-strange-account-of-jacques-vallees-efforts-at-reputation-management ↩︎

  37. Jason Colavito, "New Book from Jacques Vallée Claims Evidence for 1945 New Mexico UFO Crash," May 7, 2021, quoting the press release for the revised edition of Jacques Vallée and Paola Harris, Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret. https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/new-book-from-jacques-vallee-claims-evidence-for-1945-new-mexico-ufo-crash ↩︎

  38. Nextgov, "NASA Partners With Venture Capital Group," September 20, 2006. https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2006/09/nasa-partners-with-venture-capital-group/233363 ↩︎

  39. Satellite Today, "NASA Partners With Venture Capital Firm," September 22, 2006 (Red Planet Capital Inc., San Mateo; principals Banks, Burnette and Vallée; NASA investment of about $75 million over five years). https://www.satellitetoday.com/uncategorized/2006/09/22/nasa-partners-with-venture-capital-firm/ ↩︎

  40. Jacques Vallée, "Anges et investisseurs dans la Silicon Valley," Revue française de comptabilité no. 388 (May 2006), pp. 111 ff., reproducing a seminar of December 14, 2005 at the École de Paris du management, with the editors' note 2 on Vallée's fund roles. Computer History Museum archive copy 102784081-05-01 (French). https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2018/07/102784081-05-01-acc.pdf ↩︎

  41. National Institute for Discovery Science, "Personnel and Science Advisory Board," nidsci.org, Internet Archive capture of December 6, 2000. https://web.archive.org/web/20001206032200/http://www.nidsci.org/personnel.html ↩︎

  42. National Institute for Discovery Science, personnel page, Internet Archive captures of June 22, 2000 (https://web.archive.org/web/20000622040455/http://www.nidsci.org/personnel.html), August 6, 2001 (https://web.archive.org/web/20010806075913/http://www.nidsci.org/personnel.html), October 4, 2002 (https://web.archive.org/web/20021004033623/http://www.nidsci.org/personnel.html), April 2, 2004 (https://web.archive.org/web/20040402072119/http://www.nidsci.org/personnel.html) and May 9, 2008 (https://web.archive.org/web/20080509140330/http://www.nidsci.org/personnel.php). ↩︎

  43. Knuth et al., "The New Science of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena (UAP)," arXiv:2502.06794v2, section on the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena ("Jacques Vallée who also served on their Advisory Board"), and Appendix A.17. https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06794 ↩︎

  44. Micah Hanks, "The Sol Foundation, Academia's New UAP Think Tank, Releases Videos of Lectures from Its Inaugural Symposium," The Debrief, February 12, 2024. https://thedebrief.org/the-sol-foundation-academias-new-uap-think-tank-releases-videos-of-lectures-from-its-inaugural-symposium/ ↩︎

  45. Jacques Vallée, Passport to Magonia (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1969), Internet Archive copy. https://archive.org/details/270532257-passport-to-magonia ↩︎