Jacques Vallee's personal interest in the UFO phenomenon was
actually motivated by his own UFO sighting in 1955, in his
home country of France. Years later, in 1961, Vallee became
further intrigued by UFO's, when he realized that important
evidence was purposely being destroyed, which clearly proved
that unusual objects were being observed in the atmosphere
around the Earth. In the 1990's, Dr. Vallee participated in
an interview with the online e-zine "50 GCAT". Hosted by Jon
Vankin and John Whalen, the authors of the popular book, "50
Greatest Conspiracies Of All Time", this site was formerly
located at conspire.com. During the course of the interview,
which was entitled "Heretic Among Heretics: Jacques Vallee
Interview", Vallee related the 1961 incident in which he was
personally involved:

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"My first job was at Paris Observatory, tracking satellites;
and we started tracking objects that were not satellites,
were fairly elusive; and so we decided that we would pay
attention to those objects, even though they were not on the
schedule of normal satellites. And one night, we got eleven
data points on one of these objects. It was very bright. It
was also retrograde. This was at a time when there was no
rocket powerful enough to launch a retrograde satellite; a
satellite that goes around opposite to the rotation of the
Earth, where you obviously need to overcome the Earth's
gravity going the other direction. You have to reach escape
velocity in the direction opposite the rotation of the
Earth, which takes a lot more energy than the direct
direction. And the man in charge of the project confiscated
the tape, and erased it the next morning."

"So that's really what got me interested; because up to then
I thought, scientists don't seem to be interested in UFOs;
astronomers don't report anything unusual in the sky; so
there probably isn't anything to it. Effectively, I was in
the same position that most scientists are in today: You
trust your colleagues; and because you don't see any reports
from credible, technical witnesses, you assume that there is
nothing. And there I was with a technical report. I don't
know what it was. It wasn't a flying saucer. It didn't land
close to the observatory. But still, it was a mystery. And
instead of looking at the data and preserving the data, we
were destroying it."

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When asked by the 50 GCAT interviewer why the tape had been
destroyed, Dr. Vallee responded:

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Just fear of ridicule. He thought that the Americans would
laugh at us if we sent it. All of the data on satellites was
being concentrated in the U.S.; and we were exchanging our
data with international bodies, and he just didn't want
Paris Observatory to look silly by reporting something that
he could not identify in the sky . . . Later, I found out
that other observatories had made exactly the same
observation; and that, in fact, American tracking stations
had photographed the same thing, and could not identify it
either. It was a first magnitude object; it was as bright as
[the star] Sirius. You couldn't miss it. It didn't reappear
in successive weeks. It's just a little anecdote, but to me,
that fact that we destroyed it was more important than what
we saw; and that reopened the whole question for me: Are
there things that scientists are observing and not talking
about?"

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Like many UFO researchers of the 1960's, initially, Vallee
entertained the possibility that UFO's might originate from
beyond the Earth. However, as Dr. Vallee would later point
out in his 1969 book "Passport To Magonia: From Folklore To
Flying Saucers", his examination of the relationship between
UFO sightings and alien encounters, and historical religious
movements and beliefs, as well as occult practitioners and
psychic phenomena, would eventually lead him to dismiss the
ETH, or Extraterrestrial Hypothesis, as being inaccurate, or
at the very least, short-sighted. To Dr. Vallee, the facts
simply did not point to real extraterrestrial encounters,
but rather to something which is more closely associated
with the Earth. Doctor Vallee has stated:

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"We are dealing with a yet unrecognized level of
consciousness, independent of man but closely linked to the
earth . . . I do not believe anymore that UFOs are simply
the spacecraft of some race of extraterrestrial visitors.
This notion is too simplistic to explain their appearance,
the frequency of their manifestations through recorded
history, and the structure of the information exchanged with
them during contact."

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Dr. Jacques Vallee was influenced in part by the research of
noted Swiss psychologist, Carl Jung, who was a contemporary
of Sigmund Freud. In his later years, Jung became interested
in the UFO phenomenon. In his 1959 book, "Flying Saucers: A
Modern Myth Of Things Seen In The Skies", Dr. Jung expressed
serious reservations regarding the physical reality of UFO's.
Instead, Jung proposed that flying saucers may simply be a
psychic projection of the human mind. This manifestation may
be triggered by emotional tension, resulting from some form
of distress or sense of danger. In fact, Dr. Jung seemed to
think that the collective unconscious mind could produce
what today we refer to as mass UFO sightings.

In other words, people who are totally unrelated, unknown to
each other, and independently of each other, could trigger a
mass UFO sighting event simply by thinking it into being. We
could subconsciously cause a UFO to materialize. According
to Jung, we could in essence manifest our own visions. Given
the stressful, perilous times in which we currently live, he
also believed that unlike in ages past, where these psychic
projections may have manifested themselves as angels, today,
our "saviors" and "messiahs" would appear in a manner which
conforms more with our current state of technology; that is,
as flying discs. As I will be pointing out later on in this
series, this is precisely what has occurred. Tales of benign
"Space Brothers" who are coming to help heal our planet, and
save the people of Earth, are rampant amongst New Age and
UFO websites.

It is interesting to note, however, that in spite of Jung's
attempts to rationalize UFO sightings as being nothing more
than psychic projections of the unconscious mind, in the
end, even he was faced with evidence which both challenged
and contradicted his mode of thinking. If, as he believed,
flying saucers possess no physical properties, how is it
that so many of them have been recorded on radar tracking
stations? To this nagging question, Jung could provide no
convincing answer, and it left him befuddled.

But let us return now to the research of Dr. Jacques Vallee.
In his controversial paper entitled "Five Arguments Against
The Extraterrestrial Origin Of Unidentified Flying Objects",
published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration in 1990,
Vallee offered five key reasons why he could no longer fully
embrace the Extraterrestrial Visitation Hypothesis. Instead,
Dr. Vallee adopts what he refers to as the "Multidimensional
Visitation Hypothesis"; which, in a word, proposes that the
"visitors", whoever, and whatever they are, could originate
from other places, besides Outer Space. Vallee suggests that
the "visitors" may come from other planes of existence which
coincide with our own. In other words, these creatures could
be inter-dimensional beings which possess the power, or the
technology, to transverse planes at will. Vallee states:

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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:

1. unexplained close encounters are far more numerous than
required for any physical survey of the earth;

2. the humanoid body structure of the alleged "aliens" is
not likely to have originated on another planet and is not
biologically adapted to space travel;

3. the reported behavior in thousands of abduction reports
contradicts the hypothesis of genetic or scientific
experimentation on humans by an advanced race;

4. the extension of the phenomenon throughout recorded human
history demonstrates that UFOs are not a contemporary
phenomenon; and

5. the apparent ability of UFOs to manipulate space and time
suggests radically different and richer alternatives.

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