In
Confrontations,
the second volume of a trilogy, Dr. Jacques Vallee personally
investigates forty astonishing UFO cases from around the world. He
finds it shocking that professional scientists have never seriously
examined this material. This book is about the hopes, experiences, and
the frustrations of a scientist who has gone into the field to
investigate a bizarre, seductive, and often terrifying phenomenon
reported by many witnesses as a contact with an alien form of
intelligence.
About Jacques Vallee...
Dr. Jacques
Vallee was born in France, where he received a
Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the Sorbonne and a
Master of Science in astrophysics from the University of Lille. He
began his professional life as an astronomer at the Paris Observatory
in 1961. While on the staff of the French Space Committee, he witnessed
the destruction of the tracking tapes of unknown objects orbiting the
earth, initiating a lifelong interest in the UFO phenomenon. Vallee
arrived in the U.S. in 1962, worked in astronomy at the University of
Texas at Austin, and wrote two highly respected scientific examinations
arguing for the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) of UFO origins. In
1967, he received a Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern
University, where he became a close associate of J. Allen Hynek, then
scientific consultant for the U.S. Air Force on Project Blue Book.
Eventually concluding that the ETH was too narrow to encompass the
burgeoning UFO data, he conducted his own extensive global research,
resulting in the “Alien Contact Trilogy.” Dr. Vallee is presently a
venture capitalist living in San Francisco. His website is www.jacquesvallee.com.
Read the other two volumes in the trilogy: Dimensions
and Revelations.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
xi
Prologue 3
Introduction 6
PART ONE: A PARADE OF PARAMETERS 25
1. Megawatts 27
2. Liquid Sky 42
3. Infinity Focus 57
PART TWO: LESSONS IN HUMILITY 67
4. Winery Frog
71
5. Smoke Alarm 79
6. Beacon Probe 88
PART THREE: THE PRICE OF CONTACT 99
7. Botanical Data 101
8. Clinical Data 112
9. Lethal Impact 124
PART FOUR: STALKING THE INTRUDERS 141
10. Visitor Profiles 147
11. Happy Camp 163
12. Copper Medic 181
PART FIVE: THE HEART OF THE MATTER 195
13. Deer Hunters 199
14. High Beams 214
15. Ground Truth 220
Conclusion 227
Appendix: Bringing Order Out of Chaos 231
Case Index 242
Notes 245
Index 253
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What they're
saying...
“Absolutely
fascinating...By far the most interesting and scientific commentator on
the UFO phenomenon.”
– Colin Wilson
“With this book, Jacques Vallee
has added another important and reasoned analysis to his earlier and
now classic considerations of the UFO conundrum…No serious student of
UFOs (pro or con) should ignore this addition to the debate.”
– Marcello Truzzi
"Jacques
Vallee has again shown why he should be regarded as perhaps our
foremost contemporary UFO researcher. In this dark but deeply absorbing
book, he has made the strongest case yet for his position that the
reality of UFOs is far stranger, and even more omninous, than popular
theories of extraterrestrial visitation would have us believe."
– Kenneth Ring
“Vallee has written another thoughtful and stimulating UFO book…Highly
recommended.”
– Booklist
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