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Author: Jacques Vallee
Publisher: Anomalist Books LLC
Imprint: Anomalist Books LLC
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.400kg
ISBN: 9781933665306
ISBN 10: 1933665300
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 02 January 2008
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD
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Reviews
[A] bracing finale to Vallee's 'Alien Contact trilogy' ... Here, deftly blending theory and memoir, he attempts to clear UFOlogy of 'the weeds and the vines of human fantasy and...the poisonous flowers of unbalanced minds' ...[This is] a forceful and refreshingly iconoclastic study that, for all its good sense, will likely add up to only a cry in the alien-infested UFO wilderness. - Kirkus Reviews Vallee [is] a respected investigator in a difficult field...Readers with some background in the puzzling UFO phenomenon of the last 40 years will appreciate his insights. He pulls no punches with both government obfuscation and the lunatic fringe of UFO cultists. Most valuable is his international scope...Recommended. - Library Journal
"""[A] bracing finale to Vallee's 'Alien Contact trilogy' ... Here, deftly blending theory and memoir, he attempts to clear UFOlogy of 'the weeds and the vines of human fantasy and...the poisonous flowers of unbalanced minds' ...[This is] a forceful and refreshingly iconoclastic study that, for all its good sense, will likely add up to only a cry in the alien-infested UFO wilderness."" - Kirkus Reviews ""Vallee [is] a respected investigator in a difficult field...Readers with some background in the puzzling UFO phenomenon of the last 40 years will appreciate his insights. He pulls no punches with both government obfuscation and the lunatic fringe of UFO cultists. Most valuable is his international scope...Recommended."" - Library Journal"
Author Information
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.
