What does Jacques Vallee say about Extraterrestrials in his book Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception? Is he a believer? Does he have any thoughts about Them as Spirits, as Native Americans say, or Gods as the Egyptians would say?

"There is a genuine UFO phenomenon and it is not explained by the revelations of alleged government agents... it is associated with a form of nonhuman consciousness that manipulates space and time in ways we do not understand." [page 236]

That seems pretty scientifically clear-unclear, as usual from scientists. He spends a lot of the book criticizing UFO researchers who were and are government officials in the military or science establishments, who appear to have some kind of suspicious agenda, but his own credential with the Dept. of Defense, and with Dr. Hynek reveal that he's one of them too.

On page 167 of 'Revelations' he tells us, "Twenty years ago I used to sit in Dr. Hynek's study in Evanston (Illinois?) to read two-page telex messages sent to the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. They would originate in such places as the control tower at Okinawa Air Force Base and would be directed to FTD (Pentagon) and a bewildering series of other addresses that included CIA, NSA, JCS (Joint Chiefs of Staff), the White House, State Department, and a dozen other places."

Jacques Vallee has a Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern University, and his bio says he was born in France and trained in astrophysics. He was an investigator for the Department of Defense's computer networking projects, and worked with Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a former U.S. Government astronomer and an icon in Ufology circles.

His involvement with Steven Spielberg's blockbuster movie completes his establishment credentials, which of course allow mainstream New York publishers to play it safe too. When my 7-year old daughter first saw 'Close Encounters' a few years ago, she said with disdain in her voice, "Why are the aliens little children?"

Nevertheless, Vallee goes on to write a scathing indictment of the UFO Establishment of which he is a part, and used to be. (He seems to be pariah now, since this book came out in 1991, and hasn't ever been invited to one of the 3 dueling UFO Festivals at Roswell every year)

He starts right out in the Introduction with this: "The UFO mystery holds a mirror to our own fantasies, it expresses our secret longings for a wisdom that might come down from the stars in new, improved, easy-to-use packaging." Have you ever noticed how logical technicians like to call something a "mystery" when it doesn't fit their paradigms, and which explains away everything which doesn't fit into logic and reason? By dismissing UFOs or gods or spirits as "mysteries" that have controlled and ended the discussion and analysis with a very illogical and contradictory conclusion.

"All that can be said today about the genuine UFO phenomenon is that it involves human consciousness as well as physical effects in its manifestations." But ... didn't he say at the end of the book that it is "associated with a form of nonhuman consciousness"?

He goes right on in to the logical history with 'Part One, Alien Retrievals'. "We may be witnessing here the birth of a powerful new myth, perhaps even the emergence of a new religion." Sounds like Carl Sagan in his book and blockbuster movie 'Contact' assuring us science will find life out there, somewhere, inevitably in the zillions of stars and planets. Logic dictates there has to be some other life-form out there, and we are going to worship it as intelligent, rational earth scientists. Never mind they haven't found a single piece of evidence to support life elsewhere - except maybe water crystals on the north pole of Mars, microbial bacteria in a meteorite from Mars found in Antarctica millions of years old, but not a peep from the Very Large Array of billion-dollar radio radars and SETI astronomers everywhere.

He is, however, very indignant at charlatans who claim to know something more than the good folks poking around in Observatories and university laboratories. "The story I had just heard was a contactee tale of the type made notorious by George Adamski in the early Fifties. (Adamski was a self-styled friend of the Venusians; he published two books with obviously faked photographs in support of his claims.)" [p. 33]

Now, Adamski was just a regular Joe working at a hot dog stand at Mount Palomar in California, with no academic credits at all. But what he did was put together a couple of small, crude telescopes of his own and sat outside for hours just about every night, for years, looking at the stars. He ended up seeing a lot of things, as anyone knows in the West where we have very clear, dark skies far away from city pollution, you're going to see a lot of beautiful meteors, and other things. He attached cameras to his telescopes and took thousands of pictures, which I've read were verified by photographic experts. The photos in his books, especially 'Inside the Spaceships' [1955,George Adamski Foundation, P.O. Box 1722, Vista, CA 92085] are unlike most of the blurry flashes that pass for UFO sightings today. They are clear and close, and they are classical Saucers. Sure, his statements that there are rivers on the dark side of the Moon and cities in Venus are hard to swallow, but then so are Professor Steven Hawking's statements that this is a "Finite infinity" we're living in.

"In my opinion there is a genuine, unexplained cattle mutilation mystery." Why does it have to be "unexplained"? Because science can't explain it? American Indians recognize that a lot of these animals were spirit sacrifices, which their traditions have told them go back into timeless antiquity. It's the same racist arrogance that went to the sacred mountain of 'Devil's Tower' in Wyoming, and Spielberg completely ignored its religious significance to the local Cheyennes and Crows and Lakotas. Neither Valle nor Spielberg have ever asked Indians what they think of the mutilations, as far as I know.

He goes on in a conversation with another character, on page 63, "'There are four types of aliens,' resumed Bill Cooper after the waitress had brought him a second Chivas. 'There are two kinds of Grays, including one race, not commonly seen, that has a large nose. Then there are the Nordic types, tall blond Aryans, and finally the Orange ones.'

'Where do they come from?'

'I remember seeing several points of origin mentioned: Orion, the Pleiades, Betelgeuse, Barnard's Star, and Zeta Reticuli.'"

Some of this accurately coincides with Native shamanic knowledge, especially the connection to Orion and The Pleiades. And both Adamski and Travis Walton (1975 contact) describe tall Nordic types, and so do Betty and Barney Hill (1961 contact). None of them saw hollywoodian little children-aliens.

Another interviewee tells Vallee something that exactly resembles the underground-craft depicted in the 1953 masterpiece 'Invaders From Mars'. "By the way, their craft don't crash when they are disabled, they settle in the impact crater where the dirt has been pushed aside." Well of course that's how H.G. Wells described the Martian ships in his brilliant 1896 short story 'War of The Worlds', greatly beloved by hollywood hacks. Wells was directly influenced by Flagstaff astronomer Percival Lowell's 1895 book 'Mars'. And Lowell in turn loved the Greek myth of Persephone and Hades who lived in the eerie Underworld.

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