Confrontations
A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact
by Jacques Vallee
Trade Paperback, 280 Pages, 21 Illustrations
$19.95, ISBN: 1933665297
Genre(s):
UFOs
A SCIENTIFIC DETECTIVE STORY
In Confrontations, the second volume of his Alien Contact 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 the Author: 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.
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Don't miss the other two volumes in the Alien Contact Trilogy: Dimensions and Revelations.
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Other Anomalist Books by Jacques Vallee:
Forbidden Science 1: A Passion for Discovery, The Journals of Jacques Vallee 1957-1969
Forbidden Science 2: California Hermetica, The Journals of Jacques Vallee 1970-1979
Forbidden Science 3: On the Trail of Hidden Truths, The Journals of Jacques Vallee 1980-1989
Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact
Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception
The Invisible College: What a Group of Scientists Has Discovered About UFO Influences on the Human Race
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 |
