Passport to Magonia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds

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PLANET – IRC History, ARPANET Chat, Conferencing, Jacques Vallee, Internet." Living Internet. Accessed June 30, 2021. Archived from the original. Vallée's opposition to the popular ETH was not well received by prominent U.S. ufologists, hence he was viewed as something of an outcast. Indeed, Vallée refers to himself as a " heretic among heretics". Mahar, Ted. "UFO Scientist Says Search Needs Skeptics Jacques Vallee Employs both Respect and Analysis." Oregonian (June 4, 1990) p. D1.

Vallée served as the real-life model for Lacombe, the researcher portrayed by François Truffaut in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. [8] He also attempted to interest Spielberg in an alternative explanation for the phenomenon. In an interview on Conspire.com, Vallée said, "I argued with him that the subject was even more interesting if it wasn't extraterrestrials. If it was real, physical, but not ET. So he said, 'You're probably right, but that's not what the public is expecting— this is Hollywood and I want to give people something that's close to what they expect.'" [9] Filmography [ edit ]One noon in September, 1702, the sun took on a bloody color several days in succession and cottonlike threads fell down, apparently falling from the sun itself—phenomena reminiscent of the 1917 observations in Fatima, Portugal.” A fascinating book, that opened up a whole mysterious field. If the phenomena is one of parallel dimensions, the story we tell ourselves about that encounter changes according to our cultural expectations.

Vallee, Jacques (2021). "Archives of the Impossible Oral Histories". Archives of the Impossible Oral Histories, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University. Rice University. hdl: 1911/111924. In the 70’s, Vallee served as one of the Principal investigators of DARPA and led the team which built the world's first software collaboration system, running on Arpanet, the prototype for the Internet. Joining Stanford Research Institute and the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, Vallee formed friendships with Hal Puthoff, Russell Targ, and Kit Green and consulted on SRI’s classified remote viewing programs (including the Stargate Project), which were supported by several government agencies. In 1978, Vallee was part of a panel of experts (which included NASA Astronaut Gordon Cooper, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, military and government officials) that presented a plan for UFO research at the United Nations. Jacques F. Vallee was one of the first scientists to closely study UFO phenomenon. He goes beyond a simple examination and compares it to the fairy religions and mythologies from the past. Passport to Magonia is one of his most well-known works. Dutton, Paul Edward (2004). Carolingian civilization: a reader (2nded.). Peterborough, Ont.: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 1551114925. There is one and only ONE (yes ONE) time where he, the only and original source, talks about the story of Magonia, situated in the chapter II, here it is :of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars Passport to Magonia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds by Jacques F. Vallée De Grandine et Tonitruis pp. 8-10: "Plerosque autem vidimus et audivimus tanta dementia obrutos, tanta stultitia alienatos, ut credant et dicant quandam esse regionem, quæ dicatur Magonia, ex qua naves veniant in nubibus, in quibus fruges, quæ grandinibus decidunt, et tempestatibus pereunt, vehantur in eamdem regionem, ipsis videlicet nautis aëreis dantibus pretia tempestariis, et accipientibus frumenta vel ceteras fruges. Ex his item tam profunda stultitia excoecatis, ut haec posse fieri credant, vidimus plures in quodam conventu hominum exhibere vinctos quatuor homines, tres viros, et unam feminam, quasi qui de ipsis navibus ceciderint; quos scilicet per aliquot dies in vinculis detentos, tandem collecto conventu hominum exhibuerunt, ut dixi, in nostra præsentia, tanquam lapidandos. Sed tamen vincente veritate, post multam ratiocinationem, ipsi qui eos exhibuerant, secundum propheticum illud confusi sunt, sicut confunditur fur quando deprehenditur".

Computer Message Systems. Data Communications Book Series. New York: McGraw-Hill (August 1984). ISBN 0070510318. The Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist. Berkeley: And/Or Press (1982). ISBN 0140071172. Plerosque autem vidimus et audivimus tanta dementia obrutos, tanta stultitia alienatos, ut credant et dicant quamdam esse regionem, quae dicatur Magonia, ex qua naves veniant in nubibus,...Let us come to the point now. It would be nice to hold on to the common belief that the UFOs are craft from a superior space-civilization, because this is a hypothesis science fiction has made widely acceptable, and because we are not altogether unprepared, scientifically and even, perhaps, militarily, to deal with such visitors. Unfortunately, however, the theory that flying saucers are material objects from outer space manned by a race originating on some other planet is not a complete answer. However strong the current belief in saucers from space, it cannot be stronger than the Celtic faith in the elves and the fairies, or the medieval belief in lutins, or the fear throughout the Christian lands, in the first centuries of our era, of demons and satyrs and fauns. Certainly, it cannot be stronger than the faith that inspired the writers of the Bible—a faith rooted in daily experiences with angelic visitation.”

You would think that with his degrees in astrophysics and mathematics, Vallee would present a hardnosed scientific guidebook that provides rational – and terrestrial – explanations for the many UFO sightings reported in the first half of the 20th century. Yet the sub-title of his wonderful text immediately indicates otherwise. Instead of crutching on physics to explain why UFOs can or can’t be visiting the earth, Vallee becomes part folklorist and part historian and offers counter theories to explain alleged extraterrestrial phenomena.But those who know the career of Vallée shouldn’t be surprised one bit ; what to expect from a man that However, by 1969, Vallée's conclusions had changed, and he publicly stated that the ETH was too narrow and ignored too much data. Vallée began exploring the commonalities between UFOs, cults, religious movements, demons, angels, ghosts, cryptid sightings, and psychic phenomena. His speculation about these potential links was first detailed in his third UFO book, Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers. [4] This article's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines. Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links, and converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references. ( June 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)