Жак Валле: Ғалым, компьютерші және белгісіз құбылыстар зерттеушісі

Computer scientist, ufologist

Jacques Fabrice Vallée (ʒak fabʁis vale; born September 24, 1939) is an Internet pioneer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, ufologist and astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California and Paris, France. His scientific career began as a professional astronomer at the Paris Observatory. Vallée co developed the first computerized map of Mars for NASA in 1963. He later worked on the network information center for the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet, as a staff engineer of SRI International's Augmentation Research Center (ARC) under Douglas Engelbart. Vallée is also an important figure in the study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs). Vallée was first noted for his defense of the scientific legitimacy of the extraterrestrial hypothesis and later for promoting the interdimensional hypothesis.

Vallée was born in Pontoise, France in 1939. He completed his undergraduate degree in mathematics at the University of Paris in 1959 and received the equivalent of an MS in astrophysics from the University of Lille Nord de France in 1961. He began his professional life as an astronomer at the Paris Observatory in 1961. He was awarded the Jules Verne Prize for his first science fiction novel, Le Sub espace (1961), published under the pseudonym of Jérôme Sériel.

In 1979, Robert Emenegger and Alan Sandler updated their 1974 UFOs: Past, Present, and Future documentary with new 1979 footage narrated by Jacques Vallée. The updated version is entitled UFOs: It Has Begun. 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. 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.'"

Episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" of X Files which aired on April 12, 1996 had fake alien pilots named Jacques Sheaffer and Robert Vallee. According to Robert Sheaffer this was a joke by the X Files creator Chris Carter to name the characters after Vallee and Sheaffer. Sheaffer further states that "the M. P. who later arrested them [the characters] was Sgt. Hynek", a reference to ufologist J. Allen Hynek.

Vallée was married to Janine Saley until her death in 2010. They have two children.

"An Automatic Question answering System for Stellar Astronomy," with J. Allen Hynek. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 78, no. 463 (August 1966): 315 323. . Richard J. Rosa, William T. Powers, Thomas R. P. Gibb, Jr., Philip C. Steffey, Isabel R. A. García, and George Cohen also had letters. "Group Communication Through Electronic Media: Fundamental Choices and Social Effects," with Robert Johansen and Richard H. Miller. Educational Technology, vol. 14, no. 8 (August 1974): 7 20. . "Remote Viewing and Computer Communications: An Experiment." Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 2, no. 1 (1988) pp. 13–27. "Five Arguments Against the Extraterrestrial Origin of Unidentified Flying Objects." Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 4, no. 1 (1990): 105 117. archived
"Presented at the Eighth Annual Conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration, Boulder, Colorado, June 1989." "Estimates of Optical Power Output in Six Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity Characteristics." Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 12, no. 3 (1998) pp. 345–358. "Physical Analyses in Ten Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Material Samples." Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 12, no. 3 (1998) pp. 359–375. "Six Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity Characteristics." Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 12, no. 3 (Autumn 1998) pp. 345–358. "Improved instrumental techniques, including isotopic analysis, applicable to the characterization of unusual materials with potential relevance to aerospace forensics," with Garry P. Nolan, Sizun Jiang, Larry G. Lemke. Progress in Aerospace Sciences, vol. 128 (Jan. 2022). .

Group Communication Through Computers, Vol. 1: Design and Use of the FORUM System, with Hubert M. Lipinski and Richard H. Miller. Menlo Park, Calif.: Institute for the Future (July 1974). "Supported by National Science Foundation Grant GJ 35 326X and Advanced Resesrch Projects Agency Contract No. DAHC 15 72 C 0165."

Report from the Field: Scientific Issues in the UFO Phenomenon (presentation). George Washington University (November 8, 2002). "Crop Circles: 'Signs' From Above or Human Artifacts? Some personal speculations on a fractal theme." ufocasebook. com. "Are UFO Events related to Sidereal Time? Arguments against a proposed correlation." jacquesvallee. com.