International Business Times: Top Scientist Jacques Vallée Says UFO Databases Logged 260,000 Sightings and ’Non-Human Creatures’
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Jacques Vallée
Jacques Fabrice Vallée is a French Internet pioneer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, ufologist and astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California and Paris, France.
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Born 24 September 1939 · Q92635
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2022· 2 entries
Vallée co-authored a peer-reviewed paper with Stanford pathology professor Garry Nolan in the journal Progress in Aerospace Sciences, examining modern mass spectrometry techniques for analyzing unidentified materials
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Wired reported that Vallée's collection in AOTI would include files on about 500 anomalous events that he investigated
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1996· 1 entry
Had fake alien pilots named Jacques Sheaffer and Robert Vallee
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1990· 1 entry
“Presented at the Eighth Annual Conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration, Boulder, Colorado, June 1989.”
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1983· 1 entry
Vallée entered the venture capital sphere as a partner at Sofinnova
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1979· 1 entry
Robert Emenegger and Alan Sandler updated their 1974 UFOs: Past, Present, and Future documentary with new 1979 footage narrated by Jacques Vallée
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1974· 1 entry
“Supported by National Science Foundation Grant GJ-35 326X and Advanced Resesrch Projects Agency Contract No. DAHC 15 72 C 0165.”
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1973· 1 entry
Doubleday editor Bill Whitehead introduced Vallée to Ira Einhorn, a close confederate of Puharich; their association would span Vallée's business and paranormal networks until Einhorn was charged with murdering his ex-gi
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1971· 1 entry
Vallée left Stanford to join the Engelbart group as a senior research engineer
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1970· 1 entry
Vallée became a consultant to Stanford applied physicist Peter A
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1963· 1 entry
Vallée relocated to Chicago, Illinois
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1962· 1 entry
And began working as a research associate in astronomy under Gérard de Vaucouleurs at the University of Texas at Austin
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1961· 2 entries
Awarded Prix Jules-Verne (1961).
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While working on the staff of the French Space Committee, Vallée claims to have witnessed the destruction of the tracking tapes of an unknown object orbiting the Earth
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1959· 1 entry
And received the equivalent of an MS in astrophysics from the University of Lille Nord de France in 1961
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1939· 1 entry
Born 1939-09-24.
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