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Jacques Vallee | 288 pages | 30 Jun 2008 | Daily Grail Publishing | 9780975720042 | English | Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults - Jacques Vallee - Google Books

The man standing at the left is the main witness,patrolman Lonnie Zamora. Photo courtesy of United Press I nternational. For the world of the comingdecades, the key symbol may well be a shining disk from heaven. Many people around us today are preparing to greet it with delight,even if that means falling under the control of forces they do notunderstand. These people are the UFO and the believersin celestial visitation, the followers of the saucer prophets. They canpave the way for dramatic changes. It is a common mistake to assume that contactees are alwaysirresponsible crackpots or elderly mystics. A case in point is ayoung man named Gregory, whom I used to know as a systemsprogrammer with one of ou r lead ing "think tanks. He is now publishing a newsletter devotedto his experiences with higher entities; he believes that, in so doing,he follows the telepathic instructions of a superior force. Some feelthat he has found a new moral framework based on revelation. Others argue that he is the victim of a delusion that could spread In either case, the implications are serious. It is notbecause of their numbers or because of their leaders thirst for powerthat the followers of such sects will be especially influential. Ourinstitutions are vulnerable to the spreading belief in the irrational. People like Gregory do offer us a new dream, but it is so far fromreality that it could easily turn into a complete fantasy. Here is asample of his writing, of his pseudo-historical "revelations receivedfrom wise beings who fly through outer space: On the eastern shore of the Peaceful Sea, broughr forth the American Republic. For the purpose of assembling the high consciousness required to conceive and establish this new Union, God sent His son Melchizedek, one time Lord of Salem, unto Christopher Columbus. Other groups have overt political purposes. The leader ofone such group told me: The Earth is the property of one group of saucers that controls this end of the universe, and they call themselves the Brothers, and they are the ones who brought the Christ on Earth years ago. If we get a little out of control, and maybe Russia would start to throw some missiles at us, from Cuba. They told us they would. This group of contactees is nationally organized as a political party. Before we reject these views as examples of harmless lunacy, weshould observe that people once had the same view of the Churchof Scientology. Indeed, the inventor of Dianetics is said to havepracticed ritual with a rocket expert named Jack Parsons,who met in the Mojave Desert in a "Spiritual Being" whomhe regarded as a Venusian. People also used to reject completelythe beliefs of the Mormon Church, whose founder would today be But how many religious movements startedin the same way? For every individual who is openly identified as a contactee,how many more have received what they regard as a "secretillumination"? It is apparent that the transformation they undergocan strike at any place and at any age. Is it purely random, then, or dothe UFOs select their "victims? Does it spread like an epidemic, ordoes it develop like a psychosis? Although one group of contacteeswas studied in detail by sociologist Leon Festinger in his book , we do not really know the answers to thesequestions, because too few of the contactees have been carefullyinvestigated. What we do know is that their transformation releasesideas that challenge established structures. The followers of modern UFO cults are often persons who, likeGregory, have become disenchanted with science and technology. Scientific reluctance to consider valid claims of paranormalphenomena is slowly driving many people to accept any claim ofsuperior or mystical contact. The voice of science has lied too often. A large fraction of the public has tuned it out completely. The social sciences have not yet achieved an understanding ofthe process by which new religious experiences arise and new sectsbecome influential churches; also, revolutionary cultural changesoften appear at first as the UFO sects do today to be irrational,absurd, and contemptible. There is an historical parallel for thisdisenchantment with rationalism. To the educated disciples ofAristotle and Plato, many religious writings such as the Apocalypse o St. John must have looked like laughable tissues of delusions f unworthy of scholarly examination. Aime Michel, the noted French author, has pointed out that none of these brilliant minds speculated for a second that such "lunacy," spreading among their ignorant slaves, might eventually spell the end of the Classical World. In the nineteenth century, the religious establishment laughed when a young man named Joseph Smith followed the orders given to him by an oflight named Moroni and founded the Mormon Today we find it easy to laugh at the UFO comactees likeGregory because they are still isolated. We dismiss the phenomenonthat fuels their beliefs as a mental aberration derived from aphysical mirage. Scientists joke about the strange lights reportedby housewives, and refuse to study the genuinely unexplainedphenomena that are contained, for example, in the files of the U. As for the claims of the contactees who believe they havebeen aboard the "vehicles," the scientists simply know this cannotbe true! By blatantly dismissing these claims, they are ignoringsome of the hard lessons of mans spiritual history. For, in the wordsof sociologists Glock and Stark, "all religious experiences, from thedimmest to the most frenzied, constitute occasions defined by thoseexperiencing them as an encounter between themselves and somesupernatural consciousness. Our idea of the church as a socialentity working within rational structures is obviously challengedby the claim of a direct communication with visible beings whoare endowed with powers. Some modern preachershave already recognized this challenge. Evangelist Billy Graham,for example, has suggested that UFOs may, in fact, be "heavenlyangels"; their occupants, he says, are "astonishingly angel-like insome of their reported appearances. But why restrict our interest to the traditional view of ? Anequally impressive parallel could be made between UFO occupantsand the popular conception of demons, and indeed sociologistshave pointed out that "the same elements are involved in diaboliccontacts as in the divine encounters of increasing intimacy withwhat is defined as a supernatural consciousness. I am afraid reason has much to lose. Once in power, however, it has fallen intocomplacency, has become unwilling to recognize the occurrence ofthe irrational. I think Aime Michel is correct when he draws ourattention to early confrontations of this kind. Western culture wentthrough such a confrontation when the fanatics of the early Churchdestroyed the Greek scientific establishment: The conversion which humanity underwent in antiquity was prepared by the collapse of the ancient religion, began in the middle of the Hellenistic period, and went on with ever greater strength under the Empire, until it was perfected in the victory of Christianity and the passing of the ancient culture into the Middle Ages,writes M. Nilsson in his book Greek Piety4 What he describesis the catastrophe that befell the ancient world, with its advancedknowledge of astronomy, of geometry, of mechanics, and ofphilosophy. During this grave crisis, the Greek rationalists proved tobe incapable of recognizing the cultural changes around them andfell into a thousand-year darkness. What form did the conflict take? It was a conversion from rationalism to mysticism: from the clear, logical lines of Greek thought to faith in the wonderful, supernatural, and supersensuous; from love of the beauty of the world and the body to flight from the world and condemnation of all that was corporeal. The counter-culture of UFO contact is moredurable, more subtle, because it is not tied to a particular socialgroup or age bracket. If the Science Adviser to the President ever decides to ponderseriously the policy questions posed by the UFO phenomenon,he might begin with the observation that the modern world facesspiritual bankruptcy because of its failure to deal with the irrational. What the barbarians did to the works of Plato and Aristotle, somenew cults may very well do to modern science and philosophy. Aime Michel once wrote to me in a depressed mood: All of this has happened before, complete with occupation of scientific citadels by "contactees" and with gradual replacement of experimental doubt by faith and . What strikes me most is the contempt in which the intellectuals of the time held their enemies. They found themselves killed or at least thrown out into the street before they could realize what was going on. The whole idea [of blind faith] had seemed so ridiculous to them that they had not even bothered to seek information about it. A young man who has spent months on the trail of contactee cultleaders "Bo and Peep" recently sent me a pathetic tape. His appealwas direct and profound: I am confused now. I go through periods of emotional agitation. I represent a person who is going through what normal people call a depression, or a difficult period. But I have gone through these difficult periods enough times so that now its quite creative. I know Im confused. Im really asking you for help. After two weeks with these girls on this Bo and Peep thing, I got I got as subtle as I believe my mind is capable of getting. I had to let go, give up believing that I could know. So I was driven to other faculties. Faith is one of them. I do have faith in the process, in the , beings more evolved than us, in flying saucers or not. And we pray to them in our language, we pray for specific things. The this young man has joined will be described in more detailin Chapter 4. I hope that he will find in this book some answersto his tragic puzzlement. His adventure makes obvious the depthof the emotions that the UFO counter-culture can generate andchannel. This "counter-culture" of modern contactees comes at atime when science has already shut itself off from the common man. At the same time, science has the power to determine the futureof humanity. It can destroy our planet. For all practical purposes,there is no longer any meaningful communication between theman in the street and the frontiers of research where such poweris generated and controlled. The language of eachdiscipline has become an esoteric jargon that cannot be penetratedeven by someone with an advanced education in another field. Scientists are often socially and geographically isolated. This isolation of knowledge is matched by the failure of other social structures. Here, too, the parallel with ancient Greece is interesting. Under these conditions - so similar to those of the Western worldtoday, in which human government is regarded with suspicion andin which education of the "emerging nations" by the affluent onesis nonexistent - what did the Greeks do? This sense of failure, this progressive loss of hope in the world, in sober calculation, and in organized human effort, threw the Greek back upon his own soul, upon the pursuit of personal holiness, upon emotions, mysteries, and revelations, upon the comparative neglect ofthis transitory and imperfect world for the sake of some dream world fur off. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a group leaderattempting to start a new cult based on revelation was likely tobe opposed by the combined powers of church and state. Moderncontact cults find fewer obstacles. The intolerance that destroyedearly heresies has gone out of fashion in our society. A morehumane attitude prevails toward groups with extreme beliefs. Themedia seek colorful theories to feed the publics expectations ofmiraculous "breakthroughs. I am not at the moment a member of any such Prologue - A Dream World Far Off 19group or sect, but I understand one thing: the idea of contact withso-called "higher" forms of consciousness has social and politicalimplications that go far beyond its appearance of being a simplescientific speculation. The public is already cynical about the roles and values ofgovernment, science, and the military establishment. The merestatement that unknown objects are penetrating our atmosphereand maneuvering at will would further erode the peoples confidencein all political structures. It would generate fear in many sectors. Consequently, governments in every country are trying to avoidsuch potential effi:cts by censoring information about unexplainedphenomena, as the discussion in the Paris restaurant quoted earlierindicates. But I doubt that censorship can long be effective in theface of continued sightings by the public. I think that UFOs represent an objective reality that we canstudy only by revolutionizing existing disciplines. Confrontingthe irrational means promoting pioneer research in physics andbiology. We also need to begin a kind of research that will takeUFO data as empirical observations and try to use them to initiatean interaction with the phenomenon itself. And we should do thisnow, before the new myth is created, before the myth o extraterrestrial frevelation replaces belie in the rational acquisition o knowledge. What kind of social reaction will appear then? There maybe new churches, new political movements. Each sector ofsociety willreact in its own way. The temptation will be great for our technocratsto respond by building giant facilities to eavesdrop on the universe,like the multi-billion-dollar projects already proposed by some radioastronomers. Although these projects would do nothing to explain theobservations of unusual objects on Earth, they might deflect some ofthe public pressure the observations are creating. Such projects mightbe an astute political move to prepare the public for other thingsto come, a wise form of life insurance for rationalists attempting topreserve their own power. But they could never solve the spiritual The real consequences will bemuch more complex, and will go much deeper. Ipropose: that the UFO we see is, amongother things, a device whichcreates a distortion o the witnesss reality; that it does so for a pur f pose,which is to pro ject images or fabricated scenes designed to change ourbeliefsystems; and that the technology we observe is only the incidentalsupportfor a worldwide enter prise o "subliminal seduction. The idea of contact with "alien" intelligenceshas acquired an explosive quality that goes far beyond the ludicrousappearance of a few fanatical statements by isolated believers. But itmust be faced - precisely because it is so potentially dangerous. Theseforces can be recognized; once they are recognized they can benurtured and used. The subtle power of groups like the contacteeslies in the unwillingness of existing structures to recognize thereality of new phenomena and the need for change. This failuremakes it necessary for each individual to deal with the challengeon his own spiritual level. I believe there is a machinery o mass manipulation behind the fUFO phenomenon. It aims at social and political goals by divertingattention from some human problems and by providing a potentialrelease for tensions caused by others. The contactees are a part ofthat machinery. I n turnthis expectation makes millions of people hope for the imminentrealization of that age-old dream: salvation from above, surrenderto the greater power of some wise navigators of the cosmos. I wish them bon voyage. However, if you take1 he trouble to join me in the analysis of the modern UFO myth,you will see human beings under the control of a strange force1 h3t is bending them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a rolein a bizarre game of deception. This role may be very important iflhanging social conditions make it desirable to focus the attentionof the public on the distant stars while obsolete human institutionsare wiped out and rebuilt in new ways. Are the manipulators, in1 he final analysis, nothing more than a group of who havemastered a very advanced form of power? Let me summarize my conclusions thus far. UFOs are real. Theyare physical devices used to affect human consciousness. They maynot be from outer space. Their purpose may be to achieve socialchanges on this planet, through a belief system that uses systematicmanipulation of witnesses and contactees; covert use of varioussects and cults; control of the channels through which the alleged"space messages" can make an impact on the public. Part One of this book will assemble the arguments against theidea that UFOs come from outer space. It will describe what thecontactees are actually experiencing,: confusion, helplessness, andoften despair. Part Two will expand the discussion to a subjectthat is shunned by all UFO researchers - politics. For if UFOsmake an impact on our social reality, they are bound to changeour political realities as well. This discussion will lead to a new"model" of what is happening, a model in which UFOs appearagainst the background of a worldwide manipulation operation. Part Three will show the brutal consequences of this model: itmay add apprehension to disappointment as we suggest thatthe mutilations of animals that are taking place throughout theWestern states are part of the same manipulation. A friend who read this book in manuscript advised me notto publish it: "Thats not what America wants to hear," he said. If UFOs are connected with unexplainedmutilation of cattle and with behavior modification on a grandscale, America doesnt want to know about it. The panel of investigators which the magazine maintains to reviewUFO cases - a committee on which leading civilian research groupsare represented - has decided that the link between UFOs and themutilators was an idea whose time had not yet come. All the UFOgroups have avoided the issue. I am of a different opinion. The public is equally impatient withthe believers rhetoric and with the official denials. It has now heardboth sides and suspects that both sides are lying. It is time, perhaps,ro take a long look at the facts. There is in many ofus, obviously, a dee p-seated desire to assentto extraterrestrial forces-to be embraced by them, overwhelmedby them, and ifpossible deprived by them o our own weary fresponsibility for ourselves. I told them I didnt know what an outer-space deal" looked like, but I do know this was made in America, I am sure. It had a plain old G. I in it, I know that much. I would know the man ifI saw him in Chicago tomorrow. What gets me is that ifthey are supposed to be such secrets, why do they put themselves in a compromising situation? Being near a highway - he did not have to be there; there wasnt any point in being there. Seated between Dr. and an astronaut, he describes thetwo robots who came down to take him into the UFO. There was abig machine with an eye, and it examined him. Ufological expertsacross America pull out their yellow pads and consult their data bases. The fisherman has been hypnotized by an engineer who learned thetechnique in his spare time and who assures us that the experiencewas real. A UFO "expert," having interviewed the witness in a roomfull of screaming reporters, has seen the truthfulness of his reactionsby the light of their flashbulbs. This is what America is being told- and it happens to be what America wants to hear. This man, we are asked to believe, is adding to the knowledgewe have of other worlds. The ufologists are cross-indexing his every In their view there is no room fordoubt: this fisherman seated beside Dr. Sagan, now making smalltalk with the astronaut who, by the way, may have seen a UFO inspace , has obviously observed the landing of a spacecraft, and hasbeen abducted by its robot occupants. The time has come to challenge this statement. I do not need alie-detector test to know the witness is describing what he saw. ButI dont buy the story that he saw a spacecraft from another planet. In politics, youcan be only a Democrat or a Republican. In , either youdont believe in UFOs at all, or you believe they are spacecraft fromanother planet. But are these necessarily the only two possibilities? I f UFOs are real, is it obvious they are spacecraft? For many years the best cases of unexplained sightings were ofdisks that appeared to be metallic, of large size, and capable offantastic acceleration. They frequently disappeared by going straightup out of the witness view, suggesting that they were going "home"to another planet. Their occupants were wearing diving suits andwalked awkwardly. The French press of , for instance, was fullof reports about "the robots" and "the Martians. The idea, at the time, was revolutionary. Scientists like Carl Sagan pointed out that space visitations, if theyoccurred at all, would be very rare. Other scientists, like DonaldMenzel, rejected the whole idea, because even the nearest starsare too far away for interstellar travel to be feasible, even at highspeeds. All such arguments are valid only if one assumes that"their" science has not superseded in any fundamental way the Hickson claims three"things" picked him and young Calvin Parker up, and carried themaboard the craft, where they were dosely examined. Phoro courtesy ofUnited Press International. I n fact, we canmake no such assu mption about a space civilization. It could havehad many centuries of development beyond our own science. The real question is, does the "spacecraft" hypothesis explainto our satisfaction the facts of the UFO phenomenon as we knowthem today? The answer is a definite and resounding NO. What about our ownobservations in deserts and remote areas? And, finally, what We need to examine closely the so-called"evidence," to decide whether or not it contributes anything to the" , spacecraft theory. There Are Too Many LandingsThe first argument against the idea of flying saucers as spacecraftlies, oddly enough, in the large number of verified, unexplainedsightings. In my own files I currently have approximately 2,cases of close encounters from every country on Earth, many ofthem involving occupants of various sizes and shapes. It may seemthat 2, cases in some 20 years is not a very large number, butwe are talking only about the cases that were actually reported. Itis possible to calculate how many landings this represents if, as thecontactees claim, UFOs are spacecraft whose occupants happenedto be surprised by witnesses who wandered onto the scene as thecraft was being repaired or as the crew was conducting someexploration of our planet. To make this estimation we must rakeinto account three factors: the time of the sighting, the probabilitythat it will be reported, and the place of the event. Most landings are reported to take place after p. Thefrequency distributions that my computer studies have disclosedfor every continent show this activity peaking at about p. There are few reports after a. What could this mean? That theactivity of the objects is nocturnal by nature and by choice. Then whydo the reports decrease in frequency around midnight? Simply becausepeople go to bed: after p. Then let us ask the question: how many reportswould we have if people did not go to bed but stayed outside to watchthese so-called "spacecraft? We wouldhave to multiply the number of cases by a factor of The Case A g a i n s t t h e Spacecraft 29 Now, this last figure does not begin to approximate the actualmber of events, because we know from many independent studies1 hat only one case in ten ever gets reported. Then we should have " " 30,, but , cases in our files! But this still isnt thewhole story: most landings occur in unpopulated areas, away fromdwellings. If the Earths population were distributed evenly insteadof being concentrated in city areas, how many reports would wehave? Again, taking a conservative multiplying factor of ten leads" to the staggering conclusion that the UFOs, if they are spacecraftcngaged in a general survey ofour planet, must have landed here noflower than three million times in two decades! This is one of the little-recognized facts of the UFO problem1 hat any theory has yet to explain. The theory of random visitationdoes not explain it. Either the UFOs select their witnesses, or theyare something entirely different from space vehicles. In either case,their appearances are staged! March , SantaMaria, Brazil. A man observed two occupantsof a football-shaped craft who spoke in a strange language. Thecraft vanished silently and instantly. Following a UFO observation, awoman was awakened by a feeling of intense cold and saw a beingwith a bald head near the house. She called other witnesses, and allsaw the apparition shrink and vanish on the spot "like a TV imagewhen the set is turned off. Ittilted, partially sank into the ground, grew in size, and departedwith a flash. It vanished with a sort of explosion, leaving acloud that dissipated slowly. Consider what these sightings have in common. In each case theso-called "spacecraft" did not disappear by moving away, even athigh speed. It simply vanished on the spot, or it slowly faded awaylike the Cheshire cat, sometimes leaving behind a whitish cloud,sometimes also producing the sound of an explosion. In other cases,UFOs have been reported to enter the ground. I hardly need to point out that this behavior is contrary to whatphysical objects do, and quite impossible to duplicate with ourcurrent spacecraft technology. It is the behavior of an image, ora holographic projection. Yet at other times the objects have leftmaterial traces. There may be a machine involved, but a machinethat remains out of view of the witnesses, who see only what it isprojecting. When we go to the movies, we look at the objects andthe people on the screen; we do not stare at the projector. Soundsand voices, too, come to us from the screen, not from the directionof the tape machine. Besides, a single physical machine a camera can trigger millions of similar experiences in the people who watchthe resulting film projection. UFO events could be staged the sameway, to suggest to us an impending intervention from outer space. He looked downstream at the rush hour traffic, raised his hand towards several oncoming cabs, and one swerved into the curb lane and stopped for him. After a short ride, during which Vallee did not discuss his current research, he paid his fare and accepted a receipt. At the same time I cannot sweep it under the rug. There is only one Melchizedek listed in the LA phone book, and I have the receipt signed by the driver right in front of me. Oct 12, Mike rated it really liked it Shelves: halloween-reading. Since this was written in , some of what Vallee discusses seems dated. The the scare and the Satanic cult hysteria would peak in the years after this book, and fizzle out. The notoriety of UFO cults has also waned in the intervening years. Vallee makes prescient observations about the overall direction of society, however. He was already noting the growing distrust and suspicion against scientific rationality and reason, and the nascent stages of a conspiracy theory Since this was written in , some of what Vallee discusses seems dated. He was already noting the growing distrust and suspicion against scientific rationality and reason, and the nascent stages of a conspiracy theory culture. Ideas that were on the kooky fringes in are now part of the mainstream cultural and political conversation, and Vallee saw it coming. May 26, Steve added it Shelves: non-fiction , weird-stuff-ufos- -etc , mythology. UFOs creep me out. It's like going to bad neighborhood, or playing the board with Captain Howdy. Generally, I don't really like going "there. When it comes to UFOs, he's idea guy, the one that asks the worthwhile questions. This particular effort is bit dated, though it is updated with a preface. As long as he sticks with the UFOs, it works, but when Vallee gets into various cults one of which would turn into Heaven's Gate , you feel like you've fallen down the rabbit hole. I hope to expand on this bit more tomorrow. View 1 comment. Shelves: sciences. This book might better be categorized under the social sciences as it is a study of beliefs about UFOs and non-human intelligences. He asks more questions than he answers. This book has a strain of paranoia to it greater than This book might better be categorized under the social sciences as it is a study of beliefs about UFOs and non-human intelligences. This book has a strain of paranoia to it greater than others by him which I've read. Jun 09, Michael Grasso rated it it was amazing. A fascinating time capsule of the UFOlogy scene in the late 70s with a concentration in who is behind the UFO phenomenon. Pragmatic and transcendent. The conclusions and questions drawn four decades ago are still riveting. Lucid and skeptical, just how I like subjects like this to be treated. The investigator Vallee apparently finished this book without deciding to choose an explanation for the patterns of phenomena he tracks. This is, in my opinion, honorable of him, as he writes candidly about a number of models that could explain the events but never hesitates to point out the holes in these explanations. At least, I think thats what this book is like. I dont really remember too well. All I remember is I was Lucid and skeptical, just how I like subjects like this to be treated. All I remember is I was reading it, and then I got this hot-cold feeling all over my body, and I didnt think I had been dreaming but I must have been, because the room was flooded with a strange pinkish light Jul 08, Mari rated it really liked it. Impressive read with unconventional theories as to the origin, intention, and overall impact of the UFO phenomenon. Just think what it would mean if UFO's turned out to be intra or interplanetary. The implications are just as interesting especially if it is found that the source of such remarkable technology and capability was on earth or at least within our own dimension all along. Imagine the possibilities for mankind! Jun 13, Jonathan Raab rated it it was amazing. Vallee explores the existential and political threat posed by the irrational UFO contactee groups, documenting various strains of nonsensical philosophy-theology that began to emerge in Europe and North America in the s. He likens the possible effects of contactee spiritual messages to that of the social change brought about by Christianity's spread throughout the Greco-Roman world 2, years ago: social orders can crumble rapidly in the face of new spiritual movements. The text accepts the Vallee explores the existential and political threat posed by the irrational UFO contactee groups, documenting various strains of nonsensical philosophy-theology that began to emerge in Europe and North America in the s. The text accepts the reality of UFOs as a phenomenon, but offers possible explanations for them—including the possibility of human manipulation of flying saucers for political ends. This is definitely not your run-of-the-mill UFO book. So is this. His discoveries were alarming. But Applewhite's game plan turns out to be remarkably common; his "revelations", scientifically absurd and childishly naive as they were, crop up in similar forms time and again. Some contactees become convinced that this higher power wants them to become its representatives on Earth. Coming up on fifty years later, we are still heading down that same path. Science is being rejected in favour of magical thinking. It's sobering to find out how often charismatic contactees turned out to have links with far-right organizations; it's not a great step from sharing a belief that you're enlightened with special knowledge and responsibilities to declaring that you're part of a master race that should be running things. Jan 31, M Elaine rated it it was amazing. I somehow missed this book when it first came out in You might expect Messengers of Deception, in which one of my favorite ufologists eviscerates a movement close to my heart, to cause I somehow missed this book when it first came out in You might expect Messengers of Deception, in which one of my favorite ufologists eviscerates a movement close to my heart, to cause me some measure of . And it might have, at fifteen. But reading this book for the first time at the age of fifty-six, in the year , as conspiracy movements like Qanon and propaganda engines like Fox News mesmerize Americans, threatening democracy and courting authoritarianism, I find nothing here but critically valuable insight for our time. In Messengers of Deception, Vallee is revealing something considerably more insidious than the mind-tricks of a few UFO cultists. He is using the contactee movement to expose the existence of an invisible psychological control system shaping western society. A system operated, not by extraterrestrials, but by human beings. As we found out when we began developing the science of propaganda during the last war, you don't need to do all that. A few well-placed stories, a well-planned program publicizing sensational incidents, will do marvels. The contactees are being manipulated. And I think we should not look in outer space for the Manipulators. Keep looking. You might find that most of the UFO groups, including the major civilian organizations, are influenced by some strange people. And the pattern of conditioning you have discovered in your computer studies of UFO sightings may turn out to be aimed at long-term social changes. A great deal of human behavior is based on questionable information. We plant crops, choose spouses, worship gods, and wage wars because of our perceptions of a situation rather than because of the reality of it. There may be a vast difference between the two. This difference is crucial for understanding UFO cultists. They are influenced not by the objective facts of a situation but by their interpretation of those facts. They become the targets of a classified project ready to kill them to capture their data. They become the targets of a classified projec Jacques Vallee presents startling evidence that well-constructed hoaxes and media manipulations have misled UFO researchers, diverting them from the UFO phenomenon itself. Vallee takes readers step by step into the tangled web of UFOlogy's dark side, in an effort to clear the ever- thickening underbrush that has obscured the real nature of the UFO phenomenon. Jacques Vallee presents startling evidence that well-constructed hoaxes and media manipulations hav Forty years agoa small cadre of dedicated researchers began actively investigatingcases, interviewing witnesses, and exchanging data through a small, informal network of international contacts. Today this low profilenetwork, or "invisible college," has grown into a larger, multi-nationvolunteer research effort joined by many individuals. But the questionsfirst raised 40 years ago remain current-and unanswered. Documents the growing effect of UFO contact claims on our lives and of the belief systems prevalent in our society. It explores the hidden realities of the cults, the contactees, the murky political intrigues and the motivations of the investigators. It explores the hidden realities o Personal diary of a scientist exploring the frontiers of research. He fi Jacques Vallee reexamines the historical record that led to the modern UFO phenomenon and to the belief in alien contact. He then tackles the enigma of abduction reports, which come from various times and various countries, as well as the and spiritual components of the contact experience. In the last portion of the book, he notes the factors that inhibit research into the phenomenon--the triple coverup and political motivations--and concludes that the extraterrestrial theory is simply not strange enough to explain the facts. Jacques Vallee reexamines the historical record that led to the modern UFO phenomenon and to the bel Forty years ago a small cadre of dedicated researchers began actively investigating cases, interviewing witnesses, and exchanging data through a small, informal network of international contacts. Today this low-profile network, or "invisible college," has grown into a larger, multi-nation volunteer research effort joined by many individuals. Buscalibre Colombia - Libros del Autor Jacques Vallee

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Given the complete absence of knowledge we have about the aliens and their craft, those dots and lines can represent any distance or set of stars in the universe, let alone galaxy. However, the conclusion that Vallee arrives at is that these UFOs and even the technology, are real. Betty and Barney did have an experience. But everything regarding the UFO experience may be some kind of mental or holographic construct meant to confuse people or drive people toward some kind of conclusion. What the motives are or what that conclusion is remains unknown. Perhaps the most obvious of this manipulation is the lost time that many people claim to experience. If the purpose of these entities is to remain hidden, then why are there so many sightings? I found the discussions regarding the cults to be a little boring, but Vallee makes a good point about not ignoring these UFO cults and contactees. By ignoring them, science is allowing whatever is going on to continue to persist and manipulate people. Because of the ridicule associated with the subject, scientists avoid research into the area. Consequently, whatever is at work manipulating people is able to do so without scrutiny from people who might otherwise be qualified to reveal the mechanisms behind the phenomena. What is MDS? LibraryThing's MDS system is based on the classification work of libraries around the world, whose assignments are not copyrightable. MDS "scheduldes" the words that describe the numbers are user-added, and based on public domain editions of the system. Wordings, which are entered by members, can only come from public domain sources. Where useful or necessary, wording comes from the edition of the Dewey Decimal System. Los Angeles, California pp. Statement on the UFO Phenomenon. New York 27 November Los Angeles 19 April Five arguments against the extraterrestrial origin of Unidentified Flying Objects. Richard Haines. Return to Trans-en-Provence. JSE Vol. Eric W. French translation in Bulletin du Gesag no. Arguments against a proposed correlation. Internet publication Jan. Internet publication April Garry Nolan and Dr. BoingBoing online magazine 21 June at am. Toulouse: Arcturus- Les Temps Futurs. Davis French Translation by Costagliola and F. French Translation by G. Deforge and F. Boitte, Advanced Research. Vallee found myriad scientists eager to exchange. In sit-downs with Soviet researchers, he discussed. Vallee found considerable Soviet interest in his core theory that UFOs are extradimensional,. Passport to Magonia From Folklore to Flying Saucers It is readily acknowledged that our time has surpassed all epochs in history for the accumulation of technical knowledge, physical power over our environment, and economic might. Psychic Magazine Vol. The Bogota Specimen: a new physical investigation. French Papers.

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Vallee relates his behind-the-scenes experiences in California during the s as the Human Potential Movement emerged, the Internet developed, and secretly entered the physics laboratory. And all the while, as Vallee continued his examination of UFO encounters, the links to older mysteries became increasingly clear. With the end game in Vietnam and the turpitudes of Watergate in the backgr Does this force What is the nature of unidentified aerial phenomena? Forty years agoa small cadre of dedicated researchers began actively investigatingcases, intervie The s were a pivotal time in the development of venture capital that led to great innovations throughout the world. As recounted in this third volume of journals, Jacques Vallee found his passion in this world, while he witnessed with concern the increasing manipulation and disinformation that discouraged rational research into ufology. But he persisted in his first-hand UFO investigations in the US, Europe, and South America, and here strips from the historical record the secrecy behind which research into the The s were a pivotal time in the development of venture capital that led t 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 Jacques Vallee presents startling evidence that well-constructed hoaxes and media m Forty years ago a small cadre of dedicated researchers began actively investigating cases, interv On a lonesome road in Utah, a young soldier returning from leave speeds through the desert night. Suddenly the sky lights up as a blazing object streaks across the highway and crashes nearby. Stunned, the soldier stops and decides to investigate. Little does he know, but his life will never be the same again. This is the true story of a man named Gerry Irwin. Following a mysterious experience in Utah in , inexplicable blackouts and bizarre behavior threatened to derail his promising Army career. Then one day he suddenly deserted his Army post in Texas and disappeared Suddenly the sky lights up as a blazing object st Wyszukiwanie zaawansowane. Literatura faktu 5. Poradniki Cena: od:. Journals of personal research written from to by a French-born astronomer and computer scientist interested in UFOs and paranormal phenomena. Journals of personal research written from to by a French-born astronomer and computer scientist interested in UFOs and paranormal phenomena Personal diary of a researcher at the frontiers of science. Two high-tech executives from Silicon Valley witness unexplained phenomena while on vacation in Brazil. Digital halftoning aped analog halftoning, which was based on optical screens of repeated patterns - and all the little elliptical dots in a picture, such as a newspaper picture, always leaned in the same direction. My insight was under computer control this did not have to be true; you could make the little dot lean left to represent a zero, and to the right to represent a one - and that this would be essentially perceptially invisible. You could put computer data into a picture , hidden from conscious view. This sort of hidden data in pictures is called "steganography". At the time, every document printed at PARC had a title page, with two squares of decorative mid-gray halftone on the bottom. I quickly calulated that rather than the paltry tens of bits that a UPC barcode could put in the same area that my scheme could put kilobits. And still look the same quiet gray, to the eye. So I wrote the idea up, and submitted an invention disclosure. Shortly after, I came up with a variant idea. Current practice was to stop making improvements on printers and scanners when the dots or shade variations were too small for the human eye to see the difference; this was based on what was called"Just Noticeable Difference". If we went just a little bit farther than JNDs, we could embed data in the variations of color or intensity that would be invisible. So I filed that idea, too. Both ideas ended up filing as patents; the second one didn't issue - but a whole "descent tree" of ideas and patents flowed from the first - and I got my name of several as co-inventor as I and others fleshed out the idea and made it practical - putting in such details as binary morphology image conditioning, image scaling and skewing using Fourier, Walsh, or Harr transforms, error correction, and more. At the time, the muscian and performer Prince was having contract problems with his label. They owned his stage name, and forbade him to use it. So he made a symbol for himself, and the lawyers called it "Glyph" - and he was denoted in the legal papers as "the artist formerly known as Prince". I was amused by his story, and as a type designer, I liked the word "glyph".

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