Jacques Valley

Jacques Vallée is a data processing specialist, astronomer and ufologist French born on September 24th 1939 with Pontoise, close to Paris.

Wire of a magistrate, it obtains a license of mathematics to the Sorbonne and a control of Astrophysique to the Université of Lille. Teenager, in Pontoise, two things will direct its life: vision of UFO in sky of its birthplace, “ traditional, silver plated, reflecting Sun, with kind of dome transparent top ” (observation which will be confirmed by one of his/her friends living the same city) and reading of a book of the French ufologist Aimé Michel in 1958. After the reading of this book, it will correspond with him.

At the time of its studies of astrophysics, it will observe other UFO, which it could not explain. In 1961, it began its professional path as an astronomer at the Observatory from Paris.

In 1962, it leaves France to practice astronomy at the University of the Texas (the United States). Over there it Co-develops the first computerized chart of Mars for NASA. Then, he studies with the Northwestern University where he obtained a doctorate in data processing. Capital investigator of the great project of the NSF of computer network, which leads to the first system of conference on the ARPANET of the years before the advent of Internet, it also officiates with the National Advisory Committee off the University off Michigan College off Engineering.

It is into 1961 that its first science-fiction novel, Sub-space , is published by Georges H. Gallet, director of the “fantastic ray”. With this novel, Vallée gains the Prix Jules Verne under the pseudonym of Jerome Sériel. He discovers the artificial intelligence and joined the Projet Blue Book. Being interested unceasingly more in the UFOs, he proposes in 1966 a system of classification of the observations of UFOs (who will be followed of a second in 1990)

He founds with his mentor Josef Allen Hynek the Invisible Collège (which will be based then in CUFOS, an group of expert of the whole world which is without questioned to accept the flying saucers inevitably).

He foresees in the phenomenon ufologic a system of Contrôle terrestrial, operative evolutionist on the unconscious collective of our species, of or a vision globalist through folk examples of phenomena or contemporaries leaving ordinary human. This perception of the author continues in particular with the reading of the trilogy Other dimensions/Confrontations/revelations with orée of the the Nineties.

It is chosen by Steven Spielberg like model for the character of Lacombe, the French scientist interpreted by François Truffaut in his film Rencontres of the third type.

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