Jason Colavito posted an interesting essay today where he checks up on an alleged UFO account in a 1461. His post begins: Let us stipulate at the outset that the famed ufologist Jacques Vallée is French, so we should expect that his translation from his native...
Jacques Vallée
Lengthy Series on Vallee and Aubeck’s Evidence for UFOs in Antiquity
Jason Colavito recently produced a series of posts exposing the poor use of data (and perhaps deliberate deception in that regard) on the part of Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck in their book, Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern...
Myth and Mystery of UFOs: A Review
I just finished Thomas Bullard’s book, The Myth and Mystery of UFOs , by scholar-folklorist Thomas Bullard (University of Kansas Press, 2010). Rather than write my own review, I found the work summarized nicely in this review over at Magonia review of books...
Appreciative, but Not Amazed by Wonders in the Sky
PLEASE BE PATIENT – This post has a lot of images to load. Review of Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times , by Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck (Tarcher / Penguin, 2009); 500 pp. I’ve been promising this review for...
Magonia Review of New Book by Vallee and Aubeck on "UFOs" Throughout History
The Magonia Blog posted a review today on an important new book by Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck entitled, Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times, and Their Impact on Human Culture, History and Belief (Tarcher/Penguin, 2010)....
Jacques Vallee on Crop Circles
Many readers will know that Vallee has commented on crop circles before. This offering , however, is new. While Vallee cannot prove his thesis with the kind of empirical power we’d like to see, his thinking on this odd phenomena is worth reading. In my view,...