Forbidden Science 5: Pacific Heights, The Journals of Jacques Vallee 2000-2009

by Jacques F. Vallée

A Reframing of Unidentified Phenomena As the world entered the 21st century, unresolved mysteries from earlier times were reframed with new clarity. While civilization had matured in technical depth and global cooperation, research on frontier phenomena expanded across the globe. The early pioneers of the scientific study of UFOs (Allen Hynek, Donald Keyhoe, Aimé Michel, James McDonald) had passed away, but their enthusiasm inspired a growing number of researchers. For that second generation, Vallée's contributions, based in hard science and the discipline of innovation capital, helped build a path to "disclosure"-the realization, as business and technology brought knowledge, power, and freedom everywhere, that the universe was wide open and that unidentified sightings could be studied in novel ways. The events of 9/11 and their aftermath in conflict and complexity set humanity back and delayed such hopes. Suddenly, a world at war had other preoccupations than unexplained phenomena, yet a few teams of scientists and physicians continued the effort. Here, in ten years of carefully curated journal entries, partly drawn from classified research, Vallée shows how they brought a remarkable new reality to the light of day.

Genres: Mystery

562 pages, Paperback

Published January 2, 2023

About the author

Excerpted from wikipedia: Jacques Fabrice Vallée (born September 24, 1939 in Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France) is a venture capitalist, computer scientist, author, ufologist and former astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California.
In mainstream science, Vallée is notable for co-developing the first computerized mapping of Mars for NASA and for his work at SRI International in creating ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet. Vallée is also an important figure in the study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), first noted for a defense of the scientific legitimacy of the extraterrestrial hypothesis and later for promoting the interdimensional hypothesis.

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

Most certainly the best kept diary of UFO discoveries from 2000 - 2009 in both the US and France. This is a detailed account of how little progress was made with some official research and some private reports into UFO events recorded in the past thirty years. Sadly, most of the written reports made at the time were shredded and computer copies no longer found. All the big players at the time are recorded as the events happened in real time. Robert Bigelow, Peter Sturrock, Jean-Jacques Velasco at CNES and the places, from the 'Skinwalker Ranch' in Utah to the French restauranf 'Les Deux Maggots' in Paris. What the book confirms is that no hidden project and no hidden hardware found in the US, would be released for more than 50 years of any UFO investigation.
But Vallée didn't fail in his search for the truth about UFO's, he confirmed that scientific research also failed as the science at the time was still unable to resolve the confict beteween Special relativity and quantum mechanics, something that we now have a better understanding of mass and gravity and the nature of Space Time.

[Dan Zarfati · Rating 5 out of 5]

After Volume I, on this Volume Vallee turns human again, after three decades of a tremendous ego trip pretending he was objective while attacking every discoding trend, engaging in pathetic attacks against Budd Hopkins and others.
In this volume this pathetic are moments hardly, there is one ego trip here and there, but nothing compared to what we witnessed before.

[George Kanakaris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting look at Vallee's life and his research into the UFO phenomenon. Perhaps a bit too detailed and long.