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Vallee's field study of UFO close encounters in the USR in 1990 and the Haravilliers mystery in France at the end of the decade--two major episodes, still unexplained today--serve as bookends between which he studied dozens of remarkable events yielding veridical data analyzed in the laboratory. This was a period during which scientists were finally able to study UFOs with adequate resources, producing results that were at once challenging and puzzling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJACQUES VALE holds a master's degree in astrophysics and a Ph.D. in computer science. The subject of UFOs first attracted his attention as an astronomer in Paris. He subsequently became a close associate of Project Blue Book's J. Allen Hynek and has written several books on the UFO enigma. 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