Forbidden Science 4 by Jacques Vallee

Forbidden Science 4 by Jacques Vallee

A FASCINATING INTELECTUAL ODYSEY

The Spring Hill Chronicles are a record of Jacques Vallee's private study into unexplained phenomena between 1990 and the end of the millennium, during which he was traveling around the globe pursuing his professional work as a high-technology investor.

This fourth volume of Forbidden Science takes the reader behind the scenes: to the board room of the National Institute of Discovery Science; to meetings with congressmen and intelligence officials; and to the closed sessions of the Rockefeller Initiative. 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.

JACQUES 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. He is presently a venture capitalist living in San Francisco.

Jacques F., Ph.D. Vallee is a General Partner of Euro-America Ventures, a Silicon Valley firm that focuses on high-tech investments in North America and Europe. He obtained his B.S. in France, where he was born. a Sorbonne master's degree in mathematics and a master's degree in science in astrophysics at the Université of Lille.

Coming to the United States Jacques began his career as an astronomer at the University of Texas, where he helped NASA construct the first computer-based map of Mars. He eventually transferred to Northwestern University, where he got his Ph.D. in the field of computer science He went on to work at SRI International and the Institute for the Future, where he was a Principal Investigator on Arpanet, the Internet's prototype, and oversaw the project to construct the world's first network-based groupware system.

Jacques Vallee, a venture capitalist with Euro-America since 1987, has led early-stage investments in over 60 high-tech start-ups. Jacques is a member of the science board for the French Genopole, which specializes in life sciences and is based in Evry (www.genopole.com). He was also elected as a Trustee of the Institute for the Future (www.iftf.org). Jacques has a long-standing private interest in astronomy, fiction writing, and research frontiers, particularly mysterious aerial occurrences, in addition to his work in information technology and finance. He is also a member of Bigelow Aerospace's scientific advisory board in Las Vegas, Nevada (www.bigelowaerospace.com).

In Paris, he received the Jules Verne Prize for a science fiction work written in French.