The Invisible College by Jacques Vallee

The Invisible College by Jacques Vallee

What is the nature of unidentified aerial phenomena? Forty years ago a small cadre of dedicated researchers began actively investigating cases, interviewing witnesses, and exchanging data through a small, informal network of international contacts. Today this low-profile network, or invisible college, has grown into a larger, multi-nation volunteer research effort joined by many individuals. But the questions first raised 40 years ago remain current-and unanswered.

I believe that a powerful force has influenced the human race in the past and is again influencing it now. Does this force represent alien intervention, or does it originate entirely within human consciousness? This is the question that forms the basis of the work of the Invisible College of UFO researchers. -- Jacques Vallee

THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE is unlike any other UFO book ever written. Dr. Vallee questions what everybody else takes for granted, doubts what everybody believes, drenches us with data that doesn't 'fit' any of the theories of either the True Believers or the die-hard non-believers and then offers a hypothesis on his own. -- Robert Anton Wilson

An important book-not only are UFOs and psychic events inextricably linked, as Dr. Vallee so nicely points out, but neither can be understood without an appreciation of the role of myth, tradition, and belief system. Must reading for the serious student of contemporary events. -- Edgar Mitchell

Certainly one of the most interesting, thought-provoking books so far written on UFOs. -- Colin Wilson

Dr. Jacques Vallee began his professional life as an astronomer at the Paris Observatory in 1961. While on the staff of the French Space Committee, he witnessed the destruction of the tracking tapes of unknown objects orbiting the earth, initiating a lifelong interest in the UFO phenomenon. Vallee arrived in the U.S. in 1962 and worked in astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin before receiving a Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern University in 1967. There he became a close associate of J. Allen Hynek, then scientific consultant for the U.S. Air Force on Project Blue Book-the result was The Invisible College. Dr. Vallee is presently a venture capitalist living in San Francisco. His website is www.jacquesvallee.com.

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.

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ISBN 13	9781938398278
ISBN 10	1938398270
Title	The Invisible College
Author	Jacques Vallee
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Anomalist Books
Year published	2014-08-28
Number of pages	232
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