Jacques Fabrice Vallée –

Jacques Fabrice Vallée (French: [vale]; born September 24, 1939) 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 on the network information center for the 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.

Jacques Vallée

• Opinion: Non-Human Intelligence at the Threshold – The Debrief (by Jacques Vallee)

“Implications for research and industry are profound. They plug directly into the analysis of problems too complex for limited human projects. The wisdom of the software isn’t bound to a deductive downflow anymore. One could take a massive warehouse of UFO data, such as the one (which remains classified) that I designed for the Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems Application Program (AAWSAP), and subject its 260,000-odd unexplained incidents to a barrage of tests, probing not only for internal consistency in search of some elusive alien logic, but also for its predictive attributes. And if you can do that, you can ask the AI to challenge it, investigate its structure, or force it to reveal itself.  Is that why Congress has not lifted the classification of the UAP warehouse Americans have paid for?

Two exquisitely challenging domains of scientific intelligence: the unlimited potential of programs like Q*, and the intimidating depth of the repositories of unexplained contact. Viewed separately, both imply potential breakthroughs and unknown dangers. Viewed together, they paint a vast design of the future where science can open new forms of exploration: more anchored in the reality of data, and more rewarding in the richness of discovery. Both deal with non-human intelligence, augmenting our own yet challenging it at the same time.”

 

Above: A young Jacques Vallee with Barney & Betty Hill, New Hampshire 1967

 

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Lectures:

Archives of the Impossible conference | First plenary session, March 3, 2022: Jacques F. Vallée (2022)

 

SRE Tech Talk — Jacques Vallee (2016)

 

The age of impossible, anticipating discontinuous futures: Jacques Vallee at TEDxGeneva (2013)

 

TEDxBrussels – Jacques Vallée – A Theory of Everything (else)… (2011)

 

Jacques Vallee , Contact Learning from Outer Space, GCF 2011 – 01 -23 (2011)

 

Interviews:

 

Jacques Vallée & James Fox – The Joe Rogan Experience – episode #1574 – Dec 4, 2020

 

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