Roster / Scientists and researchers

Decades of careful case research and books including Passport to Magonia.

Vallée is a French-born astronomer and computer scientist who worked on early internet projects and in venture capital. He worked with J. Allen Hynek in the 1960s, and the French scientist in Close Encounters of the Third Kind was based on him.

His books, including Passport to Magonia (1969), argue the phenomenon is older and stranger than visiting spacecraft. In 2021 he co-wrote Trinity about a 1945 New Mexico crash claim.

Case files

• Colares: the lights that hurt people Mid to late 1977

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