Jacques Vallée is a French computer scientist, astrophysicist, author, and UFO researcher.
Jacques Vallée is a French computer scientist, astrophysicist, UFO researcher, and science fiction writer. According to his official biography, he studied mathematics at the Sorbonne, astrophysics at the University of Lille, and computer science and artificial intelligence at Northwestern University, where he received his doctorate in 1967. During his career, he worked at the Paris Observatory and the University of Texas at Austin, among other institutions, and helped develop an early computerized map of Mars.
Vallée has researched UFO reports for years and was associated with a committee of experts from the French National Center for Space Studies (CNES) that examined such reports. A 2021 article reported that he casts doubt on the explanation that all UFOs are extraterrestrial in origin. According to another article from the same year, he was involved in the Capella database, described as containing 260,000 sighting reports collected for Project AATIP.
Jacques Vallée is a French computer scientist, astrophysicist, UFO researcher, and science fiction writer.
He studied mathematics at the Sorbonne and astrophysics at the University of Lille, and received a doctorate in computer science and artificial intelligence from Northwestern University.
A 2021 article reported that he cast doubt on the explanation that all UFOs are extraterrestrial in origin.
According to a 2021 article, Vallée was involved in the Capella database, described as containing 260,000 UFO sighting reports for Project AATIP.