Jacques Vallée
The scientist who argued the phenomenon is interdimensional, not extraterrestrial.
Vallée is a French-American computer scientist, an early developer of the internet's predecessor ARPANET, and one of the most respected thinkers in the field. In Passport to Magonia (1969) he argued that UFO reports, fairy lore and religious visions are one continuing phenomenon, and that its behaviour fits an interdimensional or psychosocial origin better than nuts-and-bolts spacecraft.
He was a model for the French scientist in Spielberg's Close Encounters. His scepticism about the simple 'aliens from space' reading, combined with his refusal to dismiss the phenomenon, has made him a bridge between believers and debunkers.
Known for The interdimensional hypothesis; Passport to Magonia
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