Revelations

Here, deftly blending theory and u0026 memoir, Jacques Vallee attempts to clear ufology of and “the weeds and u0026 the vines of human fantasy and u0026…the poisonous flowers of unbalanced minds. and ” That is, to him, cases from the infamous Roswell incident (spacecraft and u0026 aliens purportedly captured by the USAAF in ’47) to the popular legend of Area 51 (aliens working tentacle-in-hand with US officials beneath the Nevada desert) to the alleged abduction of Franck Fontaine in ’79 (exhaustively researched 1sthand by Vallee) to the purported top-secret federal UFO-investigating committee of Howard Blum’s Out There (’90) aren’t only mostly nonsense, but–here’s the rub– and “complex hoaxes that have been carefully engineered for our benefit. and ” But by whom, and u0026 why? By federal disinformation agents, and u0026 possibly as and “psychological warfare experiments and ” or and “as a cover for something else and “–i.e., experimental spy warcraft or real and “flying discs. and ” He offers little hard evidence to back those conjectures, but he does unglove the heavy hand of military intelligence in many cases, while at the same time exposing the absurdity of others, including Budd Hopkins’ best-selling alien-rape reports. So what’s left? A host of genuinely mysterious cases, e.g., the ’89 USSR sightings, and u0026 the spirit of rigorous scientific inquiry that he urges they be subjected to. Except for his wobbly conclusions, a forceful and u0026 refreshingly iconoclastic study that, for all its good sense, will likely add up to only a cry in the alien-infested ufowilderness.–Kirkus