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Passport to Magonia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds Paperback – May, 1993

by Jacques Vallee (Author)

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Over two decades ago, eminent scientist Vallee wrote a provocative book about alleged UFO landings, folklore, and certain unexplained phenomena. That long-out-of-print book--which discussed the most interesting reports of more than 1,000 apparently reliable witnessess--has become an underground classic and is now being reissued.

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Paperback: 372 pages
Publisher: Contemporary Books (May 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0809237962
ISBN-13: 978-0809237968
Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 6 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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44 of 44 people found the following review helpful

Return to Fairyland

By Kevin Seeger on March 26, 2004

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Researcher Jacques Vallee has done an excellent job synthesizing the various reports through the ages of our contact with otherworldly entities. He especially empasizes the fairy lore of the Celtic region, as this is relatively modern and also well-documented.
Vallee points out that many of the chief characteristics of contact with fairies is coincidental of modern accounts of contact with UFOnauts. He surmises that these accounts are cultural-specific descriptions of a phenomenon that has been with us since time immemorial. It is probable that everything from demons, incubi, and jinns are one and the same as the aliens which now captivate our global attention.
Interestingly, the entities have consistantly been described as possessing technology just beyond the means of whichever society is experiencing the contact. Today, the entities appear in antigravity spacecraft, just as in the Bible they steered luminous chariots, and in the great airship sighting wave of 1897, they seemed to be manning turbine-driven zeppelins. The one constant throughout the ages has been the entities proclivity to tinker with the genetics of mankind. Vallee offers no answers to this strange phenomenon, but only wishes to point out that it did not originate in modern times.

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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful

excellent

By Edane VINE VOICE on March 13, 2001

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I can be harsh in reviews of books I find silly, but this one I found excellent and I'm glad to say so in a review. Yes, it is dated, but that is part of the interest because it lets you see how things have developed over the past 30 or so years. It is also intelligent and discerning and is not in a rush to leap to conclusions or explain everything. It trusts you to be smart and form your own judgements. No book in this subject should be read alone, no one book can begin to cover the many aspects and issues, but this should be one of the books you read.

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful

Thoughtful and Insightful With a Different Perspective

By Angelaustin on August 4, 2002

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I have long admired Mr. Vallee, as I have read several of his books and have found him to be rational, thorough in his investigations, and very balanced in his conclusions. Until this book, I never realized the connection between the fairy and other unusual sightings of years ago and the UFO phenomena of today. Mr. Vallee's basic premise is that as man has evolved and become more technologically advanced, so too do the strange phenomena. They seem to parallel our advancements. It is a most interesting theory, and while it does not give answers as to why these things happen in the first place, it makes for an interesting and intelligent read. I am fortunate enough to have a copy of this book, and if you can get your hands on one, do so. You'll be glad you did.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

Very Interesting Parallels

By A Customer on May 7, 2002

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A reprisal (and slight revisal) of an older review of mine from a while back (April 2000). Hopefully books like this will get reprinted if enough attention is brought to them...
I find Jacques Vallee's comparative essays (as I call them, finding each chapter stylized as an essay) are very intriguing. The entire book as a collective goes a long way to explaining that the UFO phenomenon (which, according to popular culture "started" in 1947 with the "Roswell Incident") has been with us a lot longer than most realize.
I agree with Monsieur Vallee that civilizations all over the world have had these experiences/contacts in many different forms throughtout the millennia. As a species, we would prove to be completely ignorant if we absolutely believed that we were superior to all other life forms, to the point of ignoring "specters" that are probably with us everywhere, in everything we see, everyday of our lives. And only those who haven't been totally conditioned away from their childhood insight by society have been able to see the fleeting images of fairies, elves, leprechauns, etc., or at least even feel their presence.
A definite must-read for anyone wishing to find out more about the history of UFO's & mythology, and their connection, or for anyone looking for answers as to why they have had a lifetime of unwanted supernatural experiences.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

Vallee leaves the 'Challenge to Science' behind and goes off to fairyland

By The Guardian TOP 500 REVIEWER on October 1, 2010

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In PTM, published six months following Apollo 11's historic Moon landing, French astronomer and computer scientist Jacques Vallee moved away from his earlier writings (`Anatomy of a Phenomenon' and `Challenge to Science') where he had attempted to apply the scientific method to categorising and understanding patterns in UFO encounters and sightings, to musing on modern UFO-occupant encounter reports and their historic parallels with folklore.

In his introduction, the author tells us:

"This is not a scientific book. It could be called a philosophical book, if there were a philosophy of non-facts...it aims only at the documentation of a recurrent myth; namely...contact between mankind and an intelligent race endowed with apparently supernatural powers...it's an effort to provide systematic documentation and literary illustration of modern folklore in the perspective of ancient myths..."

By cherry-picking a bunch of the more odd-ball (predominantly sole witness) UFO-occupant cases pre-1970 and drawing parallels with mythical encounters between humans and the fairy-folk, mostly from the Celtic mythology of the British Isles, Vallee broadly succeeds in his objective.Read more ›

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I paid a pretty penny for this book and enjoyed every second of ...

I paid a pretty penny for this book and enjoyed every second of it. This is the original book stating that what has passed for folklore for the last few centuries may in fact be... Read more

Published 1 month ago by Robert H.

Timeless Classic

This is a timeless classic about extra-dimensional beings which are often perceived as fairies, gnomes, elves, UFO driving Greys, and a variety of other myths created so humans... Read more

Published 5 months ago by Sage

Important, epic work on UFOs

This is a classic and a must-read publication for anyone interested in the UFO phenomenon. Vallee does a superb job of linking this modern mystery in the skies with a vast array of... Read more

Published 14 months ago by Vince Migliore

A new edition, please!!!!

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Published 20 months ago by Un lector

Plain, straightforward, and utterly brilliant.

Vallee's book is seminal.

It was one of those few UFO books that will always be classic and "now" because it probes the unknown with an enlightened and interesting... Read more

Published on August 3, 2010 by Stephen Ressel

Other explanations for visitations from "others"

Jacques Vallee was the model for the French scientist in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. To those who are convinced of extraterrestrial visitation, he was "in the know" during... Read more

Published on March 11, 2010 by C. Gavin

Why on earth would anyone pay $60 for a used paperback?

Are they kidding? Not even collectible! ROTFL! Great book - read it once, but $60?! It's not even that old!

Published on August 11, 2009 by Karris

A Ground-breaking book in its day

It was nice to read the original work, after reading Mr. Vallee's theories put forth in books by Whitley Strieber, Richard L. Thompson and others. Mr. Read more

Published on March 8, 1999 by Nancy A. Fox