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Throughout the modern UFO era, thousands of honest scientists and informed laymen have seen through the official denials, the suppressions, and the whitewash -- and realized that, indeed, we are not alone. To them, author Jacques Vallee, the world's most renowned UFO expert, presents a tantalizing question. What if -- just if -- these alien visitors are Not from other planets? What if they have always been among us?

What if we can finally prove the case to which so much evidence points: That they have lived on earth for centuries, perhaps, from the beginning of time. That they may inhabit another dimension, a dimension so startlingly different from our own that our consciousness lurches to experience it religiously.

At once exhilarating and persuasive, Vallee's brilliant insights include a metaphysical odyssey through some of the most mystifying incidents in religious and mythological lore.

The miraculous visions of the Lady of Fatima in 1917.
The "cloudships" said to have visited medieval France.
The ancient Tzeltal Indians of Mexico kidnapped by flying half humans.

With his unparalleled knowledge of thousands of close encounters. Vallee -- the UFO authority celebrated in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind -- constructs an eye-opening, yet ultimately irresistible theory: one that reveals the shocking reality of the ever-present, ever-powerful interdimensional aliens of Earth... and humanity's persistent inability to understand them. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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This is the first volume in Dr. Vallee's Alien Contact Trilogy. Dr. Vallee has been widely recognized and honored as the premier investigating scientist in the realm of UFO research. He was the true-life model for the scientist played by Francois Truffant in the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." Vallee was also Steven Spielberg's chief technical advisor on the film. Trained in his native France as an astrophysicist , Dr. Vallee moved to the USA in 1962 and received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1967 from Northwestern University, where he was a close associate of the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek.

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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Contemporary Books; First Edition edition (April 1988)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0809245868
  • ISBN-13: 978-0809245864
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #809,676 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Seeing beyond the illusion of space and time, April 24, 2003
By OAKSHAMAN "oakshaman" (Algoma, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This book deals with the concept of alternate realities and other dimensions. It also shows how this seems to explain the simularity between the reports of "gods" and faery folk in the past, with reports of UFO's and their occupants in the present. It is interesting that Vallee (who was the model for the French scientist in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind") doesn't see UFO's as extraterrestrial visitors. He maintains that they have always been here with us.

Here we have the idea that our everyday conception of space and time is merely an illusion. The universe is a much stranger and more complicated place than we assume. Space and time are illusionary constructs for a limited consciousness. The truth appears to be closer to a holographic universe. As Vallee states it, the synchronicity and coincidence that abound in our lives suggest that the world may be organised like a randomized data base (the multiverse) rather than a sequential library (the four dimensional world of convensional physics.) Occationally human beings see beyond the illusory curtain of space-time, but it seems to take a major "shake-up" of the individual's mind and habitual way of seeing things. Sometimes this "shake up" seems to come from without- from the "visitors." But this is not an "invasion", it is instead a spiritual system that acts on humans and uses humans.

A book that further explores this theme is _Daimonic Reality_ by Patrick Harpur.

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Level-headed and open-minded, December 17, 2001
By The Don Wood Files (Fredericksburg, VA) - See all my reviews
Vallee is a rarity in the world - an open-minded scientist who takes UFOs seriously and can write about them with wit and style. In all of his books, one senses a serious man who has no time for either the true believers that UFOs are all extraterrestrial craft nor the mindless skpetics who think the thousands of eyewitness accounts are likely the result of indigestion, like Scrooge's sightings of a ghost. His theory, that these may be interdimensional beings who are toying with us, or teaching us, or both, is original and provocative. And he has a number of great lines which I have highlighted in my copy of the book. My favorite: "There is a strange urge in my mind. I would like to stop behaving as a rat pressing levers-even if I have to go hungry for a while. I would like to step outside the conditioning maze and see what makes it tick. I wonder what I would find. Perhaps a terrible superhuman monstrosity the very contemplation of which would make a man insane? Perhaps a solemn gathering of wise men? Or the maddening simplicity of unattended clockwork?" This is typical of his thinking and writing. Of all his books, I would recommend this as well as Passport to Magonia, although there is some overlap between them. Vallee has been studying UFOs since the 1960s and there is no better authority today.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Vallee's research is profound, startling, and captivating., December 13, 1997
By Tom Huston (Lenox, MA USA) - See all my reviews
In this book, Dr. Vallee puts forth massive evidence in support of a hypothesis he first formulated thirty years ago--that UFOs may not be from outer space, but interdimensional, able to enter our world at anytime they choose. And contrary to what most extraterrestrial-hypothesis proponents claim, Vallee's evidence is extremely persuasive. In fact, upon reading the book, one realizes that the UFO phenomenon represents something infinitely more profound and tantalizing than space visitors: It shows us that alien beings are not distant from us, separated by hundreds of lightyears, but here, with us, now--as indeed they always have been. We need only to open our minds to meet them. . . . --Thomas T. Huston
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very scholarly and informative.
I read this when it was released and bought this reprint version to re-read it. It makes links between Celtic tales, tales of sylphs, tales of religious apparitions, and modern... Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars ...........BIG NO NO...................

THIS IS A BUNCH OF OLD FOLKLORE REWRITTEN FOR GOD KNOWS

WHAT. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY ON IT.
Published 24 months ago by GENE ADDINGTON

5.0 out of 5 stars old but good
i really am enjoying this book, granted im not all the way through it yet. valee did such a job with this book.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, but insubstantial
Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact provides dozens of fascinating stories and provocative questions. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Level-headed and open-minded
Vallee is a rarity in the world - an open-minded scientist who takes UFOs seriously and can write about them with wit and style. Read more
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