Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma

by Jacques F. Vallée

A tight copy. Illustrated edition.

Genres: Nonfiction, Aliens, Science

352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1966

About the author

Excerpted from wikipedia: Jacques Fabrice Vallée (born September 24, 1939 in Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France) is a venture capitalist, computer scientist, author, ufologist and former astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California.
In mainstream science, Vallée is notable for co-developing the first computerized mapping of Mars for NASA and for his work at SRI International in creating ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet. Vallée is also an important figure in the study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), first noted for a defense of the scientific legitimacy of the extraterrestrial hypothesis and later for promoting the interdimensional hypothesis.

Reviews

[Kevinjwoods · Rating 4 out of 5]

What makes this important from a sociological perspective is the appendix where it takes a poll of what UFO groups in the mid 60s actually believed in and it turns out that almost nothing has changed in the decades since, in fact that the current obsession with a government cover-up was there from the very beginning

[Dan Zarfati · Rating 5 out of 5]

An important book from Jacques Vallee, a text that is prior to his major works, still quite ahead of the time when published.

[P.S. Winn · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you haven't read a book by this author, you need to. He takes his vast education about the universe and connects it to what might be. Science fiction meets science fact and intertwine in ways no one expected.