Science · Research & investigation · Texts & cultural history
Jacques Vallée
Computer scientist, author and UFO researcher
Also known as Jacques Vallee · Jacques F. Vallee
Photograph · Image credit
Who they are
Jacques Vallée is a computer scientist, astronomer and UFO researcher whose writings compare encounter reports with cultural and historical narratives. Passport to Magonia brought folklore into that analysis. His research papers at Rice University include background files, correspondence and field material, with access restrictions that vary by series.
He connects the timeline’s interpretation-of-encounters strand with preservation of researchers’ archives.
Selected contributions
- Authored Passport to Magonia, first published in 1969.Source ↗Source 2 ↗
- Began donating UFO research papers to Rice in December 2016.Source ↗
Selected works
Book · 1969
Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers
Vallée compares modern UFO encounter narratives with folklore and older accounts of unusual beings. The work explores recurring story patterns and competing interpretations rather than demonstrating a shared physical cause.
Original work: Chicago, 1969. The linked library record describes a 1993 edition retitled Passport to Magonia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds.
Reading scope & citation
Reused inspected 1993 catalogue with its original-publication note and previously read selected text passages. Third-party scan’s edition and reuse rights were not established; it is not offered as a lawful full-text link.
In the timeline
Documented connections
Documented · donated to
Rice records donations from Vallée beginning in December 2016.
An accession relationship does not authenticate the collection’s underlying reports.
Read the relationship record →Biography sources & portrait credit
- Jacques F. Vallée UFO and paranormal phenomena papers, MS 0672 ↗Rice University, Woodson Research Center
- Passport to Magonia: on UFOs, folklore, and parallel worlds — NCID BB21909843 ↗CiNii Books / National Institute of Informatics, Japan
- Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers — digitized text ↗H. Regnery Co. (original work); digitized copy hosted by Project Avalon
Portrait credit
Cmichel67. CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph. Cropped to 4:5, resized to 320 × 400 and converted to WebP.
