Jacques Vallée

Jacques Vallée may be the most quietly radical figure in this batch. A trained astronomer who co-built an early computerized map of Mars for NASA, he then turned the same rigorous tools toward the UFO phenomenon, refusing both blind belief and lazy dismissal. That third path, treating the unexplained as data worth measuring, is exactly what I find admirable, and it's why his influence reaches from the Paris Observatory to a Spielberg character. Works like Passport to Magonia reframed the whole conversation. In his late eighties he is still probing the edges of the known, and I respect few things more than a scientist who keeps the question open.

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Name (English)

Jacques Vallée

Name (Japanese)

ジャック・ヴァレー

Reading

じゃっく・ゔぁれー

Born

September 24, 1939 (age 87)

Origin

Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France

Occupation

astronomer / computer scientist / astrophysicist / engineer / ufologist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Rabbit

University

University of Paris

Awards & achievements

• 1961 Prix Jules-Verne

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.jacquesvallee.net
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Vall%C3%A9e
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92635

Tags

• Val-d'Oise
• astronomer
• computer scientist
• astrophysicist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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