Jacques Vallée

US institutional culture reflexively interprets UAP reports as a national-security threat, whereas European scientific culture historically approached the same reports with curiosity rather than alarm, which shaped why the US pursued classified threat-assessment studies (leading to Project Blue Book) while Europe did not.

In Europe the reaction was always one of curiosity and scientific interest... but in the US everything tends to be interpreted as a threat to the stability of the country.

The Condon Report (University of Colorado UFO study, led by physicist Edward Condon) concluded science would not be advanced by further UFO investigation, without explaining all cases it reviewed, and this effectively ended US UFO research funding for 10-15 years.

That's almost an exact quote: that science would not be advanced by investing more people and more money into the study of UFOs, which people understood to mean go home, there's nothing there.

The Bigelow-funded BAASS database Vallee built covers roughly 240,000 UAP cases worldwide across 13-14 unified, translated databases, intended to feed an AI-assisted refinement system that was never completed; the project was cut off after about two years and Vallee does not know its current disposition.

It covers 240,000 cases all over the world... a data warehouse with 13 or 14 different databases that we reduced all to English to a common structure.

Vallee states he holds no security clearance now and held none beyond the top-secret access granted specifically for the duration of the BAASS study.

I don't have any secret clearance or particular access outside of that study. So right now I have no clearance.

A family in the Mojave Desert (Southern California) reported large discs (about 10-12 feet) without propellers exchanging laser-like light beams, starting in the late 1970s; when struck by a beam a disc would vanish and reappear elsewhere, which Vallee likens to the Nimitz (2004) and Roosevelt (2014-15) 'vanish and reappear' pattern.

It involved discs, just like what people are reporting now as drones, except those didn't have propellers... when one was hit by the beam the disc would vanish... but it would reappear somewhere else.

At the Mojave site the following day, witnesses found a burned truck, what they first took to be a dead body (possibly a decoy), and a uniformed man who told them to leave, saying there was nothing to see.

There was a truck there with what they first interpreted as a dead body, which may have been a decoy or something else... a man there in a uniform told them to go home.

A Hollywood special-effects professional, also recruited by the NSA, was sent into the same Mojave area in the mid-to-late 1980s to photograph anomalous objects with high-response infrared film; he learned that on a parallel team, two NSA agents were killed when their truck caught fire, after which he resigned.

He learned that in one other team the truck had caught fire and both of the agents from NSA had been killed. At that point he resigned and went back to Hollywood.

Vallee built and staffed a private observatory in the Northern California redwoods for roughly 20 years specifically to attempt to provoke a UAP manifestation as a deliberate test of the control-system hypothesis; nothing occurred until the final day, after the property had already been sold.

We're over half a mile from the nearest neighbor, it's completely dark at night, the sky is completely open... this could be a signal that could be interesting to the phenomenon.

Vallee's wife alone witnessed an intense white-to-ultraviolet light and a large luminous object descending the driveway of their former Mendocino County property on the last day before its sale, with no instrumentation and no other witnesses.

In the middle of the night there was such a bright light that it woke her up... it was intense white tending to the ultraviolet, the blue and purple.

A French Mirage fighter pilot (reportedly late 1970s/early 1980s, near Dijon) encountered an unarmed light object that executed a G-force turn beyond human tolerance and twice placed itself in aerial 'kill position' behind his aircraft after he dove to evade; the event was witnessed independently from the ground by a person named 'Jean' (name uncertain in transcript) and the pilot later spoke about it on French television.

He does a calculation in his head and says the G-forces would be beyond what any human pilot would tolerate... the thing places itself on his tail, which is a kill position.

The black-and-white military UAP videos being examined by Congress are infrared heat-signature recordings, not photographs, and this basic technical distinction is being misunderstood or misrepresented in public discourse.

Those fuzzy black and white pictures that are not pictures, by the way - they are recordings of heat signatures. And everybody is treating it as if it was a picture.

Vallee argues Congress is not equipped to 'do science' and that proper UAP investigation belongs in laboratories inviting and working directly with witnesses, not congressional hearings.

Why are we spending all this time in Washington assuming that Congress is going to do science? This is not what we pay them for. This is not what Congress does.

Vallee states he has never been paid to study UFOs/UAP; his research was funded through his own venture-capital career, including some Silicon Valley investors and a fund that counted NASA among its investors.

That's what I've done, but I've never been paid to do that. So my advice is get a good basic scientific education.

Vallee claims undisclosed government/military experiments in communicating with 'aliens' exist, based on people he personally knows who were involved, though he says these have not been publicly disclosed.

There are experiments also on how you would communicate with aliens that have not been disclosed, but we know they exist. I know specifically that from people who were involved in those experiments.

Vallee argues the increasing frequency/intensity of UAP activity may track humanity's approach to a species-level 'discontinuity point,' where technological capacity threatens the planet's habitability for humans, and that more advanced civilizations would recognize and respond to this threshold; human survival, not planetary survival, is the actual stake.

The issue we have here today is our survival, and that may be the reason of the increased intensity of a number of phenomena that are impinging on us now.