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Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969

The first volume of Vallée's personal diaries, spanning his transition from French astronomer to Chicago computer scientist and Hynek collaborator, gives an unfiltered look at ufology's founding decade from the inside — including his growing disillusionment with both the U.S. Air Force's handling of cases and the credulity of civilian UFO groups.

Author
Jacques Vallée
Published
2008
Library rank
#61

Why it matters

The most candid primary-source record of how modern scientific ufology actually formed, in the words of one of its founders.