Vallée: UFO disclosure could trigger complex religious, security questions
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A highly respected UFO investigator warns that disclosing the truth, linked to documented human injuries and national security concerns, requires a carefully crafted strategy to avoid chaos.
Jacques Vallée has been a central figure in UFO research and debate for over six decades, often finding himself at odds with UFO orthodoxy. Vallée was among the first to argue that the unknown craft, seen for centuries in our skies and oceans, may not be from other planets, but instead from other realities.
Vallée has heard the demands for an end to official secrecy many times and, at the same time, has participated in secretive efforts himself, including a UFO study launched by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in 2008, which was hidden inside a Las Vegas aerospace company.
One focus of the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) was genuinely disturbing: the real-life health consequences for humans who come into contact with UFOs. Hundreds of serious injuries have been documented. AAWSAP investigators traveled to Brazil to obtain government files related to hundreds of Brazilians treated for injuries after being targeted by UFOs. While Vallée won’t discuss specific AAWSAP files, except for cases he provided to the database, he said those cases of UFO-related injuries were not accidental.
“I can tell you that in my files… some of which I contributed to the database of, there are at least half a dozen well-documented cases where the injuries that resulted in death were deliberate,” Vallée said.
Incidents in which UFOs deliberately cause physical harm to humans are rare, according to personnel who have seen the full AAWSAP files, but they do occur. Dr. Colm Kelleher, one of the AAWSAP managers, has said, bluntly, that UFOs are bad for human health.
Could that be a reason to keep secrets?
In his most recent book, “Forbidden Science 6: Scattered Castles,” Vallée shares private exchanges with colleagues from the AAWSAP program, including Robert Bigelow, a Las Vegas billionaire. Additionally, there are conversations between and a close-knit group of scientists known as the Lonestars. The scientists, some of them former CIA contractors, accept that the U.S. government has recovered crashed vehicles of unknown origin, and that defense contractors have worked for decades to reverse engineer the technology at secretive facilities in the desert and elsewhere. They say adversary nations have done likewise, and that the race to duplicate the technology means national security is at stake.
Vallée favors transparency but worries that an official declaration could prove chaotic.
“If we want to disclose… something as simple as saying, ‘Yes, we acknowledge the phenomenon and it seems to be from space,’ we would have to… answer a hundred other questions, that this is not the end of the story,” Vallée noted. “There are religious questions… there is a religious side to all this.”
While Vallée is encouraged by the renewed interest in UFOs within Congress, mainstream media, and academia, he thinks someone needs to craft a well-planned strategy for how to unleash what would likely be the biggest news story in history.
“I think… that we should disclose with a structure,” Vallée said, adding that, “The structure hasn’t been invented yet.”
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