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Jacques Vallée | The UFO Phenomenon Is Stranger Than We Think | Aug. 21, 2026

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Legendary UFO researcher, scientist and author Jacques Vallée joins Martin Willis for a remarkable and deeply personal conversation about Forbidden Science 7: Final Report—The Journals of Jacques Vallée 2020–2025.

Vallée explains why he considers this concluding volume his “Final Report,” while making it clear that his investigation of the phenomenon is not over. He reflects on the new era of official UAP recognition, his return to work with colleagues connected to France’s space agency and his hope of becoming a resource for the next generation of scientists and researchers.

Vallée also revisits his own daylight UFO sighting near Paris around 1955, witnessed independently by his mother and a school friend, and reveals that he cannot clearly remember what happened at the conclusion of the experience.

He discusses his later attempts to explore that missing portion through professionally administered hypnosis and strongly cautions against the use of hypnotic regression by unqualified UFO investigators. The conversation also examines alleged abductions, physical evidence, consciousness, disclosure, government file releases and the BAASS project’s database of approximately 260,000 cases.

Vallée addresses the mysterious “Gilbert” account involving alleged structured communication with a higher-level entity, carefully emphasizing that the information is not firsthand and requires independent verification. He also explains why disclosure may already be changing the phenomenon, why raw government images without proper follow-up have limited scientific value and why the extraterrestrial-spacecraft hypothesis may be too narrow.

After nearly seventy years of research, Vallée leaves us with perhaps the most profound question raised by the UFO mystery: Are we living in a reality that can be manipulated—and, if so, are our present scientific methods capable of recognizing it?

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