Jacques Vallée | Is A.I. the “Alien” Intelligence We’ve Been Awaiting? | Bigelow Podcast Ep. 7 | Sept. 16, 2026

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Astronomer and author Dr. Jacques Vallée started his scientific career as an astronomer but earned his PhD in computer science at Northwestern University, where he met UFO pioneer Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the key scientific advisor to the US Air Force’s much maligned Project Blue Book. Vallée was on the ground floor in the development of artificial intelligence, and over the ensuing decades has used his computer expertise to revolutionize how UFO data has been organized and catalogued, including his creation of the world’s largest UFO data warehouse, created as part of the DIA’s secretive AAWSAP investigation.

In this episode, Vallée is reunited with two longtime colleagues, Robert Bigelow and Dr. Colm Kelleher, interviewed by George Knapp. The trio worked together during the private NIDS effort as well as during AAWSAP, digging into the mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch, the pursuit of unusual materials from alleged UFO crash sites, human abductions, animal mutilations, and an attempted understanding of nonhuman intelligence.

Is A.I. itself a form of alien intelligence, created by us, but eventually a threat to human survival? Now that the president has ordered the formal release of UFO files and videos, has “disclosure” already happened? Now at the end of a decades-long career as a writer of influential UFO books and journals, Vallée opens up about big picture issues and mysteries that have been percolating in his head.