Dr. Vallee was born in France and received his B.S. in
mathematics from the Sorbonne followed by his M.S. in astrophysics from
Lille. He came to the United States in 1962 and received a Ph.D. in
computer science from Northwestern University. He was a principal
investigator on the large NSF project for computer networking, which
developed the first conferencing system on the ARPANET many years
before the Internet was formed. He has also served on the National
Advisory Committee of the University of Michigan College of
Engineering. Dr. Vallee has authored three books on high technology,
including Computer Message Systems, Electronic Meetings
and The Network Revolution. Along with his mentor Dr. J. Allen
Hynek, Dr. Vallee carefully studied the problem of UFOs for many years
and served as the real-life model for Francois Truffaut in Steven
Spielberg’s film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. His
research has taken him to countries all over the world. Considered one
of the leading experts in UFO phenomena, Dr. Vallee has written several
well respected scientific books on the subject.
Dr. Vallee can be contacted through his website at www.jacquesvallee.com
