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DIMENSIONS: A Casebook of Alien Contact (Alien Contact Trilogy) Paperback – January 2, 2008

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EXPLORING OTHER DIMENSIONS

In DIMENSIONS, the first volume of his Alien Contact Trilogy, Dr. Jacques Vallee reexamines the historical record that led to the modern UFO phenomenon and to the belief in alien contact. He then tackles the enigma of abduction reports, which come from various times and various countries, as well as the psychic and spiritual components of the contact experience. In the last portion of the book, he notes the factors that inhibit research into the phenomenon – the triple coverup and political motivations – and concludes that the extraterrestrial theory is simply not strange enough to explain the facts.

Dimensions is "probably the most penetrating and comprehensive assessment of the UFO experience, bar none... Dimensions sums up both Vallee's work since [the 1960s] and UFO research in general, establishing new standards against which all further ufological work must be measured." - John White, New Realities

"Provocative...Intensively researched, thoughtful...Watch the skies - and read this book." - Kirkus Reviews

"Masterful and ground-breaking." - Whitley Strieber

"A remarkable account of the phenomenon's maddening multidimensionality...After Jacques Vallee, you will never again think the same way about UFOs." - Utne Reader

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Dimensions is "probably the most penetrating and comprehensive assessment of the UFO experience, bar none... Dimensions sums up both Vallee's work since [the 1960s] and UFO research in general, establishing new standards against which all further ufological work must be measured." - John White, New Realities

"Provocative...Intensively researched, thoughtful...Watch the skies - and read this book." - Kirkus Reviews

"Masterful and ground-breaking." - Whitley Strieber

"A remarkable account of the phenomenon's maddening multidimensionality...After Jacques Vallee, you will never again think the same way about UFOs." - Utne Reader

About the Author

Dr. Jacques Vallee was born in France, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the Sorbonne and a Master of Science in astrophysics from the University of Lille. He began his professional life as an astronomer at the Paris Observatory in 1961. While on the staff of the French Space Committee, he witnessed the destruction of the tracking tapes of unknown objects orbiting the earth, initiating a lifelong interest in the UFO phenomenon. Vallee arrived in the U.S. in 1962, worked in astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin, and wrote two highly respected scientific examinations arguing for the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) of UFO origins. In 1967, he received a Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern University, where he became a close associate of J. Allen Hynek, then scientific consultant for the U.S. Air Force on Project Blue Book. Eventually concluding that the ETH was too narrow to encompass the burgeoning UFO data, he conducted his own extensive global research, resulting in the "Alien Contact Trilogy." Dr. Vallee is presently a venture capitalist living in San Francisco. His website is www.jacquesvallee.com.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Anomalist Books; F First Edition Used (January 2, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1933665289
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1933665283
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.73 x 9 inches

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Dr. Jacques F. Vallee has long been regarded as the most respected and senior scientific investigator of unidentified aerial phenomena. He was the inspiration for the French UFO researcher in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He has investigated reports of UFOs all over the world and has worked on related U.S. and French government projects. He is currently working on a project to analyze UFO materials in a Silicon Valley lab.

Vallee studied mathematics at the Sorbonne and received an MS in astrophysics at Lille University, then began his professional life as an astronomer for the French Space Committee, working at Paris Observatory. In 1962 he began working as an astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin, where he co-developed the first computer-based detailed map of Mars for NASA. He then moved to Northwestern University where he earned a PhD in artificial intelligence and served as a close associate of Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the U.S. Air Force’s top scientific consultant on UFOs under Project Blue Book. He went on to work for Hynek and Project Blue Book to create the first interactive computer data base of UFO observations.

In the late 60’s, Vallee began exploring the commonalities between UFOs, the paranormal, and folklore. His observations were detailed in his book, Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers, in which he suggested a multidimensional hypothesis.

In the 70’s, Vallee served as one of the Principal investigators of DARPA and led the team which built the world's first software collaboration system, running on Arpanet, the prototype for the Internet. Joining Stanford Research Institute and the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, Vallee formed friendships with Hal Puthoff, Russell Targ, and Kit Green and consulted on SRI’s classified remote viewing programs (including the Stargate Project), which were supported by several government agencies. In 1978, Vallee was part of a panel of experts (which included NASA Astronaut Gordon Cooper, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, military and government officials) that presented a plan for UFO research at the United Nations.

In the early 2000’s, Vallee co-founded a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. He also worked as a member of the scientific advisory board of Bigelow Aerospace and conducted private research for Bigelow and its partners, including the Pentagon’s now de-classified UFO program known as AATIP.

Vallee has written two dozen books, including Passport to Magonia, Wonders in the Sky, Dimensions, Forbidden Science, and The Invisible College.

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Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2024

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The author exceeds Sagan, exponentially. Now forge ahead with integrating the dual energy concept! This book represents high value to readers and researchers in completing humanity's existential puzzle.

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Worth it for the Chapter on Miraculous Appearances

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2013

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Jacques completed this trilogy with two other books, Revelations and Confrontations. After this he turned to fiction and the re-examination of old cases. For whatever reason he stopped looking for answers amid the miles of confusing and at times absurd event details. He has not commented on any new cases such as Medjugoje. Instead he has turned his attention to questionable UFO related groups.

This is my favorite of his works for a reason. That reason is the comparison of "miraculous" events such as Fatima, Lourdes and the Mormon angel to the physics of UFO encounters. That one chapter, The Spiritual Component: The Morphology of Miracles, is worth the price of the book. He gives more details than you are likely to have encountered on these evens and then compares the physical events to UFO encounters. If you are a truth seeker these events will suggest areas for further research.

One thing I found interesting is that while the apparitions seemed to know something about the future and give dire warnings, aside from their antics with light and ability to paralyze (and hypnotize?) they do not seem capable of effecting any changes in this world. They instruct their chosen to do simple things they seem incapable of doing themselves, such as dig for a spring of water as in the case of Fatima or seek golden tablets as in the case of the Mormon angel. And they don't seem to care much for the feelings of the people they choose, nor do they have the ability to protect them. How powerful is that?? Having a mentally challenged girl "wash herself in mud" from a spring she just dug and "eat dirt and grass" while people laugh seems to be the work of a cruel sociopath rather than a being of light and love. While he doesn't mention her, Joan of Arc is good example of a similar lack of concern for the messenger. Whoever these apparitions are, while they often encourage people to embrace a particular dogma, they seem to lack the love, kindness and compassion that is supposed to be the mainstay of the organized religions they promote.

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Makes You Re-think the UFO Phenomena

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Another fascinating book by Jacques Vallee. Dr. Vallee is one of the most original thinkers in the study of UFOs, and this book takes a very different approach than most. Never content with the "simple" explanation that UFOs are extraterrestrial visitors from space, Dr. Vallee expands upon his previous works and presents fascinating evidence to support his views.
This book may not be for everyone. If you are a dedicated believer that UFO abductions are proof that aliens from outer space are visiting our planet, you may want to look elsewhere. If however, you are willing to consider other possibilities, and like exploring different viewpoints you'll want to read this book.
Readers of Dr. Vallee's cult classic "Passport to Magonia" should be forewarned: the first half of Dimensions will sound very familiar. Much of the first half of this book is lifted straight from Magonia. However, even with that complaint this is a thought-provoking book, that should make us re-think our dearly-held assumptions regarding UFOs.

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A fundamental and game-changing insight

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2010

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I am not sure how much this is a reprint versus an update of the original work, but either way, it remains an outstanding presentation of a - to me - immediately convincing perspective on the whole subject.

He starts from the fact that many aspects of UFO encounters are basically absurd - statements are made by the "aliens" that are either nonsensical or oddly mundane (and how do they speak to us?)or the whole thing is just bizarre in some way, or physically implausible. And yet, something did happen: there are visible after-effects, both physical on the ground and biological and mental, even spiritual, for those involved. From this springs his fundamental insight: he rejects the common concept that "if" they exist, they are interstellar travelers, and posits that instead, they are manifestations of some other reality or dimension, or the multiverse.

That enables him to bring together all the historic appearance of strange creatures, inexplicable sights in the heavens, and so forth, as manifestations of the same - what? Energy, entities, forces....But whatever the source, the key and insightful statement he makes is that "the shapes of the objects, the appearances of their occupants, and their reported statements vary as a function of the cultural environment into which they are projected." (The last part is italicized for emphasis).

Thus in 1897 in the Midwest, the visitors are bearded characters from an "airship" that "corresponded to the popular concept of a flying machine: it had wheels, turbines, powerful lights." As described, it could not possibly fly...but what matters is that in the imaginations of that time, it was appropriate. He gives much discussion of all the legends of "little people" and notes many fascinating resonances with our UFO occurrences - time dilation, for instance.

In other words, I find this the best and most convincing insight into the nature of these events, but also a disturbing one, since the ability to manifest in such sly and clever ways must raise the question - "why?" Vallée sees us as being prodded or manipulated in a slow, long-term way towards some kind of change in our basic nature - but what that is, is unclear. I suppose we will find out, or our descendants will.

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Andrea Ware

this book will make you questions things

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2021

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Very well written and very brave to dive head first into the woo woo subject of religious experiences, telepathic contact with other beings, and the question of why are we here? what is the meaning of life? why do humans always have this attraction to spirituality? i have long believed that there really is something to the phenomenon of seeing unexplainable things in the sky and ESP and our consciousness being something tangible and detachable from our flesh body but this book really has opened my mind to even more possibilities. great book, well written and well researched, hard to deny that something is happening with so much evidence available throughout history up to present day

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Excelente

Reviewed in Mexico on October 3, 2022

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Es el segundo que compro de una trilogía; está emocionante el inicio, los comentarios atinados en buscar de que se trata este fenómeno. El libro llegó en excelentes condiciones; letra grande, el papel bien, huele bonito, a libro nuevo.

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Jean-Pierre

an interesting point of view on the UFO phenomena

Reviewed in France on August 9, 2022

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I agree with Jacques Vallée regarding the inter-dimensional aspect of the phenomenas and the existence of realities or universes different from ours (multiverse concept).
Books like the «True Proof» series or the «Hunt for the Skinwalker» show this potential direction taken by the strangest phenomenas.
The Jacques Vallée’s explanation of a possible entity, through the ages, inter-dimensional (transcending space and time) and influencing the humanity, through apparitions and messages, is interesting.
Finally what is the difference with a god ?
But I don’t agree with the UFO/UAP being totally part of this concept.
It’s like to say we are the only civilisation in the universe.
In this case we just extend the concept to tell that in our reality/dimension, or in this version of the universe, we are alone.
Why in our reality and not in the other ones ?
We seem to forget other aspects of this strangeness like the possibility to travel between the stars using antigravity systems as suggested by the testimony of Bob Lazard who has worked in the S4 area, trying to test these kinds of retrivaled engines.
With this potential technology, I think we don’t need to bring the concept of multiverse, inter-dimensional travels, or transcending entity, to explain the contact with other civilisations.

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A true intellectual's attempt to understand this vast and confusing subject

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 13, 2021

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This is a rare book which kept me up half a night to read it's gripping text. The quality of the writing alone is impressive, with no typos and with perfect grammar and syntax and a massive range of references. Nothing I have read to date compares to this work and I was swept along by his evident raw enthusiasm for the task. A rare and honest self reflective description of his own thought journey to a challenging and therefore worthy theory. I don't know if I can accept it but this theory is so much BIGGER than the tiny half baked and disconnected theories of most others and therefore in my view demands our consideration. Clearly Spielberg was impressed...

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Simana

Disappointed

Reviewed in India on July 14, 2021

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Maybe It wasn’t what I expected but I found this very disappointing. The book is wordy, a jotting down of the author’s thoughts. I would have liked more focus & analysis on UFO events than theorising what they may be. We all know nobody knows the who, what or where of them.

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Juan Carlos LarraÃ±aga

Very interesting book, as it analyzes the UFO phenomena beyond the classic gaze. Furthermore, UFO is regarded in a holistic way, bringing the human psyche, the physic and the ancient myths alltogether. I recommend this book to everyone interested in ufology and science.

Reviewed in Spain on March 6, 2021

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It is really pleasant to read about such themes like UFO written by scientists like Dr. Vallée and with a completely different approach.

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