Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969

479 Pages·1996·4.17 MB·English

by  Jacques Vallee

FORBIDDEN
SCIENCE
FORBIDDEN
SCIENCE
Journals 1957-1969
Jacques Vallee
North Atlantic Books
Berkeley, California

CONTENTS
Foreword vu
Part One: Sub-Space
1. Pontoise. 25 December 1957 3
2. Paris. 25 August 1958 13
3. Paris. 10 February 1959 22
4. Lille. 24 October 1959 28
5. Paris. 12 August 1961 40
Part Two: Blue Book
6. Austin. 29 November 1962 63
7. Chicago. 19 October 1963 7A
8. Pontoise. 24 March 1964 93
9. Chicago. 24 October 1964 113
10. Chicago. 8 May 1965 135
Part Three: Pentacle
11. Chicago. 23 March 1966 173
12. Paris. 29 July 1966 200
13. Chicago. 28 September 1966 219
14. Chicago. 30 January 1967 239
15. Chicago. 18 June 1967 279
Part Four: Magonia
16. Paris. 10 October 1967 315
17. Saint-Germain. 13 May 1968 349
18. Edinburgh. 14 August 1968 364
19. Willingboro. 16 November 1968 376
20. Stanford. 1 July 1969 398
Epilogue 419
Notes and References 439
Index 455
FOREWORD
le is unusual for scientists to keep diaries and even more unusual for
them to make them public. While we know much about the intimate
lives and personal motivations of musicians, movie stars and literary
figures, the day-to-day life of scientists remains carefully veiled, as if sci
ence somehow arose spontaneously by a process which superseded the
mere activities of mortals.
Like most of my colleagues, I have followed this rule of silence for
the last thirty years, never expecting that these Journals would be published
before my death. But I have finally decided that I had no right to keep
them private any more. Although they contain many passages that are very
personal and some that are painful, they also provide a primary source
about a crucial fact in the recent historical record: the appearance of new
classes of phenomena that highlighted the reality of the paranormal.
These phenomena were deliberately denied or distorted by those in
authority within the government and the military. Science never had fair
and complete access to the most important files. This fact has been
alleged before, but never proven. The present book proves it.
Publication was not considered when the pages of these Journals
slowly accumulated in the form of copybooks, loose pages, letters and
marginal notes. I simply regarded it as a useful intellectual and spiritual
discipline to review for myself the events of each period, if not those of
each day. At first this exercise helped me cope with the uncertainties and
the rapid changes in my life as a student in France. Later, when I moved
to the United States, the Journal became a confidant and, more impor
tantly, an adviser, a crystal ball, a tool to interrogate the future and to
explore its potential.
It turns out that the thirteen years covered here, from 1957 to 1969,
saw some of the most exciting events in technological history: the first
space adventures, the rise of the computer, the electronic revolution, the
invention of advanced software, the flight to the moon, the first detailed
images of other planets. As a young scientist I was a minor contributor to
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