Jacques Vallée

Dr. Jacques F. Vallee was born in France, where he received a degree in mathematics at the Sorbonne and a master’s in astrophysics at Lille University, and was awarded the Jules Verne Prize for his first scifi novel.

Coming to the US as an astronomer at the University of Texas, where he co-developed the first computer-based map of Mars for NASA, Jacques later moved to Northwestern University where he received his doctorate in artificial intelligence and served as a close associate of Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the Air Force consultant on Unidentified Flying Objects.

Moving to San Francisco with his family in 1969, Jacques went on to work on information technology research and parapsychology at SRI International and the Institute for the Future, where he directed the project to build the world’s first social network as one of ARPA’s Principal Investigators on the early Internet.

A venture capitalist in Silicon Valley since the mid-1980s, Jacques Vallee has led investments in over 60 high-technology, space and medical companies, where he generally served as a board member.

He is an active investigator of UFO reports in North and Latin America (notably Argentina and Brazil) as well as in Western Europe and Russia, and has extensively published his findings through books and films.

He currently serves on the “College of Experts” of the French CNES-GEIPAN investigation group and is an advisor to Bigelow Aerospace in Nevada.