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During the mid-20th century, the dominant view among UFO researchers was that flying saucers were highly advanced hardware piloted by biological entities originating from other star systems. Vallée, a trained astrophysicist and computer scientist, grew increasingly skeptical of this nuts-and-bolts materialist approach.
: The legendary cloud-realm mentioned by the 9th-century Archbishop Agobard of Lyons, where sky-ships supposedly sailed. Passport to Magonia
: The 20th-century accounts of small, thin entities abducting humans. During the mid-20th century, the dominant view among
Jacques Vallée’s 1969 masterpiece, , is widely considered one of the most important and groundbreaking books in the history of ufology. By breaking away from the standard extraterrestrial hypothesis of his era, Vallée fundamentally altered how researchers view anomalous aerial phenomena and close encounters. Instead of treating UFOs as physical spacecraft from distant planets, he proposed that they are a modern continuation of age-old human folklore. 🛸 Challenging the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis : The 20th-century accounts of small, thin entities