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12-5-10
Unexplained sightings date back thousands of years and span the globe. What does that say about us?
According to Jacques Vallee, the French-born astronomer and co-author (with Chris Aubeck) of the hypnotic new book "Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times," these stories are important not only because they show that flying things have been capturing our imagination for centuries, but because of what they say about our most cherished beliefs and deepest fears. In the book, Vallee and Aubeck list 500 claims of sightings, in chronological order, between the years 1460 BC and 1879, and argue that the commonalities -- references to light, round shapes, erratic flight and terror in the observer -- offer us real insight into human behavior and our need to find explanation for things we cannot explain.
Salon spoke with Vallee from his home in San Francisco about our religious connection to UFOs, the controversy surrounding his own work -- and our endless cultural obsession with flying objects.
Your book calls "alien contact" humankind's oldest story. How so?
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See Also:
The interview of Jacques Vallée by Marie-Thérèse de Brosses Summarized By Gildas Bourdais
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The interview of Jacques Vallée by Marie-Thérèse de Brosses Summarized By Gildas Bourdais
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The interview of Jacques Vallée by Marie-Thérèse de Brosses Summarized By Gildas Bourdais
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