French-American astrophysicist and computer scientist who in the 1960s proposed the first computer database of UFO reports and developed the control system hypothesis — arguing that UFO phenomena are a real phenomenon but likely not extraterrestrial spacecraft, instead functioning as a control mechanism that shapes human consciousness and culture.
Proposed the most intellectually serious alternative to the extraterrestrial hypothesis — Vallee's control system theory argues that UFO phenomena have been appearing throughout human history (as angels, fairies, demons) and function to periodically recalibrate human belief systems — making Vallee the bridge between UFO research and the Jungian-inflected analysis of anomalous phenomena.
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