Will I love Passport to Magonia?

Many books on this subject have dated, this title, first published in 1969 remains a classic and highly influential.

It argues that twentieth-century claims of UFO sightings and meetings with aliens fit a wider pattern taking in folklore and our history of strange encounters of all kinds.

A hugely influential book that has influenced a library’s worth of other writing but still an ideal beginners guide to anyone seeking to understand where the strangest modern-day claims might fit into the bizarre stories humans have been telling each other throughout history.

Vallee is perhaps the most respected researcher in the UFO community.

Holder of a PhD and a successful computer scientist, he began writing about UFOs while in graduate school, and has produced a string of books that have transformed conversations about UFOs among believers. He is perhaps the most influential opponent of the so-called “extraterrestrial hypothesis,” the common assumption that UFOs are spacecraft that have made the trip across the stars.

Rather, in this groundbreaking book Vallee draws comparisons between contemporary stories of UFOs and the reams of accounts of encounters with small otherworldly beings, glowing lights, and strange bendings… show more.

Dr. Jacques Vallee has always approached the UFO topic with academic rigor and intellectual honesty.

Faced with undeniable correspondences between older folklore and contemporary sightings, he penned Passport to Magonia in 1969. It was among the first books to acknowledge similarities between UFO contact and older, sometimes even ancient, interactions with supernatural beings, especially Western European fairies.

Within, Vallee argues that UFOs might not come from the stars but rather from right here—an unseen, ephemeral place inches from your nose as you read this. Whether residing in some mystical Otherworld or another dimension is immaterial.

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No exploration of reality would be complete without an examination of the UFO phenomenon. Jacques Vallee is the master UFO researcher. His theories are revolutionary, particularly how the UFO phenomenon has influenced human culture for millennia. I found his work insightful and far more informative than traditional explanations. Moreover, his formulations extend beyond how the UFO phenomenon manifests in our world and considers its effects on our destiny.