Jacques Valle is the ultimate archetype of this. He is a serious researcher with the computer science, physics, and astronomy background.
In fact, it's now almost conventional knowledge that if you're an average citizen who encounters a UFO crash, mail the materials to Jacques.
Jacques's books are incredibly dense and detailed, not for the faint of heart.
But if you read them closely, Jacques can drop some truth bombs you won't get anywhere else, like in his book Revelations, Alien Contact in Human Deception.
But perhaps what I find most interesting about Jacques is that he's just as mystical as he is hard-headed and scientific.
he decided to base the character played by Francois Truffaut off of Jacques.
I've been privileged enough to have a few private conversations with Jacques prior to this interview.
So without further ado, hit subscribe, sit back and enjoy this long awaited interview with the French godfather of UFOs, my friend and this week's American Alchemist, the legendary Jacques Bale.
But why would Jacques, at the age of 83, write just another UFO crash story?
This is a point Jacques repeatedly makes in many of his books.
Number two, when Jacques inquired about Trinity, no one with top secret clearances in the US federal government had even heard of the case.
One of my all-time favorite Jacques Valle-books is his 1969 classic, Passport to Magonia.
Jacques Valle, of course, would you disagree with that?
Jacques seems to have a longstanding interest in esotericism and specifically rosicrucianism.
In the 70s, Jacques named both his independent group of UFO researchers and his seminal book about their learnings, the Invisible College, a reference to Robert Boyle's 17th century group of heretical natural philosophers that eventually became the Royal Society and was heavily influenced by rosicrucian ideas.