Book · 1965
Anatomy of a Phenomenon: UFOs in Space
Also known as Anatomy of a Phenomenon
Jacques Vallée · Henry Regnery Company (Chicago)
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The phenomenon under study is not the UFO, which is not reproducible at will in the laboratory, but the report written by the witness. This report can be observed, studied and communicated by professional scientists; thus defined, the phenomenon we investigate is obviously real.
Anatomy of a Phenomenon (Regnery, 1965; Ace paperback) was Jacques Vallée's first UFO book, written while he was a young astronomer working with J. Allen Hynek at Northwestern University. It makes the case for treating UFO reports as data for scientific study, surveying sightings across history and countries and analysing their patterns, at a time when the Air Force's Project Blue Book was dismissing them. It was followed in 1966 by Challenge to Science, written with his wife Janine Vallée, and in 1969 by Passport to Magonia, in which his thinking took a very different turn.
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- Jacques Vallée (authored by)
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