Book · 1975
The Invisible College: What a Group of Scientists Has Discovered About UFO Influences on the Human Race
Also known as The Invisible College
Jacques Vallée · E. P. Dutton (New York) · 216 pages
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The phenomenon has so far posed no apparent threat to national defense and seems to be indifferent to the welfare of individual witnesses.
I believe that a powerful force has influenced the human race in the past and is again influencing it now. Does this force represent alien intervention, or does it originate entirely within human consciousness?
The Invisible College (Dutton, 1975) takes its title from the informal network of scientists who studied UFOs privately while keeping quiet in public. In it Jacques Vallée develops the idea he had opened in Passport to Magonia: that the phenomenon acts on human belief over long periods, a kind of "control system" that shapes culture, and that close encounters, contactee messages and apparitions belong together. It is a book of hypotheses rather than evidence, and an influential one: the control-system idea recurs in later writing on the subject, including Diana Pasulka's.
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