Vallée on MIB Imagery
by Loren Coleman ©2012 Jacques F. Vallée, Ph. D. is a great person to have at your side when exploring the hidden realm. Vallée, as you may agree, is a cornerstone figure in intellectual ufology, who has added his genius to the study of "flying saucers" and the reported "occupants." He gathers information from diverse fields, including fairylore, cryptid sightings, Fortean phenomena, religious visions, and astrophysics. His third book, Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1969) elegantly melts many of these threads of thought into a sensible and stimulating thesis on what UFOs might be. For more background on Jacques' ufological work, see here . Jacques wrote me the other day, after I posted my essay on this blog about the synchromystic visualizations of Men in Black in television treatments and cinema creations. On May 25, 2012, Jacques emailed the following: My contribution to that imagery was in 1979 with