Jacques Vallee, Critical Thinking, and Intelligent UFOlogy

This is yet another preface to our upcoming series on UFOlogy—the first was our UFOlogy Library.  In the past month, I’ve received many emails from people who would rather see Brainsturbator move in a different direction.  Some of these messages have been eloquent and polite, some of them have been very confrontational—but they all make the same point: on a planet where over 10,000 children die every single day due to starvation, disease, abuse or warfare, what the fuck am I doing talking about aliens?Well, first off, I’m not talking about aliens.  The UFO phenomenon is way stranger than mere extraterrestrials.  And that’s precisely why I’m interested in it, and why I will continue to cover it—it’s located at the center of nearly all that is weird and unexplained in the human experience.  This is slippery territory, and it’s very easy to get tripped up on your own assumptions, it’s very easy to make mistakes—huge, retarded mistakes.

In short, UFOlogy is a great study to hone your critical thinking skills—and that’s what todays article will focus on, with some considerable help from our friend, Jacques Vallee.

In Vallee’s (insanely good and essential) book Revelations, he starts off by analyzing three of the bedrock foundations of the modern UFO mythology: the Majestic 12 documents, Area 51, and the Dulce underground base.  His conclusions are vastly more damning than any “skeptical” debunking article, because rather than beginning from the assumption that the claims are false, Vallee actually investigated with an open mind.

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