Jacques F. Vallée
Jacques Fabrice Vallée is a French-born venture capitalist, computer scientist, and ufologist residing in San Francisco.
He earned degrees in mathematics from the Sorbonne, astrophysics from the University of Lille, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern University.
Professionally, Vallée worked as an astronomer at Paris Observatory, contributed to NASA's first Mars mapping project at the University of Texas, and helped develop ARPANET at SRI International, a precursor to the Internet.
In ufology, he's known for initially supporting the extraterrestrial hypothesis before developing his interdimensional hypothesis.
He inspired a character in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and continues researching UFO phenomena with Stanford scientists.
