Chaos spread all over Japan on January 2, 1749, when three round objects “like the moon” appeared and were seen for four days. Such a state of social unrest developed, and seemed so clearly linked with the mysterious “celestial objects,” that the government decided to act. Riot participants were executed. But confusion became total when people observed three “moons” aligned in the sky and, several days later, two “suns.”

Vallee also mentions, in the new preface that he wrote for the book in the early '90s, of the difficulties that he had compiling the thousands of eyewitness accounts that are included in Passport to Magonia. I suppose with the easy connections to the internet that are available now, that I hadn't considered how laborious it would be to gather all of that information together in the time before computers. Bad reasoning, bad translations, bad sources and forgeries”, you now can see the title kept its promises... Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth A common feature in fairy stories is a parallel world, and an element of missing time. Vallee very convincingly suggests that an experience such as this is always viewed within the framework of the current cultural context.And for those who are interested in continuing the conversation, save yourself some time : you can keep to yourself your credentialism (“but he has a PhD and was in a Spielberg movie”, irrelevant to the fallacies, forgeries, bad reasoning he provided in the rest of his career), your concerns about age (“how dare you criticize an old man”, irrelevant... and yes i had those in the past), your ad hominem, all your cult of personality instincts or the fact that “you made too many friends in the UFO community for you to criticize it” (not kidding, someone literally said this to me once in this very subreddit). After much argumenting, those who showed those tied up people were confused*, following this prophecy,* just as the thief is confused when he’s caught.”

Physical Analyses in Ten Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Material Samples." Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 12, no. 3 (1998) pp.359–375. ISSN 0892-3310. Are UFO Events related to Sidereal Time? Arguments against a proposed correlation." jacquesvallee.com. There is a work that is widely known in the UFO community that often comes up in discussions, Jacques Vallée’s “ Passport to Magonia”. Here i shall analyse the main case from which the book gets its name. Over two decades ago, eminent scientist Vallee wrote a provocative book about alleged UFO landings, folklore, and certain unexplained phenomena. That long-out-of-print book–which discussed the most interesting reports of more than 1,000 apparently reliable witnessess–has become an underground classic and is now being reissued. Passport to Magonia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds by Jacques F. Vallee – eBook DetailsOne day, among other instances, it chanced at Lyons that three men and a woman were seen descending from these aerial ships. The entire city gathered about them, crying out they were magicians and were sent by Grimaldus, Duke of Beneventum, Charlemagne's enemy, to destroy the French harvest. In vain the four innocents sought to vindicate themselves by saying that they were their own country-folk, and had been carried away a short time since by miraculous men who had shown them unheard-of marvels, and had desired to give them an account of what they had seen. The frenzied populace paid no heed to their defense, and were on the point of casting them into the fire, when the worthy Agobard, Bishop of Lyons, who having been a monk in that city had acquired considerable authority there, came running at the noise, and having heard the accusations of the people and the defense of the accused, gravely pronounced that both one and the other were false. That it was not true that these men had fallen from the sky, and that what they said they had seen there was impossible. Passport to Magonia, with its well-reasoned theories, builds a bridge of considerations between the sightings and visitation stories of the past and the ones occurring in the present. Upon its release, some explorers of the weird simply couldn’t take it. The book was regarded not only as a radical departure, but as a betrayal by Vallee (8). Thankfully, that’s not so much the case today. Vallee admits that a few holdouts continue to completely reject his theories, but others are approaching ufology with more open minds: “Inspired by the notion of a link between ancient stories preserved by historians and the ‘modern folklore’ of UFO reports, a new generation of researchers has emerged, eager to advance the knowledge of the nature and impact of the observations” (9). Here’s the thing, bluntly : Vallée doesn’t give a damn about UFOs. He believes in psychism. He only uses UFOs as an ad for his religious supernatural beliefs. All these points are just tools to put the UFOs as secondary, as a justification for his other beliefs. Crop Circles: 'Signs' From Above or Human Artifacts? Some personal speculations on a fractal theme." ufocasebook.com. Presented at the Eighth Annual Conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration, Boulder, Colorado, June 1989."