sis of government deception (e.g., sightings in Texas in 1897, the disappear-ance of a U. S. destroyer in 1944, a shadowy English will purporting to make an inheritance available to organizations that attempt to contact extraterres-trials). Occasionally Vallee gets quite careless. For instance, afte...
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| Summary: | sis of government deception (e.g., sightings in Texas in 1897, the disappear-ance of a U. S. destroyer in 1944, a shadowy English will purporting to make an inheritance available to organizations that attempt to contact extraterres-trials). Occasionally Vallee gets quite careless. For instance, after giving the decli-nation and right ascension of IUMMA (star of the planet UMMO, noted above) about 15 light years away, he writes, "this would place it squarely in a region of great transparency, near the Galactic North Pole, which is free from hydrogen clouds. Therefore, IUMMA should be visible to us as a fifth magni-tude star, easily seen with the naked eye " (p. 99; emphasis added). Vallee gives no optical luminosity for the star, however, and it is impossible to conclude that it would be of the fifth magnitude without that information. This is called the third book (see Vallee, 1988, 1990) of his Alien Contact trilogy (an odd title for books written by one so doubtful of UFO's extraterres-trial origin), but there is little continuity between the three books. In fact, they did not all have the same publisher and it was not until after the second book's appearance that it was even labelled a trilogy. By training and familiarity, Vallee has much to offer in the formidable task of making some sense of the UFO phenomenon, but Revelations is in that respect a disappointment. |
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