Jacques Vallée: UFOs, Folklore & Why the Alien Explanation Might Be Wrong | True Anomalies

For decades after the 1947 flying-saucer wave, the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH) was the go-to answer for UFO sightings. Then came Jacques Vallée’s groundbreaking book Passport to Magonia. In it, the legendary computer scientist and ufologist argues that modern UFO encounters aren’t evidence of interstellar visitors, but part of a much older phenomenon—one eerily similar to ancient folklore about fairies, djinn, demons, and other “ultraterrestrials.” Could the same intelligence that once abducted people into fairy realms now be masquerading as aliens? Vallée’s revolutionary ideas forever changed ufology and laid the foundation for today’s interdimensional and control-system theories.