Vallée on a contractor controlling the issue (2020)
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| Date | 4 December 2020 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Beings & bodies (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| People | Jacques Vallée, Garry Nolan, David Grusch |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 198 |
| Year | 2020 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2020 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 4 |
Vallée on a contractor controlling the issue (2020) — Vallée says a private contractor controls the UAP issue.
In December 2020, Jacques Vallée said that the group controlling UFO research inside agencies such as the CIA was actually a private contractor, rather than a government office. The view echoes ideas he had recorded in his journals for decades, including his 2002 note that UFO research had likely been privatized.
Vallée's journals, published as Forbidden Science 6: Scattered Castles (2010–2019), describe years of conversations with insiders who pointed to contractors. He has also been involved with Stanford's Garry Nolan in analysing claimed UFO materials.
His statement is an opinion based on his experience, not documents. The idea of a contractor-held program became central to David Grusch's 2023 testimony.
People and topics
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Central Intelligence Agency — The U.S. foreign intelligence agency, which has followed UFO reports since the 1940s.
- Forbidden Science — Jacques Vallée's published journals.
- Garry Nolan — Stanford immunologist who studies UAP-related injuries and claimed materials.
- David Grusch — Former intelligence officer who testified in 2023 that the U.S. has recovered non-human craft.
On the Timeline
- Coast Guard silver disc claim (30 November 2020) — A Coast Guard retiree says he saw a silver disc pulled from the ocean.
- Marcel family Roswell debris (12 December 2020) — Jesse Marcel's grandson says his family held unusual Roswell debris.
See every 2020 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- Forbidden Science — the journals of Jacques Vallée (Anomaly Archives) · anomalyarchives.org · archived copy
- Forbidden Science series — Anomalist Books · anomalistbooks.com · archived copy
- Review of Forbidden Science 6 — SFCrowsnest · sfcrowsnest.info · archived copy
- Forbidden Science Dispatches — Tanner Boyle (journal summaries) · tannerfboyle.substack.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Robertson Panel — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Jacques Vallée — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- UFO documents — CIA Reading Room · cia.gov · archived copy
- Pentacle memorandum — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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