Case file · Non-fiction & research literature
Vallée, 'The Invisible College'
Vallée's account of an informal network of scientists quietly studying UFOs, and of the phenomenon as a 'control system' acting on human belief.
1975 CE · 37.45, -122.18 · status: account
The account
Vallée proposed that UFO encounters work like a conditioning schedule, mixing absurd and meaningful elements to shift human culture over time. It is one of the key texts of the 'high strangeness' school.
The sceptical view
The control-system idea is unfalsifiable: any outcome can be read as part of the plan.
Connections in the atlas
- The Invisible College