Case file · Non-fiction & research literature
Vallée, 'Messengers of Deception'
Vallée's investigation of UFO contact cults and the possibility that human groups exploit or manufacture UFO beliefs.
1979 CE · 37.45, -122.18 · status: account
The account
Unusually for a ufologist, Vallée warned that contactee movements and deliberate disinformation could manipulate believers, and that some 'alien' messages were human in origin. Later revelations about intelligence-agency games with UFO researchers (the Bennewitz affair, MJ-12) made the book look prescient.
The sceptical view
Its own claims about hidden manipulators rest on interviews and inference rather than documents.