Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact
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Jacques Vallée’s Confrontations: A Scientist’s Search for Alien Contact is the 1990 hardcover first edition that serious UFO researchers still hunt for. Profile Books Ltd. printed only one U.K. run, so copies in the original dust-jacket and complete with the book’s 30-plus photographs, maps and sketches are now genuinely scarce. At 304 pages and 24 cm tall, this is the full-size, library-quality volume—not a book-club reprint—making it a cornerstone for any antiquarian paranormal shelf.
What sets Confrontations apart is Vallée’s refusal to rely on second-hand stories. The French-born astrophysicist and computer pioneer flies into Amazon head-waters, Brazilian military bases and French hospital wards to interview witnesses of “face-to-face” encounters, then cross-checks their testimony against radar logs, soil samples and medical X-rays. The result is a data-driven narrative that bridges the gap between sensational UFO lore and peer-reviewed science, a balance few titles in the genre achieve.
Collectors prize this vintage 1990 copy for its historical snapshot: the moment before abduction lore went mainstream and Vallée began arguing that the phenomenon is more psychic than extraterrestrial. The cloth binding and illustrated dust-jacket remain intact; inside, the pages are clean and unmarked, free of notes or dog-ears, with only light foxing to the outer edges that in no way obscures text or images. A tight, readable copy that looks impressive on the shelf and still invites underlining for today’s young-adult or adult reader ready to question reality alongside one of the field’s last working scientists.
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