SKU: B-000070

Confrontations: Scientist's Search for Alien Contact

Author: Jacques Vallee

Special Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated

Condition: The closed book page edge has foxing. The pages have yellowing. Some pages have foxing/yellow spots, to some rare page edges.

Science & Nature Spirituality & New Age Biography & Memoir

UFOlogy Alien Contact Science Paranormal

Confrontations: A Scientist’s Search for Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee is a landmark 1990 hardcover that pairs the French-American computer scientist’s calm rationalism with chilling first-hand investigations into UFO encounters, physical traces, and unexplained injuries. Profile Books’ UK edition keeps the 304-page narrative tight, while the illustrated dust jacket adds vintage shelf appeal for collectors of paranormal non-fiction.

Vallee, the real-life model for a character in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, treats ufology as a serious scientific puzzle, not sci-fi. Readers hunting for scholarly yet gripping true stories of high-strangeness fieldwork will find his balanced approach refreshing amid today’s sensationalism.

This vintage copy shows gentle signs of age: the page block carries light foxing, the paper has mellowed, and a few page edges show occasional spots—none obscure text or artwork. The binding remains square and the jacket bright, making it a handsome reading or display copy for young adults and adults alike.

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