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Forbidden Sketches: Hand-Drawn Artwork Inspired by the Published Journals of Jacques Vallée (Vol. 6/Part 4)

By red pill junkieon

Greetings, Coppertops! It is time to say Au Revoir to the ‘Forbidden Sketches’, as we are about to cover the last few images left which were inspired by Jacques Vallée’s Forbidden Science Vol. 6. I hope this silly little project of mine managed to entertain you, but above all I wish it encouraged you to grab a copy of Vallée’s wonderful memoirs, which are not only required reading for any serious student of ufology, but also a truly inspiring life lesson from a man who traveled far and wide through many sojourns—some through the varied landscapes of our world, and others through landscapes of the imagination which allow you to get glimpses from the Great Beyond.

As for me, reading the Forbidden Science journals allowed me to get a glimpse of Vallée as a man enamored with the passion for discovery, and the intelligence to appreciate the beauty in life, despite the many horrors he witnessed—one Great War, the shadow of nuclear annihilation, Vietnam, 9/11 and the War on Terror, etc— and the personal sorrows he endured.

This is greatly illustrated by his great love for classical music—particularly what we would call ‘sacred’ or religiously inspired—and his interest in medieval stained glass art, which inspired him to learn it as a personal hobby with some of the great Masters which have preserved this ancient craft to this day. As he writes in FS Vol. 5:

The aesthetic shock I feel whenever I look at Chartres has two powerful causes: sheer admiration and empathy for the achievement of the craftsmen who dedicated their lives to such marvels in the primitive conditions of a rugged era and, more importantly, the realization that the glass, interposed between man and the unknown, or rather the unknowable splendor of the sky, acts as a translator, a compiler of infinities, a mediator, a vector for the soul.

Reading that passage, while keeping in mind Jacques’s trajectory as a cybernetic scientist, made me realize that stained glass and a computer microchip are basically made of the same material. And both technologies, though separated by centuries of technological development, are nonetheless connected by a common purpose of storing knowledge—either by artistic symbolism, or the efficient 0s and 1s of our digital era. Not only that, but thanks to the work of Vallée and his colleagues who developed Arpanet (the precursor to the modern Internet) that knowledge can now be shared with the masses, just like the stained glass windows of the great European cathedrals were designed to transmit their message to all the visitors who made the pilgrimage inside these magical vectors of transfigured light.

Here in lies the often forgotten common link between Art and Science: Both are meant to transform humans from within—and perhaps, that is also the ultimate purpose behind the UFO mystery as well…

But enough with the philosophical meanderings. You came here to see some funny pictures, so here they are. Oh, and remember the images are meant to represent my own personal opinion, and no one else’s.

Enjoy!

Sidney Gottlieb, the architect of the infamous MK-Ultra project. If only the mainstream media was as interested in solving the mystery behind these mind-altering experiments as they are with the JFK assassination. Anyway, the reason I wanted to draw him is because I wanted to remind myself about how banal and unassuming true evil really looks.
In 2016 Jacques attended the Earthrise retreat center managed by the Institute of Noetic Science (IONS) where he met Kary Mulllis, who won the Nobel prize for inventing the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique which paved the way for our modern genetic industry. In his biography, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, Mullis related a very strange high strangeness event involving a glowing, talking raccoon and missing time. There are many interesting things about this experience which shares many elements with the ‘alien abduction’ syndrome, like the fact Mullis’s cabin was relatively close to the property Vallée and his family had in the 70s-80s (where Jacques was trying to elicit close encounters experiences of his own). But I guess the reason I’m fascinated by Mullis’s talking racoon, is because it reminds me of that famous quote by Philip K. Dick that says, “The symbols of the divine show up in our world initially at the trash stratum”—and who knows trash better than raccoons?
In September of 2016 Vallée returns to Argentina to participate in Alan Stivelman’s documentary ‘Testigo de Otro Mundo’ (Witness of Another World). During his stay, he was invited to attend a lecture given by Ret. Commodore Rubén Lianza, head of the Argentine Air Force’s UFO project. “Openly skeptical about UFOs,” Vallée writes, “he showed slides from the French CNES to support his view that 98% of all cases were explained […] People looked at me at that point, so I had to get up and stated diplomatically that more nuanced study was till needed… It would benefit from international cooperation.”
Óscar Juan Pérez, whom was a young teen when Vallée first met him, not long after he had had a life-changing close encounter experience, the subject of which is the basis for the documentary ‘Witness of the Another World.’ It bears repeating that if you haven’t watched that documentary yet, you owe it to yourself to correct that mistake immediately; for it is the best UFO documentary I have ever seen—and this BTW is probably one of the best sketches I’ve ever drawn.
As a farewell gift, Juan gave Vallée a canteen he had made himself out of the skin of a wild boar, which triggered a somewhat awkward moment at the airport by the time Jacques returned home.
(Sorry not sorry)
Federico’s ideas about alien life visiting other sentient beings by projecting their incorporeal consciousness reminded me of the movie K-Pax, which is one of my favorite takes on the issue of ET contact. Of course, aside of ‘possessing’ the bodies of native life forms, an advance civilization might also be able to ‘materialize’ avatar bodies using the raw materials available at the planet they are visiting—could this explain some cases of cattle mutilation, I wonder?
In 2017 Vallée learns of an injury suffered by one of the people working at the Skinwalker ranch under the tenure of Brandon Fugal. Fans of the History channel TV show will know about this better than I do, since I only watched about 75% of the first season until I lost interest—the fact the series is still going and they have yet to share their findings (or publish them in a peer-reviewed journal) is quite disheartening, to say the least…
In May of 2017 Vallée attended the Contact in the Desert conference in California, where he met for the first time a certain documentarian and aspiring UFO personality, I literally groaned when I reached this part of the book (once again, a reminder that this is not meant to reflect Jacques’s opinion!).
This scanned page of my journal is a good example of how my discombobulated mind works when I’m reading something as intellectually stimulating as Forbidden Science: Instead of thinking about Vallée’s statements (that they were not finding the things they were expecting with the UFO samples they were analyzing) in terms of new physics or scientific paradigms being broken, I began to think instead of the Borderlands videogames I like so much, and how whenever you want to move around the alien planet of Pandora more quickly (and safely) than on foot, you reach one of the ‘Catch-A-Ride’ terminals and Voilá! you get a customized vehicle ex-nihilo. This is the kind of stuff that was on my mind when I asked Jacques that weird ‘apport’ question, in case you haven’t checked out our latest interview with him on our YouTube channel.
…Speaking of videogames, when is someone going to make an epic Aliens VS Skinwalkers fighter game?
Linda Moulton-Howe, who came into prominence in the UFO field through her trailblazing research in cattle mutilations.
UFO documentarian James Fox. Vallée ended up helping him out a lot with his 2020 film The Phenomenon.
As I’ve written previously, Vallée made a habit in his journals to document many news-worthy events throughout his life. A good exercise in this age, in which we are being constantly bombardment with ‘news-worthiness’ so often everything gets all clumped together in our minds.
As I progress through my journals, transcribing paragraphs or quotes, I am sometimes left with some little marginal space I feel compelled to fill with a doodle, which is why some of these sketches are smaller than others. Anyway, this one was inspired by one of Garry Nolan’s frightening sleep paralysis experiences.
In 2018, Vallée submitted himself to a surgical procedure to treat his prostate cancer which employed some of the cutting-edge medical technologies he’s invested in throughout his career as a venture capitalist. This rather rude gag is nonetheless a good reminder of the bizarre quality of the reported medical procedures alien abductors enforce on their captors—they are allegedly capable of removing brains and other organs while the subject is still alive, but they haven’t figured out how to get rid of scars? Why is their technological prowess so uneven?
In October of 2018 Vallée met with UFO witness José Padilla accompanied by Paola Harris, with whom she would write the book Trinity, the Best Kept Secret. Although I remain respectfully skeptical of this particular UFO case, I would still urge anyone to grab a copy of Trinity because there’s a lot of interesting stuff to be learned in it.
One of the things I appreciated the most from reading Trinity was Jacques’s narration of their visit to the Trinity ‘Ground Zero’ monument in New Mexico. He shares some of his impressions about this bizarre, somewhat dizzying experience in FS6. The phrase in red, as you might have guessed, is taken from the Baghavad Gita which greatly influenced Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb.
After years of collaboration, the LoneStars —the last iteration of the researchers under Bigelow’s influence, along with other newcomers like Nolan (plus some people which remain unnamed in the printed edition of Jacques’s journals)— split up and everybody walked onto the sunset following their own path; some would keep collaborating together, like Nolan and Jacques with their UFO sample analysis, while others like Christopher ‘Kit’ Green seemed to have given up entirely on their interest in UFO research.
Despite my best attempts to make the ‘Tic Tac’ much more interesting, I will never find it as cool as its older predecessors. It feels so antiseptic and BORING (sorry ,lil dude).
Russell Targ (sorry for the typo), Puthoff’s old colleague and one of the pioneers in Remote Viewing research. I’m happy he’s still around to share his ideas at channels like New Thinking Allowed.
…The same cannot be said, unfortunately, about Stan ‘The Man’ Friedman, one of the most influential figures in UFO research in the XXth century. I liked Stan immensely (I even got to meet him once, on that same conference in 2016 when I first met Jacques!) and he’s proof you don’t necessarily need to agree with a person’s POV to respect them. Wherever he is, I hope he got the answers he was looking for, and that he’s pleased with this little homage I drew in honor of his memory.
In this field (as in Life in general) people come and people go. We are all walking on the path cleared by trailblazers like Aimé Michel, J. Allen Hynek, and Jacques Vallée. Some manage to do remarkable work—others, not so much—but the important thing is that the younger generations learn about their legacy; either to pick up the torch where they left it, or to learn from the mistakes least we repeat them. If we do this, then their work will not have been in vain.

Vallée managed to end his journals on a positive note, and a heeding to those who will come after him: There is still time. Do not just sit around waiting for ‘Disclosure’, when you could use what little precious time you have on this Earth searching for answers by yourself!

Chances are you’ll end up with even more questions than when you first started; but if you do, then that means you did it right.

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