TRINITY: The Best-Kept Secret

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Mr Leopizzi Harris and Doctor Vallée spoke to two witnesses, Jose and Sabrina, who said they observed not only the actual crash of the object on their property but the US Army's efforts to lift it and take it away. In Chicago, Vallée’s new mentor, Hynek, wanted a UFO event like L’Aigle. He wanted unimpeachable photography or something he could hold in his hands. In meetings of the Invisible College, the discreet ufology club the Vallées hosted at their apartment, he would say, “We have to wait for a really good case to show up.” But Vallée argued that scientific discoveries don’t usually happen that way. Understanding tends to come into view slowly, he said, after methodical study. They shouldn’t wait around for some sensational event that might never happen. They should be gathering every scrap of available UFO data—hard and soft—and truffling out the patterns in it. Solving for that unknown x.

Vallée’s papers, entrusted to Rice University, will ultimately include files on some 500 anomalous events that he has personally investigated, from the abduction of Betty and Barney Hill on US Route 3 to a landing that paralyzed a farmer in a Provençal lavender crop. Yet he likes to joke that he is the only ufologist who does not know what UFOs are. He doubts that they are interstellar SUVs—would be disappointed if they were. The truth, he believes, is almost surely freakier than that, more baffling, and more revealing of the nature of the universe. This is why, long ago, when Steven Spielberg consulted him for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Vallée pushed against the final scene, in which the aliens emerge from their spaceship. Too prescriptive, he thought. Spielberg memorialized Vallée as the film’s French scientist character, played by François Truffaut, but he went with the meet-and-greet ending. It appears to have been what the public wanted: Close Encounters beat out Star Wars at the box office just days after the Council Bluffs incident. Reme: Yes. Their heads were comparable to a campamocha. That’s what we saw. Paola Harris: What do you mean, you saw them and they looked like a bug?Paola Harris: Were you terrified when you looked at them or did you want to get closer, or did they just disgusted you, or you just felt sorry for them, or? Reme: And so as time went on, Jose left there and then I left there, and went to Washington and went to school and then I eventually got married, and we were raising a family. Sometimes both my mom and dad would visit us. This time my dad came alone to visit and he stayed at our house overnight. Jeannie fixed lamb chops for him. That was his favorite meal. While we were sitting at the table having dinner, my dad turns over to me and says, “Reme, I don’t know if you remember or not, but you know that cylinder that you fixed on that windmill? It’s still working. Don’t know what you did to it.” I responded that I was glad it worked out. I couldn’t bring my self to tell him the real story, because he was not supposed to know. The investigators have provided witness accounts of a nearly-intact UFO and its occupants being intercepted by a US Army detachment. a b Carroll, Robert Todd. "Aztec (New Mexico) UFO Hoax". The Skeptic's Dictionary . Retrieved April 8, 2016.

Reme: Well, they had six original families. The population was not that big, between fifty and seventy-five people in the area. How might we expect Vallee, Harris, and others who have energetically promoted the Trinity UFO crash-recovery story to respond to the findings reported in these the Crash Tale Files? Many people have been helpful in sharing their time and expertise in helping me pursue specific lines of inquiry. Most of these people listed here helped me find historical materials that were instructive regarding one or another specific aspects of the case. I list those people here (except for a few helpers who desired anonymity) with deep appreciation. But, please heed—none of these people are in any way answerable for my assessments, opinions, characterizations, or conclusions, or for anything other than direct quotations attributed to them by name. I expect that some of them will disagree with some of my assessments, and some might even dispute some of my factual findings (but, I have the receipts). Skinwalkers at the Pentagon - A conversation between authors Dr. James Lacatski, Dr. Colm Kelleher, and George KnappThe Western Isles incident, when a loud explosion was reported in the sky over the Atlantic in the Outer Hebrides. Reme: Well, Jose and I and both families are in agreement that the public needs to know about it and also we’re in possession of the piece. It really doesn’t belong to us. Never did. It belongs to somebody. Whatever is behind the UFO phenomenon, Vallée says, “it’s a lot smarter than we are, and it uses humor at another level.” Photograph: Christie Hemm Klok Paola Harris: Around the 15th. That 15th of August, you know, is the Feast of the Madonna. It’s the greatest feast in Italy. Okay, never mind. It’s a major date. Okay, so it’s around the 15th, so whose dad was it that sent you, and you were how old? Jose: Curiosity seekers and hunters, and there’s a lot of rifle shooters doing target practice there.

The two scientists, who worked on the first computerised map of Mars for NASA, reconstructed the 1945 UFO observations of three witnesses.

Paola Harris: That’s what he said? He did not think it was a weather balloon. But he never went one step further and said what was inside? Robert Hastings, author of UFOs & Nukes (Second Edition, 2017) and co-author of Confession: Our Hidden Alien Encounters Revealed (2019) After Magonia came out, the Vallées moved a couple of times, eventually settling in San Francisco for the “weird ’70s.” He went to work for SRI International, where he helped Doug Engelbart, the inventor of the mouse, get Arpanet going. In that era, many of Vallée’s colleagues were into Erhard Seminars Training—EST—a cultish self-help enterprise. He felt enormous pressure “from all the groupies” to participate but didn’t. (Out of caution, Vallée says, he has never used tobacco or drugs and rarely drinks alcohol.) He left SRI to work at the Institute for the Future, where he led teams that developed some of the earliest social networks. September 27, 2023: I added to the list of sources two papers written by Jacques Vallee and posted on the internet by Paola Harris, linking here to original versions as archived in PDF: "Trinity: The Inconvenient Reality: A response to Douglas Dean Johnson’s 'Crash Story'" (May 15, 2023), and "The Jacques Vallee Declaration: A Tale of Two Urchins: Truth and Consequences in New Mexico Ufology" (September 23, 2023). Paul Hellyer, former Minister of National Defence of Canada, stated: “Paola Harris and Jacques Vallée have spent much effort doing field research on location.

Paola Harris: Well, your story is very important. It certainly is very important to archiving and historically recording the UFO phenomenon in general. And everybody knows and everybody uses as a marker the Roswell case, which was 1947. But I had told you that I had discovered an MJ-12 document with Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein, where they talked, before Roswell of what an extraterrestrial biological entity was, had come to the conclusion that there were crashes before Roswell and this was one of them because it was at least two years before Roswell. So if we research this case with you and Jose, what would you like to have happen? How do you envision this, this disclosure that you have to offer everybody? The world? America? The young people of the future? How do you hope to disclose this? Because it’s a real story and you guys are still here and it happened a long time ago. So how would you like to bring this forward? Reme: In 2002. It was after his surgery. He had open-heart surgery. So I was doing everything. In fact I took a trip to New Mexico with some guys from California and…Paola Harris: Did you both ever, when you were discussing as kids, did you ever discuss the beings? Reme: Well, I would imagine one of the areas would be at one of the yearly conferences that they have. That would be a good place, I think.