{"product_id":"9780345364531-secondhand-confrontations-a-scientists-search-for-alien-contact","title":"Confrontations: A Scientist's Search For Alien Contact","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when a credentialed scientist turns the rigorous tools of empirical research toward the world's most controversial subject? Jacques Vallée's Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact chronicles the author's globe-spanning investigation into UFO encounters, presenting firsthand testimonies, physical evidence, and medical data collected from witnesses across multiple continents. Vallée, a pioneering figure in computer science and a former colleague of J. Allen Hynek, applies a forensic, data-driven methodology to cases that mainstream science has long dismissed, arguing compellingly that the UFO phenomenon is far too complex and far-reaching to be explained away as mere misidentification or mass delusion.\n\nWhere sensationalist accounts opt for easy answers, Vallée's work demands intellectual rigour, situating the UFO mystery within broader questions of consciousness, reality, and the limits of human perception. His prose is precise and unflinching, grounding extraordinary claims in documented case studies while resisting the temptation to reach premature conclusions. Confrontations stands as a landmark of serious UFO research — one that challenges both true believers and hardened sceptics alike — and leaves the reader with the unsettling sense that the most profound questions about our universe remain, as yet, unanswered.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203120341211,"sku":"9780345364531-SECONDHAND","price":60.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f14d936f-a4f6-4818-9613-f45231563044.png?v=1788144542","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780345364531-secondhand-confrontations-a-scientists-search-for-alien-contact","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}