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Forbidden Sketches: Hand-Drawn Artwork Inspired by the Published Journals of Jacques Vallée (Vol. 6/Part 3)

By red pill junkieon

Greetings, fellow Coppertops! We continue our ‘cartoonified’ exploration oi Jacques Vallée’s last volume of his published memoirs—that’s right, in a recent interview Greg and I did with him, he told us he has no interest in keep publishing next instalments of his journal, because he wants to devote whatever time he has left into quietly continuing with his personal investigations of the phenomenon. Personally, I’m very bummed out about it, and not just because these are now my favorite books about ufology, but also because… *I* didn’t get a chance to be mentioned in the journals!! 😭😭😭

Oh well… it is what it is. At least I can get comfort in knowing he actually enjoyed some of the sketches I drew inspired by his wonderful prose. So, without further ado, here’s another batch of Forbidden Sketches—as always, please remember these are meant to reflect my personal opinion and no one else’s.

Enjoy!

In 2014, Vallée took the UFO materials he’s been able to collect over the years (some donated by his colleague, the late Peter Sturrock) to be analyzed using the best technology Silicon Valley had to offer.
Thanks to his association with Jeff Kripal, Vallée has managed to visit the Esalen institute a few times. Esalen has retained a legendary status since the 60s as something of the headquarters for the ‘Human Potential Movement’, and my only regret is how closeted they remain with their seminars and workshops—it’s 2025, you guys. Would it hurt you too much to STREAM some of these presentations to share them with the rest of the world??
One of the academics Kripal invited to speak at Esalen was none other than Diana Pasulka, who entered the world of ufology through her research into purgatory. In the Catholic religion, people associate visions of orbs of light as being the souls stuck in this ‘in-between’ realm that is neither Heaven nor Hell.
Sketch inspired by another presentation delivered at Esalen. How many experiencers have observed dead relatives or friends aboard a flying saucer, one wonders?
Even though Jacques doesn’t mention it by name, he and his colleagues discussed at length a certain document created by the British Ministry of Defense called the ‘Condign Report’ which postulated the theory that UFO encounters were the result of induced hallucinations provoked by the radiation emitted by UFOs. In other words, if a witness reports a flying saucer landing on the field and little occupants stepping out to perform some strange business before rapidly departing, even though they may be completely honest in their account, it may not be necessarily a veridical description of what really occurred. This certainly creates a tremendous array of problems for researchers, and Greg and I discussed some of this with Vallée on our interview, which will soon be available on our YouTube channel.
Ok, I admit it: Chris Bledsoe is not really mentioned anywhere in FS6 (which I found odd, truth be told) yet I felt compelled to draw him anyway, because there’s no better figure to encapsulate the dangers of a ‘weaponized religion’., although this new religion is focused on the new views on UFOs, rather than the old views of angels and miracles. Even though Pasulka and Vallée may fear admitting it, but many people they have associated with in the past *cough cough Tyler D.* chose to embrace Bledsoe, and made him feel validated in his personal interpretations of the strange phenomena centered around him and his family. If I were to choose a term to define the Bledsoe saga, it would be GASLIGHTING.
Chris Aubeck, Vallée’s collaborator and the co-author of the book ‘Wonders in the Sky’, which centered around ancient sightings instead of more modern reports.
This quote in page 291 gave me a chance to draw a caricature of SNL alum Kate McKinnon, doing her popular character of a ‘trailer trash abductee.’ Although I find the skits funny, I also am aware they help perpetuate the stereotype of abductions being delusions of perturbed individuals at the bottom of the social barrel —the fact of the matter is that there are many successful people, and even people working in government, who have also had these experiences.
This quote in page 292 called for the caricature of a UFO skeptic. Since Joe Nickell had recently passed away at the time, I chose to draw him even though he is not mentioned in the journal (he may have been in previous volumes, I’m not sure).
Spanish researcher José Antonio Caravaca, on the other hand, is featured prominently in Vol. 6. Caravaca is the creator of what he calls ‘Distortion Theory’ (which people in the US would find very similar to Greg Bishop’s Co-Creation, yet Caravaca has written 3 fat books to explain his ideas). I like José, despite the fact he keeps using gen AI images to illustrate his posts on Xitter.
The feel I got from Jacques’s colleagues (both BAASS and their later iteration as the LoneStars private UFO work group) is that of old men frustrated because they were never granted access to the ‘Holy of Holies’ where they supposedly keep all the crashed UFOs and pickled aliens. I feel it was this frustration and despair what made them vulnerable, and easy to manipulate in the end.
Vallée, on the other hand, kept polishing and rethinking his personal ideas about the phenomenon, which lie far away from simplistic notions about ETs coming to mess around in metal spacecraft. There is a reason why the alchemist needs to conduct their work alone, outside the gaze of others.
Reading Volume 5 and 6, one gets the hint of a horrible secret nobody in Vallée’s circle (including him) wanted to confront: The possibility of inhumane clandestine experiments using children as guinea pigs, perhaps with the goal of inducing an altered state of consciousness or boosting psychic abilities —if that sounds a lot like the plot of Stranger Things, it is because the producers of the Netflix show were heavily influenced by the mythology behind the so-called Project Montauk. And even if you think Montauk is BS (and I wouldn’t blame you for that) there are still hints of such experiments, through the testimony of people like Whitley Strieber and Heidi Jurka.
In Vol. 6 Vallée documents his return to Brazil to investigate many cases, including humanoid encounters.
For some reason, there are many cases of UFOs harming (or even killing) people on Brazil. This high incidence may be an statistical bias, or it may be something else we fail to understand about the phenomenon—maybe it is reacting to the progressive destruction of the Amazon rainforest?
Another sketch inspired by a close encounter in which the witness was deliberately harmed by the phenomenon.
Brandon Fugal, real estate billionaire and current owner of the Skinwalker ranch.
Indridi Indridason, an early XXth century medium from Iceland. our own Greg Taylor wrote about him on the defunct Darklore anthology collection.
Federico Faggin, father of the modern microprocessor. I’ve listened to interviews with him on the New Thinking Allowed channel and like him a lot, yet I couldn’t resist making a little fun about his remarks through one of my favorite Pixar characters—not that I disagree with him re. the probable consciousness of robots.
This sketch illustrates a very dark period in Jacques’s life—his second marriage was falling apart, and he was thrown into a depressive state remembering all the deaths he’d gone through (his first wife, Janine; his mother; his father) which all strangely coincided with the middle of the month of January.
Andrija Puharich. A very enigmatic and controversial figure. When I say ‘controversial’ is because, among other things, he was involved with the infamous MK-Ultra program.
TFW when you reach the part in Forbidden Science Vol. 6 when you might get a chance to be mentioned by Jacques… but you aren’t 😞—I was accompanying Greg Bishop when he and Vallée held a short private reunion (No, I wasn’t wearing the mask).
Anne Jacobsen, who consulted with Jacques about her book on the history of the psychic spy program.
Tom DeLonge. In FS6 Jacques explains the circumstances by which he was approached by DeLonge when he got involved in the UFO/government game, and the reasons why he eventually decided not to join his failed To the Stars venture…
…Among those reasons, were the fact that Jacques didn’t trust the information given to Tom by his ‘advisors’, like reaffirmation of some of the worst tropes in UFO folklore —e.g. Nazi saucers from Antarctica.
The Nazi meme DeLonge wanted to spread with his TTSA/Sekret Machines enterprise included Roswell as well. All of which made Vallée very suspicious.
Chris Mellon. Vallée met with him a couple of times.
Vallée believed the military insiders who picked DeLonge as their new PR representative, wanted to influence the youth and steer it away from fanaticism. I suspect the ‘extremism’ they were worried was more in line with the terrorist Islamism that shook the world in the first two decades of the XXIst century, and not the current MAGA extremism promoted by the likes of Joe Rogan and Tim Pool (or maybe they wanted to replace one for the other?).
John Podesta, former senior advisor to POTUS and campaign manager for Hillary Clinton. Was the Wikileaks disclosure of DeLonge’s emails to Podesta just a coincidence, or was it an strategic attack from the factions behind the ‘Interference’ in order to derail TTSA before it even took off?
Joe Rogan. I tried to capture his expression of disbelief whenever Tom DeLonge said some stupid shit during his interview, like how all the video of triangle UFOs on YouTube are real or something 🙄DeLonge’s performance on Joe’s podcast was so atrocious, TTSA was forced to pick a new spokesperson…
Lue Elizondo. Surprisingly, there’s hardly anything about him in FS6.
In December of 2017 the puff piece penned by Kean and Blumenthal was printed on the New York Times. Who knew it would be so easy to cause a global uproar with so little?
Commander David Fravor. It is woefully clear to me the Tic-Tac story wouldn’t have caught the imagination of the public without his testimony, and that of his wingman, Alex Dietrich. Whoever obtained these videos and gave them to Mellon, they made sure to alter them and edit them as to make them vague and inconclusive.
Kevin Day, who was never taken as seriously as Fravor by the media, partly due to his later claims of having been ‘psychically altered’ by the Tic Tac events (despite not having been close to the objects, but perhaps that’s not necessary in some cases to break open the ‘cosmic egg’ as it were).
The initial reaction of the scientific establishment toward the Navy revelations was that of cautious silence. They were frankly scared, because they didn’t know how to respond to something they had grown accustomed to simply ridicule without much thought; yet now that their object of mockery had a stamp of officialdom they’d never encountered before. Nowadays, skeptics had gone back to their usual tropes of explaining away the videos as radar artifacts, and pooh-pooing the testimony of the witnesses; and to be fair the poor quality of the evidence presented by the ‘Disclosure players’ so far justifies this attitude (was this by design from the start?).
Unlike his old NIDS colleagues, Jacques chose to stay out of the TTSA ‘entertainment’ venture. A wise move, since TTSA rapidly deflated —and as soon as the NAVY ‘disclosed’ (officially) the UFO videos, nobody was bound to keep using their stupid watermark anymore, which they had plastered onto them as if they were their property. The poor bastards who invested their money on DeLonge’s delusions were left waiting for their man-made hyperdrive craft…

That’s it for now. I still got a few more sketches to show to conclude my ‘marginalia art’ for Forbidden Science Vol. 6. If you’ve made it this far, thank you so much for reading!

red pill junkie
Agnostic gnostic, walking conundrum & metaphysical oxymoron (with emphasis in the 'moron' part), the mysterious RPJ leaves a double life: By day he serves as Grand Master of the International Sacred Order of Lucha Libre, but at night he pursues his life-long study of everything considered mysterious and/or 'paranormal' --a term he personally detests... When he's not exploring the web looking for his daily fix of Forteana, he can be found blogging, doodling, fooling around and offering his services as news administrator and writer at The Daily Grail. He also regularly participates in other websites and podcasts like Radio Misterioso and Where Did the Road Go? He impatiently awaits for the return of the mothership in Mexico City. absurdbydesign.com
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