| Passport to Magonia | ||
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| by Jacques Vallée | ||
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Engraving from 1680 accompanied by a description by Erasmus Francisci in which he refers to a battle between ships in the sky (alluding to Magonia ) in 1665.
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| Subgenre | Folklore | |
| Topic (s) | Ufology | |
| Original edition in English | ||
| Original title | Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers | |
| Publication date | 1969 | |
| Edition translated into Spanish | ||
| Title | Passport to Magonia | |
| Translated by | Antonio Ribera | |
| Editorial | Plaza & Janés | |
| country | Spain | |
| Publication date | 1972 | |
| pages | 459 | |
| Chronology of Jacques Vallée | ||
| Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma (1966) | Passport to Magonia (1969) | (1975) |
Passport to Magonia. From folklore to flying saucers (in the original English Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers ) is an essay on ufology written in 1969 by astrophysicist , UFO researcher and expert in computer science French Jacques Vallée .
Synopsis
An essay considered the most important work in the history of ufology , Pasaporte a Magonia opened the doors for a new interpretation of the UFO phenomenon , thus saving the classic dichotomy between skepticism and the extraterrestrial hypothesis , and showing the need to include the component subjective psychic ( mythological , historical , folkloric , religious ) to the objective physical manifestation of the phenomenon.
Magonia , a legendary city of medieval folklore and named in some old chronicles, would be the region from which strange aerial creatures would come. [ 1 ] Vallée would reuse this concept to allude to the fact that "the beings of the current UFOs belong to the same type of manifestations that were described in past centuries abducting humans and flying through the skies", thus bridging the extraterrestrial visions and those of angels , demons , fairies and elves . All would be, for him, manifestations of the same phenomenon.
His conclusions and final ideas of his work manifest his conviction of the same underlying mechanism in the origin of the myth of the flying saucers and the one that sustains the stories about supernatural beings or religious apparitions, in addition to highlighting the force of the myth of the flying saucers and the apparent absurdity of the behavior of the phenomenon. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Index
- Preface
- I. Visions of a parallel world
- II. The good people
- III. The secret community
- IV. Round trip to Magonia
- V. Immortal creatures
- Appendix: a century of UFO landings (1868-1968)
See also
References
- ^ Agobardo de Lyon (2018). About the hail and thunder . Edition and translation Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez. Madrid: Siruela Editions . p. 59. ISBN 978-84-17308-85-8 .
- ↑ informeovni.net. «Jacques Vallée. Passport to Magonia » . Retrieved August 7, 2017 .
- ^ Gámez, Luis Alfonso (August 1, 2009). Passport to Magonia . Retrieved August 7, 2017 .
Bibliography
- Jacques Vallée (1972 ( Hardcover ), 1976 ( Pocket )). Passport to Magonia . Translation Antonio Ribera . Plaza & Janés ( Discontinued ). ISBN 978-84-01-31018-8 / ISBN 978-84-01-47027-1 .