TRINITY: The Best-Kept Secret

Surprised to learn that this long-awaited book had been published earlier than advertised, I purchased a digital copy yesterday and finished reading it less than 24 hours later. In giving the book my highest recommendation, let me make clear certain biases I brought to the reading, and that I also bring to this review.As a long-time observer of the UFO phenomenon, I have found Jacques Vallee the most perceptive analyst in our midst. This is the case not in spite of the fact that he invariably raises more questions than he answers, but precisely because this is his approach. When he first arrived on the scene called ufology several decades ago, he made clear that he would be taking a hard look at prevailing assumptions in the field. Vallee called upon his fellow researchers to join him in moving beyond the limited—and what he considered the increasingly obsessional—concern with whether UFOs are "extraterrestrial" in the conventional sense of that word, and to begin probing the UFO phenomenon's impact on culture and our collective psyches.In "Trinity," Vallee and his fellow researcher and coauthor Paolo Leopizzi Harris bring this approach to their exploration of a 1945 UFO episode that predated Kenneth Arnold's famous sighting (1947) of objects seemingly skipping through the air like "saucers," a word that went on to define popular expectations related to the alluring UFO acronym. For an overview of this fine book, I refer the reader to Amazon's summary description. Let me say a few words about how you might decide if you will find this work of interest, and perhaps of enormous value.If you have arrived at this review in hopes that the authors will provide long-sought confirmation that UFOs are simply visitors from hypothetical planets who just happen to be humanoid like us, and breathe our air, this book won't provide the certainty you seek. But if you are open to recognizing how and why the UFO phenomenon is far more subtle and complex than that facile explanation, this book will provide the evidence-based reasoning for that recognition. This, then, is your first decision.In putting forward the hypothesis that unidentified aerial phenomena are both physical and psychic in nature, Vallee doesn't stop there. He and coauthor Harris demonstrate in their approach to the 1945 Trinity event the kind of comprehensive, multidisciplinary investigations required for such a task. This includes a capacity to evaluate data quality, and to bring a more better analysis not only of the object being studied, but of the impact of the observation on the witnesses and their social environment.If you have read other UFO books, or if this is potentially your introduction to the literature, here's a brief test of whether to take the plunge. If you consider yourself...—open to transcending your categories—willing to finish reading the book different that when you started—not just looking to reaffirm the assumptions you may have arrived with—willing in fact to put your mind at risk...then I predict you’ll find this book well worth your time.I consider "Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret" by Vallee and Harris to be the best book on the subject, and will be surprised if it doesn't retain this status for quite some time.

Before Roswell: The First UFO Crash, 1945John Hart, PhDAfter the 1947 Roswell, New Mexico crash of an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO), the US government launched an unprecedented effort to seize all evidence of the crash, and to silence all witnesses to the incident through intimidation and ridicule. The efforts by the US military and intelligence agencies to erase any record of a human encounter with a spacecraft controlled by an other-than-human intelligent species was highly successful. For decades after Roswell, millions of US citizens were not aware of the event, while those who accepted the original news stories about it assumed that the US was covering up the first human encounter with ‘aliens’.Enter the scene astrophysicist and computer scientist Jacques Vallee, acknowledged as the world expert on UFOs and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena/on (UAP), and investigative journalist Paola Leopizzi Harris. They co-authored Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret, published earlier this year. Their book reveals that the first UFO crash was two years earlier than Roswell, not very far away—in San Antonito, NM, close to the US military’s test site for the first atomic bomb, and just one month after its first explosion.The 1945 crash was witnessed by two boys from nearby ranches, Jose Padilla and Remigio Baca, who were searching for a cow due to birth a calf. They heard a loud crash, walked to the lip of a canyon and, looking down, saw a wide swath of earth gouged out for about a hundred yards, bordered by burning grass. It came to an end where an ‘avocado-shaped’ craft rested. Through an opening on its side, they observed short, insectoid beings with what came to be viewed as stereotypical aliens’ lightbulb shaped faces with almond eyes. The boys felt a telepathic communication as they stared at the beings and, although anxious at first, they soon felt empathy.Jose and Reme found the missing cow and her newborn calf, went home, and described what they had seen to Jose’s father, Faustino, who did not believe their story. The following day, the boys returned to the craft and removed a bracket from the far wall. The day after that Faustino, Jose, and Reme went to the scene with a family friend who was a New Mexico State Trooper. The adults entered the craft, which seemed empty. When they emerged, they instructed the boys to keep silent about the event. They said nothing for forty years. The US Army removed the craft and removed evidence of its presence.Paola interviewed the elder men, now in their 80’s, who had seen the crash and the spacecraft’s occupants. Jacques asked them, through Paola, some clarifying questions. Reme gave Paola the bracket they had taken from the craft. She gave it to Jacques.I have read all of Jacques Vallee’s space-related books and have appreciated his scientific rigor and caution, and his creativity and insights. I have quoted him in my last two space-related books. He wrote the Foreword to my latest book, Third Displacement: Cosmobiology, Cosmolocality, Cosmosocioecology (2020).Trinity is very well written, and contains photos (including of the plaque, which Jacques had laboratory-analyzed), and drawings made by the boys. Its narrative is evidence-packed, providing the reader, even the most skeptical one, with compelling, thought-provoking information. For skeptics, and debunker reviewers disguising themselves as skeptics, the book reveals events and analyses that seem difficult to comprehend as historical fact, and not as science fiction. I suggest that readers trust Jacques Vallee’s prior scientific work and, from that vantage point, seek to understand Trinity, which has already been translated into French, Italian, and Spanish. I highly recommended Trinity for UAP inquirers and the general public.John Hart, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Christian Ethics, Boston University, is Editor, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Ecology, and author of the non-fiction book series “Cosmos Contact: Close Encounters of the Otherkind,” whose third volume is Third Displacement: Cosmobiology, Cosmolocality, Cosmosocioecology, Foreword by Jacques Vallee, Afterword by John Haught, Emeritus Professor, Georgetown University.

Well written, well researched.

Os dois autores fizeram trabalho de detetives de primeira para fazer este livro.

I’ve seen a few videos of Jacques Valley and Paola Harris, read a few books and like most people, the ‘flying saucer/space craft’ discussions leave me wondering what it’s all about. Are strange craft of unknown origin able to mysteriously appear, bypass codes to switch off nuclear launch buttons or stop nuclear launches?But this book is about an incident that happened in July 1945. It happened just three days after the first nuclear bomb “The Gadget”, was unleashed in the desert of New Mexico. The Gadget was the same size as the Hiroshima bomb, was put onto a 100 foot tower and detonated to “test and learn”. The blast evaporated the tower and created a huge crater, but its blast effects didn’t extend very far (unlike its blinding flash and radioactive fallout). As a result, the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, were detonated approx 2,000 feet above ground level to act as firebomb infernos. A gas hotter than the Sun’s 15-million-degree core, evaporated everything within a mile radius. All military eyes were on the Manhattan Project in New Mexico and these top secret nuclear weapons, so as a result this incident was handled by young soldiers who were sent to clear up and take away “the crash vehicle” a few days after the farmer made a report to local police.In this book, there are five living witnesses (from a single family) interviewed about the craft that crashed approximately 30 miles from the Trinity Site, next to their farmland. These witnesses saw the crash, the craft, or heard the stories first hand and handled some of the technology collected from the crash site by the family.Additionally, the book includes short descriptions of similar encounters - due to the size and shape of the crafts (no saucers here), the “small people” inside the craft, their behaviour and the technology. It’s a fascinating read for many reasons, including reverse engineering, what happened to people living close to Trinity and most importantly, the mind-sharing/ information downloads that are consistently made by unidentifed beings in unidentified craft. I didn’t finish the book knowing what it’s all about, but I felt very much more clearly informed on many subjects.

Nei suoi più recenti lavori, l'Autore insistette sulla impossibilità sia teorica che pratica che visitatori di altri pianeti potessero essere i responsabili degli avvistamenti nei cieli nel corso di decadi puntando più realisticamente su spiegazioni socio-culturali, antropologiche, psicologiche. Con questo volume, invece, torna all'ipotesi ''aliena'', con grande stupore del lettore.

Probably the most important UFO/UAP book of recent years, about a 1945 UFO crash in San Antonio NM, not the least because it confirms many patterns seen also in Roswell, Socorro, Valensole, France, Westall Australia, and Ariel School, Zimbabwe. Before you gasp at the weirdness of their story, spend some time with the numerous other, independent accounts of these incidents. If new to this field, you should know that, among scientists interested in the topic, Jacques Vallée is one of the most qualified and highly respected UFO researchers, and it is most fortunate that he could investigate the 1945 crash with Paola Harris. Her transcribed interviews with the principle witnesses, in the rambling speech of the rural Southwest, ring true in my Midwestern ears. Vallée is a skilled writer. He builds suspense that carries through lengthy background discussions and asides, almost as if he were writing a detective novel -- except that at the end, we still don't know who done it. The book production is, unfortunately, another story and unworthy of a book of this importance. I would strongly urge Harris and her firm to invest in professional editing and typesetting before publishing a third edition.