Jacques Vallée Shares His Out of Body Experience & Entity Encounter

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Engaging The Phenomenon
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March 8, 2025
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Tier 1First Person EncounterFirst-Person Account
Experiencer: Jacques Vallée

Analysis Summary

Program Intel Profile
interviewTopic: otherIntel Value: 7/10

Jacques Vallée

Contact Experience Triad

Hynek: CE3

The Encounter

The person describes an encounter that happened during a structured experiment aimed at exploring out-of-body experiences. While they expected a conscious experience, they instead found themselves asleep and suddenly outside their body. They felt fear and terror, particularly from the presence of an entity they briefly perceived. This encounter lasted less than a minute before they were pulled back into their body, waking up shaken and crying. The person continues to study the nature of the entity and reflects on the experience, noting its abruptness and the need for careful control in such experiments. They express uncertainty about wanting to try it again.

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Program Intelligence Analysis

Executive Summary

The speaker recounts a personal out of body experience where they encountered a dark entity, describing feelings of terror and the structured nature of the experience. They reflect on the implications of such encounters and their relevance to understanding similar reports from others.

Primary Revelation

The speaker experienced an out of body encounter with a dark entity, which they found terrifying.

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unknown
witnessneutral

I was taken out of my body which I've never done and instantly move to the area where I was in the presence of this entity

non human intelligencespecific

I experienced an out of body experience where I was taken out of my body and encountered an entity.

Source: Unnamed individual
non human intelligencespecific

The entity I encountered was as tall as I am and appeared darker in color.

Source: Unnamed individual
non human intelligencespecific

I felt terror during the experience, primarily from being outside my body rather than from the entity itself.

Source: Unnamed individual
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Encounter Context

Factual Details

The analysis found no structured encounter context.

Encounter Research Breakdown

Phenomenological Analysis
close encounterCE31 entityunknown
Moderate Evidential StrengthScore: 13/21first person
Detail & Specificity
2/3
Corroboration
1/3
Physical Evidence
2/3
Unpredictability
3/3
Perceptual Clarity
2/3
Timely Reporting
1/3
Witness Credibility
2/3

The account presents a personal experience of an out-of-body encounter with an entity, but lacks verifiable details and corroboration. The witness describes emotional reactions and some contextual elements, but the overall clarity and specificity are limited.

beginning of the experienceunknown

The experiencer describes an unexpected out-of-body experience that was supposed to be a conscious encounter.

I expected an this was structured to be a a a conscious experience in when I was awake

encounter with the entityunknown

The experiencer finds themselves in the presence of a terrifying entity during the out-of-body experience.

The Entity itself was uh was terribly scary

return to bodyunknown

The experiencer is abruptly returned to their body, feeling fear and distress.

I woke up shaking crying just uh completely um uh you know re reacting to it in fear

visual
5/10

Dark surroundings with city lights visible

proprioceptiveextraordinary
8/10

Feeling of being outside the body

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unknown(single)
70%
DemeanormenacingCommunicationnoneInteractionnoneHeight6-7_ft

Appearance: darker figure, tall, back to a window

What makes this encounter unique

The encounter involved an abrupt out-of-body experience leading to a terrifying encounter with an entity, which is a unique aspect of the experiencer's exploration of consciousness.

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Analysis Summary

Program Intel Profile
interviewTopic: otherIntel Value: 7/10
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Jacques Vallée

First-Person

Contact Experience Triad

Hynek: CE3