Aimé Michel


Aimé Michel, was a UFO specialist.

Biography

Educated with diplomas in psychology and philosophy, Aimé Michel joined the French Radio Broadcasting in 1944. In 1946, he worked in the research department, making contact with Pierre Schaeffer.
In 1958, with the publication of his book about the 1954 wave of UFOs in France, Michel devised a theory called orthoténie with the help of Jacques Bergier on the corner of a restaurant tablecloth. Michel posited so-called "alignments": Straight lines which corresponded to large circles traced and centered on the earth. Michel claimed that UFO sightings could be concentrated along these grid lines. He proposed, for example, that there was a line known as “Bavic” where, out of nine UFO observations cited in the press on 24 September 1954, six aligned.
A member of the editorial board of Lights in the Night since 1969, he wrote numerous articles on UFOs, mysticism, the animal kingdom as well as other topics in various journals. In the journal The Life of the Animals, during the 1960s, he authored the column The Mysteries of the Animal Kingdom. From September 26 to October 10, 1964, Aimé Michel also led cultural workshops on the theme of "Life in the Sidereal Universe", taking place under the auspices of the magazine Planet at Cefalu in Sicily.
He wrote the television screenplay Mycènes Celui qui vient du futur: Mycènes, He who comes from the future.
His readers generally appreciate his interest in "anything that is beyond human" and in challenges of the mind. Described as a free spirit by his entourage, Michel had a stated goal to avoid being limited by external constraints.
He was a friend of the controversial Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels, and described himself as a "pathological" rebel.

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