Aimé Michel (12 May 1919 – 28 December 1992) was a French UFO specialist, science and spirituality writer and author. Biography Aimé Michel was born in Saint-Vincent-les-Forts, now known as Ubaye-Serre-Ponçon, France on 12 May 1919. After obtaining diplomas in psychology and philosophy and passing the entrance exam as a studio sound engineer in 1943, Michel joined the French radio station Radiodiffusion Française in 1944. In 1946, he worked in the research department, where he met with Pierre Schaeffer, who later founded the Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète. Michel published Mystérieux Objets Célestes in 1958, which covered the 1954 wave of UFOs in France. After the publication with help from Jacques Bergier, he devised a theory called Orthoténie () in a corner of a restaurant booth. Michel postulated so-called "alignments": straight lines that corresponded to large circles traced and centered on the earth. Michel claimed that UFO sightings could be clustered along these grid lines. He proposed, for example, that there was a line known as “BaVic,” pointing from Bayonne to Vichy, where, out of nine UFO observations cited in the press on 24 September 1954, six aligned (Bayonne, Lencouacq, Tulle, Ussel, Gelles, Vichy). A member of the editorial board of Lumières dans la nuit from 1969, he wrote numerous articles on UFOs, mysticism, the animal kingdom as well as other topics in various journals. In the periodical La vie des bêtes, during the 1960s, he authored the column "Les mystères du monde animal", documenting the mysteries of the animal world. 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 backing of the magazine Planète at Cefalù in Sicily. He wrote the television screenplay Mycenae, the One From the Future, which aired in 1972. He was a friend of controversial people like Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels, who were arrested in 1971 for their cooperation in Planète. He self-described himself as a "pathological" rebel for his cooperation in such activities. Bibliography Filmography See also Ufology Notes References Further reading Picard, Michel (1996). Aimé Michel, or the quest for Superman. Orion. . Ribera, Antonio (1999). Letters from three heretics. . External links Article on Michel's life by Thibaut Canuti Articles published in Catholic France Collection at the Library of Congress 1919 births 1992 deaths People from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Ufologists UFO writers French non-fiction writers