Aimé Michel

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 [fr] (English: orthoteny) in a corner of a restaurant booth.^[1] 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).^[2]

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.^[3] 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 co-created in 1961 the magazine Planète. He self-described himself as a "pathological" rebel for his cooperation in such activities.

Bibliography

Publications by Aimé Michel
Target/ Type	Series/ Description	Title	Date
Science fiction	Books	Montagnes héroïques, histoire de l'alpinisme	1953
		Mystérieux objects célestes	1958
		The Voice (contributor)	1960
		The Mystery of Dreams, World Encyclopedia (contributor)	1965
		The Animal Performance, Hachette	1966
		History and Guide to Secret France, Encolypedia Planet	1979
		For or against the Flying Saucers	1969
		The Humanoids	1969
		Mysterious Flying Saucers	1973
		The mysticism, the inner man and the ineffable	1973
		Metanoia, physical phenomena of mysticism	1973
		Soft	2008^[a]
	UFO series	2. Lueurs sur les soucoupes volantes	1954^[b]
	The Unknown Powers of Man series	14. The Extra-Sensory / Calculators prodigies	1976-77
	Cheers series	1. The Hidden Face of France (contributor)	1978
	Articles	"The end of the world?". Question Journal	1977
	Articles	"Clarity in the heart of the labyrinth". Catholic France	2008

Filmography

J.K. Rowling filmography
Year	Title	Credited as
Year	Title	Writer
1968	From animal to man: an interview with Konrad Lorenz	Yes

Notes

^ Correspondence addressed to Bertrand Méheust from 1978 to 1990.
^ Published in English as The Truth About Flying Saucers by Robert Hale Publishing in 1957.

References

^ About Flying Saucers - Mysterious Celestial Objects (OMC), Aimé Michel, coll. Planet Presence, Planet Ed, 1966, p.134
^ Saunders, David R. "Is Bavic Remarkable?" (PDF). Ufologia Heterodoxa. Ignacio Darnaude Rojas-Marcos. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
^ (Arts, Science et Vie, Tout Savoir, Monde et Vie, Encyclopédie Larousse « Découvrir les Animaux » in 1971, Planète - apologist for Réalisme fantastique including other participants Remy Chauvin, Bernard Heuvelmans, Charles Noël Martin, Jean E. Charon and George Langelaan -, Phénomènes Spatiaux, Recherches ufologiques, Question de, France Catholique, Ecclésia, Flying Saucer Review, Archeologia (with an article on his village where he was born), etc.)

External links

[4] Correspondence addressed to Bertrand Méheust from 1978 to 1990.

[5] Published in English as The Truth About Flying Saucers by Robert Hale Publishing in 1957.

[1] About Flying Saucers - Mysterious Celestial Objects (OMC), Aimé Michel, coll. Planet Presence, Planet Ed, 1966, p.134

[2] Saunders, David R. "Is Bavic Remarkable?" (PDF). Ufologia Heterodoxa. Ignacio Darnaude Rojas-Marcos. Retrieved 25 August 2014.

[3] (Arts, Science et Vie, Tout Savoir, Monde et Vie, Encyclopédie Larousse « Découvrir les Animaux » in 1971, Planète - apologist for Réalisme fantastique including other participants Remy Chauvin, Bernard Heuvelmans, Charles Noël Martin, Jean E. Charon and George Langelaan -, Phénomènes Spatiaux, Recherches ufologiques, Question de, France Catholique, Ecclésia, Flying Saucer Review, Archeologia (with an article on his village where he was born), etc.)

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