Aimé Michel
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| Also known as | Aime Michel |
Aimé Michel (12 May 1919 – 28 December 1992) was a French writer on science, spirituality and UFOs. His 1958 book on the French UFO wave of 1954 introduced "orthoteny", the idea that UFO sightings on a given day fall along straight lines.[1]
Life
Michel was born in Saint-Vincent-les-Forts in the French Alps. He studied psychology and philosophy and joined French national radio in 1944, working in its research department, where he met Pierre Schaeffer, a pioneer of electronic music.[1]
Orthoteny
In Mystérieux Objets Célestes (1958), Michel examined the great French wave of UFO reports in 1954. With help from the writer Jacques Bergier, he proposed that sightings reported on the same day lined up along great-circle lines across the Earth. His best-known example was the "BaVic" line from Bayonne to Vichy, along which he said six of nine sightings reported in the press on 24 September 1954 fell.[1]
Other work
From 1969 Michel sat on the editorial board of the French UFO magazine Lumières dans la nuit, and he wrote widely on UFOs, mysticism and animal behaviour, including a long-running column on the mysteries of the animal world. He was a friend of Bergier and Louis Pauwels, founders of the magazine Planète, and wrote a television script that aired in 1972.[1]
References
- Aimé Michel — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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