Aimé Michel

Aimé Michel (12 May 1919 in Saint-Vincent-les-Forts – 28 December 1992), was a UFO specialist.

Educated with diplomas in psychology and philosophy, Aimé Michel joined the French Radio Broadcasting in 1944. (He had successfully passed an entrance exam for studio sound engineers in 1943.) In 1946, he worked in the research department, making contact with Pierre Schaeffer (a member of the association "Work and Culture" (Travail et Culture) in association with Louis Pauwels).

In 1958, with the publication of his book about the 1954 wave of UFOs (Mystérieux Objets Célestes) 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” (for “Bayonne - 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 Lights in the Night (Lumières dans la nuit) 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 (La vie des bêtes), during the 1960s, he authored the column The Mysteries of the Animal Kingdom (Les mystères du monde animal). From September 26 to October 10, 1964, Aimé Michel also led cultural workshops on the theme of "Life in the Sidereal Universe" (La vie dans l'Univers sidéral), taking place under the auspices of the magazine Planet (Planète) at Cefalu in Sicily.

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