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 () in a corner of a restaurant booth.About Flying Saucers - Mysterious Celestial Objects (OMC), Aimé Michel, coll. Planet Presence, Planet Ed, 1966, p.134 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, and the animal kingdom. He also wrote about other topics in various journals.(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.) During the 1960s, he authored the column "Les mystères du monde animal" in the periodical La vie des bêtes, 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 figures 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 + Target/TypeSeries/DescriptionTitleDate Science fictionBooksMontagnes héroïques, histoire de l'alpinisme1953Mystérieux objects célestes1958The Voice (contributor)1960The Mystery of Dreams, World Encyclopedia (contributor)1965The Animal Performance, Hachette1966History and Guide to Secret France, Encolypedia Planet1979For or against the Flying Saucers1969The Humanoids1969Mysterious Flying Saucers1973The mysticism, the inner man and the ineffable1973Metanoia, physical phenomena of mysticism1973Soft2008 UFO series2. Lueurs sur les soucoupes volantes1954 The Unknown Powers of Man series14. The Extra-Sensory / Calculators prodigies1976–77 Cheers series1. The Hidden Face of France (contributor)1978 Articles"The end of the world?". Question Journal1977"Clarity in the heart of the labyrinth". Catholic France2008
Filmography + Year Title Credited as Writer1968From animal to man: an interview with Konrad Lorenz 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