Raëlian Movement (Claude Vorilhon / 'Raël')
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A UFO religion that says aliens created humans in a lab is really the clearest example of a cloning project hiding behind a space-god story.
Who they are
The Raelian Movement, a UFO religion founded in 1973 by former French sports-car journalist Claude Vorilhon ('Raël').
What they do
It teaches that life on Earth was created in a lab by extraterrestrials called the 'Elohim,' and it launched a human-cloning company, Clonaid, in 1997.
How it works
The engine reads the alien theology as the announced cover story over a down-to-earth cloning operation; it funds itself through a 10% tithe and an 'Elohim embassy' fund and once ran a Quebec UFO museum, but holds no special legal or tax protection; the origin was corrected to note Vorilhon drew heavily on earlier ancient-astronaut author Jean Sendy (the harsher 'plagiarized' charge comes from hostile sources, so the engine holds only 'drew on Sendy'); the alien-contact and lab-DNA claims are recorded as accurately reported claims, not proven facts.
Why it matters
It's the fringe, never-captured version of the 'aliens as a mask for eugenics' pattern, and its future is untested because it still depends on its founder.
The engine's record — word for word
Eugenics/Cloning Substrate report (2026-06-11): UFO religion founded 1973 (Vorilhon) positing life was lab-created by extraterrestrial 'Elohim.' Founded Clonaid (1997). The clearest literal instance of the 'eugenics, not aliens' pattern — alien theology as the announced layer over a terrestrial cloning operation. Substrate-vs-Announcement (div #79); the 'Elohim' claim is [CLAIM], not documented. [Report #172] The FRINGE, exemption-REACHING instance (never captured): funds via a 10% tithe + an Elohim-embassy fund, ran UFOland (Quebec museum, closed 2001), but holds no sovereign tax/liability shield. Origin CORRECTED: Vorilhon (a sports-car journalist, magazine Autopop) DREW ON / HEAVILY BORROWED FROM earlier ancient-astronaut author Jean Sendy — scholars (Palmer, Chryssides) say 'influenced by'; the stronger 'PLAGIARIZED' charge is polemic-sourced (Peloquin's adversarial biography + a critic site) and is NOT a scholarly finding, so the engine holds 'drew on Sendy', not 'plagiarized'. Sendy (La Lune 1968; Ces dieux qui firent le ciel et la terre 1969) argued the biblical Elohim were extraterrestrial colonizers BEFORE Rael's 1974 book; the 'engineered human DNA in labs' framing is Rael's own gloss. The 13 Dec 1973 Puy-de-Lassolas contact + 1.2m 'Eloha' [CLAIM]; the 'cellular plan' DNA-transmission baptism; the ~2009 'Paradism' AI/robots-inherit-labor doctrine — all verified as accurately-reported claims. Founder-bound; succession untested. [Verified 2026-07-15]
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