Raelian ET Embassy's FAKE NEWS Page: UFOs

In previous iterations of the Raelian Movement's Elohim Embassy website, they used to showcase two UFO sighting incidents that have been thoroughly debunked. Check out: Raelian Embassy: ZERO PROGRESS.

In their latest iteration, they have a page titled “Evidence”, under which they have two categories: UFO and Crop Circles.

I have already addressed their claims of crop circles as being created by the Elohim. They speculate that crop circles are a gentle, playful and thought-provoking strategy aimed at preparing us for an official contact with an extraterrestrial civilization. Check out: CROP CIRCLES and RAELISM.

Under the “UFO” section, they admit that “some UFO sightings are mistakes and some are fakes, but there are many that are very credible” as being the Elohim's spacecrafts. They claim “reliable information on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) is available from a number of sources.” They define reliable sources as policemen, pilots, astronauts and former high-ranking government and military officials.

They highlight:

- Paul Hellyer, who was Minister of National Defense and then Minister for Transport in Canada in the 1960’s.
- Sir Winston Churchill, who was the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the 1940s.
- Dr. Edgar Mitchell, who in 1971 on the Apollo 14 mission, became the sixth man to walk on the moon.
- Fife Symington, former governor of Arizona in the United States in the 1990s.
- Dennis Kucinich, presidential candidate in the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
- Jimmy Carter, former U.S. President in the late 1970s.

Paul Hellyer

The ET Embassy site names Paul Hellyer as a credible source for their claim that the Elohim are real.

However, in an interview with RT (formerly Russia Today) in 2014, characterized by Yahoo News as "sadly hard to take seriously", Hellyer said that at least four species of aliens have been visiting Earth for thousands of years, with most of them coming from other star systems, although there are some living on Venus, Mars and Saturn’s moon. According to him, they "don't think we are good stewards of our planet."

The trouble is, Rael claims that no other ETs other than the Elohim have been visiting Earth.


Sir Winston Churchill

The ET Embassy site claims that Winston Churchill conspired with General Dwight Eisenhower to ban the reporting of UFO incidents for fifty years as a cover up.

Turns out, that claim is a 3rd personaccount from the grandson of an RAF service man. There’s no official records to back up the claim.

Dr. Edgar Mitchell

The current ET Embassy website notes this in reference to Dr. Edward Mitchell as confessing, “The UFO phenomenon is real, though it has been covered up by our governments for a very long time” as evidence of the Elohim.

Turns out, on July 25, 2008, Mitchell clarified that his comments did not involve NASA [as covering up evidence] but quoted unnamed sources, since deceased, at Roswell who confided to him that the Roswell incident did involve an alien craft. Mitchell also claims to have subsequently received confirmation from an unnamed intelligence officer at the Pentagon.

In an interview for AskMen published March 6, 2014, Mitchell said that he had never seen a UFO, that no one had ever threatened him over his claims regarding UFOs, and that any statements about the covering up of UFOs being a worldwide cabal was "just speculation on my part".

What is Rael's opinion on the Roswell incident?... he says they are manufactured propaganda by the governments and hollywood to sensationalize UFOs as being alien invaders, thus discrediting Mitchell's speculations.

Fife Symington

The ET Embassy site mentions Fife Symington as a credible source for the Phoenix UFO sightings of 1997 actually being alien spacecrafts.

The Phoenix Lights, as it is better known, were actually 2 events on the same night: the first a formation of jet aircrafts moving very fast and the other, a string of slow moving flares dropped by the military about 2 hours later.

Dennis Kucinich

The ET Embassy site mentions Dennis Kucinich as a credible witness who saw an alien spacecraft over Shirley Maclaine’s house.

Kucinich admits what he saw was “something unidentified” and then joked about opening a campaign office in Roswell, New Mexico.

Jimmy Carter

The ET Embassy site lastly mentions Jimmy Carter as witnessing an alien spacecraft.

Carter denies what he saw was an alien spacecraft. Additionally, the US Air Force sponsored a project that studied the upper atmosphere using releases of glowing chemical clouds, produced by rockets launched from Eglin AFB rocket range in Florida. Some of these chemical clouds, notably sodium and barium, were visible by the process of resonance scattering of sunlight. Documents confirm the launch of a barium cloud in Carter’s vicinity during his “sighting”.

Looks like the ET Embassy site has nothing but FAKE NEWS to support their claims about the Elohim existing and wanting to “return” to Earth.

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Rael's Mysterious Manuscript of 1974

Rael maintains that he had an encounter with an extraterrestrial, named Yahweh, on 13 December 1973 (Intelligent Design, p. 3) near his hometown of Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Rael claims that he meet Yahweh, the president of ETs known as the Elohim of the Bible, at the same place for six consecutive days, for about one hour each time, who dictated to Rael the fantastic revelations of his first book, The Book Which Tells The Truth (Intelligent Design, p. 136). Yahweh allegedly revealed to him that the Elohim created all life on Earth through genetic engineering.

Rael wrote:

For the first few days following this experience I must confess I wondered if I would dare tell anyone at all about it. The first thing I did was to make a neat copy of the notes that I had taken as best I could, although far too quickly as my interlocutor spoke to me. When this was finished, I sent the original manuscript to a serious publisher who to my knowledge did not publish esoteric works or science fiction. (Intelligent Design, p. 137)

 Rael's first book didn't roll off the printing press until the autumn of 1974 (the oldest version of his book was published in 5 November 1974). That's almost eleven months after his alleged encounter!

In order to explain away why it took so long for his book to come out, Rael elaborated a conspiracy theory claiming the publisher to whom he sent his manuscript probably wanted to repress his work by telling him it had been mislaid. After finally retrieving his manuscript, Rael alleges that his wife at the time, Marie-Paule Christini, had left her nursing job to help him with the publishing and distribution of this exceptional document (Intelligent Design, p. 138).

Oddly enough, in an interview with a French journalist, Marie-Paule iterated that she had been unaware of his extraterrestrial encounters until the book came out (Aliens Adored, p. 36).

Rael himself had given up publishing his sports magazine, AutoPop, by that time. The last edition of his magazine was published in September 1974. It should be noted that in "on November 30, 1973, French prime minister Pierre Messmer announced on TV a series of drastic measures to limit speed on French roads and to suspend all automobile races and rallies. [Rael's] sources of funding, both his journal, Auto Pop, and his test driving, were cut off." (Aliens Adored, p. 34)

To date, Rael has failed to produce his neat handwritten notes and the original manuscript.

There is, however, anecdotal evidence of Rael concocting an ET encounter hoax over drinks with some friends in 1973, which lead to the genesis of his elaborate Elohim story. One of his friends claimed that Rael then went to his hometown's news publication, La Montagne, to tell his story. After being dismissed, Rael allegedly went to Paris where he somehow got in touch with Marcel Jullian, who ran a publishing house. Through him, Rael was introduced to Jacques Chancel, who hosted a popular TV show called Le Grand Échiquier (Great Chess Board).

On 13 March 1974, Rael appeared on that show and officially kicked off his public career as the Messenger of the Elohim.

It's very curious to note that, between 1 to 10 March 1974, Clermont-Ferrand hosted the First National Congress of Science Fiction (Premier Congres National de Science-Fiction). One of the speakers was Jean Sendy, a famous author of esoterica and UFOlogy and a proponent of the ancient astronaut theory, who gave a lecture about his book, The Moon: Key to the Bible. Sociologist Susan Palmer notes:

The ancient astronaut theory was already very much in vogue in France by the time Rael’s first book came out in 1974. Jean Sendy in 1968, Serge Hutin in 1970, and Jaques Bergier in 1970 all wrote books pursuing the notion that planet earth was an ancient colonial outpost of an extraterrestrial civilization. Sendy’s book, La lune: Clé de la Bible (The moon: Key to the Bible), is perhaps the seminal influence, but Sendy himself (1972, 53) credits Voltaire as being the first to insist that the God of Genesis, who made heaven and earth, should be translated as “gods.” Sendy (7–8) also points out that in Hebrew “Elohim” is the plural form of “Eloha” and suggests that the Elohim were not immaterial beings but “physical angels with sexes.” With this premise in mind, he concludes that “Genesis becomes a perfectly consistent story of a colonization of Earth by astronauts who came from the sky” and became “angels in human memory.” Yahweh, Sendy suggests, was not an immaterial principle but rather the leader of the Elohim (63) (Aliens Adored, p. 28)

It has been demonstrated that the majority of Rael's first book was plagiarized from Jean Sendy's works. Nowhere except in Sendy's writings do we find the notion of a plural Elohim and singular Eloha equating to "Those who came from the sky" prior to Rael's books.

Rael admits in his book that he had always believed in extraterrestrials, UFOs and telepathy (Intelligent Design, pp. 5-7). So, one wouldn't be surprised if Rael was already aware of Sendy's as well as other's works on the ancient astronaut theory before coming out in public claiming to be a bona fide ET contactee.

It wasn't before appearing on TV that Rael thought he could make a career of being a UFO cult leader. It isn't a coincidence that Jean Sendy's lecture was delivered on 4 March 1974 and Rael's TV appearance on 13 March 1974. With the realization of his AutoPop and hopes of becoming a racing car driver dying, Rael must have had some months to toy around the notion of becoming a cult leader before finally publishing his first book on 5 November 1974 by himself.

Any respectable author would preserve his notes, let alone his original manuscript of a book he claims to be one containing the extraordinary TRUTH.

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