Raël

Raël; }} (born Claude Maurice Marcel Vorilhon,}} 30 September 1946) is a French journalist who founded and leads the Raëlian Movement, an international UFO religion.

Before becoming a cult leader, Raël, then known as Claude Vorilhon, worked as a sports-car journalist and test driver for his car-racing magazine, ''Autopop''. Following a purported extraterrestrial encounter in December 1973, he formed the Raëlian Movement and changed his name to Raël. He later published several books, which detail the encounter with a being called Yahweh in 1973. He traveled the world to promote his books for over 30 years. Provided by Wikipedia