Gildas Bourdais
French ufologist
Gildas Bourdais (13 June 1939 – 25 September 2024) was a publishing executive, painter, and French ufologist writer who supported the "extraterrestrial hypothesis" (ETH).
Biography
After preparatory classes at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, he graduated from HEC Paris (1960–1962).
His research focused in particular on the Roswell incident, on stories of extraterrestrial apparitions in major religious texts, and on the COMETA report.
He translated several books on ufology by different authors, including American ufologists Roger Leir and Leslie Kean, into French.
He collaborated with Top Secret magazine, and often appeared on the Ici et Maintenant! radio programme.
Bibliography
1990: Les modernes et les autres; Cent ans d'art moderne dans le monde, Livre Total SA, Lausanne (Switzerland), 367p. ISBN 2-88253-018-8
1994: Enquête sur l'existence d'êtres célestes et cosmiques, Filipacchi, Paris, 412p. ISBN 2-85018-246-X
1995: Sont-ils déjà là ? Extraterrestres, L'Affaire Roswell, Presses du Châtelet, Paris, 225p.
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