Top left: Claude Vorilhon, aka Raël, testifies about claims of human cloning in front of a US House subcommittee in March 2001; Top right: Vorilhon delivers a speech at a conference in Tokyo on 4 ...

If someone happened to tell you that a single thread connects Kanye West's recent antisemitic public breakdown, UFO sex cults, and motorsport journalism, you'd think it was the setup for a bad joke.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Netflix's "Raël: The Alien Prophet" examines a controversial French cult. Started in the 1970s by Claude Vorilhon, the cult ...

Riptide just doesn’t know how some people find the time. Take Claude Vorilhon, for instance. The French “sports-car journalist” changed his name to Raël and in 1974 founded Raëlism, a religion based ...

Raelianism was founded 30 years ago in France by auto-racing reporter Claude Vorilhon. Now known as “Rael,” he claims that in 1973 he was approached by a four-foot-tall alien who identified himself as ...

C’est un échec judiciaire essuyé par le leader et créateur du mouvement raëlien. Le tribunal correctionnel de Paris a débouté le 17 septembre Claude Vorilhon, alias Raël, de la plainte déposée contre ...

Claude Vorilhon, a man known to thousands as Raël, has a story. It goes like this: One morning in December 1973, Vaurilhon went for a walk on a volcanic stretch of highland in his native France. There ...