Claude Maurice Marcel Vorilhon is the founder and current leader of the UFO religion known as Ra�lism. Vorilhon began singing at a young age and soon became a sports-car journalist and test driver for his own car-racing magazine, Auto Pop. Following what he said was an extraterrestrial encounter in December 1973, he formed the Ra�lian Movement and changed his name to Ra�l. He later published several books, which detail his claims of an encounter with a being called Yahweh in 1973. He traveled the world to promote his books for over 30 years. 

September 30th, 1946 in Vichy (Age 78) as Claude Vorilhon