A controversial UFO cult which champions human cloning and 'sexual freedom' is at the centre of a new Netflix docu-series. Raelism was started by former journalist Claude Vorilhon, originating in the central French region of Auvergne.
Claude, better known as Rael, now 77, claims he was visited by an extra-terrestrial being in a secluded area of a French volcanic crater on December 13, 1973.
The creature informed him, in French, that it had come especially to meet Rael and that it was the former sports writer's purpose to share its message with the people of Earth.
Rael claims to have visited aliens on their UFOs on a number of occasions. Try MEN Premium now for FREE... just click here to give it a go. The movement, dubbed a 'UFO religion' but described by the French government as a cult, is thought to have around 90,000 members across some 90 countries today.
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