THINK ABOUTIT’S ALIEN TYPE SUMMARY

RAELAINS

In the Think About It Alien Database, the Raelains (properly, Raëlians) represent the scientific-creationist origin story promoted by the Raëlian Movement, a new religious movement founded in France in the 1970s by Claude Vorilhon (later “Raël”). Vorilhon claims that on December 13, 1973, he was contacted by an extraterrestrial race called the Elohim, who told him they had created all life on Earth through genetic engineering roughly 25,000 years ago, and who asked him to help arrange a formal embassy for their eventual return.

Name: Raelains (Raëlians)

AKA: The Elohim (singular: Eloha) — a Hebrew term Raël translates as “those who came from the sky.” “The Shining Ones” and “Scientists of the Stars” are not reported in any source.

Location – Home System: Not reported in any source. Raël’s own account describes visiting the Elohim’s home planet but does not name a star system; “Beta Cetus (Deneb Kaitos)” does not appear in any source and no evidence was found for it.

Distance from Earth: Not reported in any source. (96 light years is the real astronomical distance to the star Deneb Kaitos, but no source ties the Elohim’s origin to that star.)

Attitude: Described in the movement’s own literature as paternal, scientifically minded, and peace-oriented — presenting themselves as humanity’s creators rather than as gods.

Motives: Per Raël’s account, the Elohim created humanity as a genetic experiment and now wish to return openly, once humanity is capable of governing itself peacefully, to share advanced technology.

Physical Appearance: Vorilhon describes the being he encountered as about four feet (1.2 m) tall, with long black hair, olive skin, and almond-shaped eyes, projecting a sense of harmony and peace.

Average Height: About 4 feet (1.2 m), per Vorilhon’s account.

Average Weight: Not reported in any source.

Body Temperature: Not reported in any source.

Pulse/Respiration: Not reported in any source.

Blood Pressure: Not reported in any source.

Life Expectancy: Not reported in any source. (The specific figure of “700–1,000 Earth years” is not documented; the movement’s actual claim is that individual immortality may eventually be achieved through cloning combined with memory transfer, without a stated lifespan.)

Hair: Long and black, per Vorilhon’s account. No evidence found for a goatee detail.

Skin: Olive-toned, per Vorilhon’s account.

Eyes: Almond-shaped, per Vorilhon’s account. “Large, expressive… intense, peaceful gaze” is descriptive elaboration beyond the source and not itself documented.

Sex: Not reported in any source.

Other Physical Information: Not reported in any source. (No evidence found for “melodic or harmonic” voices or graceful movement as a documented trait.)

Special Traits and Abilities: The movement’s texts describe the Elohim as masters of genetics and cloning, capable of creating and modifying life through DNA manipulation. No evidence was found for “advanced laser telepathy” as a stated ability; the movement’s actual practice, “sensual meditation,” is described by adherents as a way of achieving a telepathic connection with the Elohim, without reference to lasers.

Communication Type: Verbal, per Vorilhon’s account (the Elohim reportedly spoke to him in French). Fluency in “all Earth languages” is not reported in any source.

Origin: Not named in any source (see Location above). The movement’s account states the Elohim created life on Earth roughly 25,000 years ago using genetic engineering.

Life Form Type: Physical, biologically human-like beings, per Vorilhon’s account — not energy or non-corporeal entities.

Subspecies: Not reported in any source. (“The Cloned Guardians and the Original Founders” does not appear in the movement’s literature; no evidence found.)

Most Common Species: Not reported in any source.

Level of Species: Not reported in any source. (No evidence found for a “Level X” alien ranking. The movement does have a documented internal hierarchy — seven levels, 0 through 6, for human members of the Raëlian Church — but this applies to the human organization, not to a species classification for the Elohim themselves.)

Habits: Not reported in any source beyond the creation and monitoring narrative described elsewhere in this entry.

Transportation Type: Vorilhon describes a bell-shaped craft at his 1973 encounter. “Light-refraction cloaking” is not reported in any source.

Witnesses Reports: Claude Vorilhon (Raël), December 13, 1973, at Puy de Lassolas, an extinct volcano near Clermont-Ferrand, France, with a further claimed encounter on October 7 the following year. The movement counts additional French contactees among its early membership, though these are not independently documented outside movement sources.

Special Features/Characteristics: The movement’s official symbol — a hexagram (Star of David) with a right-facing swastika at its center — is documented and explained by Raëlian sources as representing infinity: the hexagram for infinity in space, the swastika for infinity in time, reflecting a belief in a cyclical universe with no beginning or end.

Summary/Description: The Raelains, as presented in this entry, are the Elohim of the Raëlian Movement, a UFO-based new religious movement founded by Claude Vorilhon (Raël) after a claimed 1973 contact experience. The movement teaches that the Elohim created all life on Earth roughly 25,000 years ago through advanced genetic engineering, that they have been mistaken for gods and prophets throughout human history, and that they are awaiting a formal embassy — historically requested to be built in Jerusalem — before returning openly. The movement’s Clonaid affiliate claimed in 2002 to have produced the first human clone, a claim that has never been independently substantiated.

Related Cases: Clonaid’s 2002 “Baby Eve” cloning announcement; the 1991–1992 correspondence between the International Raëlian Movement and Israel’s Chief Rabbinate regarding the proposed Jerusalem embassy.

Source: Claude Vorilhon (Raël), Le Livre Qui Dit La Vérité (“The Book Which Tells the Truth,” 1974) and Les Extra-Terrestres M’ont Emmené sur Leur Planète (“Extraterrestrials Took Me to Their Planet,” 1975); International Raëlian Movement official materials (rael.org); academic religious-studies summaries.

DETAILED REPORT

Unlike many entries in this archive, the Raelains/Elohim narrative traces to a specific, named, still-active organization with a documented founding date, founder biography, and publicly available texts, which makes it possible to check individual claims against the movement’s own record rather than against secondhand paraphrase. Claude Vorilhon, a French former motor-racing journalist born in 1946, said he encountered a small humanoid being on December 13, 1973, near an extinct volcano, Puy de Lassolas, close to Clermont-Ferrand. He described the being as roughly four feet tall, with long black hair, olive skin, and almond-shaped eyes. The being reportedly identified its people as the Elohim, told Vorilhon that “Elohim” is a Hebrew plural meaning “those who came from the sky,” and stated that this people had created all life on Earth in laboratories approximately 25,000 years ago — a scientific-creationist alternative to both religious and evolutionary origin accounts.

The movement’s official symbol — a Star of David intertwined with a swastika — is genuinely documented, including its stated meaning (space/time infinity) and its controversial history: it was replaced with a less inflammatory variant in 1991–92 out of sensitivity to Holocaust survivors and to ease embassy negotiations with Israel, then restored as the official symbol in 2007. The requested embassy was historically and specifically proposed for Jerusalem, not a generic “neutral territory,” per the movement’s own submissions to Israeli authorities in the early 1990s.

The Raëlian movement’s cloning company, Clonaid, announced in December 2002 that it had produced the first cloned human baby (“Eve”); no evidence of this birth has ever been independently verified, and it is generally treated by outside observers as an unsubstantiated publicity claim.

No evidence was found for a named home star system, specific biometric data (weight, temperature, pulse, blood pressure, precise lifespan), an internal alien-species classification (“Level X”), named alien subspecies (“Cloned Guardians,” “Original Founders”), fluency in all Earth languages, “laser telepathy,” or any of the material framing current events — CRISPR monitoring, “Biological Auditing,” sightings near CERN, or a “2026 Requirement of the Embassy” — as documented claims of the movement. These appear to be invented elaborations layered onto a real belief system rather than anything drawn from Raëlian sources.

RESEARCHER’S NOTES

Raelains — A Real, Named Movement With Documented Claims, and Where Invention Was Added on Top

This entry has an unusually solid documentary anchor: the Raëlian movement is real, active, and has published its founder’s claims in specific, dated books, which makes source-checking more straightforward here than for most entries in this archive.
The symbol description checked out: the Star of David/swastika “infinity in space, infinity in time” explanation is accurately represented in the original draft and is directly attributable to the movement’s own stated interpretation.
A specific home star system was invented: Vorilhon’s own account describes visiting the Elohim’s homeworld but does not name it; “Beta Cetus (Deneb Kaitos)” is not part of the movement’s claims and appears to be a real star name borrowed to lend false specificity.
A full biometric panel and an alien ranking system were fabricated: weight, body temperature, blood pressure, a “700–1,000 year” lifespan, and a “Level X” species classification do not appear in any Raëlian source; the movement’s own internal hierarchy (levels 0–6) governs human membership structure, not an alien taxonomy, and conflating the two misrepresents the source.
The embassy location was genericized: the historically documented, specific demand was for an embassy in Jerusalem, not a vaguely described “neutral territory,” and this distinction matters for understanding the movement’s actual diplomatic history with Israel.
A “2026” contemporary framing was added without support: claims about CERN sightings, CRISPR monitoring, and a heightened present-day “Requirement of the Embassy” narrative are not documented positions of the movement and read as invented current-events tie-ins layered onto the older, genuine belief system.

The Raelains entry differs from most others in this archive in that its underlying source — the Raëlian movement — is a real, ongoing organization with a traceable founder, dated claims, and its own publicly stated theology, making it unusually possible to separate documented belief from invented embellishment. What Vorilhon actually claims (a 1973 contact, Elohim creators, a genuine and controversial symbol, a real embassy demand historically aimed at Jerusalem, and an unverified 2002 cloning announcement) is preserved above. The invented material — precise alien biometrics, a named home star system, a formal species ranking, and a 2026-specific “requirement” narrative — has been marked as unsupported rather than presented as part of the movement’s actual teaching.