Jean-Pierre Petit

Jean-Pierre Petit is a French engineer retired from the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Jean-Pierre Petit
OccupationResearch engineer[1]

In the early 1980s, Petit authored the science comic book series The Adventures of Archibald Higgins.

He explored ufology, 9/11 conspiracy theories, and hypersonic military weapons like Aurora, Ayaks, Avangard.

Early life

Jean-Pierre Petit obtained his engineer's degree in 1961 at the Institut supérieur de l'aéronautique et de l'espace (Supaéro). Petit defended his doctoral thesis University of Provence in 1972.[1]

Art

In topology, Petit worked with Bernard Morin on the torus and sphere eversion.[2][3] In the 1980s, he taught sculpture at the art school of Aix-en-Provence, where he designed a 5-foot diameter model of Boy's surface that was exhibited in the π room of the Palais de la Découverte for 25 years.[4]

In 1979 Petit began writing "science comic books" published in French as Les Aventures d'Anselme Lanturlu and in English as The Adventures of Archibald Higgins, depicting a young character who explains hard scientific concepts with easy popular meaning and simple analogies. In 2005, Petit created a non-profit organization named Savoir Sans Frontières (tr. Knowledge Without Borders) that pays for their translation.[5]

Ummo hoax

In the 1990s, he stated on various French TV shows that some of his main scientific ideas were directly inspired based upon his analysis of the Ummo case and documents, questioning their terrestrial origin.[6][7] He testified in 2018 that he experienced personal contacts with unidentified entities that may or not be related to the Ummo case but that he believes are aliens.[8] The Ummo affair is generally believed to have been an elaborate hoax.[9]

References
  1. Petit, Jean-Pierre (10 March 1972). Applications de la théorie cinétique des gaz à la physique des plasmas et à la dynamique des galaxies [Applications of the kinetic theory of gases to plasma physics and galactic dynamics] (PDF) (Doctor of Science thesis) (in French). University of Provence. CNRS#6717.
  2. Morin, B.; Petit, J.-P. (January 1979). "Le retournement de la sphère" [The eversion of the sphere] (PDF). Pour la Science (in French) (15): 34–49.
  3. Francis, G. K. (1980). "Drawing surfaces and their deformations: The tobacco pouch eversions of the sphere" (PDF). Mathematical Modelling. 5 (4): 273–281. doi:10.1016/0270-0255(80)90039-1.
  4. Petit, J.-P (1985). Topo the World (PDF). Savoir Sans Frontières.
  5. Petit, Jean Pierre. "SpiralConnect". Univ-lyon 1. Archived from the original on 14 February 2019. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  6. "Les Ummites". Ça vous regarde (in French). La Cinq. 1991. 53 minutes in. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  7. "Affaire UMMO / Conférence de presse à Montréal". OrandiaTV (in French). 1991. 58 minutes in. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  8. "Contacts Cosmiques avec Jean-Pierre Petit". NURÉA TV (in French). 25 October 2018. 134 minutes in. YouTube. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  9. Corrales, Scott (2001). "PARANOIA - People Are Strange: Unusual UFO Cults". Archived from the original on 13 April 2007. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
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