Gildas Bourdais
Gildas Bourdais was a publishing executive, painter, and French ufologist writer, supporter of the "extraterrestrial hypothesis".
Biography
After preparatory classes at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, he graduated from HEC Paris.His research focused in particular on the Roswell incident, on stories of extraterrestrial apparitions in major religious texts, and on the COMETA report.
He translated several books on ufology by different authors, including American ufologists Roger Leir and Leslie Kean, into French.
He collaborated with Top Secret magazine, and often appeared on the Ici et Maintenant! radio programme.
Translator
- 2004: Roger K. Leir, Des extraterrestres capturés à Varginha au Brésil, le nouveau Roswell, Le Mercure dauphinois, coll. « Les dossiers non classés », Grenoble, 200p.
- 2008: Colm A. Kelleher et George Knapp, La science confrontée à l'inexpliqué sur un ranch isolé de l'Utah, translation with Francis Turcat, Le Mercure dauphinois, Grenoble, 381p.
- 2012: Roger K. Leir, Contacts OVNI. La dernière frontière, translation with Alain Charoy, Le Mercure dauphinois, Grenoble, 221p.
- 2014: Leslie Kean, Des généraux, des pilotes et des officiels parlent, Dervy Editions, 430 p.