Michael Vaillant

Nineteen-year consultant to the French space agency's UAP unit, GEIPAN. Launched the world's first government UAP website, built the institutional database that anchors French UAP investigation, and helped seed the FRIPON fireball-detection network. His methodology, "remain neutral and exhaustive," has been adopted across several European research bodies. Argued at the meeting that any EU framework should start from agreed methodological principles before attempting harmonised data collection.