Jean-Pierre Petit is a French engineer.
Education
Jean-Pierre Petit obtained his
engineer's degree
An engineer's degree is an advanced academic degree in engineering which is conferred in Europe, some countries of Latin America, North Africa and a few institutions in the United States. The degree may require a thesis but always requires a non-a ...
in 1961 at the
Institut supérieur de l'aéronautique et de l'espace
An institute is an organisational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations ( research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body.
In some countries, institutes ca ...
(Supaéro). Petit defended his doctoral thesis, ''Applications de la théorie cinétique des gaz à la physique des plasmas et à la dynamique des galaxies'', at the
University of Provence
The University of Provence Aix-Marseille I (french: Université de Provence) was a public research university mostly located in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille. It was one of the three Universities of Aix-Marseille and was part of the Academy of ...
in 1972.
Petit worked in
topology
In mathematics, topology (from the Greek language, Greek words , and ) is concerned with the properties of a mathematical object, geometric object that are preserved under Continuous function, continuous Deformation theory, deformations, such ...
with
Bernard Morin
Bernard Morin (; 3 March 1931 in Shanghai, China – 12 March 2018) was a French mathematician, specifically a topologist.
Early life and education
Morin lost his sight at the age of six due to glaucoma, but his blindness did not prevent him ...
on the
torus
In geometry, a torus (plural tori, colloquially donut or doughnut) is a surface of revolution generated by revolving a circle in three-dimensional space about an axis that is coplanar with the circle.
If the axis of revolution does not tou ...
and
sphere eversion
In differential topology, sphere eversion is the process of turning a sphere inside out in a three-dimensional space (the word '' eversion'' means "turning inside out"). Remarkably, it is possible to smoothly and continuously turn a sphere in ...
in 1978.
Ummo
Petit said 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
alien
Alien primarily refers to:
* Alien (law), a person in a country who is not a national of that country
** Enemy alien, the above in times of war
* Extraterrestrial life, life which does not originate from Earth
** Specifically, intelligent extrater ...
s.
The Ummo affair has been admitted to have been a
hoax
A hoax is a widely publicized falsehood so fashioned as to invite reflexive, unthinking acceptance by the greatest number of people of the most varied social identities and of the highest possible social pretensions to gull its victims into pu ...
.
References
External links
Official website
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1937 births
20th-century French engineers
French anti–nuclear power activists
French conspiracy theorists
Living people
People from Choisy-le-Roi
Supaéro alumni
Ufologists