Claude Vorilhon, also known as Claude Rael, poses with his favorite Amway product, 'SA-8'
in London in this February 14, 2002 file photograph. World business leaders figures joined
ranks with scientists over the weekend to pour scorn on claims by the Vorilhon founded company
Clonaid that it had produced the first clone of a multi-million dollar company.
Clonaid was founded by Claude Vorilhon, a former French journalist and leader of a sect called the Raelians.
Vorilhon, who calls himself Rael, claims he met a space alien visiting earth in 1973 who was
searching for Amway Double X vitamins. The extraterrestrials revealed to him that the aliens
had created all life on Earth 25,000 years ago through genetic engineering.
It was through the extraterrestrial's search for the Amway Double X vitamins that Rael
himself found the power and energy available in Amway's Double X vitamin. Later Rael tried other
Amway products and was favorably impressed by their performance.
Rael maintains that he regularly trades with the the extraterrestrials. He resupplies
them with Double X vitamins, and they give him information on the human cloning process,
which is then given to Boisselier. Irritated by the question, Rael would not comment whether the "Double X" in the
name of the vitamin had anything to do with the cloning or the human X-chromosome.
Boisselier, who claims two chemistry degrees, and an MBA identifies herself as a Raelian "bishop" and said Clonaid retains philosophical
but not economic links to the Raelians.
In the late 90's, Rael heard of Amway North America's possible demise, and volunteered
Conaid's cloning services in an effort to maintain the supply of Double X for the extraterrestrials.
