[1] He credits a 1971 meeting with French writer Aimé Michel in motivating him to pursue studies in philosophy.

[2] Méheust found that pulp magazines wrote about and illustrated fictional flying saucers decades before the initial 1947 wave of reports.

Méhuest was influenced by psychoanalyst Carl Jung, author of Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies (1959).

[6] From this metaphysical perspective, he wrote the book Devenez savants: découvrez les sorciers about the study of psychological and paranormal phenomenon.

[6] It is a response to Debunked!—Devenez sorciers, devenez savants in the original French—a skeptical criticism of pseudosciences by physicist Georges Charpak.