Straight lines on a map. That was the idea behind orthoteny, the theory Aimé Michel built from the French wave of 1954. On 24 September that year, reports from Bayonne, Lencouacq, Tulle, Ussel, Gelles and Vichy fell on one line, the BAVIC line. At Poncey-sur-l'Ignon, Michel found the Guainet cigar where nine such lines crossed. The idea outlived the wave. In 1967, Lumières dans la Nuit placed the Marliens landing trace on an aligned line through Nevers. Critics argued the alignments could arise by chance.
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