Michaël Vaillant is a French data scientist who has served as a geipan expert for approximately 20 years and is the founder and president of uap-check (established 2023) and Meta-Connexions (2006). He has contributed to the GEIPAN website and database and serves on the SUAPS Board of Advisors. He was a Roundtable 2 speaker at the June 29, 2026 French National Assembly parliamentary UAP colloquium, where he called for international scientific standards to enable a “new science” that takes unidentified phenomena seriously.