The Billy Meier case is the longest running and most spectacular of the UFO-contactee cases on record. It has everything. I am going to use quotes from MUFON to tell the facts of this intriguing, complex and dramatic story.
If you do not already know, MUFON is a UFO research group. It has existed for many decades and has a solid reputation for conducting scientific investigations and reporting the facts. The MUFON report is italicized.
"(Billy) Eduard Albert Meier (born February 3, 1937) is a citizen of Switzerland who is the source of many controversial UFO photographs.. He presents these photographs as evidence to support claims that he is in contact
with extraterrestrials.
In addition, he has also presented other controversial material during the 1970s such as metal samples, sound recordings and film-footage. Meier reports regular contacts with extraterrestrials he calls the Plejaren.
Meier claims that the Plejaren look similar in appearance to humans from Northern Europe, and states that the Plejaren home world is called Erra. It is located in a dimension which is a fraction of a second shifted from our own dimension, about 80 light years beyond the Pleiades, an open star cluster. The Plejaren were given the name Pleiadians by Meier up to 1995.”
[I first became aware of this case in 1980 through a psychic (friend/teacher) who was in contact with Lee Elders and Wendelle Stevens, who were investigators studying the case then.]
“Born in the town of Bülach in the Zürcher Unterland, Meier joined the French Foreign Legion in his teens, but says he soon left and returned home. He traveled extensively around the world pursuing spiritual exploration, covering 42 countries over 12 years. In 1965, he lost his left arm in a bus accident in Turkey.
In 1966 he met and married a Greek woman, Kalliope Zafiriou, with whom he has three children. The nickname "Billy" came by way of an American friend who thought Meier's cowboy style of dress reminded her of "Billy the Kid." This anecdote was told by Meier himself in an interview with Bob Zanotti of Swiss Radio International in June, 1982.[2] Meier has accumulated a large collection of photographs[3] showing alleged spaceships that he calls beam-ships as well as alleged Plejaren. Meier says that the Plejaren gave him permission to photograph and film their beam-ships so that he could produce some evidence for their extraterrestrial visitations. Meier's claims are both believed and disputed by UFO skeptics and enthusiasts.[4][5]
UFO--Contact from the Pleiades . Meier began publishing his collection of photographs in the 1970s. His photographs were featured in various newspapers and magazines from around the world, such as the Quick,[6] Blick,[7] Argosy UFO,[8][9] and Il Giornale dei Misteri.
[I came into possession of his book in 1980 and was astonished at the clarity of his photos and, of course, his reports of alien contact. I had my first close (no contact) observation of a UFO in Sweden in 1968. That aroused my interest in the subject. But at the time I was focused on the field of parapsychology.]
“Meier claimed his first extraterrestrial contacts occurred in 1942 at the age of five with an elderly extraterrestrial man named Sfath. Contacts with Sfath lasted until 1953, shortly before Sfath passed away. From 1953 to 1964, Meier's contacts continued with an extraterrestrial woman called Asket, who is not a Plejaren.
Meier says that after an eleven year break, contacts resumed again (beginning on January 28, 1975) with an extraterrestrial woman named Semjase, the granddaughter of Sfath. Meier says that he has also had many contacts with another Plejaren man called Ptaah, starting in 1975 and continuing right up to the present day. He has claimed that he has also visited other worlds and galaxies along with another universe with these extraterrestrials. Meier claims that he was instructed to transcribe his conversations with the various extraterrestrials, most of which have been published in the German language.
These books are referred to as the Contact Notes (or Contact Reports). Currently, there are twenty six published volumes of the Contact Reports (titled Plejadisch-Plejarische Kontaktberichte). Some of theContact Reports were translated into English, extensively edited and expurgated, and published in the out-of-print four-volume set Message from the Pleiades:
The Contact Notes of Eduard Billy Meier by Meier case investigator Wendelle C. Stevens. There are also many contact reports translated into English (unedited) by Benjamin Stevens.
[I am somewhat surprised to find that the MUFON reporter did not mention Wedelle Stevens credentials. In fact, was involved in the investigation with Lee Elders. No lightweight Stevens } Meier's discussions with the Plejaren are highly detailed and wide-ranging, dealing with subjects ranging from spirituality and the afterlife to the dangers of mainstream religions, human history science and astronomical phenomena, ecology and environmental dangers caused by global overpopulation, in addition to prophecies and predictions of future events. An additional aspect of the Meier case is the highly controversial book, the Talmud Jmmanuel. Based on the translation of ancient Aramaic scrolls purportedly discovered in 1963 in a tomb just south of the Old City of Jerusalem by Meier and Isa Rashid, the book claims to be the original teachings and life events of the man named Jmmanuel (called Jesus Christ by historians and Christians).
[The discovery of the ancient text puts a very strange twist to Meier’s case.}
“Some of the most important evidence for Meier's claims come from his large collection of photographs. These include images of metallic discs floating above the Swiss countryside, the 1975 docking of Apollo–Soyuz, pictures of celestial objects from a non-Earthly vantage point, pictures of apparent extraterrestrials, prehistoric Earthly scenes, and scenes of a devastated future. The photographs, films, sound recordings and Meier himself were the subject of an investigation lasting more than five years by Wendelle C. Stevens and his American team of analytic experts. The investigation was the subject of Larry Savadove's 1982 documentary film Contact.
Stevens and his team employed a wide range of investigative techniques such as photogrammetric and computer analysis of photographs, tonal and dynamic analysis of recorded sounds, recreation of models, and extensive polygraph tests on Meier and his acquaintances.
[The photos have gone through extensive analysis for decades.]
Some UFO researchers such as Stanton T. Friedman and Jacques Vallée publicly dismiss the Meier case, while others believe the Meier case to be the most thoroughly researched and validated UFO case in our history.
Some critics have provided examples of faked photos similar to what Meier produced and have pointed out that some of his photos correspond to scenes that were subsequently found in science fiction books, paintings and television programs. Meier claims that some of his photos were altered by intelligence agencies and slipped into his collection in order to discredit his UFO testimony.
Kal K. Korff has been particularly vociferous in dismissing the Meier case, pointing to proof of Meier's fakery obviated by finding light-direction and focal discrepancies consistent with cut-and-paste and model techniques.
Photographic analysis was performed on Meier's photographs and films in the late 1970s when Meier first started to publish his photographs. In 1978, a report titled "Preliminary Photo Analysis," written by physicist Neil M. Davis at Design Technology in Poway, California, provided test results of an analysis of one of Meier's controversial photographs.
Using microscopic examination, density contour plots, examination for evidence of double exposure, photo paste-up, or a model at short range suspended on a string. They state "Nothing was found to indicate a hoax" and concluded, "Nothing was found in the examination of the print which could cause me to believe that the object in the photos is anything other than a large object photographed a distance from the camera."
They also recommended that the print was a second generation photograph and a more detailed analysis of the photo can only properly be made on the original film negative.[21]
[It never matters what the results of independent photo analysis of UFOs, Debunkers and Skeptics will only refer to and use results that agree with their preconceptions. You will never a Debunker who refers to results that confirm the authenticity of a photo.] Recreations of Meier's images were created by photographic effects specialist and stop-motion animator Alan Friswell for the June 2005 issue of Fortean Times magazine.[22] Friswell had employed techniques used in the pre-digital age of film special effects, as modern processes would, in Friswell's opinion, have been "unsporting."
Using "old fashioned" tricks, such as foreground miniatures and photographic cutouts, Friswell crafted copies of Meier's UFO pictures, but claimed that his pictures did not in any way confirm that Meier was a hoaxer, as without personal experience of the events, he had no right to draw conclusive opinions one way or the other. A study conducted by the IIG concluded that Meier could have created the photographs using household items. [24] Contrasting this research, in a report titled "Analysis of the Wedding Cake UFO," a researcher who calls himself Rhal Zahi attempted to determine the size of the UFO in one of Meier's photographs by analyzing the reflections of surrounding objects on the metallic surface of the UFO.
With the aid of Blender, a 3D modelling program, satellite imagery and a scale model of Meier's property, the author determined that the UFO in the picture is an object greater than 3 meters in diameter.[25]
[Conclusion of Part I. I shall post the second segment soon.]
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