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Billy Meier's photos: some clarification
Since Alan Friswell (in his article “Faking It…”) has recounted some of the details of my encounters and correspondence with Vaughn Rees, CFI-West, James Randi, Michael Shermer, etc. regarding Billy Meier’s photographic evidence, I would like to add a few things for clarity and accuracy. Actually, I initiated a meeting with Vaughn Rees at his office, at CFI-West in Los Angeles, where I showed him Meier’s photographic and film evidence and issued the challenge to him to duplicate one photo and one film subsequent to his calling Meier’s evidence “easily duplicated hoaxes”. Though the skeptics have long accused Meier of a hoax, duplicating the photo and film wasn’t something that Rees initiated on his own and he probably regrets having ever accepted the challenge. (More of the details are available at http://www.theyfly.com.)
In fairness to CFI-West, they finally did (after more than three years) come up with six photos of a small UFO model and attempted to claim that they had “duplicated the effect” of Meier’s photos, something that I quickly reminded them was neither the nature of the challenge nor actually much of an accomplishment since the same could be said for any sci-fi movie in which a spaceship or UFO is seen flying around (though that gave the benefit of the doubt to CFI-West as they have never submitted any film, as Mr. Rees had promised).
During my appearance on the Coast to Coast radio show with host Art Bell (March 7 – 8, 2004), Rees called in to again assert that he had duplicated the effect of Meier’s photos, to which Bell responded by asking Rees if he was going to submit his photos to the same standards of testing that Meier’s had been. When Rees firmly declined, Bell dismissed him from the show, along with any credibility the skeptics could have hoped to have. And, subsequent to Rees’ dissembling, James Randi retracted his claim that the Meier case is a hoax. Of course, no payment to Meier (in any form or denominations) has been forthcoming.
I think that Alan should consider having his photos analyzed according to the same standards as Meier’s, if for no other reason than to help clarify the difference between duplicating an “effect” and duplicating the genuine article. There is a free document at my site that covers some of the parameters of the testing, which were quite precise and effective in distinguishing between models (as the investigators had models made and photographed them for comparison) and the far larger objects in Meier’s photos and films. The full protocols can be made available to Alan should he wish to participate in the exercise. While it’s clear from his article that he’s not claiming that he photographed the same kind and size of objects that Meier did, it would put to rest any doubts in the minds of those who might view his attempt as effectively equaling Meier’s photos.
Another thing that might interest readers is the series of photos, taken by Meier, of a UFO circling a tree. The following is quoted from research by James Deardorff (http://www.tjresearch.info):
“In Meier's photo series below, taken on 9 July 1975 between the communities of Fuchsbüel and Hofhalden, near Wetzikon, Switzerland, the beamship, as it is called, posed for him on all sides of the tree. In this series, 11 photos of which have survived, there are several indicators that force the skeptic to conclude that the beamship was an actual craft at a considerable distance from the camera. First, in the left-hand photo, one sees that the tree on the right is in poor focus because it is just a few meters away. The UFO and the tree adjacent to it are in very good focus, being many meters away. Consistent with this, Wendelle Stevens found that the focus setting on Meier's camera, with which he took his pictures in 1975 and 1976, was stuck just one notch short of infinity; thus he could not take clear close-up shots, but objects at distances of some 30-300 meters were in very good focus.
Equally important is the fact that one may take these photos, including the one best showing the tree's trunk (the 2nd one from the left), to experts in forestry and ask them to identify the kind of tree. Those with any knowledge of fir trees in western Germany, Switzerland and elsewhere will probably inform you that it is an abies alba, i.e., a European silver fir, or at the least, a mature conifer. It is no potted "baby" tree and no model tree. If you look closely at the trunk you will see two protuberances where limbs had once grown before being shed or pruned off. These facts can be determined from these photos even though the ones displayed here are much-handled copies of copies. In the first four of these photos, counting from the left, three or four nearly square "portholes" can be discerned, regularly spaced around an upper circumference of the craft.
Since the craft posed on all sides of the tree, and cannot have been a small model if the tree was a mature fir, the evidence pointing towards the tree's maturity deserves more analysis. Therefore much more is discussed, shown and analyzed about it here, with the inescapable conclusion being that this UFO or IFO was real—a beamship.”
In addition to this series, Meier has taken numerous photos and films of UFOs next to, behind and above other objects of known size, something that Alan didn’t do, of course. So did photos like the famous photo number 174, where the UFO obviously couldn’t have been a suspended model. Deardorff covers all of this quite nicely at http://www.tjresearch.info/hasenbol.htm.
And Deardorff also provides compelling explanations for why the so-called (and truly otherworldly looking) “Wedding Cake” UFO is indeed another authentic craft and not a model, as some skeptics have tried to assert. The fact that there is a clear, daytime video of this ship (approximately 14’ in diameter), hovering in front of a tree, that Meier zooms 400’- 500’ across an open field to focus on, further leaves the skeptics chewing on their shoes. This video is on the DVD “The Meier Contacts – The Key To Our Future Survival”.
While the UFOs photographed next to objects of known size were determined to be quite large, the problem with the “hung ‘em on a string” theory is that the investigators in the case found that there was rarely even the slightest possibility that such a hoaxing method could have been employed by Meier since so many of his photos, including the multiple UFOs and sequence shots, were taken in areas where there were not only no supporting objects or structures but the terrain made such things impossible, even assuming that accomplices could have existed. Steep hillsides and large valleys virtually eliminated any chance that Meier’s UFOs were anything but the full-sized objects that the testing revealed them to be.
It might be helpful for Alan and any of the people who still think that Meier hoaxed the photos, to actually visit the area and see for themselves how enormously challenging such an undertaking would have been for a one-armed man with no resources or accomplices to even attempt such a grand deception. It’s one thing to visit a hardware store and to assemble one’s models, and theories, in relative comfort and quite another to trudge about, in the remote regions Meier traversed even during the harsh Swiss winters, and to come back with rolls of perfectly clear UFO photos (often with up to four craft in them).
I also need to point out that Alan’s comment that much of what Meier was told by the Plejaren is “fairly predictable stuff”, it is absolutely anything but that. As a matter of fact, I have documented literally dozens of very specific, prophetically accurate scientific and world event-related bits of information given to, and published by, Meier anywhere from a few weeks to a few decades before “official” discovery or occurrence. Actually, there are hundreds of such items, spanning the last 53 years, with a remarkable absence of erroneous information. This constitutes what I refer to as the higher standard of proof, especially as the information is in copyrighted books and/or unalterable documents published before the events in question occurred. Research can be done by any interested party to determine if (as I claim) Meier and the Plejaren are the most accurate source of prophetically accurate information in all of history. New confirmation of prophetic information continues to occur and I post updates in my free online newsletter at http://www.theyfly.com.
Alan is quite right in pointing out that no accomplices have ever come forward but he probably didn’t know that several movie Hollywood studios offered Meier deals on his life story, including Universal, which offered him $1,000,000 and the full use of their special effects department to recreate his photos and films. Meier turned down all the film offers and noted that he had no use for special effects, explaining that to make his films, “I take the camera and when the ship comes…I press the button.”
As far as the “religious significance” that Alan attributes to Meier’s photo album, the very idea is antithetical to everything that Meier personally stands for. If there is one thing that is repeatedly emphasized in the information it is the need for humanity to break free of cultic religious belief systems, which are viewed as nothing less than enslaving and illogical. The Plejaren are particularly vocal about this throughout the Contact Reports (the verbatim transcripts of Meier’s conversations with them), clarifying that a part of their own mission is to help rectify the damage done by their own distant forefathers many of whom, they say, were the gods of our distant past.
There’s been some mention of the sound recordings and the skeptics’ absolute avoidance of any attempt to duplicate them, despite their being freely available to anyone at my website. The following, from “Light Years” by Gary Kinder, may shed some light on why the skeptics won’t touch the sounds:
Steve Ambrose, sound engineer for Stevie Wonder and inventor of the Micro Monitor, a radio set complete with speaker that fits inside Wonder's ear, analyzed the Meier sound recordings. "The sound recording's got some surprising things in it," he told me. "How would you duplicate it? I'm not just talking about how to duplicate it audio-wise, but how do you show those various things on a spectrum analyzer and on the 'scope that it was doing? It's one thing to make something that sounds like it, it's another thing to make something that sounds like it and has those consistent and random oscillations in it. The sound of the spacecraft," he added, "was a single sound source recording that had an amazing frequency response. If it is a hoax I'd like to meet the guy that did it, because he could probably make a lot of money in special effects."
I must say that, overall, I think Alan actually did a fair job in his article, especially when you consider how few people have ever troubled themselves to attempt to duplicate any of Meier’s evidence.
It must also be noted that Meier was taking UFO pictures as early as 1964, when he was in India. During his travels in the 1950s and 1960s, he was also rubbing shoulders with many people who were, or who soon would be, important players on the world’s stage. These included King Hussein of Jordan, Indira Ghandi and even Saddam Hussein, among many others. It was during these times that Meier was also studying most of the world’s major religions, all of this at the encouragement of the Plejaren as part of the preparation for his mission later in life.
It was while Meier was in India that the first of the (documented) 21 attempts on his life took place. When one reads about the Talmud of Jmmanuel, which Meier co-discovered in 1963, a better understanding of the depth and controversial aspects of the case will become apparent, as will some of the motivations behind the attempts on his life. (Again, a thorough reading of Deardorff’s site will be most informative.)
When considering the case in its totality one has to conclude that Meier either possesses above-genius level abilities in photography, filmmaking, video making, model making, special effects, computer/digital effects, sound recording and engineering, metallurgy, electronics, astronomy, environmental sciences, physics, astrophysics, mathematics, clairvoyance, mass hypnosis, etc. or that the simpler answer is the correct one, i.e. that he is a genuine contactee.
For those who wish to respond with pure skepticism and/or derision, please do some real, qualified research first and then specify what you base your conclusions on. During the past 26 years that I’ve researched the case, I think that I’ve heard and probably answered almost all challenges. I do welcome any interest in the case and, for those who need to hear it again, there is a ton of free stuff on my website so you don’t need to buy anything to learn quite a bit about the case. If you want any of the products, I’m delighted of course simply because it helps me to continue my work.
If, as I claim, that the Meier case is the only scientifically proven, still ongoing (more than 63 years) UFO-ET contact case, then surely it is the most important story in all of human history.
Lastly, I will be out of my office until June 17th so, should there be any questions, please allow me some time to respond after my return from lecturing.
Michael Horn
Authorized American Media Representative
The Billy Meier Contacts
www.theyfly.com
[Emp edit: Fiixng links so they work.]
Since Alan Friswell (in his article “Faking It…”) has recounted some of the details of my encounters and correspondence with Vaughn Rees, CFI-West, James Randi, Michael Shermer, etc. regarding Billy Meier’s photographic evidence, I would like to add a few things for clarity and accuracy. Actually, I initiated a meeting with Vaughn Rees at his office, at CFI-West in Los Angeles, where I showed him Meier’s photographic and film evidence and issued the challenge to him to duplicate one photo and one film subsequent to his calling Meier’s evidence “easily duplicated hoaxes”. Though the skeptics have long accused Meier of a hoax, duplicating the photo and film wasn’t something that Rees initiated on his own and he probably regrets having ever accepted the challenge. (More of the details are available at http://www.theyfly.com.)
In fairness to CFI-West, they finally did (after more than three years) come up with six photos of a small UFO model and attempted to claim that they had “duplicated the effect” of Meier’s photos, something that I quickly reminded them was neither the nature of the challenge nor actually much of an accomplishment since the same could be said for any sci-fi movie in which a spaceship or UFO is seen flying around (though that gave the benefit of the doubt to CFI-West as they have never submitted any film, as Mr. Rees had promised).
During my appearance on the Coast to Coast radio show with host Art Bell (March 7 – 8, 2004), Rees called in to again assert that he had duplicated the effect of Meier’s photos, to which Bell responded by asking Rees if he was going to submit his photos to the same standards of testing that Meier’s had been. When Rees firmly declined, Bell dismissed him from the show, along with any credibility the skeptics could have hoped to have. And, subsequent to Rees’ dissembling, James Randi retracted his claim that the Meier case is a hoax. Of course, no payment to Meier (in any form or denominations) has been forthcoming.
I think that Alan should consider having his photos analyzed according to the same standards as Meier’s, if for no other reason than to help clarify the difference between duplicating an “effect” and duplicating the genuine article. There is a free document at my site that covers some of the parameters of the testing, which were quite precise and effective in distinguishing between models (as the investigators had models made and photographed them for comparison) and the far larger objects in Meier’s photos and films. The full protocols can be made available to Alan should he wish to participate in the exercise. While it’s clear from his article that he’s not claiming that he photographed the same kind and size of objects that Meier did, it would put to rest any doubts in the minds of those who might view his attempt as effectively equaling Meier’s photos.
Another thing that might interest readers is the series of photos, taken by Meier, of a UFO circling a tree. The following is quoted from research by James Deardorff (http://www.tjresearch.info):
“In Meier's photo series below, taken on 9 July 1975 between the communities of Fuchsbüel and Hofhalden, near Wetzikon, Switzerland, the beamship, as it is called, posed for him on all sides of the tree. In this series, 11 photos of which have survived, there are several indicators that force the skeptic to conclude that the beamship was an actual craft at a considerable distance from the camera. First, in the left-hand photo, one sees that the tree on the right is in poor focus because it is just a few meters away. The UFO and the tree adjacent to it are in very good focus, being many meters away. Consistent with this, Wendelle Stevens found that the focus setting on Meier's camera, with which he took his pictures in 1975 and 1976, was stuck just one notch short of infinity; thus he could not take clear close-up shots, but objects at distances of some 30-300 meters were in very good focus.
Equally important is the fact that one may take these photos, including the one best showing the tree's trunk (the 2nd one from the left), to experts in forestry and ask them to identify the kind of tree. Those with any knowledge of fir trees in western Germany, Switzerland and elsewhere will probably inform you that it is an abies alba, i.e., a European silver fir, or at the least, a mature conifer. It is no potted "baby" tree and no model tree. If you look closely at the trunk you will see two protuberances where limbs had once grown before being shed or pruned off. These facts can be determined from these photos even though the ones displayed here are much-handled copies of copies. In the first four of these photos, counting from the left, three or four nearly square "portholes" can be discerned, regularly spaced around an upper circumference of the craft.
Since the craft posed on all sides of the tree, and cannot have been a small model if the tree was a mature fir, the evidence pointing towards the tree's maturity deserves more analysis. Therefore much more is discussed, shown and analyzed about it here, with the inescapable conclusion being that this UFO or IFO was real—a beamship.”
In addition to this series, Meier has taken numerous photos and films of UFOs next to, behind and above other objects of known size, something that Alan didn’t do, of course. So did photos like the famous photo number 174, where the UFO obviously couldn’t have been a suspended model. Deardorff covers all of this quite nicely at http://www.tjresearch.info/hasenbol.htm.
And Deardorff also provides compelling explanations for why the so-called (and truly otherworldly looking) “Wedding Cake” UFO is indeed another authentic craft and not a model, as some skeptics have tried to assert. The fact that there is a clear, daytime video of this ship (approximately 14’ in diameter), hovering in front of a tree, that Meier zooms 400’- 500’ across an open field to focus on, further leaves the skeptics chewing on their shoes. This video is on the DVD “The Meier Contacts – The Key To Our Future Survival”.
While the UFOs photographed next to objects of known size were determined to be quite large, the problem with the “hung ‘em on a string” theory is that the investigators in the case found that there was rarely even the slightest possibility that such a hoaxing method could have been employed by Meier since so many of his photos, including the multiple UFOs and sequence shots, were taken in areas where there were not only no supporting objects or structures but the terrain made such things impossible, even assuming that accomplices could have existed. Steep hillsides and large valleys virtually eliminated any chance that Meier’s UFOs were anything but the full-sized objects that the testing revealed them to be.
It might be helpful for Alan and any of the people who still think that Meier hoaxed the photos, to actually visit the area and see for themselves how enormously challenging such an undertaking would have been for a one-armed man with no resources or accomplices to even attempt such a grand deception. It’s one thing to visit a hardware store and to assemble one’s models, and theories, in relative comfort and quite another to trudge about, in the remote regions Meier traversed even during the harsh Swiss winters, and to come back with rolls of perfectly clear UFO photos (often with up to four craft in them).
I also need to point out that Alan’s comment that much of what Meier was told by the Plejaren is “fairly predictable stuff”, it is absolutely anything but that. As a matter of fact, I have documented literally dozens of very specific, prophetically accurate scientific and world event-related bits of information given to, and published by, Meier anywhere from a few weeks to a few decades before “official” discovery or occurrence. Actually, there are hundreds of such items, spanning the last 53 years, with a remarkable absence of erroneous information. This constitutes what I refer to as the higher standard of proof, especially as the information is in copyrighted books and/or unalterable documents published before the events in question occurred. Research can be done by any interested party to determine if (as I claim) Meier and the Plejaren are the most accurate source of prophetically accurate information in all of history. New confirmation of prophetic information continues to occur and I post updates in my free online newsletter at http://www.theyfly.com.
Alan is quite right in pointing out that no accomplices have ever come forward but he probably didn’t know that several movie Hollywood studios offered Meier deals on his life story, including Universal, which offered him $1,000,000 and the full use of their special effects department to recreate his photos and films. Meier turned down all the film offers and noted that he had no use for special effects, explaining that to make his films, “I take the camera and when the ship comes…I press the button.”
As far as the “religious significance” that Alan attributes to Meier’s photo album, the very idea is antithetical to everything that Meier personally stands for. If there is one thing that is repeatedly emphasized in the information it is the need for humanity to break free of cultic religious belief systems, which are viewed as nothing less than enslaving and illogical. The Plejaren are particularly vocal about this throughout the Contact Reports (the verbatim transcripts of Meier’s conversations with them), clarifying that a part of their own mission is to help rectify the damage done by their own distant forefathers many of whom, they say, were the gods of our distant past.
There’s been some mention of the sound recordings and the skeptics’ absolute avoidance of any attempt to duplicate them, despite their being freely available to anyone at my website. The following, from “Light Years” by Gary Kinder, may shed some light on why the skeptics won’t touch the sounds:
Steve Ambrose, sound engineer for Stevie Wonder and inventor of the Micro Monitor, a radio set complete with speaker that fits inside Wonder's ear, analyzed the Meier sound recordings. "The sound recording's got some surprising things in it," he told me. "How would you duplicate it? I'm not just talking about how to duplicate it audio-wise, but how do you show those various things on a spectrum analyzer and on the 'scope that it was doing? It's one thing to make something that sounds like it, it's another thing to make something that sounds like it and has those consistent and random oscillations in it. The sound of the spacecraft," he added, "was a single sound source recording that had an amazing frequency response. If it is a hoax I'd like to meet the guy that did it, because he could probably make a lot of money in special effects."
I must say that, overall, I think Alan actually did a fair job in his article, especially when you consider how few people have ever troubled themselves to attempt to duplicate any of Meier’s evidence.
It must also be noted that Meier was taking UFO pictures as early as 1964, when he was in India. During his travels in the 1950s and 1960s, he was also rubbing shoulders with many people who were, or who soon would be, important players on the world’s stage. These included King Hussein of Jordan, Indira Ghandi and even Saddam Hussein, among many others. It was during these times that Meier was also studying most of the world’s major religions, all of this at the encouragement of the Plejaren as part of the preparation for his mission later in life.
It was while Meier was in India that the first of the (documented) 21 attempts on his life took place. When one reads about the Talmud of Jmmanuel, which Meier co-discovered in 1963, a better understanding of the depth and controversial aspects of the case will become apparent, as will some of the motivations behind the attempts on his life. (Again, a thorough reading of Deardorff’s site will be most informative.)
When considering the case in its totality one has to conclude that Meier either possesses above-genius level abilities in photography, filmmaking, video making, model making, special effects, computer/digital effects, sound recording and engineering, metallurgy, electronics, astronomy, environmental sciences, physics, astrophysics, mathematics, clairvoyance, mass hypnosis, etc. or that the simpler answer is the correct one, i.e. that he is a genuine contactee.
For those who wish to respond with pure skepticism and/or derision, please do some real, qualified research first and then specify what you base your conclusions on. During the past 26 years that I’ve researched the case, I think that I’ve heard and probably answered almost all challenges. I do welcome any interest in the case and, for those who need to hear it again, there is a ton of free stuff on my website so you don’t need to buy anything to learn quite a bit about the case. If you want any of the products, I’m delighted of course simply because it helps me to continue my work.
If, as I claim, that the Meier case is the only scientifically proven, still ongoing (more than 63 years) UFO-ET contact case, then surely it is the most important story in all of human history.
Lastly, I will be out of my office until June 17th so, should there be any questions, please allow me some time to respond after my return from lecturing.
Michael Horn
Authorized American Media Representative
The Billy Meier Contacts
www.theyfly.com
[Emp edit: Fiixng links so they work.]