Billy Meier has divided researchers for years. This is because, for the doubter, there is an awful lot of data very hard to dismiss, and for the believer, a lot that of red flags very hard to ignore...
If you're unfamiliar with the case, Meier, now in his 70's is a simple man of small means - and limited, he lost one arm in a bus crash in the 1960's. A farmer by trade, he holds forth in the beautiful foothills of the Swiss Alps. Over the course of many years now he has unravelled a fascinating and controversial tale... that he is a reincarnation of a series of ancient prophets, including Elijah, Isaiah, and Jeremiah (I think even Jesus and Mohammed have been mentioned also), and he claims to have some very important messages for Humanity.
(for more detailed information on his case history check out Cidersomerset's thread here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...3-2-2009<br />)
Meier, he says, has experienced sightings and received telepathic messages ever since he was a child. But from 1975 through to '78 he underwent a series of actual physical face-to-face contacts with a group of extra-terrestrials from the Pleiades star cluster, some 450 Light Years from Earth. He has supplied reams of material detailing his contact experiences, as well as some of the most stunning photographs and home movie footage of flying saucers ever seen...
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For a long while they bore up to close scientific analysis and scrutiny. Understand that this was the 1970's and 80's, long before any kind of digital manipulation was possible. It stunned (stumped) the experts. Were these actually real? Quite possibly. But, lurking among them are some pretty blatant hoaxes...
Below are two such images which came to light a while back. The top one, his so-called ET visitor space-babes, named Semjase and Askut respectively. Below it, two quite human dancers/singers performing in an old Dean Martin TV special in the early 70's... See what I mean?
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Pics of actual real-life dinosaurs which he took on an alleged jaunt to the late Cretaceous turned out to be... from a picture-book. See comparison below:
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This photograph is in fact an illustration by Zdenek Burian, from a book called Life Before Man published in 1972.
And there is the infamous 'Wedding cake' UFO. A more obvious model flying saucer there has never been...
But due to all these blatant flaws can we dismiss Meier outright, especially when you consider his claims that these 'anomalies' were due to outside manipulation designed to discredit him?
Brilliant evidence, mixed with dreadful deception... This is in fact the hardest element to explain. How can we possibly resolve the issue, and determine what the actual reality is?
What happened to Meier in January 1975, continuing thereafter for some years? What is going on? These are some possible scenarios as I see them:
Theories:
1.
The contacts happened exactly as Meier has stated. Real contact with real 'Plejaren' ETs. The discrepancies that we note were brought about by outside interference - by so-called friends, supporters, the media, and the numerous hangers-on all jostling for their piece of the pie. It was these external agencies that served, eventually, to cast a shadow of doubt on his integrity. Yet... Some of the photos he has produced are certainly fake. Why did he risk producing falsifications? Was he pressed to do this by some party or other as a means to 'prove the unprovable'? Were perhaps government/intelligence types involved with this in an attempt to discredit him?
2.
Meier was once, maybe, a candidate for ET contact. Telepathic contact in his early life, sightings in India etc. Perhaps even a 3rd kind close encounter. However that was all. But enlarging these events, embellishing and prolonging them to provide yet more and more sensational information for his followers to lap up, and to thus perpetuate the myth, can account for many of his careless mistakes.
Much of his 'spiritual' information (perhaps researched from elsewhere - or 'inserted' by government manipulators) is quite poor, even primitive by our own limited human understanding (in reference to New Age spiritual philosophy). For example, Meier's Pleiadians claim that Mediumship is a false art, that the after-life is less a glorious, heavenly realm of spirits and more an inert plane of confused disembodied souls, and there was no real purpose in even attempting to communicate with them... (for me personally I hear an alarm right there).
3.
As above, there are many highly questionable claims in the Pleiadian account of things. Perhaps they were real, and all that Meier experienced happened as he said it happened, but his Pleiadians contrived to supply him with a few nuggets of disinformation. Why? Spiralling into left field here, were they not Pleiadian/Human ETs at all but reptilians in disguise? or Nazis from the south pole (they spoke perfect German after all) lol, Yahweh/Giza intelligence or something as equally esoteric, or just government operatives posing as extra-terrestrials (a kind of staged contact scenario that they could control with the purpose of disseminating spurious information)?
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Meier faked everything. All his contact notes were fiction. Every photograph and home movie was fake. But ask yourself: why? He seemed to be a man who shied away from media exposure, so 'fame' didn't seem to be his motivation, or money. There doesn’t seem to be a solid answer for this question.
Now ask yourself how? How might a one-armed man of limited means pull this off? Some pictures cannot be so easily explained, they are still pretty convincing today. Researchers have provided some almost perfect duplicate results in their attempt to prove fakery, however they should pause to more carefully consider the equipment available to them, the expense and technical know-how involved, and the fact that it is now the 21st century: they were not a peasant farmer with one arm living in the 70's. So was Meier helped? Was he just an actor in a program with a higher agenda? If so, by whom?
How did he come by the advanced technical and scientific knowledge if, as far as we know, he really is just a farmer with a limited academic education?
Conclusions
Whatever the case here it is a hell of a riddle to untangle. I first read about Meier in the 80's with Gary Kinder's book 'Light Years'. It was heavily partisan, of course, in conveying the contacts as real events. Many of the discrepancies that we know of now were yet to come light at that time.
There have been as many pro-Meier supporters over the years as critics. When you have Ufological heavyweights such as Wendell Stevens on one side and Timothy Good on the other, what are you to make of it? How can you reach a sound conclusion one way or the other?
Through my own rational, long-honed filters of perception and analysis I have attempted to sift the truth and fiction very carefully, in all cases, claims, and stories I come across, and I have not yet reached a unified theory of truth for Meier (and certain other contactee cases for that matter). I have seen some outstanding names in the field stand up and declare Meier the real deal, and others claim wholeheartedly he's a charlatan. The CIA supposedly investigated him thoroughly in the 70's it is said, and asserted it was all a hoax. Can we be sure that that was so? His 'supporters', who over the years seem to have hijacked Meier and his story, may have an agenda of their own; that there is something else going on behind the curtain.
Bottom line: I do not know anything for sure. I have my deep suspicions, beliefs even, that Meier was indeed a fraud. If so, it still leaves many, many questions. Such as 'how the hell did he do it', and why?
I'd really like to hear from Bill on this. An excellent, discerning investigator such as he is must have some sound insights into this case. I don't know Bill if you've ever closely scrutinized Meier, but I would say it would be a mistake for anyone to disregard him merely for the sake of a few dodgy photographs: For, if it is all true why are there dodgy photographs? And, if it is all fake why are there so much quality material that is as yet unexplained?

