REPUDIATION OF BILLY MEIER



I wanted to believe the Billy Meier story. Like Randolph Winters and everyone else, I thought the pictures uncommonly stunning and bought the tale of the one-armed Swiss fellow ... hook, line, and sinker.

After I read Light Years by Gary Kinder and later learned that high-profile names endorsed Meier, I was firmly hooked, indeed. There was that nagging specter of doubt, however ... hints from the scientific and scholarly community that niggled away at my faith in Meier. I hated to hear such doubt, for I'd worked hard on convincing myself that Meier was true.

Then I found a strange book, Jmmanuel, in which Meier claimed to have discovered an ancient Jesus manuscript and personally assisted in its translation. The book left a sour but certain taste of disingenuous design, a feeling of fabrication.

And yet, I still wanted to believe. But there was something strangely familiar about the names Meier called his "guides" ... Looking further into it, one finds that Samyaza was the leader of the Watchers who came to Earth in ancient times. The name can be found in Aramaic texts with a slightly different spelling. The name of Meier's "guide," he says, is Semjase. Ptah was Egypt's artificer-god. Another Meier "guide" is named Ptaah. A third is Asket, perhaps a more original name or merely a lazy variant of the Egyptian Sekhmet.

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But it wasn't until coming upon The Alien World (orbis Publishing, 1984) that I was forced to believe no longer, for it mentions there at page 42 that "Semjase" bears an uncanny resemblance to Meier's own girlfriend, that Meier was an adept photographer, even with only one arm, and that Meier admits to having models of UFOs ....

This might explain the remarkably clear photos of UFOs which some critics have long considered "too good to be true" -- did Meier hoax the photos with his UFO models? Are some photos authentic, or did he stage them all, inventing a grand hoax to give importance to a life of disappointment which "included periods in jail, in the French Foreign Legion and in an Indian ashram"?

If it was all a hoax, then it was effective in fooling a great many people including USAF (Ret.) Col. Wendelle Stevens, Shirley MacLaine, authors Gary Kinder (Light Years) and Lee Elders/with Wendelle Stevens (UFO ... Contact from the Pleiades), and many ufologists, including Jim Dilettoso and Richard Miller.

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Another author, Kal Korff, found enough evidence to make it all less convincing, as shown by the title of his book: The Most Infamous Hoax in Ufology. In addition to suspicions aroused by analysis of the pictures and the metal fragments proffered by Meier, there is also much doubt cast on the 3000 pages of what Meier claimed Semjase had actually told him. As related on page 49:

"... Jim Lorenzen of APRO quotes Dr. James Hurtak, a language specialist who has taken the opportunity to read most of the 3000 pages of the 'Semjase Correspondence' in the original German. 'The linguistic use of Egyptian-Aramaic and Egyptian-Hebrew names ... is "latterday patchwork", he says ... sublime travesty. By all the standards of genuine "ancient knowledge" ... this civilisation which lays claim to being 3000 years into the future has not offered much in the way of a quantum jump over what our ancestors had 5000 years ago (in the way of intellectual transformation).' "

And Kal Korff adds: " It was very basic wisdom indeed. Certainly, reading through the pronouncements on life, the Universe and everything that Semjase condescended to give Meier, one is embarrassed by their halt-familier triviality." Page 53 states: "... the material evidence is anything but convincing, and the tales told by Meier have all the hallmarks of American George Adamski's extravagances updated and technically sophisticated for a more demanding age."

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�Despite such condemnation by these previous paragraphs, is there anything else which might tend to further support or deny the claims made in the Meier case, another factor which might offer decisive proof of Meier's veracity or forever affix to him a badge of delusional fantasy? The answer is suggested on page 46:"The most startling of Meier's later claims is to have been taken in one of the Pleiadean spacecraft ... on a journey through time. On this trip, says Meier, he went back to the age of the dinosaurs and photographed them; he also visited Jesus Christ, who was so impressed with Meier that he appointed him a disciple.

Meier says he returned to this day and age in order to avoid being crucified. He also claims to have visited other planets, to have photographed the link-up between the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft as he flew by (odd that neither NASA nor the Russians seemed aware of the Pleiadeans flitting past), and, most extravagant of all, to have taken a photograph of the eye of God."    Sweet dreams, Billy.