Billy Meier
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Eduard Albert "Billy" Meier (born February 3, 1937), a citizen of Switzerland, is the source of probably the most extensive, detailed, and widely recognized photographs of UFOs currently in existence, numbering over a thousand.
Born in the Swiss Lowlands and a farmer by profession, Meier claims his first extraterrestrial contacts occurred at the age of five, indirectly resulting in a difficult childhood. He ran away and joined the French Foreign Legion but left it and returned home. He travelled extensively around the world pursuing spiritual exploration, covering some 42 countries over 12 years, though a 1965 accident in Turkey cost him his left arm. In 1966 he met and married his Greek wife Kalliope, with whom he has three children. (The nickname "Billy" came by way of an American friend and fell into use.)
Meier's unique photography, he maintains, resulted easily from the fact he was in direct contact with the humanoid extraterrestrials who fly the craft, and therefore among other things performed for the benefit of his camera. These visitors reportedly hail from a star system in the Pleiades and have afforded him a more interesting sampling of evidence than derive from most such encounters, including highly detailed photography, with shadows, reflections, and fore and aft reference objects; multi-toned sound recordings beyond the capacity of sound equipment at the time of recording, the temporary use of a weapon, which he employed for trial on a nearby tree, and metal alloy samples, which have been examined by highly intrigued scientists.
This contact placed him in active communication beginning in 1975, both personal and telepathic, with a core group of the Pleiadeans, or Errans as they refer to themselves, who gave their names as Ptaah, Semjase, Quetzl, and Pleija, among several others (remember that J is pronounced Y in Meier's German). Meier established FIGU, a German abbreviation for the Free Community of Interests for the Fringe and Spiritual Sciences and UFOlogical Studies, a non-profit organization for the benefit of researchers into this field, and headquartered it at the Semjase Silver Star Center. (It should be noted that the overlap of spirituality and technical research is a recurrent phenomenon in UFOlogy.)
Meier claimed the visitors charged him with certain informational and consciousness-raising task. As he undertook this around the time of active visits around the early 1970s, he met with a strong deal of scorn and derision, including, his center says, no fewer than nineteen assassination attempts, including some by hostile extraterrestrial entities also, and met in significant part with the help of his Pleadean friends. Meier was uncomfortable with the megalomaniacal associations others would attach to his role as a representative, since they employed the term prophet, but undertook the effort. Meier's discussion with the Errans were highly detailed and wide-ranging, affording a fascinating body of claims running from religion and the afterlife to human history to science and astronomical phenomena to ecology and environmental dangers and even prophecies of future historic trends and events. The visitors however are reported to have taken steps to minimize contact in light of negative indicators in human ethical and spiritual progress.
Meier's photography extended to images take from inside the craft of the Apollo-Soyuz dockup of the 1970s and distant astronomical phenomena. The limited quality of the photography led to skeptical response and numerous back-and-forth exchanges regarding their verity, though his defenders point to the exceptional quality of the images taken by a one-armed man in years in which they would have been highly difficult to fake without later detectable evidence of forgery. His material has generated a die-hard following among numerous UFO enthusiasts and seen increased exposure through among other things the efforts of a designated American representative, Michael Horn, who has made appearances on popular late-night paranormal shows such as Coast to Coast AM.
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Further reading
- And Still They Fly (Guido Moosbrugger): ISBN 0-9711523-1-4
- The Talmud of Jmmanuel (Eduard Meier): ISBN 0-926524-12-7
- Light Years: An Investigation into the Extraterrestrial Experiences of Eduard Meier (Gary Kinder): ISBN 0-87113-139-0
- Through Space and Time: A Photo Journal of Billy Eduard Albert Meier (Eduard Meier) ISBN 0-9711523-5-7
- Message from the Pleiades, Vol. 1: The Contact Notes of Eduard Billy Meier (Wendelle C. Stevens): ISBN 0934269149
- Message from the Pleiades, Vol. 2: The Contact Notes of Eduard Billy Meier (Wendelle C. Stevens): ISBN 0934269246
- Message from the Pleiades, Vol. 3: The Contact Notes of Eduard Billy Meier (Wendelle C. Stevens): ISBN 0934269289
- Message from the Pleiades, Vol. 4: The Contact Notes of Eduard Billy Meier (Wendelle C. Stevens): ISBN 0934269300
- UFO Contact from the Pleiades: A Preliminary Investigation Report (Wendelle C. Stevens): ISBN 0960855823
- UFO... Contact from the Pleiades, Volume 1 (Wendelle Stevens, Lee Elders): ISBN 0937850020
DVD
- The Meier Contacts: The Key To Our Future Survival (Michael Horn) (2004)