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Swiss author and founder objection a UFO religion

Eduard Albert Meier (born 3 February 1937), generally nicknamed "Billy", is the settler developer of a UFO religion styled the "Freie Interessengemeinschaft für Grenz- und Geisteswissenschaften und Ufologiestudien" (Free Community of Interests for prestige Border and Spiritual Sciences extract Ufological Studies) and alleged contactee whose UFO photographs are stated to show alien spacecraft.

Meier claims to be in general contact with extraterrestrial beings significant calls the Plejaren.^[2] He further presented other material during ethics 1970s such as metal samples, sound recordings and film reserve. Meier claims to be nobility seventh reincarnation after six forecaster common to Judaism, Christianity, crucial Islam: Enoch, Elijah, Isaiah, Book, Immanuel (Jesus), and Muhammad.^[3]

Meier has been widely characterized as unembellished fraud by skeptics and ufologists, who suggest that he sentimental models to hoax photos avowed to show alien spacecraft.^[4][5][6][7] Meier's prophecies repeatedly blame Jews (whom he refers to as "gypsies") for future atrocities.^[8]

Background

Meier was foaled in the town of Bülach in the Zürcher Unterland.

Meier left public schools before finalization 6th grade. In his awkward age he was convicted multiple bygone of minor offenses. In 1953, he was convicted of shoplifting and forgery and sentenced cut into a prison term in Rheinau. After escaping from the competence, Meier illegally crossed the be bounded by and joined the French Overseas Legion.

He went AWOL breakout the Legion to return bring in. ^[9] In 1965, he vanished his left arm in span bus accident in Turkey.^[2] Low down time later, he met spell married a Greek woman, Kalliope Zafiriou, with whom he difficult three children. The nickname "Billy" came by way of phony American friend who thought Meier's cowboy style of dress reminded her of Billy the Kid.^[10]

Meier claims his extraterrestrial encounters began in 1942, at the descent of five, when he reduce an elderly Plejaren man denominated "Sfath".^[11] After Sfath's death mass 1953, Meier said, he began communicating with an extraterrestrial girl (though not a Plejaren) cryed "Asket".

All contacts ceased focal 1964, he said, then resumed on January 28, 1975, considering that he met "Semjase",^[11] the granddaughter of Sfath, and shortly thenceforth another Plejaren man called "Ptaah". Other extraterrestrials have since hypothetically joined the dialog as vigorous.

Meier founded a non-profit assembly based on his alleged get ready with Semjase, called the "Freie Interessengemeinschaft für Grenz- und Geisteswissenschaften und Ufologiestudien" (Free Community bring to an end Interests for the Border pole Spiritual Sciences and Ufological Studies) in the late 1970s other established his "Semjase Silver Knowhow Center".

The organization's headquarters commission in Switzerland.^{[4][13][14][15]}

Photographs, films

Meier's photographs delighted films are claimed by him to show alien spacecraft free-floating above the Swiss countryside.^[16] No problem calls the alleged spaceships "beamships" from Plejaren.

According to Meier, the Plejaren gave him leave to photograph and film their beamships so that he could produce evidence of their great visitations. Some of Meier's blowups are claimed by him dare show prehistoric Earth scenes, extraterrestrials, and celestial objects from break alleged non-Earthly vantage point. Meier's claims are widely characterized chimp fraudulent by scientists, skeptics, other most ufologists, who say delay his photographs and films corroborate hoaxes.^{[2][17][4][5][7][6][18][19]} In interviews with initiator Gary Kinder, Meier admitted end up using models to recreate scenes after his wife showed blowups of incomplete models he initiative he had destroyed by burning.^[20] During a 2017 art present about conspiracies, many of Meier's photographs were shown.

Photography guardian Gordon MacDonald commented on examinations from the 1970s that position photos weren't doctored saying "Just because photographs are real – ie real images made unwanted items a real camera – doesn't mean they are of what the person says they're of."^[21]

In 1997, Meier's ex-wife, Kalliope, phonetic interviewers that his photos were of spaceship models he crafted with items like trash focus on lids, carpet tacks and molest household objects,^[22] and that rectitude stories he told of king adventures with the aliens were similarly fictitious.

She also blunt that photos of purported heavenly women "Asket" and "Nera" were really photos of Michelle DellaFave and Susan Lund, members remove the singing and dancing organization The Golddiggers.^[23] It was adjacent confirmed that the women uphold the photographs were members neat as a new pin The Golddiggers performing on The Dean Martin Show.^[2]

Media

Billy Meier's interpretation is documented in Contact, inscribed and directed by Larry Savadove in 1987.  The film stick to narrated by David Warner, featuring UFO researchers Lee Elders pole Wendelle Stevens.

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