Article by Paul Seaburn December 6, 2019 (mysteriousuniverse.org)
- On December 3rd an online auction was held at Sotheby’s where a set of four of Swiss ET contactee, Billy Meier’s photos of UFOs sold for $4,375. The photos became famous when one of them was featured on the “I Want to Believe” poster featured in The X-Files TV series.
- Eduard Albert “Billy” Meier is an 82 year-old Swiss farmer who claims to have been in contact with extra-terrestrials named the “Plejaren”, formerly known as, the “Pleiadians”. What made Meier different from previous UFO contactees is that his photographs were sharp images of structured craft rather than the blobs or streaks of light.
- Meier claims to have had his first contact with an elderly-looking alien named Sfath at age five. Sfath took him on trips around the world and through time on his spaceship until his teens, when Billy turned to crime and served time in prison. The contacts resumed when he met Semjase, the granddaughter of Sfath, and other aliens he called the Plejarens from the planet Erra.
- In the mid 1970s, Meier claimed to have received permission from the Plejarens to photograph them and their ships – classic metallic disc-shaped flying saucers. Meier also released photos of dinosaurs which he claimed he took while time-traveling with Sfath.
- Meier has been criticized and debunked on many counts. His ex-wife claimed that Meier made the ships from trash can lids, pans and other household objects. The photographs of Plejaren women were actually real human women who danced in a group known as ‘The Golddiggers’ and performed on television. The dinosaur pictures were identical to those found in picture books.
- Nevertheless, Meier established a UFO religion and continues to preach to his followers the ways of peace, love and truth he was given by the aliens. Meier claims to have foreseen the Iraq wars, the AIDS epidemic, climate change and the rise of terrorism. Despite the debunking, there are people who still believe at least some of the photos to be real.
Whenever UFO reports contain pictures, those lamenting their quality, fuzziness and pixelization would be wise to remember the photos submitted to the public by Billy Meier. They were (and still are) some of the sharpest and clearest UFO photos ever – immediately rendering them to the category of hoaxes despite (or perhaps because of) his incredible tales of a lifetime of contacts with extraterrestrials. Despite numerous debunkings, the photos are back in the news once more. An auction was held this week at Sotheby’s and a set of four of Meier’s pictures sold for, well, take a guess. Let’s hear the story of Billy Meier one more time first.
Eduard Albert “Billy” Meier is a 80+ year old, one and a half armed, Swiss farmer. He was born in 1937 and he claims to have been in contact with extra-terrestrials named the “Plejaren” or, formerly known as, the “Pleiadians”.
His claims of extra-terrestrial contact were first published in the late 1970s/early 1980s. What made Meier different from previous UFO contactees is that his photographs were of, what appeared to be, structured craft rather than the blobs or streaks of light that were the most common types of UFO photographs up to that time.The biography at billymeierufocase.com gives this
introduction to Billy Meier, who was born in Bülach,
Switzerland and claims to have had his first contact with an elderly-looking alien named Sfath at age five. He claimed Sfath took him on trips around the world and through time on his spaceship until his teen, when Billy turned to committing crimes and serving time in prison. The contacts eventually resumed when he met Semjase, the granddaughter of Sfath, and other aliens he called the Plejarens from the planet Erra. In the mid 1970s, he claimed he received permission from the Plejarens to photograph them and their ships, which he called “beamships.” Those beamship photos (look like classic flying saucers – disc-shaped, domed and metallic. Meier also released photos that appeared to be dinosaurs which he claimed he took while time-traveling with Sfath.
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