Review of Meier Films

 

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                   Available from Genesis ]I[ in Phoenix

     Available now from Genesis ]I[, in Phoenix,  is a film called the 

Meier Chronicles.   It is a film of interviews with Nippon Television, 

reviewing  photos  and film brought back from  Switzerland.   In  this 

film,  Genesis ]I[  has condensed two other films available from them.  

These are "Beamship: The Movie Footage" and "Beamship: The Metal".

     Undoubtedly,  some  have  heard of the amazing metals  supposedly 

brought  back from the alien space ships that Billy Meier saw and  had 

contact with.   These were the same metals that strangely disappeared 

while  in the hands of one Marcel Vogel,  now of "Crystal Power" fame.

     I have viewed the Meier Chronicles film,  and have had as much 

contact as possible with both the books available on the subject,  and 

any  news  or rumors that have come about as a result of this  matter.  

Despite  all  this,  I  tried to view these films with  as  much  true 

skepticism  as  possible,  to avoid unjustly judging them as  true  or 

false.

     The  first of these films that I viewed was "Beamship:  The Movie 

Footage".  Amazing as its proclamations were,  they were quite hard to 

understand  as  the conversations were between not-too-educated  Billy 

Meier,  and  a nodding buffoon from Nippon Television,  neither of whom 

had an over abundance of the English language at their command.

     Next  in  line was "Beamship:  The Metal".   I am  not  presently 

placing  any kind of judgement on this film,  as there is quite a load 

of  technical  phrases  and  potentially false claims,  and  I  am  no 

metallurgist.  Further investigation of this movie is necessary,  and 

will hopefully be forthcoming.

     The  last of these movies was a conglomeration of the first  two, 

but with a lot more information,  and some updating of available data.  

In this film, Genesis ]I[  has finally taken to a studio of some kind, 

and used a higher quality of video tape.  Also involved with the movie 

were Nippon Television Network of Japan, and Intercep, an unknown group 

apparently  involved  with Genesis.   This film was made (or at  least 

copyrighted)   in   1986,   and  seemed  to  ignore  the  then-growing 

controversy surrounding the Meier case.

     According to this film,  Nippon's publicizing of this media event 

on  Japanese  television was such a major success that their man  with 

the  nodding  head was asked to return to Switzerland and  follow  up.  

Meier was now claiming threats on his life, and had visibly aged.   He 

showed the film crews bullet holes in the side of his farmhouse and he 

feared that he was being constantly shadowed.  A large group of people 

was  available  to  the movement,  and had claimed to  be  witness  to 

several  sightings  with Billy,  during his contacts.   Some of  these 

people  had  taken film,  at night,  of these sightings.   The  small, 

fuzzy,  red  balls of light showed nothing too extraordinary  at  face 

value,  but taken with the story behind them,  they were indeed almost 

too good to believe.  This,  coupled with the photographs taken at the 

same time, led me to believe that Meier is NOT working alone, and that 

his contacts could as easily be human as Pleadian.  As an example, one 

of  the  witnesses (it is worthy to note that she was later  committed 

for  mental  problems)  described  the sighting as a red  ship  moving 

upward from the "contact"  sight where Billy had gone.   It then began 

to  turn  and  moved  away.   This  was  supposed  to  be  a  Pleadian 

demonstration of the ships ability to fly.   As the ship turned,  this 

lady described the sound of an airplane, one which seemed ever-present 

during the later follow up films of Nippon, and one that was described 

as belonging to some government agency that was following Meier.

     On  to the films taken by Billy.   Granted,  Meier is a one-armed 

man,  and is therefore not capable of taking 8mm film while holding up 

a  pole  with a model on the end.   One of these films  in  particular 

shows  a  beamship  disappearing and reappearing.   Nippon  took  the 

liberty  of  analyzing this film.   To describe it,  there is a  small 

disk-shaped object "hovering"  with a wobbly movement,  above a valley 

in  front of it.   The ship disappears three frames after what appears 

to be a cloud moves into the frame (thus a darkening effect).   Nippon 

TV  seemed  to  be more than anxious to attribute this  and  the  same 

darkening  effect  three frames after the reappearance to the  "shock" 

Meier  says he felt when the craft disappeared.   They also seemed to 

think  that  the fact the ship vanished from one frame to the next  as 

proof  that  there was no fraud.   They neglected to mention that  not 

only  is  this  how a film would be most easily faked,  but  that  the 

branch  that  was swaying in the breeze stopped too suddenly when  the 

vanish happened.  Admittedly, the ship was moving up and down when the 

film  was taken and did not seem affected by the wind,  but if it  was 

being  "levitated"  by a helicopter off in the distance and out of the 

camera  eye,  it would be more affected by that downward wind than  by 

the  local surface breezes.   Other analysis were done on other films, 

and one of these concluded,  by computer counting of pixels,  that the 

object  viewed  was  at least as far away as  the  known-size  objects 

around it.  From the films and photos available to them,  professional 

analysts  were  unable to prove fraud.   The most impressive of  these 

films  was  one  that  involved a Mirage  fighter  entering  into  the 

picture.  This was the most impressive for many reasons.  One of those 

was that while the UFO managed to jump about the film when the fighter 

approached,  the fighter's movement was smooth and continuous.  Further 

analysis  of this film showed (by someone who was looking for  strings 

and  the  like)  that  there was some kind of irregular  energy  field 

surrounding the ship, and that this field extended recognizably around 

the Mirage.  The fighter was, as far as this pilot can tell, real, and 

this  film would have been noticeable as faked by the person doing the 

analysis (aka, if it had been a double-exposure, if there were strings 

holding up the object, and the like).

     There  was  much more film and photographic material than  shown, 

and some mildly dramatic proof of prowlers and "shadowing"  by someone 

not  visible  in  the film.   This could have been  staged,  and  that 

possibility  must never be dismissed.   Furthermore,  Billy Meier  and 

Genesis  continually showed the famed "Pleadian Picture",  and obvious 

cutout  from  an old Sears Catalog.   Meier now claims that this  was 

taken aboard one of the beamships.

     After viewing the "extended"  film,  and after seeing some of the 

film  and photo evidence shown only in the third film,  I must come to 

the  conclusion  that either Meier is on to the biggest thing  in  the 

history of man, or he is the head perpetrator of a large, elaborate and 

very expensive hoax.  It isn't that easy,  any way you look at it,  to 

summarily dismiss this entire field of thought as fraud.   Some of it 

is  proven beyond my ability to argue for it,  or anyone else either.  

But there is another possibility - that Meier had something, something 

small and insignificant by itself,  and he took it beyond all possible 

reality.   More  evidence  was  then provided by anxious  and  willing 

followers, and Meier was more than willing to accept and warp it.   As 

the lie grew, Meier was unable to control, to stop, it.  This is, most 

admittedly, an extremely optimistic idea.   This is giving Meier quite 

a lot, and allowing him more than his share of compassion.  Yet,  this 

is the only thing that I can truly offer as a possibility that some of 

Billy's excitingly unreal evidence is as real as we want it to be.