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[narrator]
Ever since humankind first
looked to the heavens,
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we have asked the question,
"Are we alone?"
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Tales of otherworldly beings...
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ancient prophecies
and predictions...
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and sightings here on Earth,
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have heightened our sense
of anticipation.
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But in recent years, these
claims have become
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more frequent.
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[Ms. Mace] Do you believe our
government has made contact
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with intelligent
extraterrestrials?
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It's something I can't discuss
in a public setting.
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[narrator] More insistent....
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Biologics came with some of
these recoveries.
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[narrator]
...and ever more dramatic.
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Born in Switzerland in 1937,
Edward Meier, known to all as
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Billy Meier, claims to have
been in contact with
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extraterrestrials since
the age of five.
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He says they have taken him on
journeys through space and time,
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and that he can prove it.
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Despite mounting evidence that
we are not alone in
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the universe, official sources
still deny Meier's claims.
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Do you believe UAPs pose
a potential threat to
our national security?
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Yes.
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-Yes.
-Yes.
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[narrator]
What are we not being told?
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Our team of experts
re-open the files.
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They'll analyze
the intelligence,
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investigate the science,
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and reveal the truth.
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[camera shutter snapping]
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[narrator]
Edward Albert Billy Meier is
a fascinating man.
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If his life story is to be
believed, he has traversed
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the world on foot, held more
than 300 jobs,
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and conversed with royalty,
dictators, and holy men.
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He also claims that since 1942,
he has been in contact with
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aliens from a different
dimension, and has traveled
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through time and space
with them.
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The Billy Meier case is
highly controversial.
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[narrator]
Billy Meier was born on
February 3rd, 1937, in the town
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of Bulach, Switzerland.
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He was the second child of
shoemaker Julius Meier,
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and his wife, Bertha.
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Five more siblings
would follow.
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It was in 1942, as war raged
across Europe, that Billy
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claims the aliens first
visited him.
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He claims they began
communicating with him
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telepathically when
he was five years old.
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It was the start of
their decades-long mission,
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to make Billy a messenger
for all mankind.
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Billy was what was known as
a Verdingkinder, where poor
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Swiss children were taken from
their parents and forced to
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work under
abusive circumstances.
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One fateful incident would
change the course of his life.
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Billy, in his youth,
was being abused by some
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neighborhood woman.
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Apparently, she had hit him
with a towel.
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And he didn't take to that too
well, and he abused her back,
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and was put into a type of
juvenile detention.
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[narrator]
After his release, Meier wanted
to get away from Switzerland,
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and even though just
a teenager,
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joined the French
Foreign Legion.
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The French Foreign Legion,
a division of the French Army
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that began in 1831 is open to
anyone willing to serve
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France's interests at
home and abroad.
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As Billy was to discover,
it's not for everyone.
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He found that this was not
his calling in life.
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He decided to return
to Switzerland.
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He traveled everywhere
seeking, looking,
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experimenting, trying jobs,
learning every spiritual
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philosophy and religion.
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He was a seeker.
He was looking for something.
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[Billy speaking German,
archived]
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[narrator]
Over more than a decade,
he covered more than
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225,000 kilometers on foot.
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He studied religions,
and practiced several
first-hand.
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He also worked over
360 jobs --
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from chicken farmer,
to snake catcher.
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He also spent time working for
police forces in the Middle
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East, bringing in mass
murderers and serial killers.
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At this time, he was known
as the Phantom.
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[narrator]
Living an itinerant life,
Meier wasn't just changing
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locations and vocations,
he was trying out new beliefs,
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new religions, and spiritualism.
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And his experiments with faith
were, he claimed, guided
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by his extraterrestrial
companions.
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[Billy speaking German,
archived]
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[narrator]
Sfaath, like most other
extraterrestrials that Meier
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supposedly encountered,
was a Plejaren from the M45
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star cluster, known as
the Pleiades in
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the constellation Taurus.
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But according to Meier, this is
not the Pleiades observable by
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Earth's astronomers,
because they live in
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a different dimension.
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When they travel to us,
they have to cross through
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a dimension gate.
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The coordinates of these gates
are a deeply held secret.
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The reason why the Plejaren
were contacting Billy,
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he was told, related to
an ancient mission reaching
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back many thousands of years.
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To fulfill this mission,
he was told he needed to meet
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some very powerful people.
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Sfaath then introduced him to
various international
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governments and heads of state,
diplomats and other
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important people.
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[speaking German]
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[narrator] It was an incredible
time in the young man's life,
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but more wonders were to follow.
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[speaking German]
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[narrator] His guide
may have changed,
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but the introductions to
famous people
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on the world stage
continued.
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[Billy speaking German,
archived]
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[narrator] Not all of
Billy's adventures were
terrestrial, however.
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Billy claims to have traveled
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the solar system
and visited a planet
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full of dinosaurs.
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Billy even claims to have met
the real Jesus Christ,
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who was an E.T.
named Jmmanuel.
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[Billy speaking German,
archived]
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[narrator]
If claiming to know the real
Jesus Christ wasn't
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controversial enough,
things soon took an even
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more heretical turn.
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In 1963, Billy claims that
he and a former Greek Orthodox
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priest, Issa Rashid, were guided
by the Plejarens to a hidden
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tomb on the outskirts
of Jerusalem.
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It had lain undisturbed for
nearly 2,000 years.
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Inside, they claimed to have
found scrolls wrapped in animal
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skin and protected with resin.
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Billy claimed that
the scrolls were actually
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the Talmud Jmmanuel, the true
words of Jesus Christ.
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[narrator]
Over the next seven years,
Rashid translated these scrolls
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from ancient Aramaic,
the language Jesus and his
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disciples would have spoken,
into German.
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Meier and Rashid kept
their work a secret.
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According to Billy, Rashid was
pursued by agents of various
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religions, threatened by
the Talmud Jmmanuel.
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Billy also says that
eventually, Rashid fled to
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Lebanon, his house was
destroyed,
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and the scrolls were
lost forever.
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[narrator] According to Billy,
Rashid had translated a quarter
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of the Talmud.
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But before he could complete
the work, Billy claimed Rashid
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was lured to Baghdad by
the Mossad and assassinated.
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[distant gunshots pop]
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[narrator] With the scrolls lost
and Rashid killed, all that
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Billy had were
partial translations.
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Luckily, the Plejaren
apparently provided another
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copy of the scrolls.
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The final edition was
published in 2011.
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A year after discovering
the scrolls, Billy traveled to
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India, where the Plejarens
granted him
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a special opportunity.
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[Billy speaking German,
archived]
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[narrator] He was no longer
alone in his alien encounters.
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Phobol Cheng is
the granddaughter of the monk
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with whom Billy lived
while in India.
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She is also a retired UN
diplomat and a friend
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and supporter of Meiers.
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She too claims to have
witnessed the spaceships Billy
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spoke of during his trip.
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I would see it once a week,
or sometimes twice a week,
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ship over the Ashok Ashram.
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Sometimes I would see
more than two.
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[narrator]
There is no record of Chang
mentioning her sightings of
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these spaceships prior to
her reconnecting with Billy
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in the 1990s.
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Since then, however,
her story has
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remained unchanged.
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[narrator]
In the 1960s, as Billy Meier
made his way around the world
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telling key political
and religious leaders of
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his encounters with an alien
life form known
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as the Plejaren,
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he would occasionally fall
into harm's way.
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And in August 1965,
while traveling in Turkey,
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tragedy struck.
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While traveling in Turkey,
Billy Meier was on a bus with
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his arm out the window.
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Bus was hit by another bus,
and Billy eventually
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lost his arm.
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It must have been very
difficult for him.
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[narrator]
Meier spent much of the next
month wandering the country
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in a painkiller-induced
hallucinatory haze.
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Once he had recovered,
he resumed his travels.
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He eventually moved from
Turkey to Greece.
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After traveling for
20 years, Billy met
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his wife, Kalliope,
and eventually they settled
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in Switzerland.
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[narrator]
The newly married couple
continued Billy's itinerant
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life, staying in Pakistan,
where they had
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their first child, Gilgamesha.
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In 1970, they returned to
Billy's native Switzerland,
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where they settled down,
and had two more children,
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Atlantis-Socrates
and Methusalem.
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But life back in Switzerland
wasn't easy.
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Meier was surviving on
his disability payment
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and a little money from
raising chickens.
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He yearned for
something deeper.
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It was 1974, and Billy Meier
placed an ad in a magazine
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requesting anybody to come
and talk to him who have had
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any type of paranormal
or metaphysical experience.
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[narrator] The ad generated
enough interest to form
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a small study group.
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At one of the meetings,
he told the group about
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his regular encounters with
aliens and shared his photos.
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The news slowly began
to spread.
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Meier's claims are virtually
unknown in the Western world
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until a UFO investigator named
Wendelle Stevens took
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an interest in his case
and started publicizing it
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widely in the United States.
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He brought with him a team that
included private investigators
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and independent
scientific experts.
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In the end,
he stated categorically that
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Billy's were the most
spectacular photos
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he had ever seen.
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[narrator]
In 1979, Stevens and his team
published the first English
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language books about Meier
and translations
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of his writings.
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Soon, the whole world learned
about Billy Meier.
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Billy was very interested in
creating a community,
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providing him the ability to
spread the wisdom that he says
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or claims that he received
from the Plejarens.
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[narrator] He established
the Free Interest Group
Universal, or FIGU.
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He gained devoted friends
and followers who had complete
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faith in his accounts of
alien contact.
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But he also began to attract
equally devoted skeptics,
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eager to debunk him.
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And they have been attacking
Billy Meier ever since.
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It was then Billy undertook
what he considered to be
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his official mission.
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In January, 1975,
he was visited by Semjase,
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another female Plejaren.
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They would meet more than 100
times and travel through
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time and space.
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And Billy finally had
the photos and films to
prove it.
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As a passenger on
her spacecraft, Billy claims
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that he was able to go where
none had gone before,
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and was allowed to record
and retain what he witnessed.
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With his own camera,
he documented his voyages to
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outer space and all
the way to Venus.
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He goes into detail about what
it was like on the beam ship,
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how it allowed him to take
photographs, and his journey
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around the solar system.
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[narrator] He states
the 61-million-kilometer flight
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to Venus was so fast
he only had time to view
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the monitoring system.
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But he said it was a glass
panel 50 by 50 centimeters big,
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and it produced incredible
vivid images in 3D form.
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[narrator]
He describes plunging through
kilometers of thick cloud cover
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to see the relatively flat
and barren landscape of Venus
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that isn't as pocked with
craters and volcanoes
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as once believed.
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He turned out to be right
for good reasons.
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The Soviet Venera missions of
the '60s and '70s had orbited
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the planet, and some probes had
landed on the surface.
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All the images taken by
the probes were in
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the public domain.
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Billy Meier also said Semjase
took him around Mercury,
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Mars, and a few other planets.
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On the return to Earth,
Semjase and Billy witnessed
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the historical docking of
the American Apollo spacecraft
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with the Soviet Soyuz capsule.
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This happened on January 15,
1975, and it was a significant
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step toward improving East-West
relations during the Cold War.
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[narrator] The Cold War affected
every facet of global politics,
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including the space race.
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Many did not believe they would
ever see the two rivals
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collaborate on an Apollo-Soyuz
docking mission,
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a so-called handshake in space.
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As millions around the world
tuned in to watch the event
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happen live on television,
Meier claimed he had a ringside
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seat and that he and Semjase
were able to witness
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the docking from space.
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He said they took many photos,
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photos that only widened
his credibility gap.
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For instance, when looking at
a Soyuz spacecraft,
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they could look at
the compartment and see the two
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cosmonauts cramped inside.
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Billy's pictures look exactly
like the ones that NASA took,
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and down to every particular.
There are no differences.
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The implication is that he just
borrowed them from NASA.
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[narrator] According to critics,
that's common practice for
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Meier and FIGU.
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Meier claims to have taken
pictures of dinosaurs on
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a distant planet.
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Unfortunately, those pictures
look suspiciously similar to
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illustrations from a 1972 book
called Life Before May.
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[narrator]
And then there's a set of
photos claimed to be images of
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Asket and another female
Plejaren, Nera, aboard
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a beam ship.
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Asket and Nera are actually
Michelle Della Fave,
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and Susan Lund.
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They're in a dance troupe
called the Gold Diggers.
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But Billy claims this was all
a hoax perpetrated by
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the Men in Black.
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[narrator]
Billy claims that his genuine
photos and films had been
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intercepted by government
operatives who had substituted
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false images to discredit him.
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And although Meier claimed that
many of his photographs were
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tampered with to discredit him,
there is, as yet,
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no conclusive proof.
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The photos of Asket and Nera
are not faked,
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but were manipulated.
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There are testimonials from
photographic film,
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and special effects experts,
a United States astronaut,
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a national security supervisor,
and a NASA aerospace engineer.
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They have all authenticated
Billy Meier's
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photographic evidence.
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A UFO researcher did go to
a lab that Billy Meier claimed
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to have had his photos
analyzed in.
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The lab states that they have
never analyzed any of
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Billy Meier's photos.
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They tested
these UFO photos under
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non-disclosure agreements.
Secrecy was obviously critical.
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So when other UFO researchers
inquired, they would deny
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any involvement.
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[narrator]
Some of Billy's images
and films have proven far more
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robust against challenges
than others.
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He took over 1,400 clear,
primarily daytime, UFO photos
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and films, all of which
remain irreproducible.
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[narrator]
In the footage, you can see
saucer-shaped ships rising
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and falling as they fly
across the landscape.
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According to Meier, this was
the impact of riding
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the resonance of
the Earth's magnetic field.
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[narrator]
Other clips show a ship
disappearing from the film
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and then reappearing
from nowhere.
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This, he said, is because
they have technology that
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allows them to slip into
our dimension and back to
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their dimension and then into
ours again through what
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he called dimension gates.
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[narrator] And another focuses
on a so-called Tortenschiff,
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or wedding cake ship.
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Skeptics were quick to point to
Meier's previously debunked UFO
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photos, accused of being models
suspended by wires or photos
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taken from novel angles.
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But Wendelle Stevens
investigated the photos further,
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and brought them to
NASA's Deep Space Network.
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Test results showed
no evidence of a hoax.
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They also tested metal samples
Meier claimed to have been
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given by Semjase.
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Wendelle Stevens took
the artifact to an IBM research
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scientist at the Advanced
Systems Development Division Lab
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in San Jose, California.
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He determined that the sample
contained a highly unusual
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combination of elements,
including the rare earth
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metal thallium.
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It would have been a major
development, except some claim
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the scientist had made
an innocent error,
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reviewing the data,
and the element
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was found to be aluminum,
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commonly found in many
household objects.
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Aside from the physical
evidence, experts
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in photography,
cinema, and special effects
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who have examined Billy Meier's
images and videos
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were taken aback.
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Japanese broadcaster,
Nippon TV, could find no cuts
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or edits in the film.
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And experts at
Uncharted Territory,
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an Oscar-winning special
effects house,
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studied the footage, and as far
as they could determine,
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the film was not a hoax,
and they would have to use CGI
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if they wanted to achieve
that effect today.
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Robert Post, the head of
the photo lab at NASA's Jet
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Propulsion Laboratory,
said he couldn't see anything
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fake about the photos.
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Wally Gentleman,
who managed Stanley Kubrick's
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special effects on 2001's Space
Odyssey, said it would cost
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around $50,000 to achieve
these shots if they were faked.
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[narrator]
The footage was even analyzed
by a computer scientist at
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the US Geological Survey.
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Eric Eliason,
who developed software for
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the Viking and Voyager space
probes, put it through
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his systems to detect any
artificial intervention.
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It spotted nothing.
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These experts stopped short of
suggesting that the film showed
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anything extraterrestrial,
but they appeared convinced
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that what they were looking at
was not faked.
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As a scientist, I'd want to
know exactly what the experts
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looked at photogrammetrically.
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Did they look at
the lens parameters?
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Did they look at the lighting?
Did they look at perspective?
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Did they look at the grain?
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What did they actually
look at, and how did
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they reach their conclusions?
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[narrator] But further support
for Meier's claims comes from
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other witnesses.
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Meier did manage to gather
around himself a very devoted
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group of followers, many of
whom claim to have seen flying
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saucers later themselves.
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[Atlantis-Socrates speaking
German, archived]
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There are now approximately
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120 eyewitnesses.
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I am one of those
eyewitnesses as well.
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Three sightings of aircraft,
one from 20 feet away when
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I lived in the mountains
of Brazil.
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[narrator]
The sightings, the photos,
the space and time travel,
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and even the devotion of
Billy's followers are just
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pieces of the puzzle.
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The bigger question is,
what is Billy's mission?
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He has been shown that every
god mankind has ever believed
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in was an extraterrestrial.
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Some came here intending to be
worshiped, some came to be
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feared, and others came
to help.
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[narrator]
Billy Meier is convinced that
religion is at the heart of
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the problems the human race
faces today.
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The Plejarens want to undo
their ancestors' damage by
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empowering humans,
and they want Billy Meier to
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spread their teachings.
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[narrator]
Having claimed to have had
regular contact with
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extraterrestrials over the past
80 years, Billy Meier claims
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his alien contacts have given
him an entirely new
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understanding of humanity.
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[speaking German]
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Religions are unproven,
unscientific,
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and irrational myths.
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They require unquestioning
acceptance
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under the threat of eternal
punishment and damnation.
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[narrator] Challenging organized
religion has brought the threat
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of violence directly to
Billy Meier's door.
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Somebody apparently nailed
a note to the door of
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Billy Meier, essentially
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creating a death threat.
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The note said, "Enough you dog,
you'll be put down."
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Billy Meier had
a precognitive dream
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that he was gonna be shot.
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So believing that dream,
he placed a piece of metal
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in his chest.
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And later, luckily, it was
there because he says he was
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shot and saved by that very
piece of metal.
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[narrator]
Meier continued his mission,
uninjured and undeterred.
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[Billy speaking German,
archived]
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[narrator]
Typing with one hand, Billy has
managed to transcribe 10,000
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pages of contact reports
containing conversations
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with the Plejaren.
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He's written more than 50 books
and created a study course of
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the Creation Energy Teaching,
comprising more than 6,000
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pages to help guide humanity to
its true path.
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[speaking German]
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[narrator]
Meier's teachings have led
admirers to praise him as
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a true prophet and detractors
to accuse him of being akin to
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a cult leader and a fake.
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None of this, however,
appears to faze him.
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[speaking German]
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[narrator] Even among the UFO
community, Billy Meier is
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a divisive figure.
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Is he a prophet,
a charlatan, or as his more
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vociferous critics would claim,
simply mentally ill?
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Although Billy Meier has
displayed many types of
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behavior that could indicate
a level of mental illness,
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it would be unfair to label him
mentally ill without a proper
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medical examination.
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[narrator]
He admits his alien adventures
began when he started hearing
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voices at age five.
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Billy was never diagnosed with
schizophrenia as far as I know
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and he didn't really display
that type of
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behavior -- schizophrenic,
that's a different type
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of behavior.
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He's a serial fantasist,
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that's the behavior
he displays.
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[narrator]
As a youngster, growing up in
an unstable and unhappy home,
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fantasy might have been
his only refuge.
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There were already indicators
that Billy had issues
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in his childhood.
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He had been in trouble with
the law, he had been
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in trouble with school.
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His later personality
was a seeker.
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Billy went everywhere.
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He landed later
on the extraterrestrial,
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and continued to elaborate
from there.
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It does seem that he is
constantly seeking
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attention and validation.
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[narrator] Battered by hardship
his whole life, separated from
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his parents, abused by
guardians, a difficult divorce,
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a lost limb, all could
contribute to a sense of
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isolation and loneliness.
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So he spent his life searching
for like-minded people to
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create a new sense of self,
a new identity, and sense of
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belonging, something he may
have found at FIGU.
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But only after conventional
religion failed to satisfy him.
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He tried a lot of gods.
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He experimented with
a lot of religions.
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But ultimately, the Plejarens
gave him the certainty
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and answers that he needed.
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[narrator] Still, he couldn't
quite abandon religion entirely,
484
00:30:30,266 --> 00:30:34,266
which arguably led to Meier's
most inflammatory claim,
485
00:30:34,266 --> 00:30:37,266
the alleged discovery of
the Talmud Jmmanuel,
486
00:30:37,266 --> 00:30:40,066
an affront to every
Abrahamic faith.
487
00:30:40,066 --> 00:30:42,233
There is precedent for
something like
488
00:30:42,300 --> 00:30:43,367
the Talmud Jmmanuel.
489
00:30:43,367 --> 00:30:45,867
The Dead Sea Scrolls were
discovered in the 1940s
490
00:30:45,867 --> 00:30:49,166
and gave us the idea that
we could discover scrolls that
491
00:30:49,166 --> 00:30:51,867
would give us insight into
early Christian thought.
492
00:30:51,867 --> 00:30:55,867
[narrator]
And yet Meier and FIGU are
a strictly atheist group,
493
00:30:55,867 --> 00:30:59,066
with some of their writings
aggressively anti-religion.
494
00:30:59,066 --> 00:31:01,667
How does this square with
the Talmud discovery?
495
00:31:01,667 --> 00:31:04,867
In the last several decades,
religion scholars have seen
496
00:31:04,867 --> 00:31:07,233
a dramatic increase in
the percentage of people
497
00:31:07,300 --> 00:31:08,567
who have no organized religion.
498
00:31:08,567 --> 00:31:11,767
People are starting to create
their own custom belief systems,
499
00:31:11,767 --> 00:31:14,500
and dropping out of
organized faith.
500
00:31:15,467 --> 00:31:18,567
[narrator]
FIGU members claim they base
their beliefs on evidence
501
00:31:18,567 --> 00:31:21,767
rather than faith,
because to them, faith has
502
00:31:21,767 --> 00:31:23,266
negative connotations.
503
00:31:23,266 --> 00:31:27,300
Religion is used to control
people through fear.
504
00:31:28,066 --> 00:31:30,867
This leads to conflicts in
the name of religion,
505
00:31:30,867 --> 00:31:34,867
which permits people to give
into their most base nature.
506
00:31:34,867 --> 00:31:39,533
Torture, terrorism,
murder, all undertaken
507
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,367
in the name of religion,
508
00:31:41,367 --> 00:31:44,567
with no personal responsibility.
509
00:31:44,567 --> 00:31:48,033
[narrator]
Meier's followers believe
that this call for temporal
510
00:31:48,100 --> 00:31:52,133
self-determination over divine
decree is at the heart of
511
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,834
the alleged threats against
Billy Meier's life.
512
00:31:54,900 --> 00:31:58,834
Billy's theological warnings
found unlikely support from
513
00:31:58,900 --> 00:32:02,467
a NASA-funded Cambridge
University project to explore
514
00:32:02,467 --> 00:32:06,767
how humanity would respond when
faced with confirmation that
515
00:32:06,767 --> 00:32:11,266
we're not alone and not,
therefore, divinely chosen.
516
00:32:11,266 --> 00:32:13,367
Were Billy and the
Plejarens right?
517
00:32:13,367 --> 00:32:16,867
Would the discovery of aliens
shake human understanding to
518
00:32:16,867 --> 00:32:20,166
such an extent that world
religions would crumble?
519
00:32:20,166 --> 00:32:23,667
The study suggested
the opposite, that amongst all
520
00:32:23,667 --> 00:32:28,166
of the doubt, humanity would
cling more tightly to faith.
521
00:32:28,166 --> 00:32:32,834
Whether UFOs have come to lead
us, enlighten us, or abduct us,
522
00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:35,667
does our current understanding
of science support
523
00:32:35,667 --> 00:32:38,934
the possibility of visitors
from the Pleiades star cluster?
524
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,867
It's 500 light years away.
525
00:32:41,867 --> 00:32:44,767
That's relatively close in
astronomical terms,
526
00:32:44,767 --> 00:32:48,100
but totally beyond
our practical reach.
527
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,667
I think someday we might get up
to 100,000 miles
528
00:32:54,667 --> 00:32:55,900
an hour or more.
529
00:32:55,900 --> 00:32:59,367
Some of the new drives NASA's
considering could get us up to
530
00:32:59,367 --> 00:33:01,100
maybe a million miles an hour.
531
00:33:01,100 --> 00:33:03,367
But that would still be
hundreds of thousands of
532
00:33:03,367 --> 00:33:05,533
millions of years to get
to the Pleiades.
533
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,900
So it doesn't seem like that's
gonna happen anytime soon.
534
00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:15,967
[narrator]
Swiss-born Billy Meier shot to
prominence over his claims to
535
00:33:15,967 --> 00:33:19,767
have traveled with an alien
race called the Plejarens,
536
00:33:19,767 --> 00:33:23,867
500 light years to their home in
the Pleiades star cluster.
537
00:33:23,867 --> 00:33:28,033
He claims the Plejarens
conquered the vastness of space
538
00:33:28,100 --> 00:33:30,133
by slipping through
interdimensional gates.
539
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,467
But how well are his claims
backed up by current thinking
540
00:33:33,467 --> 00:33:36,567
in quantum
mechanics and astrophysics?
541
00:33:36,567 --> 00:33:41,467
The multiverse theory suggests
that our universe may be one of
542
00:33:41,467 --> 00:33:44,867
many parallel universes that
sit under the umbrella
543
00:33:44,867 --> 00:33:46,300
of the multiverse.
544
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,467
It's like the sliding
doors concept.
545
00:33:51,467 --> 00:33:56,266
The idea that different possible
outcomes of quantum events lead
546
00:33:56,266 --> 00:33:59,700
to a multiplicity of
parallel universes.
547
00:34:03,166 --> 00:34:06,867
There are theories of multiple
parallel universes springing
548
00:34:06,867 --> 00:34:09,467
from quantum mechanics,
but there's no evidence that
549
00:34:09,467 --> 00:34:12,467
it's actually true, let alone
that it would be possible to
550
00:34:12,467 --> 00:34:15,066
pop back and forth between
the alternate universes.
551
00:34:15,066 --> 00:34:19,066
[narrator]
In the 1980s, string theory
proposed a grand theory
552
00:34:19,066 --> 00:34:20,834
of everything,
including
553
00:34:20,900 --> 00:34:22,667
four-dimensional spacetime.
554
00:34:22,667 --> 00:34:26,367
String theory suggests that
the fundamental constitutes of
555
00:34:26,367 --> 00:34:30,767
the universe are actually made
up of tiny vibrating strings
556
00:34:30,767 --> 00:34:34,133
that contain more dimensions
than we're used to with
557
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:36,600
three-dimensional
space and time.
558
00:34:40,467 --> 00:34:44,000
It's these possible extra
dimensions and how they relate
559
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:48,166
to our universe that we're just
beginning to understand.
560
00:34:48,166 --> 00:34:51,033
[narrator]
When he began discussing
these interactions with
561
00:34:51,100 --> 00:34:53,767
the Plejarens, could
Billy Meier have been aware
562
00:34:53,767 --> 00:34:54,967
of these theories?
563
00:34:54,967 --> 00:34:58,867
The idea of the multiverse was
first proposed by physicist
564
00:34:58,867 --> 00:35:02,934
Hugh Everett and his Many
Worlds Interpretation back
565
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,200
in the 1950s.
566
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:07,967
According to the Many Worlds
Interpretation, when a quantum
567
00:35:07,967 --> 00:35:11,667
measurement is made,
every possible outcome occurs,
568
00:35:11,667 --> 00:35:14,600
but each in
a separate universe.
569
00:35:18,967 --> 00:35:22,367
This means there could be
an infinite number of parallel
570
00:35:22,367 --> 00:35:26,133
universes, each with its own
set of laws and conditions.
571
00:35:27,367 --> 00:35:31,266
[narrator]
So what we consider to be
normal earthly reality isn't
572
00:35:31,266 --> 00:35:32,767
necessarily universal.
573
00:35:32,767 --> 00:35:35,634
These universes could have
different fundamental
574
00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:39,634
constants, different laws of
physics, and even different
575
00:35:39,700 --> 00:35:40,867
initial conditions.
576
00:35:43,300 --> 00:35:46,266
Different initial conditions
means that you could create
577
00:35:46,266 --> 00:35:49,667
a universe that we might not
even be able to perceive.
578
00:35:49,667 --> 00:35:53,433
[narrator]
If the multiverse is real,
then could anything,
579
00:35:53,500 --> 00:35:56,867
even the claims made by
Billy Meier about the Plejarens,
580
00:35:56,867 --> 00:35:57,767
be possible?
581
00:35:57,767 --> 00:36:00,433
We're not even close to
testing a theory.
582
00:36:00,500 --> 00:36:02,667
We don't know how to yet.
583
00:36:02,667 --> 00:36:06,834
But in a reality with infinite
universes, you have to
584
00:36:06,900 --> 00:36:09,767
acknowledge infinite
possibilities, even crazy
585
00:36:09,767 --> 00:36:11,400
claims like Billy's.
586
00:36:12,367 --> 00:36:16,166
[narrator]
And if these claims are true,
then what of Billy's role
587
00:36:16,166 --> 00:36:17,767
as a prophet?
588
00:36:17,767 --> 00:36:21,233
He has made many strikingly
accurate predictions
589
00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:22,700
that have come true.
590
00:36:23,867 --> 00:36:27,166
Meiers never published these
things as theories,
591
00:36:27,166 --> 00:36:32,133
but always as statements of
fact, and he's never had to
592
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:36,667
redact, retract,
edit, or remove any of them.
593
00:36:36,667 --> 00:36:42,100
[narrator]
FIGU member Michael Horn is
convinced of Billy's gifts.
594
00:36:42,100 --> 00:36:46,767
Some of the over 200 specific
examples of prophetically
595
00:36:46,767 --> 00:36:52,000
accurate information published
by Meier before official
596
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:57,667
discovery include Meier's 1951
predictions of the climate
597
00:36:57,667 --> 00:37:01,667
crisis, the ozone damage,
and environmental destruction,
598
00:37:01,667 --> 00:37:06,667
Meier's 1948 predictions of
strong earthquakes in central
599
00:37:06,667 --> 00:37:11,033
Italy that would occur between
2015 and 2017,
600
00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:14,834
and the existence of hundreds
of thousands of undersea
601
00:37:14,900 --> 00:37:16,667
volcanoes that
encircle the Earth.
602
00:37:16,667 --> 00:37:20,033
Just recently,
scientists discovered
603
00:37:20,100 --> 00:37:22,834
19,000 of them.
604
00:37:22,900 --> 00:37:26,734
Meier's 1987 predictions of
the destruction of
605
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:31,266
the World Trade Center on 9-11,
the creation of computerized
606
00:37:31,266 --> 00:37:32,934
AI weapons.
607
00:37:34,100 --> 00:37:37,367
[narrator]
If he did make these prophecies
in advance of the events,
608
00:37:37,367 --> 00:37:39,166
what are the implications?
609
00:37:39,166 --> 00:37:42,867
If the Plejarens gave Billy
prophecies related to
610
00:37:42,867 --> 00:37:47,133
the future, it would indicate
the existence of beings with
611
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,133
abilities and skills well
beyond our own.
612
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,333
In short, it would be seismic.
613
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,967
[narrator]
His students are confident that
time will validate Billy's
614
00:37:56,967 --> 00:38:00,467
claims and his prophecies will
be his enduring legacy.
615
00:38:00,467 --> 00:38:04,266
In 1958, he sent
a document of nearly
616
00:38:04,266 --> 00:38:09,233
150 predictions to a selection
of UN heads of state.
617
00:38:09,300 --> 00:38:12,967
All the predictions were
specific, some of them
618
00:38:12,967 --> 00:38:14,133
remarkably so.
619
00:38:14,133 --> 00:38:19,834
He foretells the two US wars
with Iraq, AIDS as a coming
620
00:38:19,900 --> 00:38:23,867
epidemic, and crystal meth as
a coming drug epidemic.
621
00:38:23,867 --> 00:38:28,934
He foretells computers,
credit cards, and the dates of
622
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,767
events such as moon landings
and rocket launches years
623
00:38:32,767 --> 00:38:35,400
and decades before they occur.
624
00:38:36,667 --> 00:38:39,233
[narrator] But others are
not so sure.
625
00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:42,767
First of all, I'd wanna go back
and look at the hard data
626
00:38:42,767 --> 00:38:44,367
and see whether that's
actually true.
627
00:38:44,367 --> 00:38:45,867
were those predictions made?
628
00:38:45,867 --> 00:38:49,767
Or were they, as in usually
the case, where someone looks
629
00:38:49,767 --> 00:38:53,634
in hindsight at what happened
and then fits what happened
630
00:38:53,700 --> 00:38:55,233
into what we now already know?
631
00:38:55,300 --> 00:38:57,533
So I'd really wanna look at
the hard data.
632
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,667
I don't take on its face that
he made any of those
633
00:38:59,667 --> 00:39:01,333
predictions accurately.
634
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,567
[narrator]
Billy's followers claim
his visions even extended
635
00:39:04,567 --> 00:39:05,700
to outer space.
636
00:39:05,700 --> 00:39:10,266
Billy said that IO, one of
Jupiter's moons, is the most
637
00:39:10,266 --> 00:39:13,100
volcanically active body in
the solar system.
638
00:39:13,100 --> 00:39:19,000
And he published this five
months before the scientists
639
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,667
discovered it.
640
00:39:20,667 --> 00:39:25,333
In 1981, he issued a warning
about a red meteor that would
641
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:31,133
endanger the Earth either on
the 13th of April, 2029,
642
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:35,400
or on the same date,
seven years later, in 2036.
643
00:39:38,667 --> 00:39:41,533
[narrator] Billy Meier has lived
an extraordinary life.
644
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:44,834
He's an extraordinary man
who is obviously
645
00:39:44,900 --> 00:39:46,033
highly intelligent,
646
00:39:46,033 --> 00:39:49,467
well-traveled, and well-versed
in scientific discovery,
647
00:39:49,467 --> 00:39:52,934
all characteristics that have
allowed him to make some
648
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,867
extraordinary claims,
some easily refutable,
649
00:39:56,867 --> 00:39:58,867
some not so much.
650
00:39:58,867 --> 00:40:01,767
Many of Billy Meier's
predictions were
651
00:40:01,767 --> 00:40:05,266
highly predictable,
and anybody following
652
00:40:05,266 --> 00:40:09,667
the news or the climate
of politics
653
00:40:09,667 --> 00:40:12,000
would have
made the same prediction.
654
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:15,367
I'm driven by probabilities,
and I'm looking at this the way
655
00:40:15,367 --> 00:40:18,767
an intelligence analyst would,
with an alternative hypothesis.
656
00:40:18,767 --> 00:40:21,767
On the one hand,
we have the fact that there are
657
00:40:21,767 --> 00:40:25,033
really aliens, and Billy really
captured them on film.
658
00:40:25,100 --> 00:40:28,066
On the other hand,
we have that he fabricated it
659
00:40:28,066 --> 00:40:30,166
and the experts that looked at
it were just wrong.
660
00:40:30,166 --> 00:40:31,767
Which one's more probable?
661
00:40:31,767 --> 00:40:36,467
Billy's stories seem erratic
and subject to change and don't
662
00:40:36,467 --> 00:40:38,934
seem to stand up to
sustained scrutiny.
663
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:43,033
So, as a scientist,
I find them hard to believe.
664
00:40:45,367 --> 00:40:49,033
[narrator]
But we'll save the last word
for those who know him best,
665
00:40:49,100 --> 00:40:52,166
and who have been fighting in
his corner against debunkers
666
00:40:52,166 --> 00:40:53,400
for decades.
667
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:57,934
The skeptics would like us to
believe that this man with no
668
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,567
resources, working as
a night watchman
669
00:41:01,567 --> 00:41:04,100
on a partial disability pension,
670
00:41:04,867 --> 00:41:09,867
with one arm, is not only
a master model maker,
671
00:41:09,867 --> 00:41:12,166
photographer,
filmmaker,
672
00:41:12,166 --> 00:41:16,166
metallurgist,
electronics genius,
673
00:41:16,166 --> 00:41:18,867
sound engineer,
geographer,
674
00:41:18,867 --> 00:41:22,834
and agriculturist, along with
30 other disciplines.
675
00:41:22,900 --> 00:41:26,967
They will credit him with that,
but not that
676
00:41:26,967 --> 00:41:29,100
he's telling the truth.
677
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:35,233
[narrator]
As Billy Meier himself would
put it, open your mind, look at
678
00:41:35,300 --> 00:41:38,367
the evidence, and decide
for yourself.
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