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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:03,467 --> 00:00:06,600 [narrator] Ever since humankind first looked to the heavens, 2 00:00:07,567 --> 00:00:10,900 we have asked the question, "Are we alone?" 3 00:00:14,367 --> 00:00:16,533 Tales of otherworldly beings... 4 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,000 ancient prophecies and predictions... 5 00:00:22,967 --> 00:00:25,400 and sightings here on Earth, 6 00:00:26,467 --> 00:00:28,900 have heightened our sense of anticipation. 7 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,567 But in recent years, these claims have become 8 00:00:33,567 --> 00:00:34,767 more frequent. 9 00:00:34,767 --> 00:00:36,867 [Ms. Mace] Do you believe our government has made contact 10 00:00:36,867 --> 00:00:39,567 with intelligent extraterrestrials? 11 00:00:39,567 --> 00:00:42,767 It's something I can't discuss in a public setting. 12 00:00:42,767 --> 00:00:44,266 [narrator] More insistent.... 13 00:00:44,266 --> 00:00:47,433 Biologics came with some of these recoveries. 14 00:00:47,500 --> 00:00:49,000 [narrator] ...and ever more dramatic. 15 00:00:52,567 --> 00:00:57,533 Born in Switzerland in 1937, Edward Meier, known to all as 16 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,667 Billy Meier, claims to have been in contact with 17 00:01:00,667 --> 00:01:03,567 extraterrestrials since the age of five. 18 00:01:03,567 --> 00:01:07,533 He says they have taken him on journeys through space and time, 19 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:09,834 and that he can prove it. 20 00:01:12,166 --> 00:01:14,166 Despite mounting evidence that we are not alone in 21 00:01:14,166 --> 00:01:19,367 the universe, official sources still deny Meier's claims. 22 00:01:19,367 --> 00:01:24,133 Do you believe UAPs pose a potential threat to our national security? 23 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:25,166 Yes. 24 00:01:25,166 --> 00:01:26,634 -Yes. -Yes. 25 00:01:29,100 --> 00:01:31,266 [narrator] What are we not being told? 26 00:01:31,266 --> 00:01:35,066 Our team of experts re-open the files. 27 00:01:35,066 --> 00:01:37,400 They'll analyze the intelligence, 28 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:40,634 investigate the science, 29 00:01:43,767 --> 00:01:45,834 and reveal the truth. 30 00:01:47,667 --> 00:01:50,033 [camera shutter snapping] 31 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,634 [narrator] Edward Albert Billy Meier is a fascinating man. 32 00:02:06,700 --> 00:02:10,166 If his life story is to be believed, he has traversed 33 00:02:10,166 --> 00:02:13,767 the world on foot, held more than 300 jobs, 34 00:02:13,767 --> 00:02:17,166 and conversed with royalty, dictators, and holy men. 35 00:02:17,166 --> 00:02:21,767 He also claims that since 1942, he has been in contact with 36 00:02:21,767 --> 00:02:24,667 aliens from a different dimension, and has traveled 37 00:02:24,667 --> 00:02:26,734 through time and space with them. 38 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:30,233 The Billy Meier case is highly controversial. 39 00:02:31,567 --> 00:02:36,333 [narrator] Billy Meier was born on February 3rd, 1937, in the town 40 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:37,667 of Bulach, Switzerland. 41 00:02:37,667 --> 00:02:41,000 He was the second child of shoemaker Julius Meier, 42 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,467 and his wife, Bertha. 43 00:02:42,467 --> 00:02:44,900 Five more siblings would follow. 44 00:02:50,767 --> 00:02:55,166 It was in 1942, as war raged across Europe, that Billy 45 00:02:55,166 --> 00:02:57,533 claims the aliens first visited him. 46 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:00,233 He claims they began communicating with him 47 00:03:00,300 --> 00:03:02,567 telepathically when he was five years old. 48 00:03:02,567 --> 00:03:05,767 It was the start of their decades-long mission, 49 00:03:05,767 --> 00:03:09,166 to make Billy a messenger for all mankind. 50 00:03:09,166 --> 00:03:13,734 Billy was what was known as a Verdingkinder, where poor 51 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,100 Swiss children were taken from their parents and forced to 52 00:03:17,100 --> 00:03:19,166 work under abusive circumstances. 53 00:03:19,166 --> 00:03:23,133 One fateful incident would change the course of his life. 54 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:27,667 Billy, in his youth, was being abused by some 55 00:03:27,667 --> 00:03:28,600 neighborhood woman. 56 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:31,066 Apparently, she had hit him with a towel. 57 00:03:31,066 --> 00:03:36,900 And he didn't take to that too well, and he abused her back, 58 00:03:38,767 --> 00:03:42,600 and was put into a type of juvenile detention. 59 00:03:47,767 --> 00:03:51,767 [narrator] After his release, Meier wanted to get away from Switzerland, 60 00:03:51,767 --> 00:03:53,767 and even though just a teenager, 61 00:03:53,767 --> 00:03:55,967 joined the French Foreign Legion. 62 00:03:55,967 --> 00:03:58,867 The French Foreign Legion, a division of the French Army 63 00:03:58,867 --> 00:04:03,634 that began in 1831 is open to anyone willing to serve 64 00:04:03,700 --> 00:04:06,133 France's interests at home and abroad. 65 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:09,634 As Billy was to discover, it's not for everyone. 66 00:04:09,700 --> 00:04:12,667 He found that this was not his calling in life. 67 00:04:12,667 --> 00:04:15,934 He decided to return to Switzerland. 68 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,100 He traveled everywhere seeking, looking, 69 00:04:19,100 --> 00:04:23,667 experimenting, trying jobs, learning every spiritual 70 00:04:23,667 --> 00:04:24,867 philosophy and religion. 71 00:04:24,867 --> 00:04:27,634 He was a seeker. He was looking for something. 72 00:04:27,700 --> 00:04:29,333 [Billy speaking German, archived] 73 00:04:44,100 --> 00:04:46,967 [narrator] Over more than a decade, he covered more than 74 00:04:46,967 --> 00:04:49,634 225,000 kilometers on foot. 75 00:04:49,700 --> 00:04:53,333 He studied religions, and practiced several first-hand. 76 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,433 He also worked over 360 jobs -- 77 00:04:56,500 --> 00:04:58,867 from chicken farmer, to snake catcher. 78 00:04:58,867 --> 00:05:02,567 He also spent time working for police forces in the Middle 79 00:05:02,567 --> 00:05:06,100 East, bringing in mass murderers and serial killers. 80 00:05:06,100 --> 00:05:09,533 At this time, he was known as the Phantom. 81 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,367 [narrator] Living an itinerant life, Meier wasn't just changing 82 00:05:14,367 --> 00:05:18,467 locations and vocations, he was trying out new beliefs, 83 00:05:18,467 --> 00:05:20,367 new religions, and spiritualism. 84 00:05:20,367 --> 00:05:25,266 And his experiments with faith were, he claimed, guided 85 00:05:25,266 --> 00:05:27,800 by his extraterrestrial companions. 86 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:30,233 [Billy speaking German, archived] 87 00:05:54,100 --> 00:05:57,834 [narrator] Sfaath, like most other extraterrestrials that Meier 88 00:05:57,900 --> 00:06:01,767 supposedly encountered, was a Plejaren from the M45 89 00:06:01,767 --> 00:06:04,934 star cluster, known as the Pleiades in 90 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:06,600 the constellation Taurus. 91 00:06:09,066 --> 00:06:13,033 But according to Meier, this is not the Pleiades observable by 92 00:06:13,100 --> 00:06:15,166 Earth's astronomers, because they live in 93 00:06:15,166 --> 00:06:16,200 a different dimension. 94 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,166 When they travel to us, they have to cross through 95 00:06:19,166 --> 00:06:20,333 a dimension gate. 96 00:06:20,333 --> 00:06:23,767 The coordinates of these gates are a deeply held secret. 97 00:06:23,767 --> 00:06:27,333 The reason why the Plejaren were contacting Billy, 98 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:31,433 he was told, related to an ancient mission reaching 99 00:06:31,500 --> 00:06:33,100 back many thousands of years. 100 00:06:33,100 --> 00:06:37,166 To fulfill this mission, he was told he needed to meet 101 00:06:37,166 --> 00:06:39,166 some very powerful people. 102 00:06:39,166 --> 00:06:43,667 Sfaath then introduced him to various international 103 00:06:43,667 --> 00:06:47,100 governments and heads of state, diplomats and other 104 00:06:47,100 --> 00:06:48,266 important people. 105 00:06:48,266 --> 00:06:50,233 [speaking German] 106 00:07:09,266 --> 00:07:12,266 [narrator] It was an incredible time in the young man's life, 107 00:07:12,266 --> 00:07:14,467 but more wonders were to follow. 108 00:07:14,467 --> 00:07:16,834 [speaking German] 109 00:07:35,567 --> 00:07:37,066 [narrator] His guide may have changed, 110 00:07:37,066 --> 00:07:39,100 but the introductions to famous people 111 00:07:39,100 --> 00:07:41,300 on the world stage continued. 112 00:07:42,100 --> 00:07:44,200 [Billy speaking German, archived] 113 00:08:16,100 --> 00:08:19,867 [narrator] Not all of Billy's adventures were terrestrial, however. 114 00:08:19,867 --> 00:08:21,533 Billy claims to have traveled 115 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:23,467 the solar system and visited a planet 116 00:08:23,467 --> 00:08:25,867 full of dinosaurs. 117 00:08:25,867 --> 00:08:28,667 Billy even claims to have met the real Jesus Christ, 118 00:08:28,667 --> 00:08:31,000 who was an E.T. named Jmmanuel. 119 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,500 [Billy speaking German, archived] 120 00:08:56,467 --> 00:08:59,934 [narrator] If claiming to know the real Jesus Christ wasn't 121 00:09:00,066 --> 00:09:03,367 controversial enough, things soon took an even 122 00:09:03,367 --> 00:09:04,533 more heretical turn. 123 00:09:04,533 --> 00:09:09,834 In 1963, Billy claims that he and a former Greek Orthodox 124 00:09:09,900 --> 00:09:14,133 priest, Issa Rashid, were guided by the Plejarens to a hidden 125 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:15,867 tomb on the outskirts of Jerusalem. 126 00:09:15,867 --> 00:09:19,333 It had lain undisturbed for nearly 2,000 years. 127 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:23,033 Inside, they claimed to have found scrolls wrapped in animal 128 00:09:23,100 --> 00:09:25,300 skin and protected with resin. 129 00:09:26,867 --> 00:09:28,467 Billy claimed that the scrolls were actually 130 00:09:28,467 --> 00:09:31,834 the Talmud Jmmanuel, the true words of Jesus Christ. 131 00:09:31,900 --> 00:09:36,734 [narrator] Over the next seven years, Rashid translated these scrolls 132 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:40,266 from ancient Aramaic, the language Jesus and his 133 00:09:40,266 --> 00:09:42,667 disciples would have spoken, into German. 134 00:09:42,667 --> 00:09:46,033 Meier and Rashid kept their work a secret. 135 00:09:47,300 --> 00:09:51,166 According to Billy, Rashid was pursued by agents of various 136 00:09:51,166 --> 00:09:54,133 religions, threatened by the Talmud Jmmanuel. 137 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,467 Billy also says that eventually, Rashid fled to 138 00:09:57,467 --> 00:09:59,467 Lebanon, his house was destroyed, 139 00:09:59,467 --> 00:10:01,333 and the scrolls were lost forever. 140 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,634 [narrator] According to Billy, Rashid had translated a quarter 141 00:10:04,700 --> 00:10:05,900 of the Talmud. 142 00:10:05,900 --> 00:10:09,367 But before he could complete the work, Billy claimed Rashid 143 00:10:09,367 --> 00:10:12,667 was lured to Baghdad by the Mossad and assassinated. 144 00:10:12,667 --> 00:10:14,500 [distant gunshots pop] 145 00:10:21,266 --> 00:10:24,667 [narrator] With the scrolls lost and Rashid killed, all that 146 00:10:24,667 --> 00:10:26,767 Billy had were partial translations. 147 00:10:26,767 --> 00:10:31,333 Luckily, the Plejaren apparently provided another 148 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:32,300 copy of the scrolls. 149 00:10:32,300 --> 00:10:35,934 The final edition was published in 2011. 150 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,834 A year after discovering the scrolls, Billy traveled to 151 00:10:39,900 --> 00:10:42,367 India, where the Plejarens granted him 152 00:10:42,367 --> 00:10:44,133 a special opportunity. 153 00:10:46,467 --> 00:10:48,700 [Billy speaking German, archived] 154 00:11:00,367 --> 00:11:04,166 [narrator] He was no longer alone in his alien encounters. 155 00:11:04,166 --> 00:11:07,233 Phobol Cheng is the granddaughter of the monk 156 00:11:07,300 --> 00:11:09,266 with whom Billy lived while in India. 157 00:11:09,266 --> 00:11:13,133 She is also a retired UN diplomat and a friend 158 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:14,934 and supporter of Meiers. 159 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,433 She too claims to have witnessed the spaceships Billy 160 00:11:18,500 --> 00:11:19,967 spoke of during his trip. 161 00:11:19,967 --> 00:11:23,867 I would see it once a week, or sometimes twice a week, 162 00:11:23,867 --> 00:11:26,767 ship over the Ashok Ashram. 163 00:11:26,767 --> 00:11:28,567 Sometimes I would see more than two. 164 00:11:28,567 --> 00:11:31,467 [narrator] There is no record of Chang mentioning her sightings of 165 00:11:31,467 --> 00:11:34,667 these spaceships prior to her reconnecting with Billy 166 00:11:34,667 --> 00:11:35,967 in the 1990s. 167 00:11:35,967 --> 00:11:38,467 Since then, however, her story has 168 00:11:38,467 --> 00:11:40,233 remained unchanged. 169 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:46,266 [narrator] In the 1960s, as Billy Meier made his way around the world 170 00:11:46,266 --> 00:11:49,166 telling key political and religious leaders of 171 00:11:49,166 --> 00:11:52,333 his encounters with an alien life form known 172 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:53,333 as the Plejaren, 173 00:11:53,333 --> 00:11:56,533 he would occasionally fall into harm's way. 174 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:00,767 And in August 1965, while traveling in Turkey, 175 00:12:00,767 --> 00:12:02,266 tragedy struck. 176 00:12:02,266 --> 00:12:06,667 While traveling in Turkey, Billy Meier was on a bus with 177 00:12:06,667 --> 00:12:07,700 his arm out the window. 178 00:12:07,700 --> 00:12:13,233 Bus was hit by another bus, and Billy eventually 179 00:12:13,300 --> 00:12:14,533 lost his arm. 180 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:17,300 It must have been very difficult for him. 181 00:12:20,900 --> 00:12:24,834 [narrator] Meier spent much of the next month wandering the country 182 00:12:24,900 --> 00:12:28,667 in a painkiller-induced hallucinatory haze. 183 00:12:28,667 --> 00:12:32,767 Once he had recovered, he resumed his travels. 184 00:12:32,767 --> 00:12:36,233 He eventually moved from Turkey to Greece. 185 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:41,367 After traveling for 20 years, Billy met 186 00:12:41,367 --> 00:12:43,767 his wife, Kalliope, and eventually they settled 187 00:12:43,767 --> 00:12:45,333 in Switzerland. 188 00:12:46,467 --> 00:12:49,567 [narrator] The newly married couple continued Billy's itinerant 189 00:12:49,567 --> 00:12:52,567 life, staying in Pakistan, where they had 190 00:12:52,567 --> 00:12:54,967 their first child, Gilgamesha. 191 00:12:54,967 --> 00:12:58,867 In 1970, they returned to Billy's native Switzerland, 192 00:12:58,867 --> 00:13:02,133 where they settled down, and had two more children, 193 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:05,400 Atlantis-Socrates and Methusalem. 194 00:13:06,467 --> 00:13:09,467 But life back in Switzerland wasn't easy. 195 00:13:09,467 --> 00:13:11,667 Meier was surviving on his disability payment 196 00:13:11,667 --> 00:13:14,533 and a little money from raising chickens. 197 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:16,066 He yearned for something deeper. 198 00:13:16,066 --> 00:13:21,567 It was 1974, and Billy Meier placed an ad in a magazine 199 00:13:21,567 --> 00:13:25,734 requesting anybody to come and talk to him who have had 200 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:29,000 any type of paranormal or metaphysical experience. 201 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,133 [narrator] The ad generated enough interest to form 202 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:33,567 a small study group. 203 00:13:33,567 --> 00:13:36,066 At one of the meetings, he told the group about 204 00:13:36,066 --> 00:13:39,567 his regular encounters with aliens and shared his photos. 205 00:13:39,567 --> 00:13:42,166 The news slowly began to spread. 206 00:13:42,166 --> 00:13:45,066 Meier's claims are virtually unknown in the Western world 207 00:13:45,066 --> 00:13:48,166 until a UFO investigator named Wendelle Stevens took 208 00:13:48,166 --> 00:13:50,266 an interest in his case and started publicizing it 209 00:13:50,266 --> 00:13:51,500 widely in the United States. 210 00:13:51,500 --> 00:13:54,767 He brought with him a team that included private investigators 211 00:13:54,767 --> 00:13:58,033 and independent scientific experts. 212 00:13:58,100 --> 00:14:00,967 In the end, he stated categorically that 213 00:14:00,967 --> 00:14:04,033 Billy's were the most spectacular photos 214 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:05,500 he had ever seen. 215 00:14:05,500 --> 00:14:10,433 [narrator] In 1979, Stevens and his team published the first English 216 00:14:10,500 --> 00:14:13,100 language books about Meier and translations 217 00:14:13,100 --> 00:14:14,467 of his writings. 218 00:14:14,467 --> 00:14:18,433 Soon, the whole world learned about Billy Meier. 219 00:14:18,500 --> 00:14:21,934 Billy was very interested in creating a community, 220 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,867 providing him the ability to spread the wisdom that he says 221 00:14:25,867 --> 00:14:30,166 or claims that he received from the Plejarens. 222 00:14:30,166 --> 00:14:35,433 [narrator] He established the Free Interest Group Universal, or FIGU. 223 00:14:35,500 --> 00:14:39,433 He gained devoted friends and followers who had complete 224 00:14:39,500 --> 00:14:41,967 faith in his accounts of alien contact. 225 00:14:41,967 --> 00:14:45,934 But he also began to attract equally devoted skeptics, 226 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:47,867 eager to debunk him. 227 00:14:47,867 --> 00:14:51,767 And they have been attacking Billy Meier ever since. 228 00:14:51,767 --> 00:14:55,133 It was then Billy undertook what he considered to be 229 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:56,467 his official mission. 230 00:14:56,467 --> 00:15:00,567 In January, 1975, he was visited by Semjase, 231 00:15:00,567 --> 00:15:02,367 another female Plejaren. 232 00:15:02,367 --> 00:15:06,166 They would meet more than 100 times and travel through 233 00:15:06,166 --> 00:15:07,867 time and space. 234 00:15:07,867 --> 00:15:12,600 And Billy finally had the photos and films to prove it. 235 00:15:15,867 --> 00:15:19,266 As a passenger on her spacecraft, Billy claims 236 00:15:19,266 --> 00:15:22,634 that he was able to go where none had gone before, 237 00:15:22,700 --> 00:15:25,467 and was allowed to record and retain what he witnessed. 238 00:15:25,467 --> 00:15:28,767 With his own camera, he documented his voyages to 239 00:15:28,767 --> 00:15:32,867 outer space and all the way to Venus. 240 00:15:32,867 --> 00:15:36,433 He goes into detail about what it was like on the beam ship, 241 00:15:36,500 --> 00:15:39,867 how it allowed him to take photographs, and his journey 242 00:15:39,867 --> 00:15:42,066 around the solar system. 243 00:15:42,066 --> 00:15:45,033 [narrator] He states the 61-million-kilometer flight 244 00:15:45,100 --> 00:15:48,367 to Venus was so fast he only had time to view 245 00:15:48,367 --> 00:15:51,133 the monitoring system. 246 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:55,867 But he said it was a glass panel 50 by 50 centimeters big, 247 00:15:55,867 --> 00:16:00,467 and it produced incredible vivid images in 3D form. 248 00:16:00,467 --> 00:16:04,333 [narrator] He describes plunging through kilometers of thick cloud cover 249 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:08,233 to see the relatively flat and barren landscape of Venus 250 00:16:08,300 --> 00:16:10,967 that isn't as pocked with craters and volcanoes 251 00:16:10,967 --> 00:16:12,166 as once believed. 252 00:16:12,166 --> 00:16:15,400 He turned out to be right for good reasons. 253 00:16:16,867 --> 00:16:20,667 The Soviet Venera missions of the '60s and '70s had orbited 254 00:16:20,667 --> 00:16:23,867 the planet, and some probes had landed on the surface. 255 00:16:23,867 --> 00:16:27,133 All the images taken by the probes were in 256 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:29,033 the public domain. 257 00:16:29,100 --> 00:16:33,033 Billy Meier also said Semjase took him around Mercury, 258 00:16:33,100 --> 00:16:34,934 Mars, and a few other planets. 259 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,233 On the return to Earth, Semjase and Billy witnessed 260 00:16:38,300 --> 00:16:42,000 the historical docking of the American Apollo spacecraft 261 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:43,867 with the Soviet Soyuz capsule. 262 00:16:43,867 --> 00:16:49,000 This happened on January 15, 1975, and it was a significant 263 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:54,133 step toward improving East-West relations during the Cold War. 264 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:58,100 [narrator] The Cold War affected every facet of global politics, 265 00:16:58,100 --> 00:16:59,934 including the space race. 266 00:17:00,066 --> 00:17:03,000 Many did not believe they would ever see the two rivals 267 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,967 collaborate on an Apollo-Soyuz docking mission, 268 00:17:05,967 --> 00:17:10,333 a so-called handshake in space. 269 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:13,767 As millions around the world tuned in to watch the event 270 00:17:13,767 --> 00:17:17,667 happen live on television, Meier claimed he had a ringside 271 00:17:17,667 --> 00:17:20,634 seat and that he and Semjase were able to witness 272 00:17:20,700 --> 00:17:22,300 the docking from space. 273 00:17:23,367 --> 00:17:26,033 He said they took many photos, 274 00:17:27,166 --> 00:17:30,367 photos that only widened his credibility gap. 275 00:17:30,367 --> 00:17:33,834 For instance, when looking at a Soyuz spacecraft, 276 00:17:33,900 --> 00:17:37,233 they could look at the compartment and see the two 277 00:17:37,300 --> 00:17:41,000 cosmonauts cramped inside. 278 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:45,767 Billy's pictures look exactly like the ones that NASA took, 279 00:17:45,767 --> 00:17:51,266 and down to every particular. There are no differences. 280 00:17:51,266 --> 00:17:55,767 The implication is that he just borrowed them from NASA. 281 00:17:55,767 --> 00:17:58,567 [narrator] According to critics, that's common practice for 282 00:17:58,567 --> 00:18:00,066 Meier and FIGU. 283 00:18:00,066 --> 00:18:02,367 Meier claims to have taken pictures of dinosaurs on 284 00:18:02,367 --> 00:18:03,567 a distant planet. 285 00:18:03,567 --> 00:18:06,867 Unfortunately, those pictures look suspiciously similar to 286 00:18:06,867 --> 00:18:09,834 illustrations from a 1972 book called Life Before May. 287 00:18:09,900 --> 00:18:13,367 [narrator] And then there's a set of photos claimed to be images of 288 00:18:13,367 --> 00:18:16,734 Asket and another female Plejaren, Nera, aboard 289 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:17,834 a beam ship. 290 00:18:17,834 --> 00:18:20,266 Asket and Nera are actually Michelle Della Fave, 291 00:18:20,266 --> 00:18:21,333 and Susan Lund. 292 00:18:21,333 --> 00:18:23,667 They're in a dance troupe called the Gold Diggers. 293 00:18:23,667 --> 00:18:26,667 But Billy claims this was all a hoax perpetrated by 294 00:18:26,667 --> 00:18:28,033 the Men in Black. 295 00:18:28,033 --> 00:18:31,266 [narrator] Billy claims that his genuine photos and films had been 296 00:18:31,266 --> 00:18:34,767 intercepted by government operatives who had substituted 297 00:18:34,767 --> 00:18:36,600 false images to discredit him. 298 00:18:37,767 --> 00:18:41,266 And although Meier claimed that many of his photographs were 299 00:18:41,266 --> 00:18:44,533 tampered with to discredit him, there is, as yet, 300 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:45,767 no conclusive proof. 301 00:18:45,767 --> 00:18:48,867 The photos of Asket and Nera are not faked, 302 00:18:48,867 --> 00:18:50,567 but were manipulated. 303 00:18:50,567 --> 00:18:54,867 There are testimonials from photographic film, 304 00:18:54,867 --> 00:18:59,133 and special effects experts, a United States astronaut, 305 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:04,934 a national security supervisor, and a NASA aerospace engineer. 306 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,767 They have all authenticated Billy Meier's 307 00:19:08,767 --> 00:19:10,500 photographic evidence. 308 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:16,266 A UFO researcher did go to a lab that Billy Meier claimed 309 00:19:16,266 --> 00:19:18,867 to have had his photos analyzed in. 310 00:19:18,867 --> 00:19:23,100 The lab states that they have never analyzed any of 311 00:19:23,100 --> 00:19:24,266 Billy Meier's photos. 312 00:19:24,266 --> 00:19:27,467 They tested these UFO photos under 313 00:19:27,467 --> 00:19:32,433 non-disclosure agreements. Secrecy was obviously critical. 314 00:19:32,500 --> 00:19:37,433 So when other UFO researchers inquired, they would deny 315 00:19:37,500 --> 00:19:39,066 any involvement. 316 00:19:40,367 --> 00:19:44,033 [narrator] Some of Billy's images and films have proven far more 317 00:19:44,100 --> 00:19:45,967 robust against challenges than others. 318 00:19:45,967 --> 00:19:52,567 He took over 1,400 clear, primarily daytime, UFO photos 319 00:19:52,567 --> 00:19:57,333 and films, all of which remain irreproducible. 320 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:01,634 [narrator] In the footage, you can see saucer-shaped ships rising 321 00:20:01,700 --> 00:20:04,300 and falling as they fly across the landscape. 322 00:20:05,500 --> 00:20:08,767 According to Meier, this was the impact of riding 323 00:20:08,767 --> 00:20:11,567 the resonance of the Earth's magnetic field. 324 00:20:11,567 --> 00:20:15,033 [narrator] Other clips show a ship disappearing from the film 325 00:20:15,100 --> 00:20:16,667 and then reappearing from nowhere. 326 00:20:16,667 --> 00:20:20,133 This, he said, is because they have technology that 327 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,367 allows them to slip into our dimension and back to 328 00:20:23,367 --> 00:20:26,567 their dimension and then into ours again through what 329 00:20:26,567 --> 00:20:28,867 he called dimension gates. 330 00:20:28,867 --> 00:20:32,467 [narrator] And another focuses on a so-called Tortenschiff, 331 00:20:32,467 --> 00:20:34,367 or wedding cake ship. 332 00:20:34,367 --> 00:20:38,533 Skeptics were quick to point to Meier's previously debunked UFO 333 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:43,367 photos, accused of being models suspended by wires or photos 334 00:20:43,367 --> 00:20:45,367 taken from novel angles. 335 00:20:45,367 --> 00:20:48,734 But Wendelle Stevens investigated the photos further, 336 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,667 and brought them to NASA's Deep Space Network. 337 00:20:51,667 --> 00:20:55,100 Test results showed no evidence of a hoax. 338 00:20:55,100 --> 00:20:58,567 They also tested metal samples Meier claimed to have been 339 00:20:58,567 --> 00:21:00,066 given by Semjase. 340 00:21:03,066 --> 00:21:06,367 Wendelle Stevens took the artifact to an IBM research 341 00:21:06,367 --> 00:21:09,667 scientist at the Advanced Systems Development Division Lab 342 00:21:09,667 --> 00:21:11,567 in San Jose, California. 343 00:21:11,567 --> 00:21:15,734 He determined that the sample contained a highly unusual 344 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,967 combination of elements, including the rare earth 345 00:21:18,967 --> 00:21:20,667 metal thallium. 346 00:21:20,667 --> 00:21:24,100 It would have been a major development, except some claim 347 00:21:24,100 --> 00:21:26,266 the scientist had made an innocent error, 348 00:21:26,266 --> 00:21:29,000 reviewing the data, and the element 349 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:30,166 was found to be aluminum, 350 00:21:30,166 --> 00:21:33,000 commonly found in many household objects. 351 00:21:34,667 --> 00:21:37,567 Aside from the physical evidence, experts 352 00:21:37,567 --> 00:21:40,433 in photography, cinema, and special effects 353 00:21:40,500 --> 00:21:43,433 who have examined Billy Meier's images and videos 354 00:21:43,500 --> 00:21:45,266 were taken aback. 355 00:21:45,266 --> 00:21:48,767 Japanese broadcaster, Nippon TV, could find no cuts 356 00:21:48,767 --> 00:21:50,033 or edits in the film. 357 00:21:50,100 --> 00:21:52,767 And experts at Uncharted Territory, 358 00:21:52,767 --> 00:21:55,667 an Oscar-winning special effects house, 359 00:21:55,667 --> 00:21:58,066 studied the footage, and as far as they could determine, 360 00:21:58,066 --> 00:22:01,967 the film was not a hoax, and they would have to use CGI 361 00:22:01,967 --> 00:22:04,734 if they wanted to achieve that effect today. 362 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:09,166 Robert Post, the head of the photo lab at NASA's Jet 363 00:22:09,166 --> 00:22:12,667 Propulsion Laboratory, said he couldn't see anything 364 00:22:12,667 --> 00:22:14,800 fake about the photos. 365 00:22:16,467 --> 00:22:19,567 Wally Gentleman, who managed Stanley Kubrick's 366 00:22:19,567 --> 00:22:25,066 special effects on 2001's Space Odyssey, said it would cost 367 00:22:25,066 --> 00:22:31,000 around $50,000 to achieve these shots if they were faked. 368 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:35,033 [narrator] The footage was even analyzed by a computer scientist at 369 00:22:35,100 --> 00:22:37,033 the US Geological Survey. 370 00:22:37,100 --> 00:22:39,867 Eric Eliason, who developed software for 371 00:22:39,867 --> 00:22:44,233 the Viking and Voyager space probes, put it through 372 00:22:44,300 --> 00:22:48,433 his systems to detect any artificial intervention. 373 00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:50,467 It spotted nothing. 374 00:22:50,467 --> 00:22:54,000 These experts stopped short of suggesting that the film showed 375 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,367 anything extraterrestrial, but they appeared convinced 376 00:22:57,367 --> 00:23:00,166 that what they were looking at was not faked. 377 00:23:00,166 --> 00:23:03,634 As a scientist, I'd want to know exactly what the experts 378 00:23:03,700 --> 00:23:05,266 looked at photogrammetrically. 379 00:23:05,266 --> 00:23:07,166 Did they look at the lens parameters? 380 00:23:07,166 --> 00:23:10,166 Did they look at the lighting? Did they look at perspective? 381 00:23:10,166 --> 00:23:12,133 Did they look at the grain? 382 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,533 What did they actually look at, and how did 383 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:16,100 they reach their conclusions? 384 00:23:17,100 --> 00:23:20,667 [narrator] But further support for Meier's claims comes from 385 00:23:20,667 --> 00:23:21,834 other witnesses. 386 00:23:21,834 --> 00:23:24,467 Meier did manage to gather around himself a very devoted 387 00:23:24,467 --> 00:23:27,467 group of followers, many of whom claim to have seen flying 388 00:23:27,467 --> 00:23:29,000 saucers later themselves. 389 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,300 [Atlantis-Socrates speaking German, archived] 390 00:23:53,100 --> 00:23:54,967 There are now approximately 391 00:23:54,967 --> 00:23:57,734 120 eyewitnesses. 392 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:01,367 I am one of those eyewitnesses as well. 393 00:24:01,367 --> 00:24:06,000 Three sightings of aircraft, one from 20 feet away when 394 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,900 I lived in the mountains of Brazil. 395 00:24:08,767 --> 00:24:12,667 [narrator] The sightings, the photos, the space and time travel, 396 00:24:12,667 --> 00:24:15,767 and even the devotion of Billy's followers are just 397 00:24:15,767 --> 00:24:16,767 pieces of the puzzle. 398 00:24:16,767 --> 00:24:20,100 The bigger question is, what is Billy's mission? 399 00:24:20,100 --> 00:24:25,567 He has been shown that every god mankind has ever believed 400 00:24:25,567 --> 00:24:28,433 in was an extraterrestrial. 401 00:24:28,500 --> 00:24:33,867 Some came here intending to be worshiped, some came to be 402 00:24:33,867 --> 00:24:37,934 feared, and others came to help. 403 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,467 [narrator] Billy Meier is convinced that religion is at the heart of 404 00:24:41,467 --> 00:24:43,867 the problems the human race faces today. 405 00:24:43,867 --> 00:24:48,233 The Plejarens want to undo their ancestors' damage by 406 00:24:48,300 --> 00:24:51,767 empowering humans, and they want Billy Meier to 407 00:24:51,767 --> 00:24:52,967 spread their teachings. 408 00:24:57,100 --> 00:24:59,767 [narrator] Having claimed to have had regular contact with 409 00:24:59,767 --> 00:25:04,100 extraterrestrials over the past 80 years, Billy Meier claims 410 00:25:04,100 --> 00:25:08,066 his alien contacts have given him an entirely new 411 00:25:08,066 --> 00:25:09,367 understanding of humanity. 412 00:25:09,367 --> 00:25:11,634 [speaking German] 413 00:25:40,100 --> 00:25:43,567 Religions are unproven, unscientific, 414 00:25:43,567 --> 00:25:46,000 and irrational myths. 415 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,467 They require unquestioning acceptance 416 00:25:49,467 --> 00:25:54,000 under the threat of eternal punishment and damnation. 417 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,767 [narrator] Challenging organized religion has brought the threat 418 00:25:56,767 --> 00:25:59,467 of violence directly to Billy Meier's door. 419 00:25:59,467 --> 00:26:03,667 Somebody apparently nailed a note to the door of 420 00:26:03,667 --> 00:26:05,834 Billy Meier, essentially 421 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:08,266 creating a death threat. 422 00:26:08,266 --> 00:26:12,834 The note said, "Enough you dog, you'll be put down." 423 00:26:13,867 --> 00:26:17,667 Billy Meier had a precognitive dream 424 00:26:17,667 --> 00:26:19,467 that he was gonna be shot. 425 00:26:19,467 --> 00:26:24,166 So believing that dream, he placed a piece of metal 426 00:26:24,166 --> 00:26:25,867 in his chest. 427 00:26:25,867 --> 00:26:30,266 And later, luckily, it was there because he says he was 428 00:26:30,266 --> 00:26:33,700 shot and saved by that very piece of metal. 429 00:26:38,100 --> 00:26:41,967 [narrator] Meier continued his mission, uninjured and undeterred. 430 00:26:41,967 --> 00:26:44,500 [Billy speaking German, archived] 431 00:27:07,100 --> 00:27:11,767 [narrator] Typing with one hand, Billy has managed to transcribe 10,000 432 00:27:11,767 --> 00:27:14,567 pages of contact reports containing conversations 433 00:27:14,567 --> 00:27:15,800 with the Plejaren. 434 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,567 He's written more than 50 books and created a study course of 435 00:27:19,567 --> 00:27:23,567 the Creation Energy Teaching, comprising more than 6,000 436 00:27:23,567 --> 00:27:27,266 pages to help guide humanity to its true path. 437 00:27:27,266 --> 00:27:29,834 [speaking German] 438 00:27:55,300 --> 00:27:58,433 [narrator] Meier's teachings have led admirers to praise him as 439 00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:02,367 a true prophet and detractors to accuse him of being akin to 440 00:28:02,367 --> 00:28:04,066 a cult leader and a fake. 441 00:28:04,066 --> 00:28:06,834 None of this, however, appears to faze him. 442 00:28:06,900 --> 00:28:08,600 [speaking German] 443 00:28:24,266 --> 00:28:27,166 [narrator] Even among the UFO community, Billy Meier is 444 00:28:27,166 --> 00:28:28,734 a divisive figure. 445 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:32,166 Is he a prophet, a charlatan, or as his more 446 00:28:32,166 --> 00:28:35,934 vociferous critics would claim, simply mentally ill? 447 00:28:37,066 --> 00:28:40,634 Although Billy Meier has displayed many types of 448 00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:43,266 behavior that could indicate a level of mental illness, 449 00:28:43,266 --> 00:28:47,667 it would be unfair to label him mentally ill without a proper 450 00:28:47,667 --> 00:28:49,100 medical examination. 451 00:28:49,100 --> 00:28:52,467 [narrator] He admits his alien adventures began when he started hearing 452 00:28:52,467 --> 00:28:54,266 voices at age five. 453 00:28:54,266 --> 00:29:00,867 Billy was never diagnosed with schizophrenia as far as I know 454 00:29:00,867 --> 00:29:05,533 and he didn't really display that type of 455 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,533 behavior -- schizophrenic, that's a different type 456 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:09,700 of behavior. 457 00:29:10,467 --> 00:29:12,033 He's a serial fantasist, 458 00:29:12,100 --> 00:29:14,266 that's the behavior he displays. 459 00:29:14,266 --> 00:29:19,166 [narrator] As a youngster, growing up in an unstable and unhappy home, 460 00:29:19,166 --> 00:29:22,133 fantasy might have been his only refuge. 461 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,367 There were already indicators that Billy had issues 462 00:29:25,367 --> 00:29:27,066 in his childhood. 463 00:29:27,066 --> 00:29:30,634 He had been in trouble with the law, he had been 464 00:29:30,700 --> 00:29:31,533 in trouble with school. 465 00:29:31,533 --> 00:29:34,233 His later personality was a seeker. 466 00:29:34,300 --> 00:29:36,166 Billy went everywhere. 467 00:29:36,166 --> 00:29:40,133 He landed later on the extraterrestrial, 468 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,133 and continued to elaborate from there. 469 00:29:44,700 --> 00:29:47,667 It does seem that he is constantly seeking 470 00:29:47,667 --> 00:29:50,200 attention and validation. 471 00:29:51,367 --> 00:29:54,734 [narrator] Battered by hardship his whole life, separated from 472 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:59,033 his parents, abused by guardians, a difficult divorce, 473 00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:02,567 a lost limb, all could contribute to a sense of 474 00:30:02,567 --> 00:30:03,967 isolation and loneliness. 475 00:30:03,967 --> 00:30:07,533 So he spent his life searching for like-minded people to 476 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:12,033 create a new sense of self, a new identity, and sense of 477 00:30:12,100 --> 00:30:15,233 belonging, something he may have found at FIGU. 478 00:30:15,300 --> 00:30:19,166 But only after conventional religion failed to satisfy him. 479 00:30:19,166 --> 00:30:20,834 He tried a lot of gods. 480 00:30:20,900 --> 00:30:23,033 He experimented with a lot of religions. 481 00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:25,667 But ultimately, the Plejarens gave him the certainty 482 00:30:25,667 --> 00:30:26,934 and answers that he needed. 483 00:30:26,934 --> 00:30:30,266 [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. 57135

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