Episode #85

News Items

    Billy Meier Defender

    • Dear Steven,I noticed that you still have inaccurate info up re Meier. Perhaps you’d like to update your info and note what has happened to all the skeptical challenges in the last several years. These article cover some of it:www.theyfly.com/newsflash5/tree.htmwww.tjresearch.info/O-S_photos.htmAnd this should disabuse you of your thing-on-a-string theory:From: UFO Contact from the PleiadesA Preliminary Investigation ReportCopyrights 1982, 1982, 1980, 1979, 1978 Wendelle C. Stevens’For analysis of the moving picture sequences of the Pleiadian spacecraft filmed in color in super 8mm format by Eduard Meier we turned to Mr. Jun-Ichi Yaoi of Tokyo, Japan, a world recognized expert in the film and television industry, now working as an officer in Nippon Television Corporation.In the 18 March sequence Meier filmed the spacecraft circling a large tree in front of a farmhouse. The sky was overcast with a low ceiling, and occasionally light snowflakes fell. The motion of the spacecraft looks suspiciously like it is tethered from above as it appears to circle the tree and then to swing back and forth over the tree, except that on three occasions the spacecraft changes its motion abruptly with no change in the tilt of the vertical axis of the ship. If it was in fact tethered, one would expect the vertical axis to tilt as the tether point above was moved. In another measurement it was found that the tilt angle of the vertical axis in one oscillation sequence was sufficient that the axis crossed within the frame and would have put the tether point within the picture. No tether point source was revealed, in one of the final oscillation sequences the object appeared to pass directly over the top of the tree, and it is clearly seen that the tree was swept over in the direction of the spacecraft, or appeared to follow the spacecraft as it passed. Clearly no model could have produced this effect. When we revisite

    Science or Fiction

    • Item #1 Science

      Scientists are exploring an area of the Atlantic sea floor thousands of kilometers in area where the earth-s crust appears to be missing.

    • Item #2 Science

      Neuroscientists use fMRI scanning to show how toothbrushing can cause seizures.

    • Item #3 Fiction

      Plant biologists have genetically engineered a variety of green bean plant that grows over 8 ft. tall and sporting beans over 1 foot long.

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