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                           UFO CONTACTEE
                  The Meier Case & Its Spirituality

                       By James W. Deardorff


	Jim Deardorff is a retired professor (emeritus) from  the
Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University  in
Corvallis,  Oregon,  a former senior scientist  at  the  National
Center  for  Atmospheric  Research in Boulder,  Colorado,  and  a
fellow  of both the American Association for the  Advancement  of
Science.
	In  the 1980s his interest shifted towards study  of  the
UFO  phenomenon, and in 1986 he retired early in order  to  study
the Meier case and its implications.  Since then, he has  devoted
nearly full time toward becoming a New Testament scholar in order
to  better investigate a document discussed in this article:  the
Talmud  Jmmanuel.   His upcoming book on the  subject,  Celestial
Teachings:  The  Emergence  of the  True  Testament  of  Jmmanuel
(Jesus)  will be available this year from Blue Water  Publishing.
(See resource list following article.)

                           * * * *

	Among those who investigate UFO cases, the Meier case  is
well  known  and needs no introduction.  Among others, if  it  is
known at all it is most likely because of the book Light Years by
Gary  Kinder, which became available to most bookstores in  1987.
Eduard Meier is a 52-year-old Swiss citizen who reported that his
main series of UFO contacts commenced in 1975 from  human-looking
beings; they told him they came from the Pleiades in certain UFO-
like  craft  which  they  call  beamships.   For  the  Cherokees,
Navahos,  and Incas, who claim to be descended from sky-gods  who
came  from  the  Pleiades, this possibility might  not  seem  too
surprising.
	From  1975  until  1978, Meier was contacted  by  one  of
several Pleiadeans, usually through mental telepathy, in order to
arrange  a  time,  usually late at night,  to  have  face-to-face
contact  meetings.  These meetings occurred about once every  ten
days,  on  the  average, but only after  Meier  had  successfully
reached  the  contact  point  unaccompanied  by  others.    These
contacts  were  held  in the hills  several  miles  southeast  of
Zurich,  with  the contact discussions on most  occasions  taking
place  right  in  the  Pleiadean's  beamship.   Meier's   primary
contactor  was  a Pleiadean woman who gave her name  as  Semjase.
The  topics of the conversations raged all over, from small  talk
to science and history to spirituality.  After the first  several
contacts,  during which Semjase had much to tell Meier about  why
he  had  been  selected,  he was  allowed  to  ask  her  numerous
questions.
	Interspersed with these contacts, the Pleiadeans supplied
Meier with 19 daytime occasions, in 1975 and 1976 and again 1981,
on  which  he could photograph from one to four  of  their  space
craft  at  a time.  This was for support of the  reality  of  his
contacts  when describing them to others.  As a result, he  ended
up with a collection of over 500 color photographs of their craft
hovering  both near and far, and sometimes partially eclipsed  by
branches of a foreground tree.  On six of these occasions he also
had  an  8mm movie camera along with him with which  he  obtained
movie-film  sequences.   All  this  was far  too  much  for  most
ufologists   who   learned  of  it;  first   the   European   UFO
organizations  and then the American ones, by the late 1970s  and
early  1980s, roundly rejected the case, declaring it must  be  a
hoax.

	It was an American investigative team headed by  Wendelle
Stevens, a retired Air Force colonel, which looked into the  case
in  greatest  detail, from 1977 on.  Stevens and  his  associates
found  all kinds of evidence of genuineness in  the  photographs,
and no evidence that a hoax had been committed.  They could  find
no means available by which Meier could have faked the objects in
the photos (which in many instances could not possibly have  been
small  models  close to the camera, as we shall see);  nor  could
they  find any means by which Meier could have faked  the  photos
themselves,  and no financial means by which he could  have  paid
others  to  achieve these ends.  There are also  some  two  dozen
secondary  witnesses who support the authenticity of the case  --
people  who,  for example, saw UFO lights at night or  dusk  just
before or after Meier attended a contact meeting, and others  who
photographed  peculiar circular areas of grass depressed  into  a
counterclockwise  swirling  pattern, on the day after  a  contact
meeting,  at  spots where Meier reported Semjase's  beamship  had
hovered  close to the ground.  (The grass would continue to  grow
out  horizontally  for  weeks  afterward,  rather  than   growing
vertically or dying.)
	There   are   four   named  witnesses   who   saw   Meier
"materialize"  once in their midst just after a contact  meeting,
and  one  of  them  witnessed the  same  on  a  second  occasion.
According  to Meier, this was done through the use  of  Pleiadean
technology, when the beamship was hovering invisibly nearby.

	The  first book to support the case, written by  Lee  and
Brit  Elders, and Tom Welch -- members of Stevens'  investigative
team  -- appeared in 1979 and was like an annotated  photo-album.
In addition to large blow-ups of many of the color photos, UFO...
Contact  from the Pleiades, Vol. 1, included some  quotations  of
what  Semjase and other Pleiadeans had told Meier.  In 1983  they
came out with Vol. 2.  In between, Stevens authored his own  book
on the case giving voluminous details -- a book now out in print,
as are Vols. 1 and 2.
	One  of Meier's photos, the "sun-glint" photo,  is  shown
above right (not available for this article, please refer to "UFO
fro  the  Pleiades,  by W. Stevens," page 436,  picture  #174)  .
According  to  Stevens' data, the photo was centered  toward  the
southwest,  so that the setting sun, on March 29th,  1976,  would
have  been off to the right of the photo.  The foreground  is  in
the  shade, but golden rays from the sun are clearly  visible  in
the  original  color  photograph,  reflecting  off  the  hovering
object's  upper right side in two streams extending  down  across
the   object's  facing  underside.   Since  the  tree  which   is
apparently in front of the object is in the shade, along with the
rest  of the foreground, the object must have been somewhat  more
distant in order to have intercepted the last rays of light  from
the sun.  It must then have had a diameter close to what  Semjase
told  Meier  -- about 23 feet.  The tree could not  have  been  a
model, since Stevens has a picture of it taken a year and a  half
later when it was in leaf.
	Another  point  of  reality in this  photo  is  that  the
reflected  golden  rays, made visible by the smog  often  present
over  much of Europe and especially just east of  Zurich,  should
not  have  been visible if the object had been a small  model  up
close to the camera, even if the foreground had been  illuminated
by  the  sun.   There would not then  have  been  enough  viewing
distance  through the sun's rays to render them  visible,  unless
the  smog had been do dense that the hills in the distance  would
have been obscured.
	The  second  photo shown (opposite page,  top  left  [not
available  for  this  article,  please refer  to  "UFO  from  the
Pleiades," page 383, picture #66]) is from a series in which  the
beamship posed on various sides of a fir tree.  Two professors of
the forestry at Oregon State University to whom I showed some  of
these  photos had no difficulty identifying the tree as a  mature
abies alba (European silver fir).  Hence it could not have been a
model  tree,  with a model UFO attached.  Soon after  Meier  took
that  series of photos, the tree top turned brown, as often  been
noticed  on other instances when the UFO came too close  to  some
vegetation.   Still later, the tree disappeared, and  when  Meier
quizzed  Semjase about this, he was told that they  had  "changed
its time."  Thus, that the tree no longer exists in the here-and-
now  as continuing evidence by which the UFO's diameter might  be
judged.   Supporters of the Meier case can look upon this  as  an
indication  that  these Pleiadeans feel a  responsibility  toward
living  things with which they interact, while detractors  ignore
the  reality indicated by these photos because they feel that  it
should not be possible for any alien civilization, no matter  how
far advanced over us, to perform such an act.
	The more photographs Meier accumulated, and the more  his
experiences  with  the  Pleiadeans  came  to  the  attention   of
ufologists,  the more incredible his case appeared to  them.   It
became evident that if the case were genuine, it would mean  that
these   alleged  extraterrestrials,  or  ETs  and  those   aliens
responsible   for  more  "ordinary"  UFO   sightings   worldwide,
presently have a covert strategy of dealing with us -- one  which
never   provides  enough  evidence  to  satisfy  scientists   and
skeptics, but nevertheless lets their presence and some of  their
capabilities  be  known to others who are able  to  accept  their
potential  reality.  If they have such a strategy, it would  mean
that such ETs are more experienced than we, are at least as smart
or  smarter, and have some sort of ethical code designed  not  to
send  our  civilization  into  a  sudden  culture  shock.    Such
conclusions are not yet acceptable to most ufologists, hence very
few of them pursued the case far enough to learn what it was  the
Pleiadeans had told Meier.  Of those who did, some were  offended
to learn that the Pleiadeans espouse a spiritual philosophy which
is  largely  at odds with Judeo-Christian  concepts.   This  only
fueled their hostility towards the case.

	It was early in his life that Meier was first  contacted,
via  telepathy,  by a Pleiadean male.  But in  his  twenties  his
contacts  were  taken over by a female who said her  race  was  a
close   collaborator  with  the  Pleiadeans,  and  from   another
universe.   Only  in  the  last  couple  of  decades  have   some
scientists  postulated  the  existence  of  multiple   universes.
However,  the thought that there could ever be any  communication
or  travel between universes is entirely unacceptable by  today's
science.   The thought that any one human could be  selected  out
for such contact is equally unacceptable.
	It  has been found that many of these  abduction  victims
had been subject to recurring UFO incidents, often dating back to
childhood, so that it is now becoming evident to most  ufologists
that  ETs do single out particular people upon whom they wish  to
experiment,  or  with whom they wish to communicate.   Still,  if
certain  subjects are supplied with extensive messages  from  the
ETs,  while  not  being  treated  as  traumatically  as  are  the
abductees, they are considered to be frauds unworthy of study  by
the UFO organizations.  Hence, the contactees, like Meier, remain
mostly ignored.
	During some of Meier's early ET experiences, in the 1950s
and 1960s, he was urged to learn all he could, through first-hand
experience,  about  Earth's various religions.  This  he  did  in
travels  to  India and the Mideast, and by the mid-1970s  he  was
prepared  for  the spiritual philosophy to which  the  Pleiadeans
educated him.  It is a philosophy emphasizing the immortality  of
the  individual  spirit  or  soul, and its  purpose  in  life  of
learning  --  learning  even when it means  making  mistakes  and
learning  from the mistakes.  The learning goes on in  successive
lifetimes, or reincarnations, over which time the soul  gradually
evolves   and   accumulates  memories  and   knowledge   normally
unavailable  to  us  except as  feelings  of  conscience.   Their
philosophy also involves living in harmony with nature,  avoiding
stripping   a  hospitable  planet  of  its  resources,   avoiding
pollution of the environment and over-population, refraining from
nuclear  industries  and  armaments, and  avoiding  excesses  and
extremes.   They stress the holistic approach, and  the  bringing
together of logical reasoning and physic power.  Needless to say,
these  Pleiadeans  take a dim view of the  adverse  treatment  by
governments and institutions of Earth's peoples and environment.

	Now, all of this represents concepts common to many other
ET contactees' messages, concepts common to the New Age movement,
and concepts common to the Amerindian heritage.  Partly for  this
very reason, ufologists have tended to reject it all as too banal
to   be   worth   study.   They  can  also   point   to   various
inconsistencies  between  different messages  allegedly  stemming
from  ETs,  and  to  apparent  absurdities  within  some  of  the
messages,  as  reasons  to dismiss all  contactees.   Instead  of
studying  the communications openly to attempt to learn why  they
may  possess  certain  puzzling aspects,  ufologists  reject  the
messages by assuming that if they contain anything other than the
truth  as  20th  century  science knows  it,  the  messages  must
represent  hoaxes or the result of misguided  imaginations.   One
reason  for  this behavior is that if they treat  these  messages
seriously,  they  fear  ridicule from scientists  whom  they  are
trying  to woo into the field of ufology.  They greatly fear  the
possibility  of being taken in by some giant hoax, even  if  they
cannot  begin to explain how such a hoax could have been  carried
out.   And they fear the criticism of scientists  sympathetic  to
CSICOP  (Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims  of
the  Paranormal)  if they adopt a stance that the claims  of  any
genuine  contactees  ought  to involve  aspects  of  an  advanced
technology totally beyond our understanding.

	The  Meier case stands out from all the  other  contactee
cases and their messages, however, in being the only one supplied
with  very  extensive  photographic evidence in  support  of  its
overall  reality.   Hence the fear of being taken by  a  hoax  is
greatest  of  all for this case.  Yet,  interspersed  in  Meier's
evidence are ambiguities and unexplained oddities which can  keep
skeptics  satisfied  that their criticisms are  justified.   This
would again seem to be part of an ET strategy, if the ETs possess
a  level  of ethics which forbids forcing their  views  upon  the
majority  of  a planet's population.  Meier's contact  notes,  as
well  as  many  other  contactees'  messages,  do  profess   this
philosophy of non-interference on a societal level.  The strategy
will  succeed as long as skeptics and scientists insist that  all
of  a UFO witness's testimony and all of a  contactee's  evidence
must be proven genuine beyond any reasonable doubt; failing this,
the witness is declared mistaken and the UFO contactee guilty  of
a hoax or hallucination.
	Gary  Kinder's  3-year investigation of the  Meier  case,
leading to Light Years, confirmed among other things that Meier's
35mm  color  film  had  indeed  been  processed  through   normal
commercial  channels.   Kinder was also able  to  obtain  further
opinions  from  scientists  and technicians to  the  effect  that
either the objects were truly hovering in the distance, or  Meier
was  an  extremely  clever hoaxer.   Analysis  of  certain  metal
samples Meier claimed to have been given him by Semjase, and of a
sound-track recording Meier had taken of a beamship while is  was
hovering invisibly, produced similar statements supporting  their
strangeness  and seeming impossibility of hoaxing.  However,  the
UFO   organizations  had  long  since  committed  themselves   to
debunking  the  case, and since Kinder was not himself  either  a
ufologist  or  a photographic technician, his  positive  findings
made no visible impact upon the UFO organization leaders.

	Certain  aspects  of the case seemed too  incredible  for
Kinder  himself  to  accept, and he was  not  interested  in  its
spiritual side.  Thus, he failed to even mention what is  perhaps
the  most  remarkable  feature of the case.  It  is  a  document,
called the Talmud Jmmanuel (TJ), a translation of which fell into
Meier's  possession in the early 1970s, and which reads as if  it
is the original writing of the teachings of Jesus.  The  original
ancient document is said to have been written in Aramaic, but  to
have  been  destroyed  by  those  who  felt  threatened  by   its
existence.   Before its destruction, however, the  translator,  a
Lebanese  ex-priest  who knew German, mailed the section  he  had
translated  to Meier, whom he had met in the 1960s.   Later,  the
translator was killed by an assassin for his efforts.  Meier,  in
turn,  was told by Semjase that this was Earth's  most  important
writing,  and  that  he should distribute it  to  interested  and
sincere  parties.  According to Meier's contact notes it  was  no
accident  that  while  in  the Mideast he met  the  man  who  the
Pleiadeans  had  prompted  to  locate  the  TJ,  and  became  its
recipient.

	The  TJ would seem to represent the logia, or sayings  of
Jesus,  which  the  early  second  century  bishop,  Papias  from
Caesarea,  had in mind when he wrote "Matthew compiled the  logia
[of  the Lord] in the Hebrew language, and each interpreted  them
as  best he could."  Scholars have been pondering the meaning  of
this sentence ever since, with the early 20th century theologian,
Burnette Streeter, suggesting it might mean that these logia  had
no  authorized translation.  This in turn would imply  that  they
had  been heretical, and required heavy editing by the  Christian
scribe  of Jewish background who attached Matthew's name  to  his
new gospel.
	Meier learned from the TJ's translator that the  document
did not make its way to the Palestine area until around the  turn
of the first century, when a copy embedded in resin was buried in
the  Jerusalem area, to remain there for about 1900 years,  while
another  copy (or the original) apparently found its way  to  the
early Christian church to form the basis of the gospels.
	The  TJ  is  briefly  mentioned  in  the  chief   booklet
disparaging  the  Meier case, one written by Kal  Korff,  once  a
young associate of the ufologist William Moore.  However, none of
its  remarkable  aspects  were  noted,  perhaps  because  of  its
heretical  contents,  or because of the intention to  debunk  the
case.   The TJ explains most of the outstanding  questions  which
have  plagued Christian scholars for centuries, but in  a  manner
much more creative than one would expect from any hoaxer or group
of New Testament scholar-hoaxers.  Its emphasis on the "power  of
the  spirit"  can  explain  why  the  Gnostic  movement  suddenly
flourished  in the early second century.  From it one can  deduce
interesting  relationships  between the Gospels  of  Matthew  and
Mark,  and  their  origins.  About 21% of  its  content  is  very
similar to that of Matthew, another 23% is recognizable as having
parallel  passages  to  those  in  Matthew,  but  with  different
meanings,  and  nearly all the rest is fresh material  --  mostly
heretical  from a Christian viewpoint.  An example of the  latter
is this TJ verse:

	There is no eye that is equal to wisdom,
	no darkness equal to ignorance, no power
	equal to the power of the spirit, and no
	terror equal to spiritual poverty.

Here, and elsewhere in the TJ, "spirit" refers to the individuals
spirit.
	An  example  of  a minor  difference  between  verses  of
Matthew and the TJ is:

	Matthew 13:54
	and coming to his own country
	he taught them in their synagogue....

	TJ 15:68
	And he came into his father's city,
	    Nazareth,
	and taught in the synagogue....

	Few  scholars  even know that this verse of  Matthew  has
been criticized, three years after the TJ came out in print,  for
not naming Nazareth explicitly, as if the compiler of Matthew did
not  wish  to  name the town which once  rejected  Jesus.   Also,
"their  synagogue"  has been criticized as reflecting  the  later
viewpoint of a writer or scribe at a time when the split  between
Judaism and Christianity was still taking place.  The TJ  suffers
from neither criticism.
	Meier's  very  limited  school education  does  not  lend
itself  to  the hoax theory here.  His schooling did  not  extend
past  about the seventh-grade level, due to his ET contacts as  a
youth.  He is thus an extremely poor candidate to be a hoaxer who
could  contact  biblical scholars and bribe them into  writing  a
gospel which creatively solves a host of New Testament problems.
	An example where the verses are similar but the  messages
are quite different is:

	Matthew 5:3
	Blessed are the poor in spirit,
	for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

	TJ 5:3
	Blessed are they who are rich in spirit
	and recognize the truth, for life
	belongs to them.

	Scholars of Matthew have had trouble with this verse  for
many decades, arguing that "poor in spirit" must mean either poor
in  material possessions or humble.  The implication from the  TJ
is  that the compiler of Matthew preferred "poor in spirit" as  a
condition which would encourage followers of the new religion  to
accept  its teachings rather than rely upon one's  own  knowledge
and   conscience.   The  TJ  similarly  avoids  some  180   other
criticisms  of Matthew which various New Testament scholars  have
made,  some  of them only after 1978, and another  60  criticisms
which can be deduced in hindsight.
	In  the  TJ, Jesus bears the name Immanuel  (but  spelled
with a J), with Paul implicated as the man who assigned the  name
"Jesus"  in order to support his theology of "God saves  us  from
our  sins," which the Hebrew-derived name, Jesus, implies.   Now,
Paul   also   taught   resurrection,   while   Jmmanuel   teaches
reincarnation,  amongst  many  other things in  the  TJ.   It  is
interesting  that Paul had been a Pharisee before his  conversion
on  the road to Damascus, and that the Pharisees had believed  in
resurrection  after  death (not reincarnation)  since  about  the
first  century B.C.  This, combined with several passages  within
Matthew  which  suggest  that Jesus or  his  disciples  had  been
discussing  reincarnation, lends much the plausibility to the  TJ
text  and its implication that the earliest writings  upon  which
the gospels are based received very heavy editing around the turn
of  the century, some 50 years after Paul's  interpretations  had
taken hold.
	One  concept in Matthew's gospel which is to be found  in
the TJ is the value of striving for righteousness.  An even  more
important  one is the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as  you  would
have  them  do  unto  you."   The  Golden  Rule  bears  a   close
relationship to cause and effect, and to karma, which  inevitably
accompanies the concept of evolution of the soul, which  Jmmanuel
taught.

	It  is interesting that the concept of reincarnation  has
arisen  from  observations  quite independent  of  any  religious
teachings.   Data  have been accumulating in the files  of  those
psychiatrists  who have carefully studied childhood cases of  the
"reincarnation type."  In these cases, of worldwide distribution,
an occasional child, usually between ages of two and six, will be
noticed by parents or relatives to talk spontaneously at times as
if  he or she were actually someone else.  Often the child  makes
enough  statements so that the "someone else" can  be  identified
beyond reasonable doubt as a particular person who had died  some
years  or months before the birth of the child in question.   Ian
Stevenson,  author  of  cases of  the  Reincarnation  Type  (four
volumes  published  between 1975 and 1980), has over  a  thousand
"solved"  cases  of  this  nature in  his  files,  along  with  a
comparable number of unsolved cases.  After the child exceeds  an
age  of  from six to ten, the past-life memories  generally  fade
away.
	In  most contactee cases, not just with the  Meier  case,
and apparently with a large proportion of abductees as well,  the
subject,  as  a  result of his or her UFO  experiences,  ends  up
believing  in the reality of reincarnation.  This phenomenon  has
close  links to the prevalent belief of reincarnation within  the
New  Age  movement.  Of course, it is also an old  belief  having
been  part  of many cultures including  various  Native  American
peoples,  such  as the Lenapes of Delaware and  New  Jersey,  the
Hopis,  the  Pueblos, and Eskimos -- especially the  Tlingets  of
southern Alaska -- and of many South Pacific Peoples.

	The TJ bears a direct relationship to the UFO phenomenon.
For  example, the voice at the baptism of Jmmanuel in the  Jordon
River comes from the "metallic light" into which he enters and is
then taken away for intense education for forty days and  nights.
While the TJ's text is largely unacceptable to both  Christianity
and Judaism, it cannot be discussed or examined openly by Western
scholars  whether they are Christian or not because of  such  UFO
aspects.  Furthermore, since its alleged Aramaic version was said
to  have  been  destroyed,  the TJ  translation  can  be  quickly
dismissed  on the grounds of lack of hard evidence by any who  do
examine it only cursorily.  Thus, it is nothing that any  skeptic
with fixed opinions need feel threatened by.
	The  TJ  adds  another  dimension  to  the  Meier   case.
Detractors  already  must assume that Meier was  skilled  in  the
rapid  writing  (without  making  any  revisions)  of  voluminous
conversational  novels which read like self-consistent  and  very
interesting contact notes, that he had collaborators  exceedingly
skilled  in  fake  photography  with  access  to  very  expensive
equipment,  and that he had great magical talents with  which  to
deceive secondary witnesses.  With the TJ, they must also  assume
that he had gained access to the services of one or more apostate
New Testament scholars who were very knowledgeable and  creative.
All this they must assume he accomplished with no money available
by which to reimburse the unknown accomplices.  It is clear  that
if  Meier and his evidence are not taken at face value, he  would
have  needed  several accomplices to obtain  even  less  credible
photographs  of  hovering  UFOs than he has  --  perhaps  ten  or
fifteen  accomplices by some estimates -- since he lost his  left
arm  just  above  the  elbow in 1965,  and  could  scarcely  have
deployed 23-foot models of UFOs all by himself.  If his  evidence
is taken at face value, his accomplices were the Pleiadeans.
	According  to Meier's contact notes, the Pleiadeans  were
themselves  aided in their Earth operations by several  other  ET
races working cooperatively with them.  However, another ET group
with  less  power  is  also mentioned  as  working  against  them
whenever they could.  In this respect Meier's experiences suggest
that some things never change!
	There has not been space to discuss but a fraction of all
the  evidence and details which support Meier's  photographs  and
reports, nor space to discuss but a fraction of the complaints of
critics.  One of these complaints is that the Pleiades is an open
star  cluster only some 70 million years old -- far too young  by
our understanding to contain any hospitable planets.  Before  the
Pleiadeans  had moved to the Pleiades, Meier was told,  they  had
emigrated  from a planet within the constellation we  call  Lyra.
When  Meier  asked  Semjase about  the  habitability  within  the
Pleiades,  her  reply  was  too  occult  to  be   understandable,
involving mention of a parallel set of "time-shifted dimensions."
This  kind  of response is of course frowned  upon  by  skeptics.
Although they realize that an alien civilization which can  visit
Earth  may  be many millennia ahead of ours in  technology,  they
continually  revert  to the thinking which says  that  late  20th
century  science  ought  to  be able  to  understand  all  things
reported by a genuine contactee.  Otherwise, they feel, the  case
should be rejected on "scientific" grounds.

	However, one of the primary complaints -- that if  anyone
claims to have had many different occasions upon which he or she,
and  scarcely  anyone  else,  was able  to  take  photographs  of
hovering  UFOs, they should be dismissed as some kind of  nut  or
egomaniac  -- now needs reconsideration by  ufologists.   Between
November 1987 and May, 1988, a man with the pseudonym of "Ed"  of
Gulf  Breeze,  Florida,  was supplied with  18  opportunities  to
photograph  hovering  UFOs  of two or  three  different  physical
shapes.    Several   members   of  our   nation's   largest   UFO
organization, MUFON (Mutual UFO Network), soon kept a close watch
on  Ed's  activities,  but he  kept  receiving  opportunities  to
photograph  hovering  objects with his Polaroid camera  when  the
MUFON  personnel and others (except sometimes for his wife)  were
not around.  These UFOs usually seemed to have a base diameter of
from  8  to  15 feet.  After Ed's 16th UFO  incident,  the  MUFON
investigators realized that his experiences were ongoing, so they
supplied him with a stereo camera with sealed-in film on February
10th,  1988.  However, the hovering object Ed later  photographed
with  this  camera, on February 26th, was determined  to  have  a
length of only 3 to 4 feet, causing detractors to pronounce it  a
model.
	For  better future estimates of the size and distance  of
such  a relatively small UFO, the main investigators  decided  Ed
needed  a stereo camera system with more resolving  power,  which
they instructed him how to put together.  Then, on May 1st,  with
this  camera system he photographed a hovering object whose  base
diameter  was later analyzed, through triangulation, to be  about
14 feet, at a range of about 475 feet out over water.  The object
had  the same crown-like appearance as what Ed  had  photographed
earlier with his Polaroid camera, in one frame of which three  of
them  are shown together.  After May 1, 1988, it appears that  Ed
experienced  an abduction event, and though he may seem to  be  a
contactee with respect to his photographic opportunities, he  has
actually been treated as an abductee in all other respects.
	The  MUFON  investigators can see much  reality  in  Ed's
photographs,  and cannot come up with any plausible  scenario  of
how  he  could  have fraudulently  manufactured  any  significant
fraction  of  the  evidence, especially since there  are  over  a
hundred  other people in the area who have  apparently  witnessed
similar  UFOs  over  the  same  half-year  period.   Yet,   other
ufologists,  mostly  from other UFO organizations, keep  in  mind
only  the ambiguous aspects of the case and remain very  negative
about  its reality.  It is clear that if the case is no hoax,  it
would  mean that UFO intelligences have a sophisticated  strategy
of dealing with us, and this is still an unacceptable thought  to
many.   Hence,  we  see that skeptics who explore  a  case  which
contains  some unacceptable aspects, simply dismiss  those  other
aspects which support genuineness.  In a case like this involving
several  thousand  pieces of data input, they can  confine  their
attention to the numerous ambiguous aspects without wondering  if
the  ambiguities  might  reflect  the  presence  of  an  advanced
technology.  The same apparently holds true for the Meier case.
	
	If the Meier case was meant for educating some segment of
humanity, it would appear that the Gulf Breeze case was meant for
educating  ufologists!   Should  that  case  ever  receive  solid
endorsements of genuiness from this country's UFO  organizations,
there  is  likely to be some demand for  re-exploring  the  Meier
case.
	In  the meantime, it is up to each interested  individual
to decide for himself or herself, after obtaining all  accessible
information, whether or not the Meier case seems genuine.  It  is
especially  instructive, after thoroughly digesting the data  and
photographs within the materials on the case authored by Lee  and
Brit  Elders, Wendelle Stevens, and Gary Kinder, to access  one's
own odds that Eduard Meier could have come up with the  extensive
color  photographs and other credible evidence in his  possession
if he had not received continuing ET help.
	For  the  person who is more interested in a  summary  of
what   is  to  be  learned  from  Meier's  experiences   and   ET
communications  than in the evidence for or against the  case,  a
quotation   from   Meier's  wife,  Kalliope,  from  Vol.   2   of
UFO...Contact  from  the Pleiades by Lee and  Brit  Elders,  well
expresses it:
	"In  June of 1976, seven people were waiting with me  for
Billy [Eduard] to come back from a contact.  He came and said  to
us,  'go with me to another point.'  We went and waited.  It  was
daylight and one of the boys told us to look up into the sky.  It
was our first sighting in the day.  The ship was very big but got
smaller  as it rose, and I clearly saw the detail around the  top
of the ship.  I saw little ports, and the whole UFO seemed to  be
light.   The children, three other woman and one man saw it  too.
There are many lights going across the sky at night and I  cannot
be  sure  what  they  are, but this I am sure  was  the  ship  of
Semjase.   I didn't believe it before because I had never  talked
about UFO's or seen one.  But after this day...I believe.
	Now  the  UFO's are secondary, the information  from  the
Pleiadians comes first.  We have to learn to live  together...man
and  woman,  different countries, different races  and  different
worlds."

	For  literature which debunks the Meier  contactee  case,
write  William Moore, 4219 W. Olive St., Suite 247, Burbank,  CA.
91505.
	For  information on video tapes which tell  the  positive
side of the story, showing some of Meier's photos and  movie-film
footage, and especially for the video called "Contact," write Lee
or  Brit Elders at Genesis III Publishing, P.O. Drawer JJ,  Munds
Park, AZ.  86017.
	For  information  about purchasing the  Talmud  Jmmanuel,
write Eduard Meier, Ch-8495, Hinterschmidruti/ZH, Switzerland.
	For  more information about the Talmud  Jmmanuel,  please
write Blue Water Publishing, P.O. Box 230893, Tigard, OR.  97224,
for  the  availability  of the  book  Celestial  Teachings:   The
Emergence  of  the True Testament of Jmmanuel (Jesus),  By  James
Deardorff.

	For  other  information concerning this  article,  please
write  the  author  at the Department  of  Atmospheric  Sciences,
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.  97221.


July 6, 1991:  UPDATE
	The   updated  English/German  version  of   the   Talmud
Jammanuel  can  be purchased from:  Wild Flower Press,  P.O.  Box
230893 Dept. CT, Tigard, Oregon 97224.



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write the author at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. 97221.


July 6, 1991: UPDATE The updated English/German version of the Talmud Jammanuel can be purchased from: Wild Flower Press, P.O. Box 230893 Dept. CT, Tigard, Oregon 97224.