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From: davet@oakhill.UUCP (Dave Trissel)
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Subject: Re: Billy Meyers (sp?) and Pleiades Astronauts???
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Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 17:25:11 EST
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In article <82@mss.UUCP> jpj@mss.UUCP (J. P. Jenal) writes:
>that is discussing a story about an ET contact between a man named Billy
>Meyers (spelling unknown) and a group of "female astronauts from the
>Pleiades."  Apparently this guy lives in Switzerland and since sometime in
>the late 70's has been making fairly consistent contact with these "folks."
>According to the story, the Pleiadians (???) can make the trip in about 7
>minutes (why not???) and there is supposed to be hundreds of photographes
>to back all of this up.

By coincidence I met somebody two weeks ago who showed me a book from the
guy's organization (two books actually.)  It was chock full of UFO photos.
Unfortunately, I had to point out to the person that several of the photos
were obvious hoaxes.

Evidently there is a lot of misty days in Switzerland.  Unfortunately, several
UFOs which should have been at a distance from the camera stand out in sharp
detail while misty trees supposedly at the same distance as the craft are
hardly visible.  Obviously the craft was a model which was actually much
closer to the camera than what was claimed by the observers taking the photos.

In another couple of pictures the focus was a dead giveaway.  The UFO model
was held so close to the camera (to make it look big I presume) that it was
entirely out of focus.

To be fair, the majority of the pictures did not show such obvious flaws.  But
I would suspect that a good photographer could have spotted many more defects.

When the person said that they still thought the photos were real I suggested
that he ask any good photographer to examine them and he would see the same
conclusions drawn.  Then the person said "well I like to think that they're
true."  End of conversation.

  -- Dave Trissel  {seismo,ihnp4}!ut-sally!oakhill!davet