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   SUBJECT: THE FARMER AND THE COSMONAUTS                       FILE: UFO123   
      
   PART 2   
      
      The Pleiades of Greek myth were seven sisters, named Aleyone,   
   Asterope, Electra, Celaeno, Maia, Metrope and Taygeta.  They were   
   daughters of Atlas and Pleione.  As it happens, the leader of the   
   migration from Lyra was called Pleione, according to Meier.  Was   
   the mythical name a faint memory of the space traveller?  Or was   
   the space traveller's name suggested to Meier by the   
   half-remembered mythical name?   
      
     ...The chief critic of the Meier case has been Kal Korff, and   
   the title of his book on the subject sums up his attitude more   
   than adequately: "The most infamous hoax in ufology."   
      
     One instance of self-contradiction on the part of Meier and his   
   defenders concerns a sequence of photographs purporting to show a   
   Pleiadean spacecraft circling a tree.  An unfortunate aspect of   
   this series is that when independant investigators visited the   
   site, no tree was to be found. Meier's explanation for this was   
   that the spacecraft had subsequently disintergrated the hapless   
   arboreal specimen.  Wendelle Stevens told Korff that the tree   
   vanished because it had been teleported into "another time frame".   
   Kal Korff's suspicion is that neither of these things happened,   
   since a close look at the pictures -- reputedly taken within   
   seconds of one another -- reveals markedly different cloud   
   patterns from frame to frame. Genesis III's claim that the day in   
   question was particularly windy is not borne out by the weather   
   record, which shows wind speeds reaching a maximum of 15 miles per   
   hour (25 km/h).  Korff reasons that a model UFO and model tree were   
   superimposed on pictures of the site.  And indeed models of   
   Pleiadean craft have been found on the Meier farm -- though Meier   
   says that they were inspired by his actual encounters.   
      
     Possibly the least plausible of Meier's defender's is Jim   
   Dilettoso, of Genesis III.  Kal Korff prints a long interview with   
   him ... in which he says that in the 1950s Wendelle Stevens and   
   another ufologist, Richard Miller, performed something called   
   'transchanneling' on aliens for the US Air Force: "They would fly   
   up to Alaska because they were told that the magnetic fields   
   there were proper for resonance induction, and we have hundreds   
   and hundreds of audio recordings of Richard and other CIA officers   
   doing transchannelings of aliens.... Two of these CIA officers ...   
   have developed serious personality aberrations...   
      
     The paucity of photographs of the Pleiadeans themselves is   
   explained by Wendelle Stevens thus: "They are afraid of being   
   hurt ... they do not want to be recognised.  Supposedly, they do   
   walk the streets in Europe and don't want to be compromised." Billy   
   Meier, on the other hand, has happily admitted to the strong   
   resemblance between Semjase and his own girlfriend -- so who is   
   really worried about being recognised on the streets of Europe?   
      
     Less edifying are the claims made by Meier and Genesis III   
   concerning the sample of metal and crystal given Meier by the   
   Pleiadeans as examples  of their technological wizardry.  Meier   
   actually produced these while Stevens and his team were in   
   Switzerland. They called on him one morning and were told that he   
   had his 105th contact during the night and "had a surprise" for   
   them.  This turned out to be a package, handed over by the   
   cosmonaut Quetzal, of four metal, one biological and nine mineral   
   and crystal specimens.  According to Stevens's book, the scientists   
   who conducted "in-depth, highly sophisticated examination" of   
   these samples found them to have unique qualities and said they   
   had "never seen anything like it before". The level of purity in   
   the metal was not "immediately explainable" while the general   
   characteristics "seemed to indicate a non-electrolytic,   
   cold-fusion synthesis process not generally known to earth   
   technology".   
      
     Kal Korff found rather less to be excited about. He interviewed   
   Dr Marcel Vogel, who had analysed the samples for Genesis III --   
   and had drawn rather different conclusions from those published in   
   the book. Only the first sample was unique, said Dr Vogel,   
   consisting of aluminum, silver and thulium, each having a high   
   degree of purity. The other samples were ordinary crystals of   
   quartz, citrine, amethyst and silver solder, and there was no   
   reason to believe they are of extra-terrestrial origin. Jim   
   Dilettoso characteristically failed to further the cause by   
   claiming that Genesis III hold a 10-hour videotape of "the entire   
   lab proceedings" (which Dr Vogel denies having made), "And ... we   
   have about an hour of him discussing why the metal samples are not   
   possible in earth technology, going into intrinsic detail of why it   
   is not done anywhere on earth, that type of chemistry." Of course   
   Dr Vogel may not be the only scientist to have analysed the samples   
   (no mention is made by either party of the biological specimen),   
   but then Genesis III are notably coy about naming any of the 200   
   scientists they say have verified Meier's remarkable story...   
   End of part 2   
      
         
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