Billy Meier

Billy Meier
Born
Eduard Albert Meier

(1937-02-03) 3 February 1937 (age 87)[1]
Bülach/ZH, Switzerland
NationalitySwiss
Occupation(s)Author, ufologist
Organization(s)Freie Interessengemeinschaft für Grenz- und Geisteswissenschaften und Ufologiestudien (Free Community of Interests for the Border and Spiritual Sciences and Ufological Studies) (FIGU)
Known forContactee/UFO religion
Children4
Parent
Julius Meier
Websitewww.figu.org

Eduard Albert Meier (born 3 February 1937), commonly nicknamed "Billy", is the founder of a UFO religion called the "Freie Interessengemeinschaft für Grenz- und Geisteswissenschaften und Ufologiestudien" (Free Community of Interests for the Border and Spiritual Sciences and Ufological Studies) and alleged contactee whose UFO photographs are claimed to show alien spacecraft. Meier claims to be in regular contact with extraterrestrial beings he calls the Plejaren.[2] He also presented other material during the 1970s such as metal samples, sound recordings and film footage. Meier claims to be the seventh reincarnation after six prophets common to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Enoch, Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Immanuel (Jesus), and Muhammad.[3]

Meier has been widely characterized as a fraud by skeptics and ufologists, who suggest that he used models to hoax photos claimed to show alien spacecraft.[4][5][6][7] Meier's prophecies repeatedly blame Jews (whom he refers to as "gypsies") for future atrocities.[8]

  1. ^ figu.org: Kontaktberichte Archived 2022-05-22 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference ProtheroCALLAHAN2017 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Hans Georg Lanzendorfer. "Clarification of a Defamatory Claim". TheyFly.com. Archived from the original on 27 October 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  4. ^ James R. Lewis (2002). The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions. Prometheus Books, Publishers. pp. 653–. ISBN 978-1-61592-738-8.
  5. ^ Paul Kurtz. Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm. Transaction Publishers. pp. 57–. ISBN 978-1-4128-3411-7.
  6. ^ Joe Nickell (29 September 2010). Camera Clues: A Handbook for Photographic Investigation. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 165–. ISBN 978-0-8131-3828-2.
  7. ^ Catherine L. Albanese (1 December 2006). A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion. Yale University Press. pp. 502–. ISBN 0-300-13477-0.
  8. ^ Eduard Gugenberger: Esoterische Ufologie. In: Helmut Reinalter (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Verschwörungstheorien. Salier Verlag, Leipzig 2018, S. 104 f.