From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@proaxis.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 20:09:57 -0800 (PST)
Fwd Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 09:31:04 -0500
Subject: Re: -=[For The Record]=- Meier Case - Redux


>From: Kim Burrafato <lensman@stardrive.org>
>Sent: Friday, March 05, 1999 5:35 PM
>To: Skywatch International Inc.
>Subject: Meier Case - Redux

>The Eduard Billy Meier Case -- Redux

>I was recently given a numbered (No. 110 of 2,000) limited first
>edition copy of Wendelle C. Stevens's groundbreaking book, UFO
>Contact from The Pleiades: A Preliminary Investigation Report,
>copyright 1978. I d never read the book before, and had only
>given the Eduard Billy Meier case a cursory look when it first
>surfaced back in the late 70 s.

>Having seen the big coffee table book of the incredible full
>color photos, I like many others never gave the Meier case much
>credit it was simply too good to be true. But my recent receipt
>of the Stevens book just happened to coincide with some newly
>surfacing revelations regarding the Meier case.

>Researcher Michael Hesemann has discovered an eyewitness who had
>known Billy Meier when he lived in India between April and
>September 1964, while studying Buddhism at the Ashoka-Ashram in
>Mehrauli near New Delhi. I quote from Hesemann's article on the
>official Meier site in Switzerland.

>---

>In October 1996 the International Humanistic Society and the
>UN's SEAT team invited me, Michael Hesemann, to present a talk
>to their group at the Headquarter of the United Nations. The
>lecture was held in the format of a small conference where
>Carlos Diaz, Madeleine Rodeffer, and Colonel Colman VonKeviczky
>also spoke.

>After the event a lady approached me and introduced herself as a
>member of the UN delegation of a South-East Asian country. She
>asked me whether I knew Billy Meier, and I confirmed this fact
>of course. She wanted to hear my opinion of him, and I replied I
>was convinced of the contacts' authenticity. Her friendly face
>literally lit up and then she revealed her story to me:

>She had known Billy Meier when he lived in India. Between April
>and September 1964, Meier had taken one of his trips around the
>world. ....

<snip>

Hello Kim,

This lady, this witness -- Phobal, indeed spoke very
compellingly and sincerely at the 8th International UFO congress
in Laughlin last month. She as a child was a witness not only to
Asket and to Asket & Meier walking together, but to Asket's UFOs
hovering above the ashram on several occasions. She was followed
on the speaker's platform by an Indian lady (Sachi) who had been
Phobal's tutor in the Hindi language at the time (1964-65). She
could recall Phobal having spoken to her about having seen "the
goddess" (as Asket was called by other witnesses at the ashram)
and the concurrent UFO's.

But at the Congress Hesemann mentioned the names of some other
30+ witnesses, in Switzerland, who can verify the reality of
Meier's contacts. He's done a very valuable service in getting
these witnesses' testimonies onto tape and into print, just as
Wendelle Stevens did in his book of 17 years ago you mentioned.

>While reading the Stevens book, I came across a truly remarkable
>passage that creates an even more compelling reason to examine
>the Meier contacts in a serious new light.

>The particular passage in question begins on page 56, and is
>reproduced in its entirety below: In a contact on 2 March 1975
>Meier was given three missions to carry out. Part III of the
>contact pertaining to the third mission is translated as
>follows: [There follows the discourse to Meier concerning ozone
>holes and bromine gas as an agent in the destruction of the
>ozone layer.]

As you say, Kim, this mention of bromine here is indeed
prescient, and precedes by several years any mention in any
scientific literature that bromine would be important in the
destruction of ozone. For many years the emphasis was mainly
upon chlorine without mention of bromine, which is now known to
be far more efficient, per atom, then chlorine in destroying
stratospheric ozone. The earliest mention I know of that bromine
is important along with chlorine is in a 1984 article in
_Nature_ (vol. 312, pp. 227-231) by 5 authors, including Michael
McElroy, the scientist Meier was told to write to about the
matter. So what Meier was told preceded general scientific
knowledge about the bromine aspect by at least 9 years.

Regarding ozone holes, what Meier was told is less convincing.
He was told of ozone holes (plural) circulating with the wind
and not of a single hole (over Antarctica) that would dominate
the ozone depletion. But it's important to distinguish between
the evidence & witness tesimony supporting a contactee's
experiences and the truth or accuracy of what the contactee is
told. He can be told anything, including disinformation, if it
serves the contactors' purposes.

   Jim Deardorff