Billy (Eduard Albert) Meier (b. 1937).
documentedsource_actorContactee & UFO Religion
Swiss farmer who from 1975 claimed ongoing contact with Pleiadian/'Plejaren' beings and produced ~1,000 photos and films - extending the contactee format into the 1970s. A real person and movement; the photographic evidence is discredited.
[DOCUMENTED] Real person (b. 1937, Bulach/Zurich); founded a UFO religion (FIGU) headquartered in Switzerland with a worldwide following that still defends his archive. Promoted as 'the most documented UFO case' (~1,000 photos, 12 films, claimed 40 eyewitnesses, 'landing tracks', metal samples). [DISCREDITED] Kal Korff's Spaceships of the Pleiades documents model 'beamships' photographed against bonsai trees/household objects (garbage-can lids, wedding-cake decorations) and 'space women' traced to TV/magazine images; light-direction and focal discrepancies indicate cut-and-paste/model fakery. Meier counter-claims intelligence agencies planted fakes. Reception is split; a minority of researchers (e.g. James Deardorff) argued not all could be dismissed.