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Light Years: An Investigation into the Extraterrestrial Experiances of Eduard Meier
Book by Kinder, Gary
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272 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1987
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August 22, 2021
”Light Years” by Gary Kinder is another nonfiction book about UFO contact that for long has gathered dust on my shelves, in large part because it is a relatively sympathetic biography of a contactee considered a risible figure in UFO circles. I am of course referring to Eduard ”Billy” Meier, an old Swiss hippie living in a remote Alpine village where he claims to have met perfectly human-looking emissaries of a utopian civilisation based in the constellation of the Pleiades. The most prominent of the Pleiadeans being a quite attractive lady named Semjase. Meier of course produced an impressive amount of photographs allegedly depicting the ”beamships” of the Pleiadeans, one of which would later become immortalised by the TV series ”The X-Files” as the ”I Want to Believe” poster owned by Fox Mulder.
One positive side effect of the author being so sympathetic to Billy Meier is that you get a good sense of what Meier is like as a person, lots of information about his life story, as well as insight into exactly why his followers found him worth listening to and why they were convinced by his stories. For one, even though Meier might be a hoaxer himself, he comes across as as a rather agreeable and sympathetic person in here – which is better than I can say about many other ”alternative spirituality” personalities who might not have been completely honest about their intentions. (Carlos Castañeda, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh etc) I also find it hilarious that as a young man Meier used to publish a New Age magazine titled "Wassermannzeit" - which is the literal German translation of "Age of Aquarius”.
Another consequence of Kinder giving such a friendly ear to Meier is the depth in which the book describes the utopian Pleiadean civilisation and the spiritual philosophy Meier supposedly got from them. The Pleiadean civilisation sounds very much like the typical ideal society of 1960's/1970's hippies like Meier – a non-hierarchial pacifistic environmentally sustainable society that nonetheless happened to be technologically advanced enough to be capable of convenient interstellar travel. The spiritual philosophy promulgated by the Pleiadeans to Meier, by the way, focuses on rediscovering the pure intuitive religious experience as undistorted by the sectarianism of any centralised institution's traditions or any particular set of cultural programming. All of this sounds extremely similar to the teachings of Indian philosopher and former Theosophist Jiddu Krishnamurti, whom I quite admire myself. As risible as attributing all these insights to contact with Nordic alien supermodels might be, I question whether that mythos is any more risible from an objective viewpoint than any ”normal” religion and my own experience is that ideas similar to those promoted by Meier are quite sound when put into practice.
There is also some interesting information which is completely new to me. For example, I had no idea that Timothy Good of "Above Top Secret" fame had such an important role in popularising Meier's stories of Pleiadean contact. I was also surprised to find out how many experts in relevant scientific fields (NASA scientists, Hollywood special effects artists etc) had examined Meier's photographs and audio recordings of the Pleiadean beamships taking off only to find no clear evidence of fakery. ”Light Years” does mention that some photos of the Pleiadean ships were found to be fakes, but they were taken by disciples of Meier not the man himself. In other words, Meier's Pleiadean encounters might be a hoax but a hoax that had an impressive amount of effort put into it especially considering that Meier is not particularly wealthy and lost one of his arms in a traffic accident long before he started taking the photos. Like George Adamski before him, Meier really does come across as someone who wants the best for humanity with his weird contactee stories. Indeed, the reader gets the impression that a less scrupulous person with Meier's charisma could have created a cult that made Scientology look harmless in comparison!
One thing that did catch me off guard was how much of the middle section in ”Light Years” turned out to consist of "ufology 101" stuff I had already read a thousand times before. On the other hand, it was much more interesting to find out how many experts in the relevant field found Billy Meier's photos and other evidence for his extraterrestrial encounters difficult to explain skeptically. I guess the author wanted to make this book comprehensive to people who had an interest in Meier and his followers from the angle of having an interest in new religious movements, without by necessity being very knowledgeable about ufology.
The thing about contactees like Billy Meier is that as silly as they might seem to most normies, even ”normie ufologists” if such a term means anything, they are an integral part of ufology's history and cultural evolution – and very often the only way to find in depth information about their beliefs and experiences is to read sympathetic accounts since true believers have usually been the only people willing to write them down. ”Light Years” is a good demonstration of this, and I would recomment people with an interest in UFO contactee movements to pick it up whether their interest is from the viewpoint of studying new religious movements or from one of being interested in UFOs.
One positive side effect of the author being so sympathetic to Billy Meier is that you get a good sense of what Meier is like as a person, lots of information about his life story, as well as insight into exactly why his followers found him worth listening to and why they were convinced by his stories. For one, even though Meier might be a hoaxer himself, he comes across as as a rather agreeable and sympathetic person in here – which is better than I can say about many other ”alternative spirituality” personalities who might not have been completely honest about their intentions. (Carlos Castañeda, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh etc) I also find it hilarious that as a young man Meier used to publish a New Age magazine titled "Wassermannzeit" - which is the literal German translation of "Age of Aquarius”.
Another consequence of Kinder giving such a friendly ear to Meier is the depth in which the book describes the utopian Pleiadean civilisation and the spiritual philosophy Meier supposedly got from them. The Pleiadean civilisation sounds very much like the typical ideal society of 1960's/1970's hippies like Meier – a non-hierarchial pacifistic environmentally sustainable society that nonetheless happened to be technologically advanced enough to be capable of convenient interstellar travel. The spiritual philosophy promulgated by the Pleiadeans to Meier, by the way, focuses on rediscovering the pure intuitive religious experience as undistorted by the sectarianism of any centralised institution's traditions or any particular set of cultural programming. All of this sounds extremely similar to the teachings of Indian philosopher and former Theosophist Jiddu Krishnamurti, whom I quite admire myself. As risible as attributing all these insights to contact with Nordic alien supermodels might be, I question whether that mythos is any more risible from an objective viewpoint than any ”normal” religion and my own experience is that ideas similar to those promoted by Meier are quite sound when put into practice.
There is also some interesting information which is completely new to me. For example, I had no idea that Timothy Good of "Above Top Secret" fame had such an important role in popularising Meier's stories of Pleiadean contact. I was also surprised to find out how many experts in relevant scientific fields (NASA scientists, Hollywood special effects artists etc) had examined Meier's photographs and audio recordings of the Pleiadean beamships taking off only to find no clear evidence of fakery. ”Light Years” does mention that some photos of the Pleiadean ships were found to be fakes, but they were taken by disciples of Meier not the man himself. In other words, Meier's Pleiadean encounters might be a hoax but a hoax that had an impressive amount of effort put into it especially considering that Meier is not particularly wealthy and lost one of his arms in a traffic accident long before he started taking the photos. Like George Adamski before him, Meier really does come across as someone who wants the best for humanity with his weird contactee stories. Indeed, the reader gets the impression that a less scrupulous person with Meier's charisma could have created a cult that made Scientology look harmless in comparison!
One thing that did catch me off guard was how much of the middle section in ”Light Years” turned out to consist of "ufology 101" stuff I had already read a thousand times before. On the other hand, it was much more interesting to find out how many experts in the relevant field found Billy Meier's photos and other evidence for his extraterrestrial encounters difficult to explain skeptically. I guess the author wanted to make this book comprehensive to people who had an interest in Meier and his followers from the angle of having an interest in new religious movements, without by necessity being very knowledgeable about ufology.
The thing about contactees like Billy Meier is that as silly as they might seem to most normies, even ”normie ufologists” if such a term means anything, they are an integral part of ufology's history and cultural evolution – and very often the only way to find in depth information about their beliefs and experiences is to read sympathetic accounts since true believers have usually been the only people willing to write them down. ”Light Years” is a good demonstration of this, and I would recomment people with an interest in UFO contactee movements to pick it up whether their interest is from the viewpoint of studying new religious movements or from one of being interested in UFOs.
August 16, 2021
Fascinating story. A must read for UFO/Contacee/Abductee aficionados, along with classics such as Chariots of the Gods, Communion, and The UFO Experience. Written in 1987, this book details the mysterious case of Swiss citizen, Eduard Meier, and his 6 years of contact with the extraterrestrial, Semjase. The outside investigation, the evidence, the witnesses, the experts... it's all here, believe it or don't. The book is fairly well-written, with a decent amount of background on Eduard, and follows a (mostly) chronological order of events. Eduard has many skeptics (then and now), but much of the story is bewildering if NOT true. Of course, much of it is bewildering IF true!
Anyway, it's a good read for those interested in the genre, and hasn't really lost any detail or impact 34 years after being written.
Anyway, it's a good read for those interested in the genre, and hasn't really lost any detail or impact 34 years after being written.
October 23, 2014
Interesting. I fluctuated from belief to skepticism. Not nearly as good as Ship of Gold!
October 6, 2022
I bought the mass market paperback for the few shiny pictures, honestly. Redundant journalism. Like, we get it, it would have been near-impossible to fabricate Meier’s evidence, especially with one arm. What I will remember from this book: the interactions with Semjase, the stories about peaceful Erra (home of the Pleiadians), and the journey of Meier’s early enlightenment. It’s a good faith to believe that not all earthlings are really from earth. Makes it feel easier, somehow, to be a part of this thing (humanity) and gives proof that really, another world is possible. Also, I now know that it takes 3.5 hours to accelerate to light-speed and 3.5 to decelerate, at least when flying a magnetic saucer. Probably not for our primitive, chunky, petro/hydro-fueled spaceships, though.
May 13, 2024
AN EXCELLENT HISTORY AND ANALYSIS OF BILLY MEIER AND HIS PHOTOS
Author Gary Kinder wrote in the first chapter of this 1987 book, “Meier… had been employed then as a night guard and consequently was often at home during the day. But many people in the neighborhood avoided talking to Meier because he was ‘different.’ He spoke a great deal about Moses and said things other people did not understand… [A neighbor said] ‘He had a terrific fantasy… He was not even odd; he just had his own ideas and believed what he said.’” (Pg. 8) Later, he adds, “The neighbors were certain Meier was crazy. ‘No one took him seriously…’ The mayor of a nearby village said that Meier’s stories were pure fantasy because HE, the mayor, had never seen a UFO in the vicinity. People… laughed at the mention Meier.” (Pg. 17-18)
He recounts, “In the fall of 1977, Lou Zinsstag, who had visited Meier again at the farm, wrote a final letter on the Meier case to [ufologist] Timothy Good and a few other close friends. She entitled the lengthy missive, ‘Personal View of Eduard Meier.’ … ‘Instead of meeting a sickly, soft-spoken invalid, as expected, we found him to be a person full of vigor and strength, very self-assured with a fantastic story to tell… He was very adept in using his right arm… This exposé is written for a very few friends who know me well, and also know Meier’s story… he told us about his girlfriend Samjase from the Pleiades… She seemed to be giving him some extremely interesting information on space and astronomy and to take him for a ride occasionally… In 1976, Meier started to attack in his magazine … every religion in the world, all churches and sects, refuting the need for worship or belief in God… I liked him less and less, and I stopped writing to him. But I continued to bring interested people to his place… I, for one, am sure that Meier’s pictures are no fakes… If indeed he would be able to produce such perfect film materials he would be under contract with the best-paying companies for science fiction films... I know that he does not make money from his photographs, since I bought them for either 1.50 or 2.00 francs apiece.” (Pg. 61-63)
He records, “As he stood on top of the bluff Lee Elders though about what Herbert [Runkel] has said. ‘My moment of truth did not come until I walked to that site… I went up to that hilltop where he shot, I’d say, thirty percent of the best photographs of his collection plus that film, and I knew right then and there something was going on---because of the distance involved, because of the terrain, everything about it. We marked fifty-two yards from where Meier stood to the tree the ship was hovering behind. That’s a long distance. You’re not going to use small models on that.’” (Pg. 117)
He explains, “[Wendelle] Stevens located a physicist … Nell, Davis, who was part owner of … a photo optics laboratory… Though Davis could not perform the ultra-sophisticated computer image processing possible at some of the government-sponsored labs, he could quickly eliminate several possibilities or hoaxing technique or tell Stevens he was wasting his time with the photographs. David consented to test one color print… His conclusions, he told Stevens, would have to be preliminary because a complete and proper scientific analysis could only be conducted on an original negative; Stevens would not be sure that internegative he gave toe Davis was even first generation… Davis first examined the print under a microscope to compare the sharpness of the object with the sharpness of the scene… Next he magnified the photograph … and scanned them with a microdensitometer for uniform density. ‘Examination did not reveal any details which would cast doubt upon the authenticity of the photograph.’” (Pg. 149)
He states, “Although little known in the United States before 1979, the case of Eduard Meier would emerge as one of the most controversial in the history of UFO phenomena. No case had ever offered so much evidence… But that evidence would be seen by few and studied by ever fewer, because Meier’s preposterous and sometimes misunderstood stories of traveling back in time to see Jesus and photographing the Eye of God would be laughed at and dismissed as nonsense---the same as Lee Elders had reacted before he had seen with his own eyes the conditions in which Meier lived, talked with the witnesses, and walked the sites. Meier’s stories couldn’t be true, but neither could the witnesses and the evidence be dismissed easily… Meier offered scientists what they had asked for thirty-two years---something they could place under a microscope or enter into a computer and examine.” (Pg. 189)
He notes, “[Ufologist Jim] Lorenzen had been speaking with other ufologists who had European contacts, and one of them passed on the tumor that the whole case was a big joke, that each time the Americans left Switzerland to return home, the Meier group laughed behind their backs at how easily they had been fooled. Lorenzen also heard that affidavits from alleged witnesses not only railed to support Meier’s claims, but actually refuted them. ‘I think he used models,’ Lorenzen said later, ‘and he threw away those pictures that didn’t turn out. See, they never checked his avenues of developing and printing to see if they stood up…’ Lorenzen said that as far as he knew, no scientist had ever analyzed the photographs.” (Pg. 196)
He points out, “a West German researcher had sent ten Meier photos to GSW [Ground Saucer Watch] for analysis two year earlier. After analyzing the photos, GSW had reported: ‘All of the pictures are hoaxes and they should not be considered evidence of an extraordinary flying craft.’ Nearly every method of photo fakery possible had allegedly been employed by the one-armed Meier---a suspended model, the double exposure technique, the double print method. The West German UFO group had immediately ceased their investigation of the Meier case.” (Pg. 197)
Of the book, ‘UFO: Contact from the Pleiades,’ he notes, “Near the end of the book was one page comprised of two short paragraphs entitled ‘Metal Samples Analysis.’ ... the text referred to those who had performed the analysis only as ‘the scientists involved.’ Then it claimed that these scientists ‘had never seen anything like it before’… The text failed to divulge even one source, yet the writing abounded in hyperbole.” (Pg. 200-201) He continues, “Mutual UFO Network director Walt Andrus wrote … that the photo book … ‘is an outright fraud perpetrated by the public for financial gain.’ … A U.S. investigation had identified a balloon in several of the photographs that supports the model on a string while Billy Meier, with one arm operating the camera, moves through several different angles.’” (Pg. 201)
Dr. Nathan pointed out, “‘the negatives [Meier] gave us to work with were already out of focus… They couldn’t have been used to make the very high resolution prints he flashed by me. He was not giving me his best data, he wasn’t showing me anything that I could work with.’ ‘The key problem here,’ recalled Lee Elders, ‘[Was] because there had been so much theft of the original material, we didn’t know if we had the originals… Is it first generation, fifth generation?’” (Pg. 221)
He notes, “One day when Sorge was visiting, Popi [Meier’s wife] had suddenly run from the house crying and screaming at her husband… she went to Sorge and secretly gave him many color slides that had been charred by fire… When Sorge examined the partially burned slides he saw immediately they were of a model… ‘I saw pictures of a UFO and it really was a model,’ he said. ‘In the first place I SAW that it was a model, and in the second place I learned it from his wife. She said, ‘Yes, he is working with models.’” (Pg. 224-225)
He concludes, “And where does Meier fit into all of this? I don’t know. I would not call him a prophet, through he may be. I would not rule out impostor, though I have no proof. I know that if you boiled the story in a little you would find a hard residue composed of two things: One would be Meier’s ravings about time travel, space travel, philosophy, and religion; the other would be the comments by the scientists and engineers impressed with the evidence he has produced. I don’t believe the former, nor can I dismiss the latter.” (Pg. 262)
This book will be “must reading” for anyone seriously studying the Billy Meier case.
Author Gary Kinder wrote in the first chapter of this 1987 book, “Meier… had been employed then as a night guard and consequently was often at home during the day. But many people in the neighborhood avoided talking to Meier because he was ‘different.’ He spoke a great deal about Moses and said things other people did not understand… [A neighbor said] ‘He had a terrific fantasy… He was not even odd; he just had his own ideas and believed what he said.’” (Pg. 8) Later, he adds, “The neighbors were certain Meier was crazy. ‘No one took him seriously…’ The mayor of a nearby village said that Meier’s stories were pure fantasy because HE, the mayor, had never seen a UFO in the vicinity. People… laughed at the mention Meier.” (Pg. 17-18)
He recounts, “In the fall of 1977, Lou Zinsstag, who had visited Meier again at the farm, wrote a final letter on the Meier case to [ufologist] Timothy Good and a few other close friends. She entitled the lengthy missive, ‘Personal View of Eduard Meier.’ … ‘Instead of meeting a sickly, soft-spoken invalid, as expected, we found him to be a person full of vigor and strength, very self-assured with a fantastic story to tell… He was very adept in using his right arm… This exposé is written for a very few friends who know me well, and also know Meier’s story… he told us about his girlfriend Samjase from the Pleiades… She seemed to be giving him some extremely interesting information on space and astronomy and to take him for a ride occasionally… In 1976, Meier started to attack in his magazine … every religion in the world, all churches and sects, refuting the need for worship or belief in God… I liked him less and less, and I stopped writing to him. But I continued to bring interested people to his place… I, for one, am sure that Meier’s pictures are no fakes… If indeed he would be able to produce such perfect film materials he would be under contract with the best-paying companies for science fiction films... I know that he does not make money from his photographs, since I bought them for either 1.50 or 2.00 francs apiece.” (Pg. 61-63)
He records, “As he stood on top of the bluff Lee Elders though about what Herbert [Runkel] has said. ‘My moment of truth did not come until I walked to that site… I went up to that hilltop where he shot, I’d say, thirty percent of the best photographs of his collection plus that film, and I knew right then and there something was going on---because of the distance involved, because of the terrain, everything about it. We marked fifty-two yards from where Meier stood to the tree the ship was hovering behind. That’s a long distance. You’re not going to use small models on that.’” (Pg. 117)
He explains, “[Wendelle] Stevens located a physicist … Nell, Davis, who was part owner of … a photo optics laboratory… Though Davis could not perform the ultra-sophisticated computer image processing possible at some of the government-sponsored labs, he could quickly eliminate several possibilities or hoaxing technique or tell Stevens he was wasting his time with the photographs. David consented to test one color print… His conclusions, he told Stevens, would have to be preliminary because a complete and proper scientific analysis could only be conducted on an original negative; Stevens would not be sure that internegative he gave toe Davis was even first generation… Davis first examined the print under a microscope to compare the sharpness of the object with the sharpness of the scene… Next he magnified the photograph … and scanned them with a microdensitometer for uniform density. ‘Examination did not reveal any details which would cast doubt upon the authenticity of the photograph.’” (Pg. 149)
He states, “Although little known in the United States before 1979, the case of Eduard Meier would emerge as one of the most controversial in the history of UFO phenomena. No case had ever offered so much evidence… But that evidence would be seen by few and studied by ever fewer, because Meier’s preposterous and sometimes misunderstood stories of traveling back in time to see Jesus and photographing the Eye of God would be laughed at and dismissed as nonsense---the same as Lee Elders had reacted before he had seen with his own eyes the conditions in which Meier lived, talked with the witnesses, and walked the sites. Meier’s stories couldn’t be true, but neither could the witnesses and the evidence be dismissed easily… Meier offered scientists what they had asked for thirty-two years---something they could place under a microscope or enter into a computer and examine.” (Pg. 189)
He notes, “[Ufologist Jim] Lorenzen had been speaking with other ufologists who had European contacts, and one of them passed on the tumor that the whole case was a big joke, that each time the Americans left Switzerland to return home, the Meier group laughed behind their backs at how easily they had been fooled. Lorenzen also heard that affidavits from alleged witnesses not only railed to support Meier’s claims, but actually refuted them. ‘I think he used models,’ Lorenzen said later, ‘and he threw away those pictures that didn’t turn out. See, they never checked his avenues of developing and printing to see if they stood up…’ Lorenzen said that as far as he knew, no scientist had ever analyzed the photographs.” (Pg. 196)
He points out, “a West German researcher had sent ten Meier photos to GSW [Ground Saucer Watch] for analysis two year earlier. After analyzing the photos, GSW had reported: ‘All of the pictures are hoaxes and they should not be considered evidence of an extraordinary flying craft.’ Nearly every method of photo fakery possible had allegedly been employed by the one-armed Meier---a suspended model, the double exposure technique, the double print method. The West German UFO group had immediately ceased their investigation of the Meier case.” (Pg. 197)
Of the book, ‘UFO: Contact from the Pleiades,’ he notes, “Near the end of the book was one page comprised of two short paragraphs entitled ‘Metal Samples Analysis.’ ... the text referred to those who had performed the analysis only as ‘the scientists involved.’ Then it claimed that these scientists ‘had never seen anything like it before’… The text failed to divulge even one source, yet the writing abounded in hyperbole.” (Pg. 200-201) He continues, “Mutual UFO Network director Walt Andrus wrote … that the photo book … ‘is an outright fraud perpetrated by the public for financial gain.’ … A U.S. investigation had identified a balloon in several of the photographs that supports the model on a string while Billy Meier, with one arm operating the camera, moves through several different angles.’” (Pg. 201)
Dr. Nathan pointed out, “‘the negatives [Meier] gave us to work with were already out of focus… They couldn’t have been used to make the very high resolution prints he flashed by me. He was not giving me his best data, he wasn’t showing me anything that I could work with.’ ‘The key problem here,’ recalled Lee Elders, ‘[Was] because there had been so much theft of the original material, we didn’t know if we had the originals… Is it first generation, fifth generation?’” (Pg. 221)
He notes, “One day when Sorge was visiting, Popi [Meier’s wife] had suddenly run from the house crying and screaming at her husband… she went to Sorge and secretly gave him many color slides that had been charred by fire… When Sorge examined the partially burned slides he saw immediately they were of a model… ‘I saw pictures of a UFO and it really was a model,’ he said. ‘In the first place I SAW that it was a model, and in the second place I learned it from his wife. She said, ‘Yes, he is working with models.’” (Pg. 224-225)
He concludes, “And where does Meier fit into all of this? I don’t know. I would not call him a prophet, through he may be. I would not rule out impostor, though I have no proof. I know that if you boiled the story in a little you would find a hard residue composed of two things: One would be Meier’s ravings about time travel, space travel, philosophy, and religion; the other would be the comments by the scientists and engineers impressed with the evidence he has produced. I don’t believe the former, nor can I dismiss the latter.” (Pg. 262)
This book will be “must reading” for anyone seriously studying the Billy Meier case.
September 13, 2012
I read this book years ago only because it was at the time one of the most well documented UFO cases in history with photos, movies, letters and even impossible descriptions of star systems no human could have known at the time - this was pre-internet, pre photoshop, pre digital age. The guy making all the claims, Eduard Meier, is still alive - 75 as of 2012 - I haven't looked into the case to see if anything has been refuted or new evidence hs come to light, but it was an interesting read, especially if you believe in the possibility of life elsewhere in this immensely and incomprehensibly vast universe....
December 5, 2012
Billy Meier, like George Adamski of an earlier time, has claimed intimate contact with beneficent aliens for years and has provided many unusually clear photographs to "prove" it. While seeming too silly for words to me, Gary Kinder, whose website fails--perhaps understandably--to mention the work, gives Meier's claims a sympathetic hearing in this inconclusive book.
April 27, 2013
I categorized this under Science Fiction AND Non Fiction. I guess you have to make up your own mind how much of each.
July 14, 2023
I bought this old book because of how much I loved Ship of Gold. I'm giving up after having read 47 repetitious pages. I've also just read the Wikipedia page about Eduard Meier that states he now is widely considered a complete fraud and is a convicted thief and forgerer. Not only did he make models of spaceships and photograph them, pretending they were ships from the Pleiades, he even used pictures of two of Dean Martin's dancers, pretending they were women from the Seven Sisters.
I find it interesting that Gary Kinder unwittingly wrote about two men who turned out to be frauds and conmen, Mr. Meier and Tommy Thompson from Ship of Gold. Maybe he's developed some skepticism since publishing these two books.
I find it interesting that Gary Kinder unwittingly wrote about two men who turned out to be frauds and conmen, Mr. Meier and Tommy Thompson from Ship of Gold. Maybe he's developed some skepticism since publishing these two books.
April 25, 2020
Quick read ! Great book although it leaves you wanting more of the story and more from the Palladian’s.
July 20, 2022
there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy etc etc etc
July 31, 2022
I read /Light Years: An Investigation into the Extraterrestrial Experiences of Eduard Meier/, by Gary Kinder:
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Interesting, especially since my one encounter was in the hills above Zurich in Spring 1975.
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Interesting, especially since my one encounter was in the hills above Zurich in Spring 1975.
April 29, 2017
I want to believe.
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