I never thought I would find the supposed beamship sounds of Billy Meier when I set out to duplicate his pictures and films. The fact that it hapened on the very first day I went out, 3rd April 2010, is testament to the fact that I would have found them no matter what since I used, what I consider to be, the same techniques as Meier himself - UFO models, fishing line and trees. It's the combination of fishing line and UFO models that creates the sound, along with the wind of course. I used an extra metal lid on top of the models I made with plastic plates and that seems to have helped with the generation of great sounds. I had thought Meier used some strange method to get the sounds in order to confound criticism by making them effectively irreproducible so was I surprised to hear the sound as soon as I put those small models up.
The fishing line streched between two trees is taught like a guitar string and will automatically vibrate in the wind. The tighter and thinner the fishing line the higher the pitch of the sounds, exactly like a guitar string. Of course the string alone will not create great volume because you need a resonator to go with it that pushes the air, to create sound, like the main body of a guitar or the surface of a plastic plate in this instance. When you wire two plates together, to look like a flying saucer, they will vibrate against each other creating the sounds given to them by the fishing line while it vibrates. They are just tied onto the main line with another bit of line and a couple of standard knots. Nothing fancy.
Using glue to make the models dampens the sound to a very soft noise. It is there, so that the larger models make them, but it's the simplest models that make the loudest sounds because they are free to fully vibrate. That means that Meier only had to have a few plastic plates, of roughly the same proportions, and a bit of chicken wire to make them. Then he only had to take them into the surrounding woods and set them up between various trees and wait for the wind. Very easy judging by the lack of people in those hills in Switzerland. It would account for the prominent sound of wind in the original recordings, available at theyfly.com, and the sound of birdsong. Also the rising and falling of the volume is consistent with the technique outlined here, as I found by actually doing it. If you put a tape recorder, like Meier, close by one of these models as it sounds off you would get the exact volume that we hear in his original recordings.
It is said that the sounds were heard from miles around which is an issue that has been raised in response to the beamship sounds video now on youtube but the UFO models I used to get the sounds make an aweful din sometimes. People walking their dogs on the heath where I was could hear the noise a long way off with just two of them so if I had put several around the heath it would have carried into the suburbs for sure. If the wind is too strong or gusty though, the vibrations don't accumulate and intensify. It is as loud as the wind permits really and the very nature of sound carrying through air is dependent on the time of year to an extent. Bizarre as that may sound the refraction of sound waves is dependent on the temperature of the air they are travelling through so in the summer you can hear people when they are further away than if it was winter. I'm not sure when the sounds were recorded but no matter the time of year they would have been heard for a long distance judging by the wind in those Swiss hills.
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