Hasenbol, part 2 - Hasenbol Revisited
This video represents the second part to the "Hasenbol Set" and shows what I think is the same result as Billy Meier got from filming his model about 20 feet away from the camera while pulling it from left to right. The set up is the most tricky but still pretty easy. It's the same as for the pictures, where you rope up to branches on either side of a field, but this time you tie on two other lengths of fishing line to the ring on top of this particular model. One line goes left, round the tree trunk you're already using and into your hand. The other goes right, round the other tree trunk and into your hand. If you want to "see" the ends of those lines as they sit on the ground you need to tie them onto something that you can see at a glance. I used bag straps because they're colourful and so very easy to see.
Judging by the slow timing between each left and right movement in the original film you pick up one line at a time and walk with it for a short distance and then drop it on the ground. Then you walk over to the other line and pull that for a bit and so on back and forth. Since Meier only has one hand with which to do this it makes sense that there would be a lag in the timing between the movements. At one point in Meier's film though the model changes direction quickly with a very short pause between movements and this is just because you can walk with one of the line handles dropping it close to the other before picking it up thus shortening the pause between movements.
The first fore & back film snippet in this video is done with two hands on purpose, so you can see what it would have looked like had Meier used two hands. The control is much greater because you can dampen each directional movement with the other hand and make it look like it's coming to a sudden stop much more than in the original which wobbles at the end of each movement. What makes this remake especially interesting is the precise nature of the "wobbling" at the end of each pull. The first time I saw how the model behaved was a moment of pure recognition. There in front of me was the exact same characteristics as in Billy Meier's film. As far as I know no-one has redone this particular footage before.
The last snippet in this video that shows me in the frame moving from left to right was taken on the very first day - 3rd April 2010. When previously writing down each Meier film I had circled the "fore & back" footage as the only film I had no idea how to re-create so when I went out on that first day I didn't intend on creating this footage at all but it occured to me suddenly that i could use this simple method to achieve the right result. It's then just a matter of choosing the right kind of location that allows you to create that false perspective "way out there" look.
In the end I did this five separate times at five different locales and the ones I used for this video are mostly from the very last time I did it when the sky was cloudy. In the very last snippet the tree on the left of frame is shaking quite a bit in the wind and that's why this particular piece of film is included. Michael Horn always comments on this in the original suggesting that if the wind is blowing so hard how can the UFO be a model? Well, in this footage the same thing is happening and it is a model. It's a bit boring to watch because it's far away, or so it looks, and because all it does is go left and right at whatever timing you choose. I hope there is enough with just me moving in frame once to make this technique obvious. I don't tend to spell things out because I assume people will get it by seeing just that by itself.
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