Debunking Billy Meier's Pleiadian Beamships, part 2 - The 'Hubcap UFO'
The first video that can be found below is the second compilation of UFO footage and Photos dealing with probably the most famous variation type "ship." To me it looks like a tea pot or something and it's been called the "Hubcap UFO" because of the ridges around the outer rim creating a sort of fluted effect, like a hubcap, but if you look at it close up it's flat around the rim. The little gold squares in the outer edge along with the gold ridges above and between them create the illusion. I used Charger plates because they resembled the basic shape the most and fitted it with plastic plates, a plastic lid, an ashtray from a shisha pipe and the top piece from an ornamental lamp outside the front door. For the top I think Meier might have used something from a trophy with two small handles but you can only guess when it comes to finding the specific item. Until he reveals it, that is, but that's not gonna happen. So we'll probably never know. Meier's ex-wife might know.
When Suspended and pulled it behaved exactly like the original particularly when it came to wobbling. According to Meier the ship is supposed to be about 7 metres across but I managed to get all his shots framed the same way with the 13" model while using the same camera as him, an Olympus 35 ECR rangefinder which I bought on ebay for £1.50. The initial lift off is typical of what you can do with false perspective and a modern digital camera that you can line up with the background to get a model to look like it's on the ground. To "take off" you just crouch down. What follows is a series of previously released videos concerning what Meier filmed and photographed at Hasenbol edited together to show the results of suspending either across a field, between trees, or directly from tree branches themselves. No other method is necessary to reproduce these images. If the model looks good, the pictures look good. It's automatic, especially with that camera!
The most difficult piece of footage in the Hasenbol group has to be the "Hill Jump" where the nice looking ship bobs and hangs at the top of Meier's frame before popping back in, over the brow of the hill in the bottom left part of the frame. It appears to "Jump" the distance in a flash demonstrating high tech wizardry. Then it glides up looking quite stiff, without wobbling, at an angle. It goes up and right, up and right, over and over getting higher and higher in the frame, until it reaches its original position. I was stumped at first but tried difference things until I realised a simple way of doing it if you only have one hand like Meier. The trick is to set it up like the pendulum film where you tie a line to the outer edge of the ship. That stops the wobbling. The edge line is tied off to your belt or anything suitable you are wearing. You can use a tent peg in the ground just behind the model at full extension from the camera so when you walk away from the camera the model comes towards the camera. All you have to do is mark the left frame edge with a jumper so you don't accidently appear in the film as you walk away from the camera. For the rest of the footage a horizontal suspension line is used between trees across a field such that it can only be pulled left or right which is exactly what we see in the original.
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