The Billy Meier UFO hoax: Debunking the Pleiadian Beamships, part 1
Debunking Billy Meier's Pleiadian Beamships, part 1 - The 'Vanishing' Craft and 'Pendulum' Film
The first video that can be found below, is a compilation of films and photos taken of the simplest type of UFO model. Meier took pictures of this type when he started faking his pictures before moving onto the more complicated models such as the "Wedding Cake." It takes a very short amount of time to build. When it's suspended between two trees at a height of about 7 - 10 feet, across a wide enough gap, you can crouch down or stand up to make the model look like it's lifting off or landing relative to the background scenery, as in the first pieces of footage here. There are also a couple of clips from Meier's footage to show exactly what the original looks like and compare the particular movements of the "ships." In my opinion I've replicated exactly those movements - bobbing up and down, swaying left to right, disappearing and rising up in the frame, etc. All done by throwing some fishing line over a tree branch and holding one end with a model on the other, which you can pull up to any height in the frame.
Because I was stuck with only one potential location for the footage covered in this video I couldn't get a landscape that was high enough above the scene to recreate the angle of the original. In Meier's "horizon jump" film we are looking down somewhat at his UFO so we can see the top of it. This means the tree he would have suspended his model from is on a hill that's higher and steeper than mine allowing him to stand above the level of his model. The location I used was a partially flat plateau that went back down behind me so I couldn't physically get any higher. Dropping the model to see its top would have put it at a level lower than the horizon which no longer has quite the same visual impact. That's the unfortunate restriction of living in an incomparable area to Switzerland and not having a car with which to find a better location.
Once again the first "Pendulum Film" is shown and the characteristics between the two is much more obvious when they are shown back to back like this. I think I "got it" in every way and noticed so many little details that become quite obvious when you actually try it, like suspending from a bendy branch that is influenced by the wind giving strange looking hovering movements. In the first version when the swing is big you can see the model bouncing down as it comes around the back of the tree because there's a twig (on the branch) in the way, changing the arc swing. Apparently in Meier's original there is a height change. Perhaps it's just a twig!
If you want to see the set up for the pendulum it's on the other video called "That's Complete Pendulum!" which was taken locally, as well, with a Barn in the background and a tree line that seems natural. This second version was taken by tying the control line to the outer edge of the model instead of the top like the first version. That gives you amazing looking control on the model preventing any jerking when you change it's direction suddenly. It's movements look suitably weird and I think they are spot on in terms of acute detail. It changes direction quickly, it spins in ever increasing circles over the tree while accelerating to the left, it makes the tree top swish over at the end when it does a 90 degre turn, and it rises up to finish. It's all there.
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