In case you thought Billy Meier went out with disco:

[glubglubglub]

recent presentation of newish pictures:<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.vidilife.com/index.cfm?f=media.playRefer&vchrMediaProgramIDCryp=62B0C427-A25F-4684-8160-5&vchrJoinMedia=62B0C427-A25F-4684-8160-5">www.vidilife.com/index.cf...684-8160-5</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>SEE! prehistoric earth!<br>SEE! a plant with an insect head!<br>SEE! undisclosed satellites around mars!<br>SEE! Billy + a Pleiadian in spacesuits!<br><br>all this and more. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :hat --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/pimp.gif ALT=":hat"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>

[nashvillebrook]

i want a ride in the spaceship!<br><br>i can't help myself...i HAVE to enjoy this stuff. planimals? what's not to love? <p></p><i></i>

[glubglubglub]

I always get a kick out of this stuff...what I really want to know is if Meier believes his own BS, and if not what his motivations are. I mean, I can imagine a bunch of reasons why someone'd start a UFO cult, but I'd like to actually know why he did so.<br><br>The bug-headed plants (planimals? anipants?) are truly bizarre, though -- he might fool people with the pics of satellites but planimals just aren't attested in the fossil record, period. <p></p><i></i>

[Quentin Quire]

Can't view this due to the fact I'm not on broadband, but I'm sure I can expect Ray Harryhausen doing Close Encounters on a micro-budget ...<br><br>IMO Meier introduced many of the themes prevalent in modern 'believer' ufology including the space brothers concept and iconic imagery of spacecraft and their inhabitants.<br><br>It wouldn't surprise me if he was a willing/unwilling participant in early disinfo/psy-ops involving the shaping and smearing of ufology.<br><br>I don't think he can be written off purely as a crank ... <p></p><i></i>

[glubglubglub]

the video's just somebody flipping through a photo album and explaining a bunch of Meier's latest image -- certainly none of these I'd seen elsewhere.<br><br>The pictures of spaceships are passable at the resolution you see them at, but then there's just whackiness -- a truly crappy dino pic (MEIER TRAVELS BACK IN TIME TO SEE DINOS!) and a picture of a plant with a bug head (BECAUSE HIGHER INSECT LIFE SPRINGS FROM LOWER PLANT LIFE) -- together with some audience ambiance at the pics.<br><br>I'd love to see Jeff's take on Meier at some point, but in the meantime this really is an entertaining clip -- starts off not implausible, goes steadily downhill as the pics get wilder. <p></p><i></i>

[Quentin Quire]

That's what I mean. His 'pictures' were always crystal-clear pics of hubcaps and strange lights that always seemed posed and perfect compared to what I would consider pics of 'genuine' ufo's. <br><br>I'd also like to see Jeff's take on Meier and Adamski, two proponents of the extraterrestrial hypothesis who have had a lot of influence on ufology today. An influence that could have feasibly been exerted by intelligence agencies. <p></p><i></i>