10 Facts About Billy Meier

Billy Meier presented other material during the 1970s such as metal samples, sound recordings and film footage.

Billy Meier has been widely characterized as a fraud by skeptics and ufologists, who suggest that he used models to hoax photos claimed to show alien spacecraft.

Billy Meier was born in the town of Bulach in the Zurcher Unterland.

Billy Meier went AWOL from the Legion to return home.

Billy Meier founded a non-profit organization based on his alleged contacts with Semjase, called the "Freie Interessengemeinschaft fur Grenz- und Geisteswissenschaften und Ufologiestudien" in the late 1970s and established his "Semjase Silver Star Center".

Some of Billy Meier's photos are claimed by him to show prehistoric Earth scenes, extraterrestrials, and celestial objects from an alleged non-Earthly vantage point.

Billy Meier's claims are widely characterized as fraudulent by scientists, skeptics, and most ufologists, who say that his photographs and films are hoaxes.

In interviews with author Gary Kinder, Billy Meier admitted to using models to recreate scenes after his wife showed photos of incomplete models he thought he had destroyed by burning.

Billy Meier said that photos of purported extraterrestrial women "Asket" and "Nera" were really photos of Michelle DellaFave and Susan Lund, members of the singing and dancing troupe The Golddiggers.

Billy Meier's story is documented in Contact, written and directed by Larry Savadove in 1987.