For my holiday leisure I was watching a new Billy Meier's UFO story

[frogmarch]

2. Billy Meier? hahahaha

I am surprised – make that, flabbergasted – that anyone takes the Billy Meier UFO stuff seriously and even makes videos about it. Well, maybe the videos are tongue in cheek.

John Shirley puts it better than I could:

http://www.darkecho.com/skepticalbeliever/channel.html

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You want to talk about UFOs? We can talk about UFOs. But you want to talk about CHANNELING UFOs? For a minute or two, sure.

I can't make a whole lot of time for horseshit.

Here's what I want to know: why can't ufology eliminate, at least, the obviously silly? The stuff that makes rational people turn away from ufology muttering, "Get a clue!" Stuff like channeling, and people who tell stories about visits aboard UFOs in which the aliens act just like the ones the experiencer saw in movies when they were little; abduction experiences that are silly in their resemblance to bad science fiction movies. Billy Meier videos of "dinosaurs" and his photos of the pretty alien lady "Asket". Or videos of airplanes and helicopter lights, of really, really obvious stunt kites. I mean, stuff that doesn't even fool my kids -- who laughed at an Ed Walters' "UFO" video I was screening; howled at its silliness without any prompting from me. Why can't we, at least, turn away from sheer silliness?

Sure, lots of ufologists ridicule Meier, for example, now, but some take him seriously and for a long time many more did. The German UFO magazine UFO-Kurier reports that a Meier photo of Asket, a pretty lady from "the Pleides", was actually taken from a videotape of The Dean Martin Show! "Asket" was some woman dancing or singing on The Dean Martin Show -- and she had an exotic face so Billy Hubcaps took a picture of the screen and said it was a blurry photo taken aboard a spaceship. UFO-Kurier shows both pictures for comparison. It's her all right. But why did we have to go that far to prove anything? Show me a picture of a pretty lady with straight flaxen hair and a 70s look, a blurry background, tell me it was taken on a spaceship, and I'll laugh, and I'll say, "That's silly." I didn't need the Kurier's proof. (Maybe they're just providing it for amusement). Meier was patently silly from the start.

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I agree with John Shirley: Why can’t ufology eliminate, at least, the obviously silly? Like this UFO crap from Billy Hubcaps...er, Meier.