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SUBJECT: THE FARMER AND THE COSMONAUTS FILE: UFO126
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PART 5
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...According to Ken Dimwiddie, one of the technicians at De Anza
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Systems, who was present when Diletosso appeared in the guise of a
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prospective customer, it was Diletosso himself who assigned the
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colors on the computer's read-out screen. In other words, the
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colors may indicate almost anything about the actual qualities of
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the original photograph. They have little value except to satisfy
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Jim Diletosso's aesthetic fancy.
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Computer-aided analyses of the Meier pictures by Ground Saucer
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Watch, however, are devastating by comparison. They inspired two
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GSW researchers, Fred Adrian and William Spaulding, to describe
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them as "hoaxes, both crude and grandiose."
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Even without the aid of computer enhancement the photographs are
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dubious. Shadows on the Pleiadean craft do not conform to the
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light in the landscape, and the sharpness of the UFO images
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indicates that the object shown is extremely close to the camera --
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as a model would be. (GSW's estimate is that the various
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"spaceships" are, in fact, between 8 and 12 inches in diameter.)
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Fuzziness that would result from atmospheric effects is often
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lacking.
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Where the images are more consistent with expectations, one is
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still baffled by the testimony of Meier himself. Despite the
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constant contacts and the priceless photographic evidence he was
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gathering on behalf of mankind, Meier never bothered to repair or
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replace his allegedly broken camera, whose lens was stuck, focused
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on infinity. Yet different focusings DO seem to have been
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achieved -- resulting in 'distant' objects coming out suitably
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fuzzy.
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But then the testimony concerning Meier and his photographic
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techniques occasionally leaves the disinterested enquirer gasping.
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It should be pointed out that Billy Meier lost his left arm in an
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accident, which one would expect to make for difficulties with a
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camera. Wendelle Stevens nevertheless has made the startling
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claim that Meier shot all his pictures from the hip, because the
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mirror in his camera had 'jammed closed' as well. And yet he
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manages to center his UFOs in every frame with amazing precision.
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Jim Diletosso also says that a professional photographic expert
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claimed he would need 'a million dollars' to duplicate the Meier
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pictures. Less excitably, Wendelle Stevens attempts to debunk the
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claims that the UFOs are models by asking: "How many models can a
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one-armed man carry on a moped when he is driving with the only
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arm he's got?" One might reply: "As many as will fit in a bag."
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[[A Type-4 spacecraft over Mount Auruti, Switzerland,
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photographed by Meier on 29 March, 1976, is reproduced. Two
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computer enhanced images from the photograph reveal a great deal
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about the picture. One picture shows, in the words of Ground
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Saucer Watch who made the computer analyses, "evidence of a linear
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structure" above the craft -- in plain English, a string or thin
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rod. The structure is equally clear in the computerised
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enlargement. In addition, study of the focus of this picture
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indicates the object is close to the camera and is therefore small
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-- about 8 inches (20 centimetres) across, not 23 feet (7 metres)
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as claimed. [A second picture of a Type-4 ship taken within a few
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minutes of the previous picture shows the disc in the center of
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the image hovering next to a bare tree]. The craft is said to be
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hovering beyond the tree, which is about 165 feet (50 metres
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away). Edge enhancement of the picture revealed, according to GSW,
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inconsistencies between the shadows on the disc and on the tree.
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This suggests that the UFO and the landscape images have been
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superimposed. The color-contoured image suggested to GSW that the
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UFO was actually superimposed ON TOP of the tree image, as if the
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UFO were closer than the tree -- indicating "very sloppy work", in
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Kal Korff's words. Analysis of another picture of three ships over
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a hill revealed that "the focus on the discs is much sharper than
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on the trees. Again there is evidence that the UFO images were
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superimposed on the landscape picture."]]
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...Genesis III have published some remarkable claims on behalf
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of Meier, yet none of these claims has been validated by
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independant research. Wendelle Stevens may attempt to disarm the
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ufologist Jim Lorenzen by saying, "As you well know, Jim, the book
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was never designed to present any hard facts," yet it gives every
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impression of doing just that.
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As for Meier himself, it is possible that some SUBJECTIVE
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experience lies behind the discredited material evidence. If the
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stories of voices in the head, going for rides in 'pear-shaped UFOs'
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with 'a very old man' at the age of five, and the sightings he had
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from a very early age are anything to go by, this may be the best
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explanation. In which case, the model spacecraft (whose existence
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Meier doesn't deny) may well have been constructed as a result of
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an actual series of contactee experiences, however unlikely it is
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that these represent an attempt by any Pleiadeans to get in touch
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with us on Earth. If so, then Billy Meier has unfortunately
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allowed his experience to be turned by others into something like
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an industry.
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From "The Unexplained: The Alien World" by Peter Brookesmith.
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Orbis Publishing Ltd. London. <C> 1984
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