Billy Meier’s Photographs of UFOs, Laser Pistols, Dinosaurs, and More — Switzerland & India, 1964–1981 (Featuring New Photos from Wendelle Stevens’ Archive)

Billy Meier, a Swiss contactee and UFO photographer, is known for his photographs and films of alleged extraterrestrial encounters, including the Plejaren, a human-like extraterrestrial civilization. His case, which spans from 1964 to 1981, includes hundreds of photographs, films, and audio recordings, and is considered one of the largest collections of UFO evidence. During his travels in India in 1964, he captured photographs of locations such as Mehrauli, New Delhi, the Qutb Minar, and the Ashoka Ashram. These photographs, part of his Bachtelhörnli series, show a Plejaren "beamship" performing a demonstration flight over the Swiss countryside, producing some of the clearest daylight UFO photographs associated with his case. Wendelle Stevens, an UFO investigator, called it "the biggest, most spectacular, longest-running, most productive case in the history of the phenomenon."

Meier claimed to have photographed a Plejaren craft during his "Great Journey" in July 1975, traveling aboard extraterrestrial spacecraft and capturing images of distant planets, prehistoric scenes, and strange lifeforms. He also photographed the so-called "Wedding Cake UFO" during sessions in 1981, including at Dürstelen and near Hinwil. The object was named for its stacked, tiered shape. The Meier case included alleged landing traces, such as circular and triangular formations in the ground and vegetation, and several of these sites were photographed and measured by witnesses. Meier also claimed to have photographed a laser weapon in 1977, which was said to have been used for a demonstration. The photographs show him and a woman, Alena, holding the weapon, and an oval hole through an apple tree.

Meier's photographs and reports have been scrutinized by UFO investigators, including Kal K. Korff, who reexamined his Swiss UFO sequences using photographs, site visits, and earlier investigation reports. Korff argued that some of the famous beamship photographs could be explained through small models, suspension methods, photographic effects, or incorrect claims about the locations where they were taken. He compared photographs attributed to Meier's travels near Venus with existing spacecraft imagery, particularly photographs returned by Mariner 10, and argued that similarities between the images indicated that publicly available space photographs had been copied or rephotographed. Meier claimed to have observed and photographed the Apollo-Soyuz mission from an extraterrestrial spacecraft in July 1975, and seven photographs connected with Contact Report 31 were later published in Plejadisch-plejarische Kontakt Berichte, Block 1, pages 232 and 234. Korff challenged these photographs by comparing them with known Apollo-Soyuz mission imagery and questioning features of the supposed spacecraft window or viewing screen visible around the images.

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