Billy Meier and his prophecies are no different from other forms of channeled information attributed to aliens, angels, or, more broadly, the grids or matrix said to generate the illusion of this reality - a simulated hologram operating within the framework of linear time, often described as a construct designed to study emotions.

Meier may very well have seen a UFO at some point, as many people have. What followed, however, appears to be the creation of an elaborate narrative involving a group called the Plejarens - attractive male and female extraterrestrials who fit a familiar archetype within contactee lore - their names closely resembling of the characters in history.

Little of what Meier presents resonates as true for me, aside from the fact that he genuinely believes in what he is saying. Though most researchers have always been skeptical of his storyline - Meier became part of the broader ufology movement during an era when many individuals were channeling messages centered on themes of "love and light" or warnings that humanity was doomed if they didn't take a more spiritual path. These narratives often mirrored one another, blending spiritual philosophies with dire predictions, and were frequently adopted by people attempting to heal their own unresolved issues through the same belief systems and prophetic frameworks.

Eduard Albert Meier (born 3 February 1937), commonly nicknamed "Billy", is the founder of a UFO religion called the "Freie Interessengemeinschaft fur Grenz- und Geisteswissenschaften und Ufologiestudien" (Free Community of Interests for the Border and Spiritual Sciences and Ufological Studies). He claims to be an alleged alien contactee whose UFO photographs are claimed to show alien spacecraft.

Meier claims to be the seventh reincarnation after six prophets common to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Enoch, Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Immanuel (Jesus), and Muhammad and is in regular contact with extraterrestrial beings he calls the Plejaren.

Meier was born in the town of Bulach in the Zurcher Unterland. He left public schools before finishing 6th grade. In his teens he was convicted multiple times of minor offenses.

In 1953, he was convicted of thievery and forgery and sentenced to a prison term in Rheinau. After escaping from the facility, Meier illegally crossed the border and joined the French Foreign Legion. He went AWOL from the Legion to return home.

In 1965, he lost his left arm in a bus accident in Turkey. Some time later, he met and married a Greek woman, Kalliope Zafiriou, with whom he had three children.

The nickname "Billy" came by way of an American friend who thought Meier's cowboy style of dress reminded her of Billy the Kid.

Meier claims his extraterrestrial encounters began in 1942, at the age of five, when he met an elderly Plejaren man named Sfath. After Sfath's death in 1953, Meier said, he began communicating with an extraterrestrial woman (though not a Plejaren), Asket. He said all contact ceased in 1964, then resumed on January 28, 1975, when he met Semjase, the granddaughter of Sfath along with a Plejaren male named Ptaah.

In 1997, Meier's ex-wife, Kalliope, told interviewers that his photos were of spaceship models he crafted with items like trash can lids, carpet tacks and other household objects, and that the stories he told of his adventures with the aliens were similarly fictitious. She also 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. It was later confirmed that the women in the photographs were members of The Golddiggers performing on The Dean Martin Show.

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

Meier founded "Free Community of Interests for the Border and Spiritual Sciences and Ufological Studies" based on his alleged contacts with Semjase, in the late 1970s and established his Semjase Silver Star Center headquartered in Switzerland.

Meier's photographs and films are claimed by him to show alien spacecraft floating above the Swiss countryside. He calls the alleged spaceships "beamships" from Plejaren.

Beamships

Meier has accumulated a large collection of controversial photographs showing alleged spaceships (called beamships) as well as alleged extraterrestrials (humanoids called the Plejaren). Meier says that the Plejaren gave him permission to photograph and film their beamships in order to produce some of the evidence for extraterrestrial visitation.

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

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

One of Meier's photographs is notable for being the background of the "I want to believe" poster in The X-Files before an intellectual property lawsuit forced producers to change the poster background to a different photo in the fourth season of the series.

Meier's claims were the subject of Contact, a 1987 documentary written and directed by Larry Savadove that presents his story solely through Meier and his supporters, without including skeptical viewpoints. The film is narrated by David Warner, featuring Meier's apologetics Lee Elders and Wendelle Stevens.

He presented metal alloy samples claiming were given to him by the Plejarens and then passed on to researcher Wendelle Stevens who then had them tested by chemist Marcel Vogel. Vogel said that in his view the samples could not have been made by means of contemporary earthly metallurgy as they were apparently produced via cold fusion. Vogel also stated that the metal vanished from the IBM laboratory not long after his work was completed which prevented other scientists from performing their own analyses on it.

The Henoch (Henok) Prophecies, associated with Swiss UFO contactee Billy Meier, are presented as a continuation of an ancient prophetic lineage symbolized by the biblical figure Enoch, through which Meier claimed to convey warnings and teachings received from extraterrestrial beings known as the Plejaren, who emphasized that humanity is approaching a critical crossroads of its own making.

Rather than describing a fixed destiny, these prophecies outline probable future outcomes, including the risk of a devastating World War III involving nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, driven not by divine punishment or alien intervention but by human extremism, misuse of technology, political corruption, and spiritual immaturity.

Central to the Henoch Prophecies is the insistence that free will and self-responsibility determine the future, distinguishing prophecy as a changeable warning rather than an unavoidable prediction, and asserting that humanity alone bears responsibility for averting catastrophe through conscious choice.

The teachings stress that survival and progress depend on spiritual and ethical evolution grounded in reason, critical thinking, harmony with natural law, and personal accountability, rejecting blind belief, religious dogma, or the expectation of salvation by gods or extraterrestrials. Although often discussed alongside Meier's controversial UFO photographs and physical evidence, the prophecies themselves prioritize the message over the phenomena, framing extraterrestrials as non-interfering observers whose role is to inform rather than rescue.

Ultimately, the Henoch Prophecies function less as apocalyptic prediction and more as a civilizational warning, asserting that technological advancement without inner wisdom leads inevitably to self-destruction, while balance, responsibility, and conscious evolution offer humanity the only path away from global disaster.