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A Look At The Billy Meier “Prophecies” 5

A Look at the Billy Meier

“Prophecies.”

Continued from Page 4

It was an analysis of the specific claims about
the moons of Jupiter. Just one small portion of
that report said:
Listed by Michael Horn as part of
Corroboration 163, Billy states in Contact
Report 115, written October 19, 1978, that
Jupiter "has 17 larger moons and several smaller
ones."
Unfortunately, this is too vague to score
as an accurate prophecy. What's the cut-off for a
larger versus smaller one? The four Galilean
satellites make up >99.9% of all the mass of the
moons of Jupiter. By diameter, the smallest
Galilean satellite is 3,122 km in diameter, and
the next-largest moon is Amalthea with a long
radius of 250 km ... more on Amalthea in a bit.
There's another break in size between Leda and
Callirrhoe, where Leda is 16 km and Callirrhoe
is 9 km across, but that's 16 moons Leda and searching for them, just like we'll be looking for Meier’s predictions are. In 115th Contact:
larger, not 17. Most astronomers refer to Jupiter more moons from New Horizons as it gets to A m a l t h e a
as having 4 large moons and then a gaggle of Pluto, and the thirteenth and fourteenth moons <http://www.theyfly.com/PDF/Horn_RingsofJu
smaller ones. The number of known Jovian had just been discovered 5 and 4 years earlier. piter.pdf> The moon closest to Jupiter
satellites now is 66, which is not enumerated in Given that the encounters were in March and (Amalthea) “would only measure approximately
Meier's writings. One might be tempted to say July, and there is a major planetary science 200 km in length, which I defined as a gigantic
this is a miss, but I'm going to be conservative conference in October, it is logical to say that hen's egg.”
and generous and say it's simply too vague moons would be discovered in 1979, but not The true information is something
without a specific definition of "several smaller announced until that DPS meeting in October, different. Amalthea is not the innermost moon
ones." hence, "not become known on the Earth before and it has been determined to be approximately
The next line in the Contact Report, or the month of September." This happens all the 270 km long. This is based on articles in
"CR" for short, is by the alien Semjase, who time where the mission teams work furiously as Science, 1 June 1979 265 +/- 20 km and
stated, "... for certain reasons, that may not soon as the data are downloaded, get their Science, 23 November 1979 270 +/- 15 km.
become known on the Earth before the month of abstracts written and submitted, get the papers Meier’s information, however, matched
September, 1979." So, we wouldn't know for at written and submitted and reviewed, and inaccurate information of multiple newspaper
least 11 months after this CR was written that everything is embargoed until the meeting so and magazine articles in early 1979 which
Jupiter had more than 14 moons that were they can get their big timed press release and the reported that Amalthea was the innermost moon
known to that time. whole team is at the meeting to talk to the and that it was approximately 200 km long.
Now we get into more specifics. There journalists. That's what happens, it's not a leap to Since Meier’s information matched that of the
were 14 moons known prior to Voyager 1's expect that. And so, I would argue that this claim newspaper articles published at the time of
encounter with Jupiter. They started the Jupiter is both falsified - they were known before Meier’s contact, it is clear that the source was
observation phase on January 6, 1979. The September - but it was also a pretty safe one to not alien space travelers, but newspaper
closest encounter with Jupiter was around noon make that they at least would not be known to reporters on Earth.
on March 5, 1979. Jupiter observations stopped the general population until after September, as This is enough to suggest that Meier’s
on April 13, 1979. Voyager 2 started its in during October's DPS meeting. Given that predictions are often based not on the science of
observation phase on April 4, 1979, and ended and the probability and expectation of finding the time but on the science reporting of the time
August 5, 1979. Two were discovered by moons, this is a classic type of safe prediction to and does not reflect the superior knowledge that
Voyager 1 and one by Voyager 2 and announced make that has a high chance of coming true, you would expect from space travelers. I could
in 1979 and 1980. While the images were taken especially when ignoring that the information argue that they should have been able to predict
in 1979, the actual discovery of the moons from was known to the mission scientists before the the existence of the ninth planet far out in the
Voyager 1 images were not made until 1980 in big release. Kuiper Belt. While still a mathematical
two papers by Synnott in Science and Science This situation also illustrates the dangers construct, many astronomers argue for its
News. However, the discovery by Jewitt and of using only press releases as your source for existence, but there is nothing in Meier’s
others of Adrastea was made in August, when something happens because a press release writings to suggest it is out there or that many
submitted that same month as an abstract to the only happens months if not a year or two after smaller objects, now called Dwarf Planets,
Division of Planetary Sciences meeting something has been discovered. You have to would by orbiting the sun.
scheduled for October 1979, and embargoed and make the discovery. You have to run it by The final bit of evidence for the faulty
published in Science in November 1979 as well colleagues. You have to write the paper. You predictions, which also suggests something
as presented at that DPS meeting in October. It's have to submit the paper. You have to have the more sinister comes from Gabrielle Pickard
true that the press release was not made paper peer-reviewed. You have to revise the writing by clicking here.
available until October. Remember, the paper and re-submit and have it re-reviewed.
prophecy was that we wouldn't know about them Then you can get it published which can take (Continued on Page 6)
before September. months. Then, if it's big enough, you get the
One could look at this in a few different sexy press release when your paper is finally A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
ways. First, objectively, one must admit that this published. Meanwhile, dozens if not hundreds or with DR. KEVIN RANDLE
was known to some people on Earth before thousands of people already know about it
September 1979. Second, cynically, one could because of this lengthy process. Daily on
easily predict that moons would be discovered in When talking about Jupiter’s moons, The ‘X’ Zone Broadcast Network
the Voyager images. After all, they were there is one point that is quite important. It
becomes clear what the source for some of WWW.XZBN.NET