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6 Billy Meier: Contactee or Prophet? 6 Billy Meier: Contactee or Prophet? Look Out for That Look Out for That Tree! Tree! Continued from Page 4 Continued from Page 4 The following is an explanation, by James Deardorff, regarding the tree in the series of photos that follows. Please note that the opinions he refers to are those of forestry experts, who know the difference between models and real, full-sized trees, something the skeptics seem stubbornly unable to understand. (see: http://www.tjresearch.info/moretree.htm): THE TREE'S MATURITY. In 1985 I showed the photo that best displays the tree's trunk (#66), plus another of this series, to two professors of Forest Science at Oregon State University to determine if they could identify the type of tree. These were Profs. Richard. K. Hermann (now retired) and Edward. C. Jensen. Hermann was raised in western Germany and was very familiar with this species of tree. With Photo 15 © FIGU certainty they stated that it was a mature abies may notice a nodule on each side of the upper alba, i.e., a European silver fir. Other forestry trunk, which the forestry professors pointed out experts contacted more recently were less as being spots where a couple of limbs had been unanimous about the species identification, with pruned or broken off, such that later growth had picea abies (Norwegian spruce) suggested as an not yet obscured those spots. Unfortunately, additional or secondary possibility (Hanley, these most important considerations were not 2001; Hansen, 2001; Holdenrieder, 2001). investigated by Korff. This tree was at least 13m However, none suggested that it could have tall if the information Meier was told by his been a small potted tree or model tree. Thus it contactor is correct: that the width of this was no mere 1- or 2m tree, which would exhibit beamship was 7m. In this case, the trunk an unmistakably juvenile appearance in its diameter down as low as it is visible in the profile, density of branches and trunk, as will be photo would be about 64cm. discussed soon. Prof. Hermann pointed out that its crown was already showing signs of "stork- nesting," or near cessation of vertical growth, Photo 18 © FIGU due, they presumed, to the environmental stress of excessive smog east of Zurich and/or to acid Fig. 2 (Cropped Photo 16 © FIGU #66) rain. A potted, "baby" tree is far too young to exhibit such effects. Enlargement of tree's trunk, from photo #66, brightness and contrast enhanced. See also Elders & Elders (1983, p. 64). Here is a panoramic view of the area, the tree is no longer there. Photo 16 © FIGU Photo 19 © FIGU Photo 21 © FIGU Here is a detail of the segment showing where the tree was, with a photo of the tree and UFO overlaid. Photo 17 © FIGU Photo 20 © FIGU The ‘X’ Zone Radio & TV Show Monday - Friday / 10 pm - 2 am EDT The tree's trunk alone indicates its www.xzonetv.com general maturity, as seen here in Fig. 2. One Photo 22 © FIGU