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8 Billy Meier: Contactee or Prophet? 8 Billy Meier: Contactee or Prophet? Look Out for That average growth (and this is just an educated both at about the same distance from the Look Out for That camera, and that this distance must be guess) of 1-2 feet between whorls." (March, Tree! 2006) appreciable. From the estimate of tree size, one Tree! may then estimate the size of the wedding-cake Continued from Page 7 craft. Now, according to Professor of Forest Continued from Page 7 Management, J. D. Brodie of Oregon State And here are a couple of photos of a University, who gave me his opinion in 1986, man, who's approximately 6' tall, in basically the tree's height was only 3 to 7 meters (10-23 the same location. You can see that neither he, ft) tall. On the other hand, if the annual top nor the box, is of sufficient height or length to growth is a typical 0.3 to 0.4m (12 to 16 inches; fill the scene, as the WCUFO did. see Fig. 8), the tree's height comes out to be 5.5 to 7.3m, (plus whatever portion of the lower trunk lies unseen below the brow of the ridge). Hence a 7m height seems reasonable for the tree. Photo 35 © FIGU This 6-10 ft estimate of the height of the portion of the tree above the craft then translates to a height for the craft of 4 to 7 feet, and a diameter of 8.8-15.4 ft, or from 2.7 to 4.7 meters. This suggests that it was the same 3.5m craft as shown in Figs. 5 and 6 above, and Photo 33 © Michael Horn hovering very close behind the tree. Another opinion on the tree in question comes from Professor Emeritus Doug Brodie of the College of Forestry, Oregon State University. Photo 37 © FIGU "The tree is one of the European true firs -- Abies species. The picture has only a portion of the top of the crown 10 to 15 feet. There could be anywhere from 10 to 50 feet of tree bole below the picture." (March, 2006) (Note: Photo #850 above is a cropped portion that was somewhat enhanced in brightness and contrast.) Zooming in on the craft in front of a Photo 34 © Michael Horn distant tree. A day later, near the same place, Regarding the tree in the WCUFOZooming in on the craft in front of a distant tree. A day later, near the same place, video Photo 38 © FIGU (http://www.billymeier.com/archives/Wedding_ Cake_ship.mpg), here is information, again Continued on Page 9 from James Deardorff, worth considering http://www.tjresearch.info/Wedcake.htm): Wedding-cake craft partially eclipsed by large fir tree. Only after the English version of Meier's Fotobuch came out did I become aware of his photo #850 as published in Through Space and Time: A Photo Journal of "Billy" Eduard Albert Meier (Tulsa, OK: Steelmark LLC, 2004), p. 114. See Fig. 10. This was in the Fig. 11 (Photo 36 © FIGU #843 ) hills in the general vicinity of the villages/towns Meier's photo #843. of Auenberg, Egg, Girenbad and Hinwil, some Quetzal arranged to have his remotely 15 miles ESE of Zurich. Meier shot it around controlled craft hover in front of an isolated 2:30 pm, April 3, 1981 while standing on the top Norway spruce (picea abies) estimated by Meier of his van, according to his 1999 Verzeichnis. as 15m in height. That day, again in the early One can see 5 or 6 separate main branches of afternoon, he utilized both his Ricoh camera the tree eclipsing most of the right-hand side of and his Saba video camera. Fig. 11 on the left the craft, with more of its branches extending shows one of the Ricoh camera shots. Figs. 10 out to the tree's left side above the craft on up to and 11 below show the scene from a different the tree's top. According to Dr. Edward C. viewing angle and from video-camera frames Jensen, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, when the zoom lens was not employed and Elizabeth P. Ritchie Distinguished Professor, when it was fully employed, respectively (focal Forest Ecology and Natural Resources length of the video camera going from 12 to 75 Education, Oregon State University: mm). The videotaping lasted about six minutes, "The portion of the tree above the and the time for the lens to advance from no potential UFO appears to me to be in the range zoom to full zoom was between 3 and 4 of 6-10 feet. Although it's pretty fuzzy, there seconds. This zooming, and Figs. 10 & 11, ROB McCONNELL appear to be 5 or 6 whorls of branches with an indicate that the hovering craft and the tree are THE ‘X’ ZONE 2009