Mostrar código-fonte de Scientific Experts' Comments on Meier's Evidence

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'''From Author Gary Kinder's &quot;Open Letter to the UFO Community&quot;'''

'''David Froning:''' At the time, Dr. Froning had already spent 25 years as an astronautical engineer at
McDonnell Douglas in highly classified military defense and, in 1979, became interested in Meier's
accounts of Plejaren starship travel, which mentioned tachyon propulsion. Dr. Froning found Meier's
account of tachyon propulsion (which was only beginning to be discussed by a very small and select
group of theoretical physicists), and his calculations for above light speed travel to be amazing. In 1983,
he was pursuing his Quantum Interstellar Ramjet idea (JBIS vol. 33, no. 7, July 1980; AIAA 81-1533,
July1981; IAF-85-492, October, 1985) and plugged in his Quantum Ramjet performance equations,
assuming: a given starship density, vacuum energy conversion efficiency (in transforming positrons and
electrons within the quantum vacuum into photons), and vacuum energy conversion scales of distance of
the order of the Compton wavelength. The resulting vehicle acceleration enabled achievement of almost
light speed in about 4.3 hours and deceleration from light speed in about 4.3 hours. Meier said that the
elapsed time during the "hyperspace jump" took only several seconds. Thus, trip time between the
Pleiades star cluster and Earth with Froning's slower-than-light Quantum Ramjet Drive plus a
hypothetical tachyon drive would be 8.6 hours, which was within 20% of the Plejaren trip time reported
by Meier. But, while Froning's calculations were based on many arbitrary assumptions, and in no way
proved the truthfulness of Meier's account (since it was a theoretical system he was working on, only time
will tell as to which are correct) Froning was somewhat startled that his arbitrary flight time computations
were within 20% of the flight time mentioned by Meier. Regarding the Meier material, Dr. Froning also
publicly stated that, &quot;My colleagues and I may have made breakthroughs in our understanding
of possibilities and ways for traveling faster than light from Billy Meier's accounts of his encounters with
the Plejarens.&quot;

'''Eric Eliason:''' U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona, created image-processing software so
astrogeologists can analyze photographs of planets beamed back from space, spent two years producing
the intricate radar map of cloud-covered Venus acquired by Pioneer 10: "In the photographs there were no
sharp breaks where you could see it had been somehow artificially dubbed. And if that dubbing was
registered in the film, the computer would have seen it. We didn't see anything."

'''Robert Post:''' JPL photo laboratory for 22 years, was the head of that lab in 1979, and oversaw the
developing and printing of every photograph that came out of JPL at the time: "From a photography
standpoint, you couldn't see anything that was fake about the Meier photos. That's what struck me. They
looked like legitimate photographs. I thought, 'God, if this is real, this is going to be really something.&quot;

'''Dr. Michael Malin:''' Principal investigator for the Mars Orbiter Camera on NASA's Mars Global
Surveyor spacecraft at Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS), San Diego, CA. Analyzed Meier's
photographs in 1981: "I find the photographs themselves credible, they're good photographs. They appear
to represent a real phenomenon. The story that some farmer in Switzerland is on a first name basis with
dozens of aliens who come to visit him ... I find that incredible. But I find the photographs more credible.
They're reasonable evidence of something. What that something is I don't know." Malin also said, "If the
photographs are hoaxes then I am intrigued by the quality of the hoax. How did he do it? I'm always
interested in seeing a master at work."

'''Steve Ambrose:''' Sound engineer for Stevie Wonder, inventor of the Micro Monitor radio set and speaker
that fits inside Wonder's ear, analyzed the Meier sound recordings of one of the UFO's as it hovered
above him. Not only was he unable to duplicate the sounds with synthesizers, he found they created
totally unique patterns on a spectrum analyzer and on the oscilloscope. Another sound engineer named
Nils Rognerud corroborated Ambrose's findings. Think about this for just a moment, these experts, using
state-of-the-art equipment, were unable to duplicate the sounds and the unique patterns they generated.

'''Wally Gentleman:''' Director of Special Effects on the Canadian Film Board for ten years, director of
special photographic effects for Stanley Kubrick's film 2001, had viewed Meier's 8mm film segments of
the UFO's. Showed that the manpower and costs to fake the films were clearly beyond Meier's reach:
"My greatest problem is that for anybody faking this" (referring to one of the photographs) "the shadow
that is thrown onto that tree is correct. Therefore, if somebody is faking it they have an expert there. And
being an expert myself, I know that that expert knowledge is very hard to come by. So I say, 'Well, is that
expert knowledge there or isn't it there?' Because if the expert knowledge isn't there, this has got to be
real."

'''Nippon TV:''' Did their own examination and also came to the conclusion that there were no models,
special effects or hoaxing involved in Meier's films.

'''Marcel Vogel:''' Research chemist for IBM for twenty-two years, held thirty-two patents, and invented the
magnetic disk coating memory system still used in IBM disk memories. A specialist in the conversion of
energy inside crystals, Vogel probed crystalline structures with the most complete optical microscopic
equipment available in the world - a system of scanning electron microscopes costing $250,000. Lieut.
Col. Wendelle Stevens, USAF (Ret.): One of the original investigators in the Meier case. In 1979, he sent
Vogel crystals and metal samples Meier had received from the Plejaren. Vogel reported, &quot;When I touched
the oxide with a stainless steel probe, red streaks appeared and the oxide coating disappeared. I just
touched the metal like that, and it started to deoxidize and become a pure metal. I have never seen a
phenomenon like that before.&quot; Of another metal sample containing nearly every element in the periodic
table, Vogel stated, &quot;Each pure element was bonded to each of the others, yet somehow retained its own
identity.&quot; At 500 X magnification thulium was revealed. &quot;Thulium exists only in minute amounts. It is
exceedingly expensive, far beyond platinum, and rare to come by. Someone would have to have an
extensive metallurgical knowledge even to be aware of a composition of this type", said Vogel. At 1600 X
Vogel said, "A whole new world appears in the specimen. There are structures within structures - very
unusual." At 2500 X he found that the sample was, &quot;metal, but at the same time ... it is crystal!"

Vogel put the full weight of his expertise in these summary comments: "With any technology that I know
of, we could not achieve this on this planet! ... And I think it is important that those of us who are in the
scientific world sit down and do some serious study on these things instead of putting it off as people's
imagination." Again, here is another top-level scientific specialist who is unable to duplicate the material
presented to him by Meier.

== References ==

* [http://www.theyfly.com/PDF/MeierEvidence.pdf TheyFly.com]