The Moons of Jupiter and Billy Meier

Here’s a question that has come up recently, given all the attacks on me. If Billy Meier was not receiving his “secret” information from his Pleiadian pals, where did he get it?

Can we find a source and can we prove it?

How about this?

According to the 115^th Contact, which took place on October 19, 1978, but was not published until 1982/1986, we are told that the moon closest to Jupiter, which is named Amalthea, “would only measure approximately 200 km in length, which I defined as a gigantic hen's egg.”

Amalthea as photographs by
Voyager.

This information is inaccurate. According to Science, June 1, 1979, the diameter of the moon was given as 265 kilometers, plus or minus 20 km and in Science, on November 23, 1979 it size was calculated as 270 km, plus or minus 15 km. Amalthea is not the moon closest to Jupiter, and it is now thought to be 250 kilometers or more long.

Meier is close on this, but the measurements for Amalthea, as they appeared in the newspaper, suggest that is the source of his information. The New York Times on March 7, 1979 reported Amalthea as 224 km long, Aviation Week reported 200 -  220 km long on March 12, 1979, and The New York Times on April 1, 1979 reported it as 160 km long.

To be fair, you can suggest that Meier’s estimate of the size isn’t all that far off, but it is, in fact inaccurate. The size as reported by Meier is smaller than the actual size of that moon and seems to match those sizes from the newspaper. It would seem that space-faring race would be able to judge the size of that moon more accurately than they did.

However, Amalthea is not the closest to Jupiter, though until 1979, that was the information available. The closest to Jupiter is Metis which was discovered in 1979 in photographs taken by Voyager 1.  Next in line is Adrastea, also discovered in 1979 but was discovered in photographs taken by Voyager 2 and is the first natural moon to be discovered by images taken from a spacecraft rather than

Adrastea, one of the
70 moons of Jupiter
and the second closest
to the planet.

through a telescope. Both Metis and Adrastea, are much smaller than Amalthea, something less than half its size.

Interestingly, Amalthea was discovered in September 1892 by Edward Emerson Barnard. So, in October 1978, the astronomical information was that Amalthea was the closest to Jupiter, but about a year later that information was revised. It’s odd that Meier didn’t know that when he talked about these things in his 115^th Contact, if he was dealing with space travelers.

The take away here is that Meier was wrong about the size of Amalthea, though not by much. I’m not comfortable calling it a complete miss, though the information about its size does seem to come from the newspaper articles published at the time rather than another source.

The real problem is the claim that it is closest to Jupiter. This is not true. It is the third in distance, but in 1979, it was thought to be the closest. This is a miss and was not based on anything other than the information available in 1979.

DISCLOSURE is Coming?

There has been some talk inside the UFO community that DISCLOSURE is on the horizon with Hillary Clinton saying that if she wins the election, she’ll release the hidden UFO files. Others have said that President Obama has suggested that he’ll release these files before the expiration of his term, which would mean that it might come tomorrow or as late as January of 2017.

To all this, I say, “Nonsense.”

Why?

Because we’ve heard all this before. Remember Jimmy Carter, who had sighted

Venus and Jupiter in formation. Photo copyright by Kevin
Randle.

Venus and thought that it was an alien spacecraft. He thought that he would get to the bottom of UFO trouble. Nothing ever came from that, though these were some interesting times. There was even a suggestion that DISCLOSURE was going to happen almost immediately, but, in the end nothing came of it.

Bill Clinton said the same thing. But then he was asked about the Roswell case and said that he hadn’t been told about it. It was during the Clinton administration that the Air Force “reinvestigated” the Roswell case and determined that what fell was just weather balloons and rawin radar targets. Didn’t matter that the explanation was essentially the same that they had claimed in 1947, it was the answer to the question that seemed to appease many.

The point, however, is that DISCLOSURE was at hand, according to them, and for some reason it never happened. Skeptics will say it was because there was nothing more to release. DISCLOSURE had happened when the Project Blue Book files were declassified in 1976. There was nothing in them that was spectacular other than evidence that a classified project had been carried out, contrary to the various claims made by various officials over the years.

True believers will tell you that there was no DISCLOSURE because the secrets being held were too disturbing to be shared with the public, or it would disclose secrets about the craft that the government did not wish revealed for national security reasons. They will point out that General Bolender had said that the best cases were not part of the Blue Book system, and others will say that Project Moon Dust picked up the slack.

And now, once again, we’re promised DISCLOSURE. I don’t know why this has become an issue in this election, and while it is not a big issue, the mainstream media is talking about it, many of them seriously. It might be who one of the candidates is, or it might be that the President is looking for an issue to divert attention from other, more imperative matters, but there is discussion about it.

But, it won’t happen for one of two reasons. Either there is nothing left to disclose or national security will stop it. Personally, given what all we have discussed here, at other blogs, in magazine articles, documentaries and books, all the secrets are out there. Some of them are so wild that no one other than a few nuts believe them (really, reptilians on the moon?) and some of them seem truly exciting but do not affect our lives in any way. If we learned to tomorrow that alien races have visited Earth, what difference would it make? We’d all still have to pay our bills, go to work or school, do chores, take care of those who need it, and wait somewhat impatiently for the next chapter of Game of Thrones.

I would hope that no one is going to base his or her vote on the candidate who promises DISCLOSURE because there are other, more imperative issues for the President to worry about. But we all have to remember the history of DISCLOSURE… there isn’t one. It is sad that this promise is thrown out there periodically but it is even sadder that people still believe it will happen any time soon. I predict we’ll have full DISCLOSURE the day that alien craft lands to reveal the truth about alien visitation and not a second before.