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Detailed summery of contents for Stevens' Preliminary Investigation Report.


The American Wendelle Stevens is one of the principal investigators of the 'Billy' Meier case. Stevens first heard of the case in September 1976. In October 1977, after having followed the case by mail for about one year Stevens went to Switzerland, to "look Meier and the witnesses in the eye and see the evidence".

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The following years he spent much time and money investigating the case and he returned at least five times to Switzerland. On several of these trips he was accompanied by his friends and fellow investigators Lee and Brit Elders and Tom Welch. Among other things, they studied many of the sites were Meier shot his photos and movie films, they did on site experiments with UFO models and interviewed many of the local witnesses in Switzerland. UFO... Contact from the Pleiades: A Preliminary Investigation Report (published in 1982) is a cumulation of a series of reports Stevens updated annually since 1978. The 542 page book contains a lot of information, but has no index and almost no footnotes. In this section of my site a detailed table of contents for this book can be found.

[#p  Prologue]
[#f  Foreword]
[#c1 Chapter 1 - Initial Investigation]
[#c2 Chapter 2 - First Contact]
[#c3 Chapter 3 - Early UFO Experiences]
[#c4 Chapter 4 - The Cosmonauts Return]
[#c5 Chapter 5 - Questions Answered]
[#c6 Chapter 6 - The Contacts Continue]
[#c7 Chapter 7 - A Trip Into Time/Space]
[#c8 Chapter 8 - Follow-up Investigation]
[#c9 Chapter 9 - Other Witnesses]
[#c10 Chapter 10 - Other Cosmonauts]
[#c11 Chapter 11 - Re-Investigation]
[#c12 Chapter 12 - Conclusion]
[#a1 Appendix I - Classes of Spacecraft Observed]
[#a2 Appendix II - Photographs of the Spacecraft]
[#a3 Appendix III - Photographs of Landing Tracks]
[#a4 Appendix IV - Analysis of UFO photographs]
[#a5 Appendix V - Camera Data]
[#a6 Appendix VI - Line Drawings of Spacecraft Photographed]
[#a7 Appendix VII - Physical Evidence]
[#a8 Appendix VIII - Photocopy of Elsa Schröder Letter]
[#a9 Appendix IX - Science Catches Up]
[#a10 Appendix X - Technical Research Log]
[#a11 Appendix XI - Bibliography]
[#e  Epilogue]

PROLOGUE

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4-8
Stevens explains why the Meier case in his opinion is "a most remarkable UFO case". He shortly comments upon aspects like the many photographs, the physical evidence, the sound recordings, the contact notes, the primary task of the Pleiadians, the many witnesses, the analysis of the evidence and the corroborating stories from independent sources (Elsa Schröder letter).
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FOREWORD

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9-10
Stevens mentions his UFO experiences when serving in the USAF.
10
How he first heard of the case (see also chapter 1).
10-11
Stevens gives some basic background information about Meier, his claims and evidence.
12-14
Stevens mentions his first three visits to Switzerland (see chapter 1, 8 and 11 for reports on 1rst, 2nd and 3rd visit to Switzerland).
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Chapter 1 - Initial Investigation

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16
Stevens first hears about the Meier case in September 1976 when the (late) Swiss UFO researcher Lou Zinsstag and also UFO researcher Timothy Good visit him in Tucson in the USA. Zinsstag shows him about 16 very clear UFO photos made by Meier. His first opinion is that they look too good and that they probably are fake.
17-18
Zinsstag describes her own investigation to Stevens. She first began investigating the case in mid 1975 (she lived 120 kilometers from the area where the events were taking place. She has interviewed Meier and some of his friends and watched the developing events.
19
Mid 1976 Ilse von Jacobi, a UFO researcher in Germany heard of the case from her friend Margarite Rufer, a member of Meier's original study group. She decides to investigate the case, and interview Meier. Her investigation results in an article which she sends to several German papers. But they don't publish it (too "far out"). She offers a translaton of the article the publisher of an Italian magazine (Il Giornale die Misteri). They publish it. The German news magazine Quick then prints a short article on the same material that was printed in Italy The articles produces a flood of visitors looking for Meier in Hinwil.
19-21
Stevens continues to follow the case by mail. Zinsstag sends Stevens more photos, translated contact notes and the Il Giornale die Misteri article. Stevens starts a correspondence with the author Ilse von Jacobi, the author of the article. Stevens starts sending notes to the witness through both intermediaries (Von Jacobi and Zinnstag) and gets answers. Stevens also learns of a movie sequence through Mrs. Jacobi.
21
Stevens writes his first article on the case in Argosi UFO. And an article on the case he sent to the Japanese magazine UFOs and Space was also published.
21-23

On 21 October 1977, Stevens goes for the first time to Switzerland, and together with Ilse von Jacobi visits Meier and some of the other witnesses (he meets Hans Schutzbach, Harold Proch and his sister). He wanted to "look them in the eye and see the evidence."Stevens and von Jacobi are surprised because Meier speaks English. Both Zinsstag and Von Jacobi who had spent considerable time with him before and had warned Stevens that he would need an interpreter as Meier "didn't speak a word of English". The trip lasted 5 days.

23-24
Stevens buys about 300 photos from Meier and also buys some other material including copies of contact notes.
24

Meier informs Stevens that he has made photos of models and that some of his slides came into the posession of Martin Sorge, and Sorge falsely inferred that Meier was trying to pass off models as real UFOs. More information on Martin Sorge and his claims can be found in appendix II [#285 pp. 285-289] and the epilogue [#504 p. 504].

24
Regarding the report on the photo computer analysis by Ground Saucer Watch (GSW) in Phoenix, Arizona, Meier states that he and his friends tested GSW. They forwarded a fake UFO photograph for analysis and according to Meier's friends GSW did not detect the fake photo.
24-25

At some point during his 5 day trip, Meier took Stevens "aside and showed him some of the other pictures not in the three regular albums." There were dozens of photos from the extended space trip. Some of them showed Meier and one of the cosmonauts out of the spacecraft in identical space suits. Others showed the interior of the spacecraft.Meier also shows Stevens some of the mineral specimens. He states "that we should look for evidence of formation under other conditions than those of our Earth if we expected to prove anything by them".More information about the physical specimens can be found in the foreword, chapter 8 [#124 p. 124], in chapter 12, p. 261, and appendix VII, [#412 pp. 412-428].

25-26
Stevens preliminary conclusion. He doesn't understand how Meier could be perpetrating a hoax, without his wife and his closest friends noticing it.
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Chapter 2 - First Contact

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27-28

Stevens shortly comments upon topics like the type of photo camera used by Meier, the contacts which allegedly took place before 1975, and the possibility that the UFOs are models; Stevens argues that the UFOs photographed by Meier are "obviously of some larger size than small models", and he points to a comparison which can be made between the UFO and the tree featuring in the 9 July, 1975, Fuchsbüel am Hofhalden photos.More information on that particular series of photos can be found in chapter 4 [#49 p. 49], in chapter 9 [#126 p. 126], in chapter 11 [#250 p. 250] and in appendix II [#330 pp. 330-330].

28-32

Meier describes on these pages how his first contact with Semjase took place. There's background information about the time and the circumstances under which he took the photographs of the 28 January, 1975, Frecht Nature Preserve photos. More information on this photo series can be found in appendix II [#292 pp. 292-295].

32-36
Translated excerpts of the notes of the first contact.
36
There's a note on this page about a Russian lieutenant who saw a landed UFO, tried to approach it but walked into an invisible wall. According to Stevens that information can be found in Flying Saucer Review, Volume 25, No. 1, January-February 1979, p. 26.
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Chapter 3 - Early UFO Experiences

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37-46
Meier describes his first UFO experience which purportedly took place when he was 5 years, Meier also comments upon the contact with the ET Sfath that followed.
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Chapter 4 - The Cosmonauts Return

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47-49

On these pages some of the explanations Meier gives in chapter 5 can be found; Stevens explains why Meier was chosen for the contacts; why his friends and other persons aren't allowed to meet the aliens etc. Stevens on p. 49 states that an acquaintance of Meier upon seeing the developed pictures of the 9 July, Fuchsbüel am Hofhalden sequence, located the exact spots from which the pictures were taken. "He found that the grass here was 20 to 30 centimeters higher than the other grass around. The whole tree itself had just disappeared with no trace".More information on that particular series of photos can be found in chapter 2 [#27 p. 27], in chapter 9 [#126 p. 126], in chapter 11 [#250 p. 250] and in appendix II [#330 pp. 330-330].

49-62
Excerpts of the notes of contact #2-4 and #8.
62-64

On these pages Stevens points to some of the difficulties with the hoax theory. Stevens shortly comments upon the evidence; the contact notes, the photos, the films, the witnesses. Regarding the 18 March, 1975, movie sequence he remarks that "the lines of the vertical axis often crossed within the frame and we should have been able to the point of suspension."More information on this movie sequence can be found in the appendix [#280 pp. 280-281].He also writes that that Lou Zinsstag and Ilse von Jacobi have both spent considerable time with Meier, his wife and acquaintances, and that their investigations support the idea that something unique has taken place in Switzerland.

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Chapter 5 - Questions Answered

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65
In this chapter Stevens presents translations of some of the notes in which Meier himself gives answers to certain key questions.
65-66
A detailed description of Semjase.
66-67
Meier explains why he was selected for the contacts.
67-68
Meier explains what happens when he tries to take other people to his contacts.
69-70

Meier describes some of the different types of spacecraft he claims to have seen and sometimes photographed. In appendix I [#a1 p. 265] and appendix VI [#401 pp. 401-411] more information can be found about spacecraft as described by Meier.

70-78
Stevens discusses the possibilty of the existence of the planet Erra in the Pleiades star clusters.
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Chapter 6 - The Contacts Continue

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79-99

Excerpts of the notes of contact #6, 8-14, 18, 20, 22-24, 26, 27 and 30. On p. 87 Stevens states that "since the contacts began Meier has been given a series of events that mark important points in time" and "he has been strictly forbidden to reveal any of these events until they have come to pass. On pp. 88-91 Stevens gives examples of predictions by Meier. Stevens shortly comments upon the subject of knowledge of future events by Meier in the epilogue [s1982mai.htm#521 see p. 521].

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Chapter 7 - A trip into Space/Time

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100-113

This chapter is mainly about the great space trip. On pp. 106-108 there are (black and white) reproductions of four of the photos allegedly taken by Meier in space during his space trip. The photo purportedly showing the mother-ship "near a strange planet" on p. 106 is the one which is also discussed by Korff in his 1995 book on pp. 259-260.

113-118
Excerpts of the notes of the 52nd contact can be found on these pages. This contact took place on 17 May, 1976 and Hans Schutbach and Guido Moosbrugger had a UFO sighting that night.
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Chapter 8 - Follow-up Investigation

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119-120
In April 1978, Wendelle Stevens makes his second trip to Switzerland, he's accompanied by Lee and Brit Elders. They arrive in Switzerland on Monday the 3rd of April. In this chapter Stevens describes some of the chief events which took place during their 5 day visit.
120-121
On the first day (Monday) in the afternoon, Meier takes Lee Elders and Stevens to his little office. Stevens is suprised by the improvement in Meier's office since the last trip; anonymous gifts; IBM typewriter. Stevens buys about 60 new photos and and copies of contact notes and pamphlets. Meier informs them of the story of Semjase being injured on a contact with him [Meier] and also explains why Semjase does not want to be seen.
122
The second day (Tuesday the fourth), there's a television crew to tape an interview. Meier and seven of his close friends are interviewed. Also Wendelle Stevens is interviewed by the television crew. The interview was "broadcated on 10 April from Zurich", and "was the first local media coverage of this case".
122-124

The third day (Wednesday the fifth), Stevens and the Elders "were back at the house again getting to know the rest of the group members and working with Meier on the available data". Again and they are at Meier's office. Meier talks about the benefits of the IBM typewriter; twelve pages per hour; 65 words per minute; with one finger (one arm). Meier let them hear the tape recording of the 14 April, 1976, Schmärbüel am Maiwinkle event.More information on this event can be found in chapter 11 [#248 pp. 248-249], the appendix II [#356 pp. 356-360] and the appendix VII [#432 pp. 432-445].He also let them hear a tape recording of sounds allegedly made by an unusual amphibian-like being. More information about this creature who made the "Muurgg" sounds can be found in chapter 11 [#244 pp. 244-245.]Meier also explains that some of the photographed landing tracks were left by crafts "from the direction of Lyra".

124

In the morning of the fourth day (Thursday the sixth), Stevens and his party learn that Meier is still sleeping and that he has had another contact with Quetzal that night. Quetzal purportedly delivered a little package of Amber crystals during that contact. At the end of that day he gives them 4 metal, 1 biological and 9 mineral and crystal specimens to have examined. More information about the physical specimens can be found in chapter 1 [#25 p. 25] and appendix VII [#412 pp. 412-428]. Also this day, Stevens apparantly orders "nine twenty by thirty inch mural prints for study for photo camerawork" and which "were to be ready the next day." He also arranges to meet Bernadette Brand, in Winterthur, the next morning to pick them up.

125

On the fifth day (Friday the seventh), Stevens and his party return to the US. On the way out of Switzerland he picks the prints up. Note: Meier's contact notes indicate that the alleged contact with Quetzal took place on Wednesday the 5th, at 00:31; therefore the hand over of the physical specimens which according to Stevens in this chapter took place on the Thurday the sixth, probably took place on Wednesday the fifth (the events which are listed for Wedensday the fifth may have taken place on another day).

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Chapter 9 - Other Witnesses

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126

This chapter is about "the dozens of witnesses who have observed various of the phenomena associated with Meier contacts". According Stevens on this page the following six witnesses were also members of Meier's original study group: Olga Walder, Amalie Stetter, Ms. M. Flammer, Margarite Rufer, Hans Schutzbach, Jacobus Bertschinger.An important comment by Stevens on this page is that Ms Margarite Rufer and Jacobus Bertschinger have reportedly seen the tree featuring in the 9 July, 1975, Fuchsbüel am Hofalden photo sequence (the ETs had removed that tree according to Meier not long after the photo oppertunity).More information on that particular series of photos can be found in chapter 2 [#27 p. 27], in chapter 4 [#49 p. 49], in chapter 11 [#250 p. 250] and in appendix II [#330 pp. 330-330].

126-129
Account of a UFO sighting which took place in the early morning of Sunday, 4 April, 1976. The witnesses describe "a rotating dark red nucleus", a light which ascends and drops down and which is very fast and also a "rain of luminous drops".The (translated) account is signed by Hans Schutzbach, Jacobus Bertschinger, M. Flammer, M. Rufer, Olga Walder and A. Stetter.
129-131
Account of a UFO sighting which took place in the early morning of Sunday, 14 March, 1976. Bertschinger describes "sphere approaching by a suddenly enormous speed" and also "a rain of sparkles." The (translated) account is signed by Jacobus Bertschinger.
131-132
Account of a UFO sighting which took place in the night of Friday, 23 April, 1976. Other witness: Jacobus Bertschinger (and Meier). Witness describes a red spot in the sky drawing fast along. The (translated) account is signed by Hans Schutzbach.
132-133
Account of a UFO sighting which took place in the early morning of Monday, 7 June, 1976. Wolfgang Witzer testifies having filmed a "blinking UFO" in the presence of four other witnesses: Hans and Conrad Schutzbach, Mr. Altensperger and Jacobus Bertschinger. The (translated) account is signed by Wolgang Witzer.
133-142

Account of a UFO sighting which took place in the early morning of Sunday, 13 June, 1976. Guido Moosbrugger testifies having photographed appearances of disc shaped objects in the night sky in the presence of three other witnesses: Ms. Stetter, Ms. Flammer and Olga Walder. Hans and Conrad Schutzbach and Billy Meier, each at different geographical locations also shot photographs. The (translated) account is signed by Guido Moosbrugger. Also presented on these pages are black and white reproductions of the photos taken by the Schutzbach brothers, Moosbrugger and Meier during this particular event.More information on this event can be found in appendix II [#361 pp. 361-362] and in the epilogue [#505 pp. 505-507].At the bottom of p. 136, there's information about another UFO sighting by Moosbrugger which took place one month earlier.

142-149

On pp. 142-143 there's an account of a daytime sighting which took place on Sunday, 28 June, 1976. Hans Schutzbach testifies having seen in presence of Meier's family and Ms. Stetter a silver disc-shaped object which rose up in the sky very fast. (not mentioned in the account is that he reportedly also photographed the UFO during this event). The (translated) account is signed by Hans Schutbach. On p. 144 there are reproductions of two photos of the landing-tracks the UFOs purportedly left behind. And on p. 146 there's a drawing of the landing site including some measurements of the landing tracks, it is signed by Hans Schutbach. On the other pages can be found excepts from the contact relevant to this daytime UFO sighting.

149-152

Account of mysterious disappearance of a 5 m high tree which took place on 17 October, 1976, between 16:00 and 17:00 hours in the afternoon. Witnesses to this event: Hans Schutzbach, Herbert Runkel, Margaite Rufer, Jacobus Bertschinger, Amalia Stetter, Olga Walder, M. Flammer, Mrs. Meier and the children (and others). The (translated) account is signed by Herbert Runkel. On p. 151 there's a sketch by Runkel of the tree removal scene plus comments. On p. 152: two pictures purportedly taken by Meier within a time frame of a "few minutes"; only one of them showing the 5 m high tree. Runkel testifies having seen Meier photographing the tree when it was still present. This event is also discussed in the epilogue [#509 see pp. 509-511.]

150, 153-154
Account of UFO sighting which took place place on Monday, 7 February, 1977, in the evening. Jacobus Bertschinger sees "oval disc, slightly illuminated." The (translated) account is signed by Jacobus Bertschinger.
154-155

Mysterious re-appearance of Meier and witnesses hear mysterious beamship sounds. Among the witnesses: Bernadette Brand, Jacobus Bertschinger, Engelbert Wächter sr. Event took reportedly place in the early morning of Monday, 21 February, 1977. The (translated) account is signed by Engelbert Wächter (jr). This event is also mentioned in chapter 11, [#243 p. 243].

155-157
Information about a series of mysterious events on 13, 14/15 June, 1980. On p. 155-156 a small excerpt of a letter by Anny Zimmerman-Moosmayer to Stevens; she describes that people felt a sudden impulse to go outside and Semjase demonstrated in the sky on 13 June, 1980. On p. 155 two excerpts from letters by Runkel to Stevens; Runkel describes the mysterious appearance of landing-tracks in the night of 14/15 June, 1980 and how many people filmed and photographed the landing tracks (including the Japanese UFO researcher Yasuda). On p. 156: a sketch by Runkel illustrating the place where the landing tracks appeared and on p. 157: two photos of the landing tracks.
158-159
Information about UFO sightings by Ernst Keller-Muller. Two times during the summer of 1978, Keller-Muller, in his small home town of Schalchen, near Wila, observed UFO activity which took place, "in the direction of Schmidrüti and almost that far away". It was only later, that he learned of "Herr Meier" living in Schmidrüti, who claimed to be in contact with UFOnauts According tot Keller-Muller the UFOs "moved in an undulating and zig-zagging pattern, and sometimes with a jerky motion. They also stopped occasionally, and at other times simply "jumped" from one place to another."
160
Information on "strange interference with satelite communications in Zone 5, which includes most Switzerland and the Swiss-French border area."
Here begins the section in chapter 9 which is mainly about the truth analysis.
161-176

Eduard Meier, Popi Meier, Jacobus Bertschinger, Bernadette Brand, Hans Schutzbach and Engelbert Wächter were subjected to PSE testing. The results indicate that "all persons truely believed the answers that they gave". Stevens shortly comments upon on the interviews he made for the PSE testing in the epilogue, see [#515 p. 515].On p. 168 and p. 174 there's a list of addresses and some other specifications of twelve of the witnesses.

Here begins the section in chapter 9 which is about stories which corroborate Meier's