Web site files pointing out shortcomings in Korff's Spaceships of the Pleiades, Internet, January 2003
Shortcomings of Kal K. Korff's Spaceships of the Pleiades: The Billy Meier Story | |
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Kal K. Korff is one of the chief critics of Eduard "Billy" Meier. For about 20 years now, he has been attempting to prove that the case is a hoax. His second and most recent book on the case is Spaceships of the Pleiades: the Billy Meier Story, published by Prometheus Books in 1995. On this website you will find: On this page you wll find a table listing all (87) points of critique. This 87 points of critique can be devided in 46 examples of untruths, 17 examples of omissions of relevant data, 17 counter arguments against various claims by Korff and 7 examples of other failings. The points of critique are listed by chapter. If you want to find out more about a particular point of critique, click on the hypertext of interest in the "point of critique:" column in the table. |
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[#c1 Chapter 1: Eduard "Billy" Meier: The Man, the Claims ] [#c2 Chapter 2: The Undercover Trip to Switzerland] [#c3 Chapter 3: Genesis III's "Analyses" of Meier's Photographs. ] [#c4 Chapter 4: Conclusive Analyses of Billy Meier's "UFO" Photographs. ] [#c5 Chapter 5: Smoking Guns: Analyzing Meier's "Time-Travel" Photographs ] [#c6 Chapter 6: Analyses of Billy Meier's "Alien" Metal Samples] [#c7 Chapter 7: Other Meier "Evidence"]
CHAPTER 1: Eduard "Billy" Meier: The Man, the Claims (pp. 23-44) | ||
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| Korff on Meier's life and the history of the case |
[article.php?id=40&sn=1#1 -Omission of certain info about Meier's past] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=1#2 -The evolution of Meier's contact notes] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=1#3 -Error in translation] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=1#4 -Why the term cult is unfounded amd misapplied] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=1#5 -How fast Wendelle Stevens became a "believer"] |
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| Korff on Meier's claims |
[article.php?id=40&sn=1#6 -The amount of contacts] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=1#7 -How Meier took his photos/films] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=1#8 -"Meier saved Jesus from a beating one time"] |
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CHAPTER 2: The Undercover Trip to Switzerland (pp. 45-108) | ||
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| Korff at Meier's farm |
[article.php?id=40&sn=2#1 -Why Korff's "channeling garden"-story is a lie] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=2#2 -Elisabeth Gruber] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=2#3 -The name "Zafiriou"] |
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| The Talmud of Jmmanuel |
[article.php?id=40&sn=2#4 -"The Talmud Immanuel..." ] |
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| Soil samples of landing-tracks |
[article.php?id=40&sn=2#5 -Why Korff lies about having seen landing-tracks] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=2#6 -Why Korff didn't obtain any soil samples of the landing-tracks] |
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CHAPTER 3: Genesis III's "Analyses" of Meier's Photographs (pp. 109-133) | ||
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| Original negatives |
[article.php?id=40&sn=3# -"There are no original negatives in existence"] |
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| Neil Davis' analysis |
[article.php?id=40&sn=3#2 -More than one positive comment in Davis' report] |
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CHAPTER 4: Conclusive Analyses of Billy Meier's "UFO" Photographs (pp. 135-231) | ||
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| Frecht Nature Preserve photos |
[article.php?id=40&sn=4#1 -Wrong total of photos (1)] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=4#2 -Korff omits Meier's comments relevant to focus discrepancy] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=4#3 -150 meters is not 162.5 feet] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=4#4 -Korff omits Meier's comments regarding focus discrepancy in second photo] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=4#5 -An example of faulty reasoning by Korff] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=4#6 -Incorrect reference] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=4#7 -Korff's Fig. 22 doesn't show the whole picture] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=4#8 -Korff omits Meier's comments regarding suspicious aspects of 4th picture] |
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| -Unter-Balm photo -Jacobsberg-Allenberg photos (2-27-75) -Vrenelis Gärtli GL UFO Model photo |
[article.php?id=40&sn=4#9 -The Unter-Balm Photographs (plural?)] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=4#10 -Korff's false claim of finding "the exact same spot"] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=4#11 -Why the interior of the beamship should not necessarily have shown up in photo #41] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=4#12 -The middle photo on p. 156 shows admitted model] |
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| Fuchsbüel photos (2-27-75) |
[article.php?id=40&sn=4#13 -Other photos of these sequence don't show the suspicious aspects] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=4#14 -Korff's inconsistent listing of photo numbers] |
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| Jakobsberg-Allenberg photos |
[article.php?id=40&sn=4#15 -Wrong total of photos (2)] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=4#16 -Why the photos are not double exposures] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=4#17 -Korff is wrong about the purpose of this photo event.] |
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| Fuchsbüel photos (7-9-75) |
[article.php?id=40&sn=4#18 -Wrong total of photos (3)] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=4#19 -Why the cloud formations do not necessarily change too fast] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=4#20 -False claim] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=4#21 -Korff omits the data which support the "disapearing tree story"] |
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| Bachtelhörni-Unterbachtel photos |
[article.php?id=40&sn=4#22 -Unsupported claims] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=4#23 -False claim] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=4#24 -Upward arced "suspension line" in Korff's Fig. 66] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=4#25 -More problems with Korff's "suspension lines"] |
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| Hasenböl-Langenberg photos |
[article.php?id=40&sn=4#26 -Self-contradictionary statements by Korff] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=4#27 -Another error] |
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CHAPTER 5: Smoking Guns: Analyzing Meier's "Time-Travel" Photographs (pp. 233-271) | ||
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| General remarks by Korff about "Time-Travel" photos |
[article.php?id=40&sn=5#1 -Misleading statement by Korff] |
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-[article.php?id=40&sn=5#2 Not second but first trip] |
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-[article.php?id=40&sn=5#3 No visits to the Pleiades or to alien worlds in DAL Universe] |
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-[article.php?id=40&sn=5#4 Incorrect reference] |
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-[article.php?id=40&sn=5#5 No contradiction] |
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| Venus photos |
[article.php?id=40&sn=5#6 -False reference] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=5#7 -Another false reference] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=5#8 -And... another false reference] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=5#9 -Meier didn't use "special alien photographing device"] |
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| Apollo-Soyuz docking photos |
[article.php?id=40&sn=5#10 -Korff omits Meier's comments regarding curved screen] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=5#11 -Possible explanation for out-of-focus aspect] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=5#12 -Meier's time for Apollo-Soyuz link-up is correct] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=5#13 -Unfounded claim] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=5#14 -Does Korff's Fig. 94 show the Soyuz in space?] |
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| "DAL Universe cosmonauts" photos |
[article.php?id=40&sn=5#15 -Not Pleidian but DAL spaceship] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=5#16 -Possible explanation for curved screen] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=5#17 -Korff ignores info in favor of curtains] |
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| Korff on some of the other "time-travel" photos |
[article.php?id=40&sn=5#18 -Meier didn't photograph Neberian dino's during space trip] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=5#19 -Meier didn't photograph Neberian cave-man during great space trip] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=5#20 -Don't take "God's Eye" story literally] |
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CHAPTER 6: Analyses of Billy Meier's "Alien" Metal Samples (pp. 273-296) | ||
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| Korff claims Vogel gave him "other half" of unique metal sample in May 1980 and that a new analysis shows it's merely silver soldier |
[article.php?id=40&sn=6#1 -Why Korff never received a piece of the mysterious metal sample] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=6#2 -No analysis by Vogel in "early 1980"] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=6#3 -Why the Olgilvie analysis never took place] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=6#4 -Korff's confusion between thallium and thulium] |
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| Additional points of critique |
[article.php?id=40&sn=6#5 -Example of innuendo by Korff] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=6#6 -Korff copies obvious error from pro-Meier literature] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=6#7 -The Swiss lab was informed of alleged ET origin of sample] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=6#8 -Walker's analysis is mentioned in more than one pro Meier-book] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=6#9 -Korff omits mysterious aspects of metal sample disappearance] |
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CHAPTER 7: Other Meier "Evidence" (pp. 297-310) | ||
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| Korff on the landing-tracks |
[article.php?id=40&sn=7#1 -Korff omits important landing-track data] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=7#2 -Korff omits testimonies of witnesses who studied landing-tracks] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=7#3 -Korff omits important characteristics of Pleiadian landing-tracks] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=7#4 -What Korff's experiment fails to explain] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=7#5 -Korff's pressboard is too small] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=7#6 -No swirl in Korff recreation] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=7#7 -Not all Pleiadian landing-tracks consisted of three circular shaped impressions in the grass] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=7#8 -Korff omits non-Pleiadian landing-tracks] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=7#9 -Insect infestation not a characteristic of Pleiadian landing-tracks] |
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| Korff on the UFO witnesses |
[article.php?id=40&sn=7#10 -Korff omits important sources of UFO witness information] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=7#11 -Korff omits several UFO witnesses] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=7#12 -Not all UFO witnesses are or were members of Meier's group] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=7#13 -Not only "blobs of light rising in the night sky"] |
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[article.php?id=40&sn=7#14 -Korff omits the non-UFO witness testimonies] |
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