Note: For a more detailed investigation and analysis, visit this page.

INTRODUCTION

During Meier’s Great Journey in space described in Contact Report 31, which took place from July 17-22, 1975, he allegedly witnessed the coupling between the USA Apollo spacecraft and the USSR Soyuz spacecraft on July 17. This was a joint venture of the USA and USSR called the Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). He was also allowed to take photos of this event allowed to take pictures of the Apollo-Soyuz coupling and also of various stars and planets. Soon after Meier’s journey, it was discovered that many of the pictures were manipulated or replaced with forgeries. This allegedly prompted the Plejaren ET Quetzal to take away and destroy most of Meier’s forged pictures, but a few dozen of the outer space pictures were left with FIGU Core Group member Guido Moosbrugger. These pictures were published as either genuine or almost genuine with at most some minor falsifications in the 4 editions (German: 1991 & 2012; English 2001 & 2004) of Guido’s book ‘Und sie fliegen doch’ (And still they fly) and Pleiadian-plejaren Contact Reports volume 1.

Since the late 1970s, apart from Meier/FIGU publications as mentioned above, many controversial and critical articles were published in the media on these pictures, including those of the Apollo-Soyuz coupling. We have listed anything relevant to the Apollo-Soyuz pictures in the following page:

Timeline of Apollo Soyuz et al. pictures

Timeline of human spaceflight

SPACECRAFT IN ORBIT DURING THE GREAT JOURNEY

The following manned spacecraft were in space orbiting the Earth during the Great Journey:

Apollo (ASTP) –  The Apollo, sometimes referred to as Apollo 18, that was involved in the Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). Apollo would dock with the Russian craft Soyuz 19 on July 17, using a special docking module (DM) to make this possible.
Soyuz 19 (ASTP) – The specially designed Soyuz 7K-TM craft that was involved in the Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP).
Salyut 4 – A Russian space station that was part of the Salyut programme.
Soyuz 18 – A Soyuz 7K-T type spacecraft that was docked with Salyut 4 during the Great Journey
Skylab – The first US space station. It was unmanned during the Great Journey.

INVESTIGATION & ANALYSIS

Photos from Und sie fliegen doch/And still they fly

In 1991 the late Guido Moosbrugger, FIGU core group member since the foundation of FIGU in 1976, published his book ‘Und sie fliegen doch‘ (USFD, German). An English translation of this book was published in 2001 (And yet they fly/AYTF) and 2004 (And still they fly/ASTF), and a new extended German version was recently published in 2012. All editions of this book contained the following 5 photos which Meier allegedly took of the Apollo-Soyuz coupling:

A comparison of Meier’s photos with a photo of the real Soyuz 19 (right picture) reveals there are many differences regarding color and the configuration of the antennas and the solar panels. So obviously Meier’s pictures aren’t taken from the real Apollo-Soyuz coupling.

Source of Meier’s Apollo-Soyuz pictures

The YouTube video below is a compilation of 6 clips taken from 4 different documentaries:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dQ0dDM6BRY

Clips #1, #2 and #3: Soyuz-Apollo – A Quarter of a Century Later / СОЮЗ – АПОЛЛОН – ЧЕТВЕРТЬ ВЕКА СПУСТЯ (Russian documentary, 2000)
Clip #4: Aeronautics & Space Report (NASA, 1973)
Clip #5: Apollo 17 – On the Shoulders of Giants (NASA, 1973)
Clip #6: Skylab: The Second Manned Mission. A Scientific Harvest (NASA, 1973)

Meier’s pictures happen to be identical to the frames from these clips, which conclusively proves the pictures are from these animations and not from the real Apollo-Soyuz coupling. Following is a comparison between the Meier photo’s and frames from the animation clips. Arrows and frames are inserted to point to the similarities.

Red arrows – Identical structures (cloud, ocean or land)
Purple arrows – Curved edges of screen (TV or Semjase’s viewing screen?)
Purple frame – Picture area as seen in pic #2, Abstract D, 1980

Meier’s picture #2 from Abstract D of Col. Colman S. von Keviczky’s 1980 report is identical to a frame that was part of the original NASA animation broadcast in the early 1970’s, fragments of which were again used in the Russian documentary ‘Soyuz-Apollo – A Quarter of a Century Later’, aired in the year 2000:

Meier’s pictures #1 & #3 from Abstract D and photo #71 & #72 (from ASTF 2004) do not have exactly identical frames in the clips we found, but the structures (clouds, oceans etc.) and camera angle are practically identical, so it is clear that the identical frames in the complete version of the animation must have been seconds or fractions of seconds before or after frames in the clips we have available:

The Docking Module (DM) in Meier’s pictures doesn’t at all look like the real DM. Meier’s DM has 4-segments with two visible spherical tanks, containing oxygen and nitrogen. The real DM’s pressure vessel and external gas tanks were covered with an external insulation cover made of thin Inconel over a multi-layer insulation blanket separated from the vessel by a framework. The following picture, taken from Soyuz 19, shows the real DM attached to Apollo 18:

Apollo 18 as seen from Soyuz 19

Note (June 23, 2015): There is a picture of Meier’s Soyuz spacecraft (see below) – which he promoted as genuine at least up to the year 1978 and perhaps even to this day – shown in the Randy Winters video, that is the same as the animated Soyuz model seen in the above NASA animation.

Photos from Plejadisch-plejarische Kontakt Berichte Block 1

In 2002 the first block or volume of the new edition of the contact notes was published. In this block, 28 photos from Guido’s private collection of ‘Great Journey space pictures’ were published in Contact Report 31, which describes the Great Journey. In FIGU Special Bulletin 20, Hans Georg Lanzendorfer, core group member of FIGU, writes the following about these photos:

“In the course of the joint correction work on the Contact Reports by Ptaah, Florena, Enjana, “Billy” and Bernadette Brand, the time for clarifying had also come. In the year 2001, Guido was asked by “Billy” to make some of the photos available for publication in the corrected Pleiadian/Plejaren Contact Report Block. Therefore, since the year 2001, several genuine dinosaur pictures and dinosaur slides from the possession of Guido Moosbrugger are to be found with “Billy” again, but these remain strictly under wraps. For the publication in the Contact Report Block, it was strictly ensured, with the help of Ptaah, that it only concerned “Billy’s” genuine pictures or his pictures that were only slightly falsified by Schmid, whereby the aforesaid falsification, for a logical reason, found no use.”

“Ptaah: Of the more than 1,378 pictures from your Great Journey, only a few remain, namely 42, which really came from you, while the majority of the 1,336 pictures consisted of foisted photocopies of some drawings, etc., which Quetzal discovered very quickly at that time, which is why he destroyed all slides and photos…. Worldwide, none of your dinosaur pictures and space pictures, etc. have been published, other than those that are shown in the new Contact Report Blocks. These, however, are only a few copies of the real 42 shots, to which only very few falsifying and not any major changes were made.”

In short, according to this article the photos in PPKB 1 are a part of a collection of 42 genuine photos with at most some minor falsifications.

The first seven of these pictures published in PPKB 1 are on pages 232 and 234, which describe Meier and Semjase witnessing (and photographing) the Apollo Soyuz coupling. At first sight it is not clear what the crafts in the above pictures actually represent, whether they are related to the Apollo- Soyuz coupling or not. The Contact Report suggests that Meier may also have taken photos of other terrestrial and extraterrestrial craft.

Plejadisch-plejarische Kontakt Berichte Block 1, pg. 232:

Plejadisch-plejarische Kontakt Berichte Block 1, pg. 234:

Below are the results of our analysis of these 7 pictures, not necessarily in the same order as they are printed in PPKB 1.

PPKB 1 – CR 31 – Photo 1 (pg. 234)

This clearly resembles the Soyuz spacecraft model also depicted in Und sie fliegen doch/And still they fly, from which it is established that it was originated from the NASA animation broadcasted across the world in the early 1970s. It also cannot be a picture of the only other Soyuz in space during the Great Journey, Soyuz 18, because it was docked with the Soviet Salyut 4 from May 24 to July 26, which entirely overlaps the time of the Great Journey, and it was a Soyuz 7K-T type craft, which had long aerials in the place where other models has solar panels, which in this model were replaced by batteries.

PPKB 1 – CR 31 – Photo 2 (pg. 234)

The craft in this picture also seems to be a Soyuz craft, the Instrumentation & Service Module (ISM), Descent Module (DM) and Orbital Module (OM) can be clearly recognized. For the same reasons already mentioned under the previous picture it cannot be Soyuz 18. Even though features like the antennas seem to be similar to those of Soyuz 19, it can also not be a photo of the real Soyuz 19, since during the time of the Great Journey, the solar panels should be extended instead of retracted like on this picture.

Real Soyuz 19, as seen from Apollo 18

PPKB 1 – CR 31 – Photo 3 (pg. 232)

On this picture a part of the orbital module (OM) and the descent module (DM) of a Soyuz spacecraft are visible. On the OM part, the word СОЮЗ (Soyuz in Russian script; Soyuz means Union) is readable. Also three parallel conduits are visible, as are some other features. However in space any type of Soyuz spacecraft, before and after 1975, has a green (or tint of green) thermal insulation blanket covering most of the spacecraft, so the conduits and other features on the hull are covered, including the word СОЮЗ. The only script visible on the insulation is ‘CCCP‘ (Russian for ‘USSR’) on the OM, as can also be seen on this picture of Soyuz 19, taken from Apollo 18:

Real Soyuz 19, as seen from Apollo 18

 

Clearly Meier’s picture is not taken in space, but most likely of a mock-up model in for example a museum, which in most cases are not covered with the green insulation blanket, so the visitors can see the details and components on the hull. The features as shown in Meier’s picture are very identical to the features on the following picture of the mock-up model of an old Soyuz second-type spacecraft, which was shown on a Paris Air show at Le Bourget Airport, in early 1970’s:

Although Semjase was allegedly able to make parts of the spacecraft transparent for Billy to see the astronauts/cosmonauts inside the craft, as is described in CR 31, there seems to be no apparent reason to only make the insulation invisible to photograph the hull, rather than the cosmonauts inside. Considering the analysis results of the previous pictures this explanation seems to be extremely far fetched. Also it would only raise exactly the strong doubts about the authenticity addressed here.

PPKB 1 – CR 31 – Photo 4 (pg. 234)

Real Apollo 18 with docking module, as seen from Soyuz 19

The only time during the ASTP mission Apollo 18 was solo in space was during the transposition, docking and extraction procedure with the DM on July 15 (similar to the procedure with Lunar Exploration Modules (LEM) as can be seen in this simulation video) and after the docking with Soyuz 19, when the docking module was released before re-entry on July 19. July 15 was 2 days before the Great Journey started on July 17, and since CR 31 clearly suggests the ASTP scene was left by Billy and Semjase at most a few hours after the docking took place to visit other places in the universe, Billy also could not have taken this picture on July 19.

Again, the possibility of making parts of the spacecraft invisible could be considered. It seems far fetched however to suggest only the DM or the DM and Soyuz 19 were made invisible to make this picture. It seems more likely the source of this picture is not the Great Journey, but rather an animation of an Apollo mission or another picture, for example taken from a LEM during any moon mission.

PPKB 1 – CR 31 – Photo 5 (pg. 234)

This picture shows two Soyuz spacecrafts docked with each other. As mentioned before the only Soyuz craft in space during the Great Journey were Soyuz 18 (docked with Salyut 4) and Soyuz 19 (involved in the ASTP), which obviously did not dock with each other. The only time in history two Soyuz craft ever docked in space (see this list of Soviet manned space missions) was on January 16, 1969, more than 6 years before the Great Journey supposedly took place in July 1975; the involved craft were Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5, Clearly this picture could not have been taken by Meier during the Great Journey. The source of this picture turns out to be a simulation with models of the Soyuz 4 & 5 docking shown in the Russian space documentary Первая орбитальная (The First Orbital) from 1969 (at 20:53) and also in the documentary Крутые дороги космоса (Steep Roads of Space) from 1972 (at 35:09 min):

PPKB 1 – CR 31 – Photo 6 (pg. 234)

The design of the object in the above picture is clearly very different from the Apollo or Soyuz spacecraft. There seems to be a resemblance with the Soviet space station Salyut 4, the circular section in the middle, surrounded with small spheres which are pressurant gas tanks, would be the docking port to which a Soyuz craft could dock, but as already mentioned before, during the Great Journey Soyuz 18 was docked with Salyut 4, so this photo would have been impossible, unless Semjase would have made the Soyuz 18 craft transparent, which again seems a very far fetched explanation. The configuration does match with the first Salyut space station, Salyut 1. Since this space station had re-entered on October 11, 1971, it was not in orbit during the Great Journey, so Meier could never have taken this picture.

The source is a Russian space documentary Крутые дороги космоса (Steep Roads of Space) from 1972 (also the source of the Soyuz 4 & 5 picture), which contains a remarkably identical frame at around 12:22, tough rotated 180 degrees compared to Meier’s picture. This is not an image of the real Salyut 1, but a model from a simulator to train cosmonauts on the docking procedure. The vertical lines also match exactly with the lines on Meier’s picture, they are actually grid-lines on the screen of the simulator:

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