One of the most notorious groupings of alleged UFO images can be yours for the nerveless price tag of just a few thousand dollar .
The range of a function were captured by ego - exalt prophet andUFO religionfounder “ Billy ” Eduard Albert Meier in the bound of 1975 in Switzerland . Born in 1937 , Meier is one of the most well - live “ believers ” in modern account and claims that he was contacted by alien in childhood and on - and - off throughout the decennary . He also take to be theseventh reincarnationafter six prophets that feature in Judaism , Christianity , and Islam .
Three groups of his picture arecurrently up for auctionat British auction bridge house Sotheby ’s , each of which stop between four and seven picture . Sotheby’snotesthat the serial of photographs are among the “ most highly publicized and well - documented images of UFO phenomena ever recorded ” . In the first passel , three flying saucer are seen hovering over the peck of Bachtelhörnli , Switzerland during the morning and eventide of March 28 , 1976 .
The second mathematical group includes one image that was made illustrious after its three - season coming into court in the “ I desire to conceive ” card featured inTheX - Filestelevision show , which hung in the office of FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder . Though it was substitute in the fourth season after Meier brought on an intellectual dimension suit , a 2016 reboot of the serial again featured the poster following Meier ’s license . Two images show a single UFO impress lento over the Ithiel Town of Berg Rumlikon on June 14 at 1.16 postmortem and 1.20 pm , as well as four images that depict a UFO flying over a forested area of Schmidrüti on March 18 at 4.45 pm to 5.40 post-mortem .
Four pic make up the third group , two of which show a individual UFO moving lento over a wooded field of Winkelriet - Wetzikon in Switzerland on March 18 , 1975 , at roughly 9.08 am and another taken later that afternoon . Another paradigm was allegedly appropriate on June 15 .
The photographs were enquire by US Air Force pilot Lt . Col . Wendelle Stevens under the top - hugger-mugger program , Project Blue Book , the longest - running UFO investigation ever conducted by the US government . After his retirement , Wendell and a squad of private investigators explore the images at labs , including the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory , in lodge to define their authenticity . The images are mostly believed to be afraudby skeptics , despite late research that contends theirauthenticity .
Between the 1960s and ' LXXX , Sotheby ’s notes that Meier took almost 1,500 photos and nearly three twelve film . About 600 images and nine movie moderate UFO content .
