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1976

Event started at: March 14,1976 00:40:00
Event ended at: March 14,1976 01:10:00
Location of event: Upper Zurich, above Baretswil near Bettswil
Description: Sightings by Jacob Bertschinger of two lights. The first light suddenly appears in the distance above the fir tops, is stationary and has a dark yellow color. It then climbs up with an increasing speed to a height of about 200/300 meters and stops. Then its color changes to deep dark red. Then it moves with an enormous speed in the direction of the witness and increases in brilliance and then becomes milk white. The object then climbs to a height of 2000/3000 meters. Then a rain of sparkles begins to fall down, "perhaps 200 meters long". Also extremely loud noises can be heard. Then the object climbs up higher and slowly floats away in northern direction and then disappears. 30 minutes later another red color light appears in the distance above the fir-tops at the same place where light number one appeared and flies away in eastern direction. According to Meier Bertschinger witnessed the departure of the craft of Semjase and Quetzal. Source: Stevens' 1982 book, pp. 129-131. Zeugenbuch, pp. 45-51 by Billy.

Witness(es)
1 | Jacobus Bertschinger | Had UFO sightings

Event started at: March 28,1976 01:25:00
Event ended at: March 28,1976 01:35:00
Location of event: Unknown.
Description: Nighttime UFO sighting. A large white light appears. Slowly the light ascends to a height of 500 m. At a distance of 1,5 km suddenly a white fireworks starts, which stops after 10 seconds. Then a bit higher it starts again. At the same time the lights slowly climbs. A 170 m long "tail" fails to the earth. This lasts for a minute then the light is off. Then a dark red pulsating object is visible. The core becomes rhythmically brighter and darker. The object climbs. Then the object is above the clouds and has become milk white and is somewhere at a height of 20 km. The object becomes diffuse and still pulsates. Source, Zeugenbuch pp. 51-56, by Billy.

Witness(es)
1 | Jacobus Bertschinger | Had UFO sighting
2 | Hans Schutzbach | Wrote witness account.

Event started at: April 4,1976 01:00:00
Event ended at: April 4,1976 03:40:00
Location of event: Natural Forest Preserve southwest of Hinwil
Description: UFO sightings by six witnesses. A deep red pulsating spot moves without any sound over the heads of the witnesses. After 20 seconds the light is gone. 3.00: For about a minute, a large orange-red "window" appears. 3.30: At a distance of 1,8 km, in the forest, a large light appears. Slowly a pulsating light with a dark red core surrounded by bright red color climbs in to the air. At a height of 2 km it looks like a Bengal light is kindled. A large red fireball lightens up for about 20 seconds. This one is many times larger as the original light. Ten seconds later an orange colored light appears. It seems as if the light will approach the witnesses. Orange drops fall down from the light. Between the changes in color the pulsating light is visible. All time the light ascends into the sky. It changes its color into yellow and is visible for 10 minutes then it disappears. Afterwards Meier tells the witnesses they saw a beamship and its scouting ships.

Witness(es)
2 | Margret Flammer | Had UFO sightings
3 | Margret Rufer | Had UFO sightings
4 | Hans Schutzbach | Wrote witness account.
5 | Amata Stetter | Had UFO sightings
6 | Olga Walder | Had UFO sightings

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Event started at: April 16,1976 15:00:00
Event ended at: April 16,1976 15:02:00
Location of event: Frecht Nature preserve near Hinwil
Description: UFO sound recording event. Exact time unknown, "afternoon" according to "Light Years", pp. 19-20. The witnesses go to a place about two km outside Hinwil. They walk about 150 meters into the area. Then they are commanded by Meier to wait. Meier walks about 50 meters further and places a cassette recorder on a wooden post. After about five minutes the sound of the UFO starts. A dog begins to bark. And after about 15 minutes a police car with two agents show up. Also two fighter jets appear. Soon the UFO sound stops. See also Zeugenbuch, pp. 64-70.

Witness(es)
1 | Hans Schutzbach | Heard UFO sounds and wrote witness acount in 1976.
2 | Kalliope Meier | Heard UFO sounds
3 | Gilgamesha Meier | Heard UFO sounds
4 | Methusalem Meier | Heard UFO sounds
5 | Amata Stetter | Heard UFO sounds
6 | Atlantis Meier | Heard UFO sounds and wrote witness account in 2000.

Event started at: April 23,1976 23:00:00
Event ended at: April 23,1976 23:02:00
Location of event: Near Linz (between Munich and Vienna).
Description: Witnesses see UFO, exact time unknown "night" according to pp. 131-132 of Stevens' Preliminary Investigation Report. The witnesses are driving back from an unsuccessful presentation. After a short break they are on the point of resuming their trip. Suddenly Meier warns Jacob and Bertschinger that Semjase is right above them with her craft. When they take a look at the sky they see a red fast moving spot in the sky. See also Zeugenbuch, pp. 71-73.

Witness(es)
1 | Jacobus Bertschinger | Saw UFO
2 | Hans Schutzbach | Saw UFO and wrote witness account in 1976.

Event started at: May 17,1976 11:30:00
Event ended at: April 17,1976 04:00:00
Location of event: Dürstelen
Description: Two witnesses see UFOs after Meier's contact with Semjase. Around 23:30 Meier walks out his house. The witnesses follow him and do see "a twinkling point of light which travels as fast as a satellite". Later that evening they follow Meier to a contact. 00:50: The witnesses do see a point shaped flying object which blinks in short intervals. Meier telepathically instructs the UFO to turn off its blinking lights. Later that night in northern direction, at a distance of 3 km, a fire red disc can be seen. The object hovers in the sky a bit like a pendulum. Soon it disappears. Then a strange object appears. The object seems to consist of several spheres. After that the witnesses do see another disc shaped object. See Zeugenbuch, pp. 73-80.

Witness(es)
1 | Conrad Schutzbach | Saw UFOs.
2 | Guido Moosbrugger | Saw UFO and wrote witness account in 1976.

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Event started at: June 7,1976 03:15:00
Event ended at: June 7,1976 03:15:00
Location of event: Winkelriet, Wetzikon.
Description: The witnesses follow Meier to contact. First they see a blue light traveling over the forest. Later the witnesses do see at a distance of 2 km a orange light above the forest. The light is about three times larger as the brightest star they can see. Then they notice that the light is slowly moving upwards. Wolfgang Witzer tried to capture the UFO on film but the light was not bright enough to register in the film. Later the object also started to blink with an interval of half a second. The sighting lasts about 10 minutes. See Zeugenbuch, pp. 88-93.

UFO movie(s)

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03:15:00

1 minute and 10 seconds

Reddish orange lights come and go out, and fly swift patterns over a wood.

Filmer: Wolfgang Witzer

Witness(es)
1 | Wolfgang Witzer | Witnessed UFO and tried to make 8mm film of UFO and wrote witness account.
2 | Mr. Altensperger | Saw UFO after a night contact.
3 | Conrad Schutzbach | Saw UFO after a night contact.
4 | Jacobus Bertschinger | Saw UFO after a night contact.
5 | Hans Schutzbach | Saw UFO after a night contact.

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Event started at: June 13,1976 02:15:00
Event ended at: June 13,1976 02:25:00
Location of event: Winkelriet, Wetzikon.
Description: Flight display by beamship. This is an event that was announced by Meier in advance. Some of the witnesses took with them photo cameras. At 2:15 in north-eastern direction a red disc-shaped object appears. The object disappears after a few seconds. After that a silver colored disc-shaped object can be seen a bit higher. Then again higher a third disc-shaped object can be seen. The object has three colors. Then high above the horizon a silver colored disc appeared which created a rain of sparks. After that the object can be seen as a red point that ascends in the sky. See Zuegenbuch pp. 88-93.

UFO photo(s)

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02:15:00

# 258

Flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night. Photos made when the the beamship was rising and flying away.

Photographer: 'Billy' Eduard Albert Meier

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02:15:00

# 268

Flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night. Photographs taken at a distance of about 1500 meters with opened camera aperture so that the flight trajectory an maneuvers of the beamship were captured on film.

Photographer: Hans Schutzbach

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02:15:00

# 567

Flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night (beamship recognizable in ball of light. Eyewitnesses: M. Flammer, O. Walder, A. Stetter, Hans and Konrad Schutzbach.

Photographer: Guido Moosbrugger

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02:16:00

# 259

Flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night. Photos made when the the beamship was rising and flying away.

Photographer: 'Billy' Eduard Albert Meier

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02:16:00

# 269

Flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night. Photographs taken at a distance of about 1500 meters with opened camera aperture so that the flight trajectory an maneuvers of the beamship were captured on film.

Photographer: Hans Schutzbach

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02:16:00

# 568

Later phase of flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night.

Photographer: Guido Moosbrugger

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02:16:00

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Later phase of flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night.

Photographer: Guido Moosbrugger

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02:16:00

# 570

Later phase of flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night.

Photographer: Guido Moosbrugger

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02:17:00

# 260

Flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night. Photos made when the the beamship was rising and flying away.

Photographer: 'Billy' Eduard Albert Meier

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02:17:00

# 270

Flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night. Photographs taken at a distance of about 1500 meters with opened camera aperture so that the flight trajectory an maneuvers of the beamship were captured on film.

Photographer: Hans Schutzbach

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02:17:00

# 571

Later phase of flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night.

Photographer: Guido Moosbrugger

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02:17:00

# 571

Later phase of flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night.

Photographer: Guido Moosbrugger

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02:18:00

# 261

Flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night. Photos made when the the beamship was rising and flying away.

Photographer: 'Billy' Eduard Albert Meier

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02:18:00

# 271

Flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night. Photographs taken at a distance of about 1500 meters with opened camera aperture so that the flight trajectory an maneuvers of the beamship were captured on film.

Photographer: Hans Schutzbach

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02:19:00

# 262

Flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night. Photos made when the the beamship was rising and flying away.

Photographer: 'Billy' Eduard Albert Meier

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02:19:00

# 272

Flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night. Photographs taken at a distance of about 1500 meters with opened camera aperture so that the flight trajectory an maneuvers of the beamship were captured on film.

Photographer: Hans Schutzbach

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02:20:00

# 263

Flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night. Photos made when the the beamship was rising and flying away.

Photographer: 'Billy' Eduard Albert Meier

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02:20:00

# 273

Flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night. Photographs taken at a distance of about 1500 meters with opened camera aperture so that the flight trajectory an maneuvers of the beamship were captured on film.

Photographer: Hans Schutzbach

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02:21:00

# 264

Flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night. Photos made when the the beamship was rising and flying away.

Photographer: 'Billy' Eduard Albert Meier

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02:21:00

# 274

Flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night. Photographs taken at a distance of about 1500 meters with opened camera aperture so that the flight trajectory an maneuvers of the beamship were captured on film.

Photographer: Hans Schutzbach

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02:22:00

# 265

Flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night. Photos made when the the beamship was rising and flying away.

Photographer: 'Billy' Eduard Albert Meier

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02:22:00

# 275

Flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night. Photographs taken at a distance of about 1500 meters with opened camera aperture so that the flight trajectory an maneuvers of the beamship were captured on film.

Photographer: Hans Schutzbach

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02:23:00

# 266

Flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night. Photos made when the the beamship was rising and flying away.

Photographer: 'Billy' Eduard Albert Meier

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02:25:00

# 267

Flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night. Photos made when the the beamship was rising and flying away.

Photographer: 'Billy' Eduard Albert Meier

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02:25:00

# 276

Flight-display by Semjase's beamship at night. Photographs taken at a distance of about 1500 meters with opened camera aperture so that the flight trajectory an maneuvers of the beamship were captured on film.

Photographer: Hans Schutzbach

Witness(es)
1 | Guido Moosbrugger | Photographed UFO during this flight demonstration also wrote witness account in 1976.
2 | Conrad Schutzbach | Photographed UFO during this flight demonstration.
3 | Hans Schutzbach | Photographed UFO during this flight demonstration.
4 | Amata Stetter | Witnessed UFOs during this flight demonstration.
5 | Margret Flammer | Witnessed UFOs during this flight demonstration.
6 | Olga Walder | Witnessed UFOs during this flight demonstration.

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Event started at: June 20,1976 08:50:00
Event ended at: June 20,1976 08:50:00
Location of event: Above the Berner-Alpen.
Description: Olga Walder riding in a Piper Aztec plane over the Alps, looked out the window and saw two disc-shaped craft flying in close formation beside the Piper. She opened her camera and snapped one picture of them. When she lowered the camera the ships were gone. When the developed prints came back she found two ionizations in the place where the ships should have been. See p. 510, Stevens' 1982 book.

UFO photo(s)

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08:50:00

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Olga Walder riding in a twin-engined Piper Aztec lightplane over the Alps, looked out the window and saw two disc-shaped craft flying in close formation beside the Piper. She opened her camera and snapped one picture of them. When she lowered the camera the ships were gone. When the developed prints came back she found two ionizations in the place where the ships should have been.

Photographer: Olga Walder

Witness(es)
1 | Olga Walder | Sees two UFOs while flying in a plane and makes a photograph.

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Event started at: June 27,1976 00:50:00
Event ended at: June 27,1976 00:50:00
Location of event: Winkelriet.
Description: Exact time unknown. Witnesses do see a couple of telemeter discs in the night sky. Moosbrugger also take photographs of them. They also witness the departure of a red ball of light. See pp. 99-100 of Zeugenbuch.

UFO photo(s)

Witness(es)
1 | Guido Moosbrugger | Witnesses and photographs UFOs and also wrote witness account in 1991
2 | Hans Schutzbach | Witnessed UFOs
3 | Conrad Schutzbach | Witnessed UFOs
4 | Margret Flammer | Witnessed UFOs
5 | Amata Stetter | Witnessed UFOs
6 | Olga Walder | Witnessed UFOs

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Event started at: June 28,1976 16:00:00
Event ended at: June 28,1976 16:55:00
Location of event: Hochacker at Oberdörfler Riet, Betzholz-Hinwil
Description: Daytime sighting. The witnesses follow Meier to a contact. Then at a distance of 300 m the witnesses see a silver colored large object ascending in the sky. Hans Schutzbach photographs UFO. The sighting lasts about ten minutes. Zee Zeugenbuch, pp. 101-114.

UFO photo(s)

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16:55:00

# 299

Semjase's beamship flying away after a contact with Billy (craft only visible as a elipse in the middle of the photo).

Photographer: Hans Schutzbach

Witness(es)
1 | Hans Schutzbach | Sees UFO flying away after a contact and tries to photograph UFO, wrote witness account in 1976.
2 | Amata Stetter | Sees UFO flying away after a contact.
3 | Atlantis Meier | Sees UFO flying away after a contact and wrote witness account in 2000.
4 | Gilgamesha Meier | Sees UFO flying away after a contact.
5 | Kalliope Meier | Sees UFO flying away after a contact and wrote witness account in 1981.
6 | Methusalem Meier | Sees UFO flying away after a contact and wrote witness account in 1998.

Event started at: July 17,1976 16:00:00
Event ended at: July 17,1976 17:00:00
Location of event: Langriemenholz, Hinwil
Description: The vanishing of the tree which features in the July 17, 1976 photo series raised persistent questions and incredulity among some of Meier’s friends, as to how it could possibly have been accomplished. He was eventually able to convince his contactor, Semjase, that she should demonstrate that it could actually be done, and she set a date of July 17th, 1976, for a demonstration. However, she imposed several confidential conditions: no one could be present when the event happened, Meier must not point out the tree in advance, and she would not make her craft visible to anyone on this occasion. On the afternoon of the 17th, Meier, on his moped, led a group of about a dozen in their cars to a grassy spot next to a wooded area, where they released a hot-air balloon that Meier and two friends had constructed a short while before (with some aluminum attached, to see if it would attract the attention of a nearby radar station). Meier stated that the vanishing-tree demonstration would occur in that general area, and that those present should take a close look all around and take photos if desired. Meier also took some photos, they released the hot-air balloon, and then Meier left on his moped in the general direction of the balloon’s drift, but then rode on home. The group followed the balloon along in their cars for a ways, and later hunted Meier up at his house, where he had been waiting for them. They all went back to the site where they had released the balloon, whence Meier asked them if they noticed anything different. They didn’t, until he pointed out where a 3-5m tall young fir tree had been standing an hour before, close alongside a shorter shrubby beech tree that still stood, in the grassy area close to the woods. His beforehand photo proved that this small fir had existed, and the contorted shape of the beech shrub, where the fir tree had blocked its growth on one side, helped confirm the fir’s prior existence. There was no disturbance to the grassy ground that would indicate another tree had been there (Moosbrugger, 2001, pp. 137-139; Stevens, 1982, pp. 149-152; Zeugenbuch, pp. 117-122).

Witness(es)
1 | Kalliope Meier | Witnessed strange disappearance of tree
2 | Atlantis Meier | Witnessed strange disappearance of tree
3 | Gilgamesha Meier | Witnessed strange disappearance of tree
4 | Methusalem Meier | Witnessed strange disappearance of tree
5 | Olga Walder | Witnessed strange disappearance of tree
6 | Hans Zimmerman | Witnessed strange disappearance of tree
7 | Amata Stetter | Witnessed strange disappearance of tree
8 | Conrad Schutzbach | Witnessed strange disappearance of tree
9 | Hans Schutzbach | Witnessed strange disappearance of tree
10 | Herbert Runkel | Witnessed strange disappearance of tree
11 | Jacobus Bertschinger | Witnessed strange disappearance of tree
12 | Guido Moosbrugger | Witnessed strange disappearance of tree and wrote witness account.

Event started at: September 1,1976 10:00:00
Event ended at: September 1,1976 10:00:00
Location of event: Unknown
Description: Exact time, date and location unknown. The witnesses see a strange moving object which disappears in the woods. Zeugenbuch, p. 129

Witness(es)
1 | Erwin Mürner | Witness sees UFO and wrote witness account.
2 | Sonja Mürner Jr. | Witness sees UFO.
3 | Sonja Mürner Sr. | Witness sees UFO.

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Event started at: September 22,1976 10:00:00
Event ended at: September 22,1976 10:00:00
Location of event: Exact time unknown. At the Badersee at Garmisch in Germany
Description: Witness photographs UFO.

UFO photo(s)

Witness(es)
1 | Hilde Meissner | Witness photographs UFO.

Event started at: November 29,1976 10:00:00
Event ended at: November 29,1976 10:00:00
Location of event: Zürich
Description: Exact time unknown. The witness sees a silver colored flying disc above the city of Zürich. The object soon disappears behind the clouds in the sky.

Witness(es)
1 | Päuly Steiner | Witness sees UFO and wrote witness account.

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