Editing Billy Meier (section)

== Alleged extraterrestrial contacts ==
Meier claims his extraterrestrial encounters began in 1942, at the age of five, when he met an elderly Plejaren man named "Sfath".<ref name="Sfath">{{cite web |url=http://www.figu.org/ch/ufologie/die-plejaren/portraits-der-kontaktpersonen |title=''Portraits der Kontaktpersonen'' |website=FIGU Switzerland |publisher=FIGU |location=Schmidrüti, Switzerland |access-date=October 17, 2013 |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115140610/http://www.figu.org/ch/ufologie/die-plejaren/portraits-der-kontaktpersonen |url-status=live }}</ref>  After Sfath's death in 1953, Meier said, he began communicating with an extraterrestrial woman (though not a Plejaren) called "Asket".  All contacts ceased in 1964, he said, then resumed on January 28, 1975, when he met "Semjase",<ref name="Sfath" /> the granddaughter of Sfath, and shortly thereafter another Plejaren man called "Ptaah".  Other extraterrestrials have since allegedly joined the dialog as well.

Meier founded a non-profit, tax-paying organization based on his alleged contacts with Semjase, called the "Freie Interessengemeinschaft für Grenz- und Geisteswissenschaften und Ufologiestudien" (Free Community of Interests for the Border and Spiritual Sciences and Ufological Studies) in the late 1970s and established his "Semjase Silver Star Center". The organization's headquarters is in Switzerland.<ref name="Chryssides2012">George D. Chryssides. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=WA12nHRtmAwC&pg=PA312 Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements]''. Rowman & Littlefield; 2012. {{ISBN|978-0-8108-6194-7}}. p. 312–.</ref><ref name="Lewis2002" /><ref name="Melton1996">{{cite book|author=J. Gordon Melton|title=The Encyclopedia of American Religions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FicvAAAAYAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Gale Research|isbn=978-0-8103-7714-1}}</ref><ref name="Reece2007">{{cite book|author=Gregory L. Reece|title=UFO Religion: Inside Flying Saucer Cults and Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s4MAAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA147|date=20 August 2007|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-0-85771-763-4|pages=147–}}</ref><ref name="Hammer2003">{{cite book|author=Olav Hammer|title=Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EZYsPQgBNioC&pg=PA391|date=1 September 2003|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-13638-X|pages=391–}}</ref>