BILLY MEIER BEAMSHIP AUDIO DECONSTRUCTION

CLAIM:  Billy Meier Recorded Sounds Of A Space Ship That Contained Inaudible Frequencies

FINDINGS:  The Equipment Used By Billy Meier Was Incapable Of Recording Any Inaudible Frequencies

Billy Meier has an audio recording of what he claims is the sound of one of the extraterrestrial space ships.  You can listen to the recording here:

On Michael Horn’s website there is an article called UFOSoundRecordings.pdf.  This article contains the original audio analysis done on the audio recording of the space ship and contains the following statements:

“This tape recording was made on July 7, 1980, in Ober-Sädelegg, Switzerland. There, the sounds of the new Variant III ship were recorded for forty-eight minutes in front of fifteen witnesses with a total of four cassette recorders.”

"Jim Dilettoso, our research consultant, took samples of this noise to Peter Gimer and Rick Coupland of Micor in San Francisco.  There they performed tests in the audible range, from 20 Hz to 2000 HZ.  They found twenty-four characteristic frequencies within the audible range and eight outside of it.  They found all thirty-two frequencies concurrently at different amplitudes and volumes.  All thirty-two tones are somehow produced simultaneously."

First, it is very important to understand that the sound of the space ship was claimed to be recorded using portable audio cassette tape recorders.

Now, the complete range of human hearing is actually from 15Hz to 20,000Hz, so when it is said that they performed tests in the audible range from 20Hz to 2,000Hz that is the first thing wrong with their analysis.

Another oddity is that immediately after stating that they only performed tests within the audible range of human hearing they then say that found eight frequencies outside of the range of human hearing.  It is these eight inaudible frequencies that Meier and his supporters use to promote the extraterrestrial nature of these audio recordings.

A modern audio cassette deck, like you would have in a home stereo system, has a recording frequency range of 25Hz to 19,000Hz.  This is within the audible range of human hearing.

A modern portable audio cassette recorder has a much narrower recording frequency range.  It is only 100Hz to 8,000Hz.

And a vintage portable audio cassette recorder, such as they type available when Meier made his recording, has an even narrower recording frequency range.  It is only capable of recording from 300Hz to 5,000Hz.

No audio cassette recorder made today, or in the past, is capable of recording any audio frequencies outside of the range of human hearing.  Let’s imagine that Billy Meier had a magical audio cassette recorder that could record any audio frequency imaginable.  What about the audio cassette tape itself?

Well, Maxell’s professional line of audio cassette tape can only record frequencies from 315 Hz to 16,000 Hz.  This is well within the range of human hearing.

No audio cassette tape recorder nor any audio cassette tape is capable of recording frequencies outside the range of human hearing, so the analysis that was done to the audio cassette tape that says they found eight frequencies recorded outside the range of human hearing is completely without merit.

In 2008, after it was conclusively shown that there was no way for an audio cassette tape recorder to record any inaudible sounds, Michael Horn said in an on-camera interview, "twenty-four were indeed in the audible range.  The eight inaudible sounds were determined through the calculations in a formula based on the existing sounds."

So, he said on camera that there never were any inaudible frequencies recorded in the beamship recording.  As stated earlier, Michael Horn’s own website has a document called UFOSoundRecordings.pdf that states the following:

"Jim Dilettoso, our research consultant, took samples of this noise to Peter Gimer and Rick Coupland of Micor in San Francisco.  There they performed tests in the audible range, from 20 Hz to 2000 HZ.  They found twenty-four characteristic frequencies within the audible range and eight outside of it.  They found all thirty-two frequencies concurrently at different amplitudes and volumes.  All thirty-two tones are somehow produced simultaneously."

This certainly doesn't sound like the eight inaudible frequencies were "determined through the calculations in a formula based on the existing sounds."  It clearly states that the eight "inaudible" frequencies were part of the original recording.

This is not the only time that Michael Horn has admitted to posting false, misleading, or fraudulent articles on his website in order to support the claims made by Billy Meier.  For more information on this behavior please click here.