THERE IS A SET OF SO-CALLED UFO PHOTOS at www.billymeier.com produced by "contactee" Billy Meier in the mid-'70s. A Meier acolyte named Michael Horn has been after myself, Michael Shermer, and the Center for Inquiry West to replicate the Meier photographs and/or prove that the photographs were faked. It is important to note that any replication of those photos would mean little toward examining the claim, except to show that they can be replicated. If they are not properly replicated, it does not speak at all to the question of whether or not they're faked photos.

I'm reminded of the circumstances surrounding my exact replication of the Geller "phenomena" at King's College, UK, in July of 1975, back when many scientists were actually prepared to accept that a new paradigm had been introduced with their introduction to "spoon-bending." The five prominent scientists who witnessed my requested demonstration--one of them a Nobel Laureate for the discovery of the structure of DNA, and another the editor of Nature--stated, in part, that I had

... demonstrated in a laboratory his ability to bend and break spoons and keys that we supplied. He caused bursts on a Geiger counter and made one of our spoons become flexible and finally break in two while one of us held it at each end. Then Mr. Randi caused a compass needle to deflect by about 15[degrees] and caused several...