As If By Magic

Monday, 7th February 1977, 18:34 hrs

Sunday, 6th February 1977; Group picture from the first visit to Hinterschmidrüti (from left to right): Claire Frey, Olga Walder, Amata Stetter, Herbert Runkel, Margareth Flammer, Elsi Moser. Photo: Bernadette Brand View of the house and garage from the pulpit. Photo: Bernadette Brand View from the pulpit onto the coach house and the house garden. Photo: Bernadette Brand The first transport of building materials in front of the house. To the left of the truck Jakob Bertschinger senior and his son Jacobus. Photo: Billy

AS IF BY MAGIC

Jacobus Bertschinger

Fantastic experience with Eduard Meier (Billy) in connection with Semjase and her beamship.

It was on the 7th of February 1977 at about 18:00 hrs when I, Jacobus Bertschinger, drove together with Eduard Meier towards Ottikon for an announced contact with the beamship pilot Semjase. I parked my car in a forest path, then Edy got out and moved off south-eastwards to go to the contact site. Waiting, I remained alone in the car until, after about 15 minutes, I was unexpectedly addressed by my friend through the radio, i.e., I felt addressed, because Edy was obviously trying to make contact with the house station, but he obviously did not succeed because the station was not manned at the moment. In addition, his voice could only be heard very faintly on the radio, which is why I called in, after which a connection was made, but I pointed out to my friend that the connection was very bad and that he could hardly be heard. He replied that he was in Semjase’s beamship and that was why the connection was bad. Semjase would change this in a moment. It took only seconds before Edy answered again, but now his voice was clear, calm and deep. The pitch of the voice was lower than usual. But the connection was now perfect.

Edy explained to me that he could see me clearly on a visual screen in the ship and that I should now change my location. He would redirect me by radio to a new location. Accordingly, I started the engine of my car and, following Billy’s instructions, drove to the new location, which was on a hill at the edge of a forest, from where I had an excellent panoramic view. From there I could look down on the wide surroundings, so I could see far ahead with Ottikon and far to my left Herschmetten. If I looked straight ahead from my hilltop position, I could see the sea of lights of Dübendorf-Schwammendingen and of Oerlikon.

Lost in thought, I sat behind the valance and stared out into the bright night. Suddenly Edy’s deep voice sounded again from the radio, asking me if I could see the ship, because they were now right over Kloten airport. And indeed, now I could see it, albeit only quite faintly as an oval disc of light, which is why I objected to this lack of visibility. Edy just laughed and said that Semjase would immediately make more light so that I could see the ship better. It then took only two or three seconds before the distant ship suddenly began to glow radiantly and I could see it clearly. Now I could also clearly observe how the ship slowly flew away in the direction of Zurich until it disappeared.

After some time of waiting and getting tired of the radio silence, I tried to contact my friend in the beamship, but unfortunately without success. Still holding the radio microphone in my right hand, I looked down towards Oerlikon. And again I tried to establish radio contact. Suddenly I cringed, because out of nowhere, as if by magic, a human figure was standing in front of the car on the right. It was as if it had grown out of the ground in a flash. Dear reader, I am sure you cannot imagine that my physiognomy, my thoughts and my emotional world suddenly changed and were no longer on the same track as they had been a short time before.

Now, as I stared perplexedly at the human figure in its full size, I also heard my friend’s voice again from the radio: “I am already here, comrade,” then I knew where I was. In front of the car was my friend. He came to the car and sat down in it, grinning all over his face, and with the comment: “You are amazed, aren’t you?”, which of course I could not deny, because the amazement of the crazy appearance was still written all over my face, and for a long time. Then I started asking questions, because I wanted to know where my friend Edy had suddenly come from, and I wanted to know everything: how, what, why and where. I simply wanted to know how it was possible for him to suddenly appear out of nowhere two or three metres in front of my car.

Edy grinned at me and told me that he had heard me shouting in the ship before he climbed into the exit shaft to let Semjase put him in front of my car directly above my car at a height of about 8 metres by means of a teleporter beam, simply because he had asked Semjase to do so in order to be able to see my rather stupid face for once when he suddenly and as if by magic appeared directly in front of me. Unfortunately, however, he had failed to do so because he was unable to recognise my face in the car due to the darkness.

Well, for my part, I was probably very surprised by what happened, but on the other hand, I am not the least bit surprised by what happened, because Edy often thinks of such crazy things, and he amazes many human beings by doing so. He has also done crazier things. You just have to get used to it with him.

As I was sitting in the car, I was unfortunately not able to see the ship above in any way, because it was hovering directly above me, at a height of about 8 metres. Only when Edy was already sitting next to me again, I could observe a bright light that quickly moved away in the direction of Forch (westwards).

In spite of everything, I would now like to apply an old saying to Edy, namely that you cannot have the nickel and the dime. The surprise is well done, but you could not see my astonished face.

Now, after the light had disappeared from the horizon, we drove back to Hinwil. Suddenly, however, before the junction of Stoppstrasse and Hauptstrasse, at the level of the ‘von Ow – Garage’, Edy rushed me and explained that I should drive quickly to his house, because Semjase had just told him that she would be passing over Hinwil from the west, heading east with her beamship shining brightly. Already used to such things from him, I looked westwards, but could see nothing but the facades of houses in front of me. So I stepped on the gas and sped out onto the main road towards Wetzikon. A minute later we were outside the village, and that’s when I saw it; coming from the west, a football-sized, extremely bright object was approaching, directly towards Hinwil. Edy did not let me enjoy the spectacle, though, because he told me to go to his house immediately, because there we could better observe Semjase’s flyby. Well, he had to know better than I did, so I stepped on the gas again and two minutes later we reached his house, as he had already informed his family by radio. They stood in front of the house and watched the approaching Semjase ship, which shone like a small full moon. On the streets in the neighbourhood, various groups of people stood and stared wordlessly at the passing and completely silent flying ship before it disappeared after about three minutes in a northeasterly direction behind a wooded hill range.

Afterwards we went into the house to drink the coffee Edy had asked his wife to make over the radio after he had been back in my car following his sudden appearance out of nowhere.

I can always vouch for the correctness and truthfulness of the information I have given here, even at the risk of being called a crank. However, truth remains truth, there is nothing to shake about that.