Pleiadeans

The association of extraterrestrial entities with the Pleiades begins in earnest with Eduard “Billy” Meier of Switzerland in the 1970s. Meier reported direct physical contact with beings he called the Plejaren, whom he identified as hailing from the Pleiades star cluster. The name Plejaren was said to be their own self-designation, though earlier in his publications Meier simply referred to them as “Pleiadians.” Importantly, this is a case where the identification as Pleiadean was made explicit within the narrative of contact itself, not simply by commentators or later interpreters.

Parallel claims appear in the United States, but through the lens of channeled communications rather than direct physical encounters. Fred Bell, who emerged in California during the 1970s, stated that he was in telepathic contact with Pleiadean beings. His testimony draws obvious parallels to Meier’s, though the two never reconciled their accounts, and Meier’s group explicitly disavowed Bell’s claims. In Bell’s case, the Pleiadean identity was asserted as part of the channeling process itself, again confirming that the label came directly from the communicant, not from outside attribution.

Another significant channel is Barbara Marciniak, an American who in the late 1980s and early 1990s published Bringers of the Dawn and related works. Her material openly claimed to be transmissions from a collective of Pleiadean entities. Unlike Meier’s Plejaren, who stressed advanced technology and earth history, Marciniak’s Pleiadeans emphasized personal empowerment and metaphysical transformation. Here too, the term “Pleiadean” was the explicit self-designation of the purported sources, rather than an interpretive overlay. This marks one of the clearest American strands of Pleiadean channeling.

When examining transatlantic patterns, a striking feature emerges: the European branch, represented by Meier, presented Pleiadeans as quasi-physical visitors imparting technological and ecological warnings, while the American branch, represented by Bell and Marciniak, channeled Pleiadeans as spiritual teachers emphasizing consciousness and self-realization. This division reflects the differing cultural landscapes on each side of the Atlantic—continental Europe maintaining a UFO-contactee tradition rooted in physical encounter narratives, while the United States absorbed Pleiadean imagery into its expanding New Age channeling culture. The term “Pleiadean” therefore took shape not through popularization by outsiders but through direct, transatlantic self-claims by both physical-contact and channeled-entity traditions.