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decided to take Semjase's suggestion that he form a group around him that could help him with his work. They could help him with his Contact Notes and other books he was writing, and possibly public speaking. Billy approached some of his followers who were most anxious to help out with the work, and a group was formed. They called themselves the Freie- Interessengemeinschaft fir Grenz-und Geisteswissenschafien and Ufologiestudien, a rather long German phrase which means "Free Community of Interest in Border and Spiritual Science and Ufology." If you don't speak German, this is difficult to learn, so to most of the world the group has become known as the F.I.G.U. There were 25 members in the original group, 15 of whom took up residence at the farm where Billy and Popi had just moved. In honor of the special purpose of this new home they would all share, they decided to name the farm the "The Semjase Silver Star Center." The F.I.G.U. members then began to take part in helping out around the "Star Center," or *"Center" as they called it, and took on special duties to help Billy with his writing. Some of the F.I.G.U. members helped edit his books, while others answered letters from around the world, and some took day jobs in town to help out with expenses. All in all life started to become easier for Billy, and The Semjase Silver Star Center was becoming well known around the world, and off. As the contacts continued and his pictures were shown in magazines and newspapers around the world, people everywhere became interested in the Swiss farmer who was in touch with the star people. His contacts continued for almost three years and produced hundreds of beautiful pictures, metal samples, biological samples, crystals, and stones from other planets. He was even allowed to take over 30 minutes of movie film of the Beamships in flight which was converted to video tape for the world to see. Here, at last, was the kind of proof of extraterrestrial contact that