Nancy Lieder and ZetaTalk
Nancy Lieder in June 2013
The idea of the Nibiru encounter originated with Nancy Lieder, a Wisconsin woman who claims that as a girl she was contacted by gray extraterrestrials called Zetans, who implanted a communications device in her brain. In 1995, she founded the website ZetaTalk to disseminate her ideas.[8] Lieder first came to public attention on Internet newsgroups during the build-up to Comet Hale–Bopp's 1997 perihelion. She stated, claiming to speak as the Zetans,[9] that: "The Hale–Bopp comet does not exist. It is a fraud, perpetrated by those who would have the teeming masses quiescent until it is too late. Hale–Bopp is nothing more than a distant
star, and will draw no closer."
[9] She claimed that the Hale–Bopp story was manufactured to distract people from the imminent arrival of a large planetary object, "Planet X", which would soon pass by Earth and destroy civilization.
[9] After Hale–Bopp's perihelion revealed it as one of the brightest and longest-observed comets of the last century,
[10] Lieder removed the first two sentences of her initial statement from her site, though they can still be found in
Google's archives.
[9] Her claims eventually made the
New York Times.
[11]
Lieder described Planet X as roughly four times the size of Earth, and said that its closest approach would occur on May 27, 2003, resulting in Earth's rotation ceasing for exactly 5.9 terrestrial days. This would be followed by Earth's pole destabilising in a
pole shift (a
physical pole shift, with Earth's pole physically moving, rather than a
geomagnetic reversal) caused by magnetic attraction between Earth's core and the magnetism of the passing planet. This in turn would disrupt Earth's magnetic core and lead to subsequent displacement of Earth's crust.
[12] After the 2003 date passed without incident, Lieder said that it was merely a "white lie ... to fool the establishment".[13] She refused to disclose the true date, saying that to do so would give those in power enough time to declare martial law and trap people in cities during the shift, leading to their deaths.
[14]
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