1. UFO Religions UFOs: non-religious? Mythological characteristics:
spaceborne saviours? Demonic figures?
First sighting: June 24, 1947: Kenneth Arnold, Boise Idaho.
By early 1950’s: mostly skeptics; claims to have made contact.

2. Similarities to 19th C. Spiritualism.
Descending gods, deliver wisdom and messages of warning, hope, or apocalypse.
Interstellar abduction
Also Men in Black harass UFO observers.
Appear to chosen few.
Messages passed on to others (by trance, automatic writing)
Groups tend to be loose and short-lived.
Presuppose spiritually significant beings between human and ultimate reality (God).
Expanded consciousness
Psychical phenomena; “signs” producing faith.
Channelling: Instructions from spiritual teachers
Wisdom tends to Theosophy: karma, reincarnation
Spiritual evolution possible, by effort, initiation, and acquired wisdom

3. Similarities to fairy tales
Otherworldly “little men” (Jacques Vallee)
Appearance like elves or goblins
Time not passing (like into a fairy mound)
Changelings (half-human pregnancies)
Experience: subjective or objective impossible to prove (Thomas Bullard)

4. Contactees George Adamski (1952) Flying Saucers Have Landed.
In Mojave desert
“Orthon” from Venus
Religion is “science of life, without temples.
Truman Bethurum (1954) Aboard a Flying Saucer.
Also Mojave
From Clarion
No war, divorce, taxes
Fry 1954
Warning from past earth civilization: atomic warfare
Angelucci 1955

5. Explanations:
Cold War, anticommunism
World can become better

6. Early Organizations Conventions (1954-1977) Fry: Understanding, Inc.
Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs (1957)
Heralds of the New Age (early 1950’s)
Cosmon Research Foundation (1962 martyred Gloria Lee)
Christ Brotherhood (1956). Halsey disappeared 1963
Association of Sananda and Sanat Kumara (When Prophecy Fails)
Mark-Age (1956) Charles Boyd Gentzel
Unarius (1954) Ernest L. Norman
Aetherius Society (1955) George King

7. 1970’s- UFO cults Human Individual Metamorphosis (1975)
Bo & Peep, “The Two” “to the level above human”
“The Four: A Christian Newsletter of the Tribulation” (1980’s) (in Ottawa and Kansas)

8. M.I.B. Gray Barker, They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers (1956)
1953 Three men in black suits visit Albert Bender of Conneticut, director of “International Flying Saucer Bureau”. Bureau ends.
Mechanical walk and voices.

9. Abductions
John Fuller (1961): Barney & Betty Hill abducted in New Hampshire
Medical experiments
Missing time
Budd Hopkins & David Jacobs
Laboratory animals?
Pregnancies
Whitley Streiber: Communion and Transformation.
Ultimately benign aliens

10. So What? Concerns expressed by:
American Humanist Association
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
Skeptical Inquirer
Skeptics UFO Newsletter
Promotes credulity and authoritarian truth in charismatic figures
Glorifies pathological psychosis
Are UFO movements religious?
Use categories from myths & religion
We are not alone
Beings with supernatural abilities to harm & heal, like angels & demons.

11. Review: UFO Religions
UFOs: non-religious? Mythological characteristics:
1947-early 1950’s: heyday
Similarities to 19th C. Spiritualism: Descending gods, deliver wisdom
Similarities to fairy tales: Otherworldly goblins; Time not passing; Changelings
Messages, according to Contactees: Utopia is possible
Diverse Organizations
Human Individual Metamorphosis (1975)
Men In Black
Abductions: medical? Benign?
So What?
Promotes credulity and authoritarian truth in charismatic figures
Glorifies pathological psychosis
Are UFO movements religions?

12. Heaven’s Gate video

13. Heaven’s Gate beliefs
USA Today ad, May 27, 1993

14. Heaven’s Gate’s Purpose
Two thousand years ago
Kingdom of Heaven determined some human "plants" of Garden Earth ready to be "containers" for soul deposits.
a member of Kingdom of Heaven left His body for a human body "prepped" for this task: Jesus.
He did so at His "Father's" (or Older Member's) instruction, at baptism by John the Baptist
His Task: offer membership into the Kingdom of Heaven to those who recognized Him and followed Him.
Only those with the "deposit" could believe . Get to His Father through total reliance upon Him.
Leaving behind this world included: family, sensuality, selfish desires, your human mind, and even your human body if it be required of you - all mammalian ways, thinking, and behavior.
Do’s mission is exactly the same.
Do has the same task as Jesus; Do’s purposes is to offer the discipline required.
Do’s “Father”, his Older Member, came to assist in the task, to provide the opportunity to become a new creature, one of the Next Evolutionary Level, rightfully belonging to the Kingdom of Heaven.

15. Heaven’s Gate’s Purpose
Why Do says It Is Difficult To Believe or Accept Him
evil spirits, malevolent space aliens, are "Luciferians," or Satan and his fallen angels.
The space aliens, or Luciferians, use the discarnate spirits (the minds that are disembodied at the death of a body) as their primary servants - against potential members of the Kingdom of God.
From our point of view, this "programming" finds that body, and the vast majority of all human bodies, barely usable by students of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Unless you are currently an active student you ARE STILL "of the world.“
The window of opportunity to go to Heaven requires:
1) an incarnate (as human) Representative of the Kingdom of Heaven;
2) being an active students of that Representative
3) enduring the "transition classroom" until bonding or "grafting" to that Representative.