From: United Kingdom UFO Network <ufo@holodeck.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 19:33:31 +0000
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UK operations?
Despite some evidence to the contrary it seems clear that
Machrihanish in Scotland has been used as at least a stop-off point
on various occasions. The track of the aircraft which made a sonic
boom over Holland in August 1992 suggested that it had definitely
departed from the UK, and the fact that it is known to have crossed
Holland on a southeasterly heading points to Machrihanish as the
likely origin for this particular flight. In addition, we know of
what can be described as a highly-qualified eye witness, who was in
his aircraft on the main ramp at Machrihenish, and saw an
unidentifiable jet type land with no lights and disappear at the far
end of the airfield, having approached in very tight formation with
what he could see to be an F-111. The F-111 was using standard
lighting and overshot as the other aircraft landed, suggesting that
its role was to provide a 'shadow' for the landing aircraft. Of
course, the pure delta shaped Aurora has commonly been quoted as
flying in formation with F-111s. While it appears that the delta
shape is a disinformation ploy, the involvement of F-111s may in fact
be true.
This indicates that a hypersonic aircraft has been operating from
the UK, and that the ASTRA is that aircraft, but why was it sent to
Boscombe Down?
The most obvious choice of base for the ASTRA, given that it is
operational, would of course have been either Fairford (former home
to the 9th RW U-29 detachment) or Mildenhall but both have noise
curfews and are closely monitored by the enthusiast fraternity, such
that the movements of an exotic new aircraft would be difficult to
hide. Indeed, the presence of the first CIA operated U-2s had been
detected by enthusiasts during their first overseas deployment to RAF
Lakenheath, and was publicised by aviation magazines, prompting a
hurried cover story to the effect that the aircraft were engaged in
weather reconnaissance.
It may well be that this memory was still fresh when a choice of UK
base for the ASTRA was made. Boscombe Down offered the promise of
impressive security, along with excellent facilities, and being home
to the DTEO, DRA, ETPS, SAOEU and AWC made it a viable base for
secret operations. The fact that the presence of the aircraft had not
been detected before the incident is testament to the logic in not
choosing one of the more obvious locations to be UK operating base.
If operations were restricted to night, the choice would be limited
to a base that routinely maintains night operations. Night flights at
Boscombe Down are sufficiently commonplace that the associated noise
of what may only be one or two weekly missions would not attract
undue attention.
It is likely that the UK is benefiting from information concerning
the hypersonic and intelligence gathering spheres of the aircraft's
operations as a by-product of the 'extraordinary relationship'. The
mere fact of a UK presence, as well as various attempts at
disinformation by the MoD on behalf of the Americans suggest that
the decision to risk an early operational UK deployment was taken on
a basis of mutual benefit, as in the early career of the U-2.
Blackbird is dead - long live the blackbird?
What of the September 1994 decision to return three of the
mothballed SR-71s to service after the entire fleet was retired in
1989? The ASTRA's role and the fact that it now represents the
cutting edge of technology, suggests the reactivation decision was
part of a cover story developed to draw attention away from the
ASTRA. The SR-71 represented the obvious 'white-world' method of
displaying a renewed commitment to high-speed manned reconnaissance,
though this commitment has not been welcomed by the US Air Force
itself.
Retired USAF Lieutenant General Buster Glasson, who masterminded the
Gulf War air campaign, summed up these feelings:
"The SR-71 was a fantastic leading-edge technology at one point in
time, but we shouldn't keep trying to bring it back from the grave."
Yet it was also Lt Gen Glasson who acknowledged the 'debacle' as
regards intelligence capability and gathering during the Gulf War.
While in favour of UAVs (which are well suited to the loitering
role), he has also said that there must not be a reliance on one
piece of equipment:
"It must be a seamless intelligence system."
This would suggest that he acknowledges the continuing requirement
for a high-speed reconnaissance platform. Meanwhile Major General
Kenneth Israel, chief of the Defence Airborne Reconnaissance Office,
has said:
"By bringing back the SR-71, we're in a position of really
compromising a lot of other capability because it's expensive. We
ought to take a very serious look at quickly putting that airplane
down."
It is strange that the Defence Department's new Technology
Development Approach includes a composite of the SR-71, merely Mach
3 capable, aimed at 2000 time frame, as well as hypersonic vehicles,
one of which is a 2005 concept for a Mach 8 hydrocarbon-burning
aircraft.
There is without doubt a concerted effort to disguise the fact that
the ASTRA as a hypersonic capable SR-71 replacement is, in fact,
already operational.
Critically Important Asset?
The CIA procured the SR-71's predecessor, the A-12. They operated
the A-12s between February 1964 and June 1968 from both the USA and
forward operating locations abroad. It is therefore quite plausible
that the ASTRA, as an SR-71 replacement, has also been procured by,
and is operated for, the CIA.
Any CIA connection presupposes the likelihood of a concerted
disinformation campaign, which is certainly borne out by the
circumstances surrounding the Boscombe incident.
Disinformation, as a security tool, was the key to protecting the
identity of such projects as the F-117. Prior to the eventual
unveiling of the F-117, disinformation began to emerge on the
so-called 'F-19', with a basic configuration which even spawned
plastic model kits and served very successfully to mask the real
configuration and appearance of the F-117.
The basic configuration of the 'F-19' actually approximated to the
even blacker project (in the form of the ASTRA) which was then under
development and which, more importantly, had not even been rumoured
at that time. Dissemination of the 'F-19' configuration served to
perpetuate the air of secrecy surrounding Lockheed's aircraft, but
its usefulness as a disinformation tool was dependent on it being
discarded when the F-117 was actually made public.
In late 1988 the F-117 was unveiled, and in 1989 the ASTRA took to
the air for the first time. The 'F-19', having being exposed as
entirely spurious, had been conveniently forgotten by the masses.
However, it had a YF-23-like forward fuselage, inward canting twin
fins, and short cropped wings, alleged to be foldable to enable
carriage in C-5s - and uncanny similarity to the ASTRA. This
configuration is of course dissimilar to any of those originally
suggested for Aurora, which have ranged from a 90-100ft (27-30m) pure
delta, to a 200ft (60m) long cross between the SR-71 and the XB-70
Valkyrie!
The NASP connection
In December 1960, NASA began a series of studies on a project then
known as the Aero Space Plane, or ASP. This was a hydrogen powered,
air-breathing vehicle, intended to operate hypersonically. On
January 30, 1961, US Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara told the
House Armed Services Committee that the USAF was developing "an
advanced hypersonic manned vehicle".
Meanwhile, the A-12/SR-71 project (supersonic rather than
hypersonic) was given the go-ahead in January 1960 and remained a
black project until 1964. Could it be that development of an ASP was
a convenient cover for development of the A-12/SR-71, given that ASP
development was halted in 1965? Douglas, General Dynamics and North
American had been contracted to put forward design proposals for the
ASP, rather than Lockheed, whose experience with the A-12/SR-71 would
surely have been invaluable, had they been able to demonstrate it. Of
course, their involvement in such a project would have threatened to
compromise the secrecy surrounding the A-12, and thus it may well
have been the case that they were not contracted because the ASP
programme was principally devised as the cover for the Lockheed
project.
History repeats itself?
Over 20 years later, between 1982 and 1985, teams from the Defence
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and NASA resurrected the
concept of the hypersonic Aero-Space Plane/Trans-Atmospheric Vehicle
(TAV). Under the code name Copper Canyon, DARPA began a series of
studies based upon a specific set of both Air Force and Navy
requirements, directed towards developments of an SR-71 replacement.
Copper Canyon spawned a range of Trans-Atmospheric Vehicles using
exotic propulsion systems which almost certainly included the PDWE
and/or RBCC. One of the more easily adaptable concepts to emerge was
the National Aero Space Plane, most often referred to as the NASP or
X-30. The brainchild of DARPA's Robert Williams, it was the NASP
which was announced by President Reagan early in 1986 amid a blaze of
publicity. Meanwhile, Aurora received its first funding. A National
Program Office was set up in Palmdale, California (home also, of
course, to the Northrop Skunk Works assembly line) and on April 7,
1986, 7 million dollar contracts to study NASP airframe technologies
were awarded to Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed, McDonnell
Douglas and Rockwell. In October 1987 development contracts were
awarded to General Dynamics, McDonnell Douglas and Rockwell, and in
April 1988 the project was moved out of DARPA and into the Air Force.
It was also around this time that US DoD officials were quoted in the
New York Times as having revealed development plans for an SR-71
replacement.
Northrop was the only major US military aircraft manufacturer not
awarded a NASP airframe study contract. This is particularly strange
given that the NASP manufacturing plan included an investigation
into superplastic forming, reminiscent of the type of challenge
facing materials planners on the B-2. Could it be that the principal
explanation for Northrop's lack of involvement was their development
of the ASTRA for which NASP, just like its predecessor 30 years
earlier, was providing cover? NASP was a radically different beast
to what we believe the ASTRA to be, but this is explained by the
fact that it was intended to operate in orbit up to Mach 25, whereas
the ASTRA has only ever been intended to operate at a maximum of
between Mach 5 and Mach 8, and within the earth's atmosphere. This
would mean that the airframe of the latter is likely to be radically
different - much smaller than NASP, requiring much less internal fuel
to power what would be a much smaller and simpler powerplant. The
ASTRA's YF-23-like dimensions are borne out by the eye witness
reports.
Back in 1990, NASP deputy director Bob McGuffee had tried to explain
why the USA was so anxious to go it alone with NASP, rather than
co-operating with the Europeans and Japan. He pointed out that "some
parts of the programme are classified - partly because of possible
military scenarios in the future." Mr McGuffee's words were a little
misleading, because the future had, in fact, already arrived - by
1990 the ASTRA was already test flying. By the time NASP was
abandoned in May 1993, it had already consumed approximately 1,400
million dollars. It is very difficult to accept that this level of
investment produced no tangible results (NASP remained a 'paper'
aeroplane), and much easier to believe that significant portions of it
were in fact used to help fund development of the ASTRA. With this
developmental work essentially complete in 1993, and operational
status beckoning, NASP had now outlived its usefulness, but had
certainly served its purpose.
Conclusion
Having previously been Northrop's best kept secret, we now know the
ASTRA's basic shape and capabilities. It appears to be operational
from both the USA and non-US locations, but its existence will
remain classified for the foreseeable future. We shall have to hope
that one day, just like the SR-71, the ASTRA will be allowed to enjoy
the limelight.
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Source: UFO Magazine
Date: March / April 1997
Sightings of curious triangular or wedge-shaped objects continue
unabated, but could current 'unconventional' designs now on the
drawing board further exasperate UFO investigators in the future? On
17 December '96, the Ministry of Defence supplied media defence
correspondents with a press pack that offered an insight into future
aviation research & development programmes - they provided some
telling answers.
The press pack came hot on the heels of a House of Commons written
answer that day. The Ministry of Defence is to spend 35 million
Sterling on researching options that could lead to "uninhabited" RAF
fighter bombers being flown from desk operators on the ground.
The study will help determine whether the RAF go "truly futuristic"
or retain conventional designs to replace the Tornado bomber in the
second decade of the 21st century.
Feasibility studies have been underway for some time, emphasised by
this artists's impression of the pilotless bomber released by the MoD.
Described in politically correct terms as an "uninhabited air
vehicle", RAF sources told Michael Evans, Defence Correspondent for
The Times newspaper, that the aircraft could be "..flown by a crew
sitting at a desk; from inside a virtual reality cockpit on the
ground; or while flying in another aircraft such as an E-3 AWACS
early-warning plane". Another option would be to do away with the
bomber altogether and replace it with air-to-ground launched missiles
from "pallets in the sky" dropped by transporter aircraft.
Further exotic options are being examined which will eventually lead
to some tough political decisions in determining what role the RAF
will undertake well into the next century. The very suggestion that
future RAF bombing sorties might be carried out by unmanned aircraft
will be treated as 'futuristic nonsense' by some, but the fact that
35 million pounds Stirling is being spent to determine whether it is
a viable and practical option, should send shudders down the ranks of
RAF pilots and crew. Britain and the United States have a long and
rich history of sharing new technologies between their respective
defence agencies and manufacturers. The recent alliance between
McDonnell Douglas and Boeing will have a significant impact in future
aviation research and development programmes.
While Boeing's great strength lay in its commercial arm, McDonnell
Douglas has been the dominant defence manufacturing player throughout
the Cold War. Faced with such a powerful technological alliance,
Britain and other European aerospace contractors have now been forced
to review their strategic plans for the future.
British Aerospace will be among those companies most affected by the
Boeing/McDonnell Douglas merger. It may try to forge new alliances of
its own, possibly with GEC, Dasa of Germany, Aerospatiale and
Dassault of France. As European integration moves ever closer,
commercial ties such as these will be suggested more and more by what
is perceived to be a threat from the newly formed Boeing/McDonnell
Douglas. Sir Richard Evans, chief executive of British Aerospace, has
been advocating for years that European aerospace and defence companies
need to consolidate to survive.
The real question though is how the US merger will impact on new
stealth technologies currently underway between British and American
defence contractors. If British Aerospace does form a grand European
alliance to challenge American dominance, will the United States be
willing to continue to share its stealth technology with Britain?
Might we see an abrupt end to exotic aviation designs appearing other
than in the United States? The key player in that argument is chief
rival to Boeing/McDonnel1 Douglas - Lockheed Martin. It is they who
are the world's leaders in stealth technologies and a surprising
candidate for any possible future partnership with British Aerospace.
The British company has a long established rapport with its American
counterpart, and while the rest of Europe (and especially France)
hesitates, the temptation to forge an alliance with Lockheed Martin
will become ever greater. If such an alliance were to occur, that
would greatly displease pro- European supporters who fear it would
damage an already weakened defence and aerospace sector and thwart
their ability to compete on level terms with Boeing/McDonnell
Douglas.
World News
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[W 1]******
Source; BBC Ceefax
Date: Thursday 3rd April 1997
Space probe sees possible signs of life
Signs of life may have been spotted by a space probe on two of
Jupiter's moons, scientists have disclosed.
The Galileo spacecraft is thought to have caught glimpses of organic
molecules containing carbon and nitrogen on Ganymede and Callisto.
These two elements are vital components of living things.
The discovery does not necessarily point to the existence of life,
but the possibility cannot be ruled out.
[W 2]******
Source: The Times Interface newspaper
Date: Wednesday 12th March 1997
Bold journey for a crewless craft
Nicholas Booth
For many years TV viewers have followed Deep Space Nine, the Star
Trek spin-off, as it boldly goes on journeys through space and time.
Now Nasa scientists are preparing a mission called Deep Space One
which will fly past an asteroid and a comet after launch next summer.
Although unmanned, Deep Space One will carry the most advanced
artificial intelligence software ever sent into space. The software,
known as Remote Agent, is being described by its designers as a step
on the way to the kind of voice-activated, intelligent computers
which the Star Trek crew would use.
"The goals of the Remote Agent development are twofold: to reduce
the cost of exploration and to extend exploration to realms of space
where no ground-controlled craft could venture," says Dr Bob
Rasmusen, a computer autonomy expert at Nasa's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in California, which is developing the mission.
The Remote Agent software will correct on-board problems by reasoning
with itself to find out what has gone wrong. The large distances
involved in planetary exploration mean that communications from
Earth take too long to arrive during emergencies.
Sometimes spacecraft have to hibernate for months when they pass
behind the sun, as seen from Earth.
Deeps Space One is part of Nasa's continuing efforts to develop
smaller, less expensive spacecraft able to fly autonomous missions
at a cost of less than 100 million dollars per voyage. The Remote
Agent software means the mission can be controlled by less than a
dozen ground controllers instead of the hundreds of people currently
used to run a major space mission. Other missions in the programme
will include a Mars lander, a mission to Venus and an advanced
mapping mission from Earth orbit.
The Remote Agent software comprises three packages which, Nasa
officials believe will reduce costs by 60 per cent back on Earth.
One, known as High-Level Planning and Scheduling, will anticipate
"goals" rather than detailed instructions for the weeks ahead. The
fault protection part of the software is named Livingstone after the
legendary explorer and acts as a virtual chief engineer.
If something goes wrong, Livingstone uses models of how the
spacecraft should behave under the circumstances. A final portion of
the software, Smart Executive, executes the minute details from the
Planning and Scheduling goals.
Nasa scientists have also ensured that if the spacecraft
malfunctions, ground controllers could perform the equivalent of a
labotomy.
[W 3]******
Source: (letters page) UFO Magazine
Date: March/April 1997
Dear Sir,
While reading an article about Area 51 I came across some information
which was new to my eyes. Apparently George Knapp of KLAS TV in Las
Vegas has in his possession, videotape testimony of a man who
organised several big military operations out of Nellis AFB in
Nevada, or Area 51. The man claims that the American government has
aquired alien technology and bodies since the 1950's. Unfortunately,
this tape will not be screened until the man has died. Can you shed
any further light on this?
From: Paul Schwar, London, England
Editor: I don't recall George Knapp saying anything other than he
hopes the canned interviews will be broadcast later in the year. What
I can promise those attending his lecture at London's Imperial
College on the weekend of 21-22 June is some quite remarkable
revelations and film footage aquired from Area 51 and two trips to
the former Soviet Union that will have the audience on the edge of
their seats.
uk.ufo.nw says: If any of you out there have any further details on
the videotape's and interviews mentioned please mail us. Also we
would like to hear from anyone who manages to get along to see George
Knapps lecture in London. Mail us at: ufo@holodeck.demon.co.uk
[W 4]******
Souce: The Times Interface newspaper
Date: 26th February 1997
Spaceship that bodly goes and goes and goes
Twenty-five years ago this week Pioneer 10 was launched on the first
space voyage to the stars, its mission to explore only as far a
Jupiter (Nicholas Booth writes.)
But this pioneer just kept on going and is now 10 billion kilometres
distant on the edge of the solar system - and still travelling at
speed, relative to the sun, of 12.5 kilometres per second. Despite
the distance involved, Nasa's Deep Space Network - large radio
antennae dotted around the Earth - is still picking up Pioneer 10's
signal, although it now takes 18 hours, 32 minutes and 37 seconds to
be sent and confirmation returned.
The craft is powered by a small lump of plutonium which is decaying
but still generating enough heat to the keep the craft going in the
freezing depths where the Sun is only a bright star.
But Pioneer 10 now transmits back to Earth with a power of only 8
watts and by the time the signal reaches Earth, it has dissipated to
one sextillionth of a watt.
To hear this faint whisper from the edge of space, the electronics
have to be chilled by liquid hydrogen to remove even the noise of
molecules which would otherwise drown the signal.
Now Pioneer 10's long run is coming to an end. Nasa plans to switch
it off in March because of funding cutbacks.
http://pyroeis.arc.nasa.gov/pioneer/PNStat.html
[W 5]******
Source: The Daily Mail newspaper
Date: Wednesday 19th February 1997
Where 20 pounds buys you plenty of space
Land speculators are being offered a real bargain - 640 acres plots
for just 20 pounds each. The catch is that the properties are on
Mars. The land is being 'sold' by a company using the Internet. A
spokesman for the firm said: "Any dispute about ownership will be
settled with any future government of Mars."
[W 6]******
Source: The Sun newspaper
Date: Friday 28th March 1998
(note: this incident has been widely publicised on television news
and other newspapers)
39 kill themselves in pact to join aliens aboard huge UFO hiding
behind the comet
>From Caroline Graham in San Diego
Thirty-Nine members of a bizarre cult killed themselves to join
aliens in a huge spacecraft hiding behind comet Hale-Bopp, it was
revealed yesterday.
The tragic weirdos - all computer fanatics - were told by their 6ft
7in guru: "We must go to a higher place - It is time to shed the
containers that other, less wordly, ones call bodies. The spaceship
is behind the comet."
The astonishing story behind the mass suicide was unravelled
yesterday by a former member of the Higher Sorce sect.
Known only as Rio, he said he received two "farewell videos" on
Wednesday which had been taped by cult members last Friday.
He told his boss: "One was recorded by the leader, Father John Doe -
He told how the comet was a sign they were to leave this Earth and
travel to a higher planet."
Bodies
"The other tape was from my friends, saying goodbye. They said, 'Do
not be upset. We are calm and at peace with ourselves. We are ready
to go'."
After watching the videos Rio contacted police saying: "Please see
if my friends are ok. I'm scared."
Officers rushed to a secluded 1 million pounds mansion in the
megarich Californian town of Rancho Santa Fe, 20 miles north of San
Diego.
They found the bosies of 39 men and women - all aged between 16 and
28 - lying on their backs in rows.
Their arms were at their sides and each person had a purple shroud
folded into a triangle covering their face.
There were no signs of physical injury and it was believed the
victims died one by one after taking overdoses of sleeping tablets
during the week-long period when Hale-Bopp was closest to the earth.
As corpse after corpse was carried from the luxury home at 18241
Colina Norte a horrified cop said: "I have never seen anything like
it - the bodies were everywhere. They looked like they were asleep."
Another cop said the scene inside the house "chilled me to the
bone." He added "All the victims were wearing identical black
trousers and black training shoes.
They were lined up in precise rows with their arms by their side.
Some of them were on matresses, others on beds.
They were in several rooms but the thing thatstruck me was how neat
and peaceful the scene was.
It was almost as if they had measured the distance between
themselves to make sure everything was perfect.
The house was spotless. There was not a cup or saucer out of place.
The cushions were plumped up. It was eerie."
Rio's shocked boss Nick Matzorkis, of the Interact Entertinment
Group, said: "Rio left the group a month ago - he turned to me with a
white face seeing the tapes. His hands were trembling. He said,
'They've done it'. - One 15 minute tape was from the cult leader. He
looked about 70 years old and had staring eyes. - He said they were
going because they believed the comet was a sign. - He said, 'The
space craft is behind the comet. Others cannot see it but to us, it
is a sign. When it gets close enough, we will leave to join it'."
Another source described the charismatic, grey-haired chief - only
ever refered to as Father John of Father Doe - as "like Lurch from
The Adams Family".
Last night police were still trying to trace the mysterious figure.
In America, John Doe is the name used by police for unidentified
corpses.
Matzorkis, 39, went on: "Rio said they believed the UFO would take
them to a place called Sirius. - He said the cult members were all
computer nerds who followed the leader with a religious zeal. - He
left because he thought they were getting too weird. None of the
members smoked, drank or had sex. They had to keep 'pure' to travel
onwards to this higher level. - Rio told me, 'They think the aliens
will take them to Sirius which has much higher life forms than
earth'."
Shocking
Sirius is know as the Dog Star - and is the brightest in the night
sky.
The deaths in one of America's biggest mass suicides stunned the
nation. President Bill Clinton said last night: "It's heartbreaking,
it's sickening, it' shocking."
The Higher Source cult operated as a business which designed
interactive Internet pages for companies at around 20,000 pounds a
time.
And, although no suicide notes were found at the house, the sect
left a grim message on its own Worldwide Web site, called Heaven's
Gate.
It included a drawn picture of an alien, with the words: "This is
what we believe our friends out there will look like."
The website referred to previous mass suicides, including the deaths
of 81 Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas, in 1993. And it said: "We
fully expect and look forward to boarding a spacecraft to go to a
higher place. - We believe a time will come when we leave our
physical vehicles and move on." The rambling explanation of the
cult's beliefs went on: "The keys to heaven's gate are here again in
Ti and Doe, the UFO two, as they were in Jesus, the father 2,000
years ago. Hale-Bopp's approach is the marker we've been waiting for,
the time for the arrival of the spacecraft from the level above
humans to take us home to their world."
The crop-haired Higher Source members treated their nine-bedroomed
mansion like a temple.
People living nearby were unconcerned by the neat, smartly dressed
organisation which settled with ease in a town ruputed to have more
millionaires per square mile than any other in America.
The house, complete with heated swimming pool and floodlit tennis
courts, was rented from Iranian born Sam Koutchesfahani, who was
anxious to sell it.
Estate agent Bob Dyson, 43, showed would-be buyers around last
Thursday.
He said: "The cult members made me take off my shoes and put on
surgical slippers. No one spoke apart from the cult leader. - The
other men and women were like robots. They were all dressed the same
and had identical crew cuts. They refered to each other as brother
and sister. - They told me the house would not be available for
viewing this week beacause they were planning 'religious ceremonies'
including a ceremony of death. I thought they were harmless wackos."
Customers of the sect's company described it as businesslike.
One of them, San Diego Polo Club manager Tom Goodspeed, said last
night: "I had a working relationship with six or seven members of
the group. They were very soft spoken, quiet and some of the most
pleasant people I've ever worked with."
Superstitious societie have long believed that comets herald
impending doom.
And a rumour that a UFO has trailed comet Hale-Bopp has been
circulating for months on the Internet.
But experts say an object photographed by an amateur astronomer was
really a star distorted by the optics of his telescope.
[graphic depicts page from the sects website]
Red Alert Hale-Bopp Brings Closure to: HEAVENS GATE
As was promised - the keys to Heaven's Gate are here again in Ti and
Do (The UFO Two) as they were in Jesus and His Father 2000 yrs. ago.
Whether Hale-Bopp has a "companion" or not is irrelevant from our
perspective. However, its arrival is joyously very significant to us
at "Heaven's Gate." They joy is that our Older Member in the
Evolutionary Level Above Human (the "Kingdom of Heaven") has made it
clear ro us that Hale-Bopp's approach is the "marker" we've been
waiting for - the time for the arrival of the spacecraft from the
Level Above Human to take us home to "Their World" - in the literal
Heavens. Our 22 years of classroom here on planet Earth is finally
coming to conclusion--"graduation" from the Human Evolutionary Level
we are happily prepared to leave "this world" and go with Ti's crew.
If you study the material on this website you will hopefully
understand our joy and what our purpose it.
[also in this article]
Man Who Saw Omen of Doom
By Rachel Bletchley
Prophet Nostradamus predicted the Hale-Bopp comet would be an omen
of doom more than 400 years ago.
The 16th century astrologer wrote: "The sky will burn at 45 degrees
in the Millenium as the Apocalypse approaches."
Academics who interpret his writings believes that refers to the
brillient comet which sparked the San Diego cult to commit mass
suicide.
They say Hale-Bopp will "burn" - or be closest to the sun - during
April at a position of 45 degrees latitude.
Horrors
Nostradamus predicted the Apocalypse, or the end of the world, in
July 1999.
An astonishing number of the French soothsayer's predictions have
apparently come true.
He is said to have forecast the rise of Hitler, the Second World
War, the horrors of the Gulf War and a "wicked tyrant" - Saddam
Hussein.
Students of his books say he also foresaw the AIDS epidemic, civil
war in Yugoslavia and the Great Fire of London.
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