Did Hale-Bopp Comet Have A UFO Companion?

January 1997

The arrival of Comet Hale-Bopp in the night skies and, much more significantly, on the Internet, proves it. In case you haven't been keeping up with your Internet eschatology, during the past two months dozens of Web sites have flared up proclaiming the comet either a sign of looming Armageddon, the prequel to an alien invasion, or the unfortunate rallying point for hoaxers and pseudo-scientific kooks. Take your pick. Authorial cottage industry/self-proclaimed alien contactee Whitley Strieber calls Hale-Bopp "a fabulous turn of history for us, the luck to be found in this vast dark universe, never to be alone anymore."
What is this -- the Second Coming? Well, to hear the hubbub over Hale-Bopp, a lot of people seem to think so. Some things never change: For centuries the appearance of a comet in the skies was interpreted as an omen of looming disaster or some other flavor of mystical event. As Hale-Bopp hurtles through space toward a relatively close encounter with Earth this spring, the prophets in cyberspace are talking Tribulation and stocking up on nonperishable snacks to tide them over during the coming rapture.
In case you haven't encountered the Hale-Bopp blowout yet, it all began last November after backyard astronomer Chuck Shramek announced on the Internet and on Art Bell's UFO-centric radio program, Dreamland, that he had snapped a telescopic photo of a second luminous object flying alongside Comet Hale-Bopp. Shramek, a guy who hosts a conspiracy-minded radio show in Houston called, straightforwardly, What the Hell Is Going On???, published the picture on his Web page. The photo shows the comet -- a diffuse ball of light -- near the center of the frame, and a slightly smaller but extremely bright object flanking it above and to the right. That "companion" object has a slight flare of light running through it, a feature that prompted Shramek to describe it as "Saturn-like."
After Shramek's appearance on Bell's show, the "discovery" became an instant Internet sensation, yielding hundreds of Usenet messages, a couple dozen Web sites, online parodies and even inspirational poetry and art. On his Communion home page, Whitley Strieber wondered aloud if the companion object might be an "incoming starship full of aliens."
the Farsight Institute, a firm that specializes in "remote viewing" commissioned a clutch of psychics to project their thoughts out to the "anomalous target near Hale-Bopp comet (current time)" and describe what they "see." ("An artificial, metal structure, not on earth," reported one of the ESP seers, adding incomprehensibly that "The Galactic Council, or some higher order, is watching very interested....") One Net prophet with an astrological bent has posited the theory that the "companion" is the "12th planet," though he hasn't explained what happened to planets 10 and 11. And, of course, the Biblical prophesy chasers, not to be upstaged, have offered the theory that Hale-Bopp and company are harbingers of the Apocalypse, which could happen as early as this April (plan accordingly).
Not surprisingly all this cosmic commotion quickly caught the eyes of Tom Bopp and Alan Hale, co-discoverers of the comet; NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; and various newspapers and radio stations. Thus began round two in the controversy, which has produced an assortment of debunking Web sites. On one of those sites, Hale summarized the prevailing explanation among astronomers, that the "'mysterious object' is nothing more than [a] bright 9th-magnitude star. The so-called 'Saturn-like rings,'" are merely a "diffraction effect" familiar to real astronomers, though apparently not to "fringe people" like Shramek and Bell. And so on. The situation quickly devolved into a volley of name-calling on both sides.
Undaunted, the intrepid Shramek suggested that NASA, astronomers like Alan Hale (no relation to the Skipper) and even the Vatican (!) were in on a massive Hale-Bopp cover-up. "Months before I took this picture," the father-of-the-anomaly shot back, "I knew there was a strong effort underway to keep good pictures of the comet away from the public." Elaborating for 60GCAT in an e-mail interview, Shramek said, "The pictures from all the big observatories ceased to show up on the Web in May of 96," day 1 of the purported cover-up.
Apparently, the cover-up -- if indeed there ever was one -- was as leaky as a NASA O-ring. Since December, a handful of puzzling photos depicting Hale-Bopp and Hail-Mary (as Bell's fans dubbed the companion object) began materializing on pro-anomaly Web sites. Identified as having been snapped by both amateur astronomers and major observatories all over the world at various times since the summer of 1995, the pictures contained a secondary object in roughly the same position as the mystery orb in Shramek's original photo. Apparently, Hale's misperceived "9th-magnitude star" sure got around.
Among the most impressive of these were
• a curious image taken by the Hubble space telescope showing an amorphous blob of light near the comet;
• a picture lensed by he Japanese National Observatory showing what Japanese scientists called an "anomalous funnel at edge of an object next to Hale-Bopp Comet"; and
• a clear exposure offered to Bell and Strieber by Prudence Calabrese on behalf of a "mysterious astrophysicist" who "preferred to remain anonymous." The picture, eventually posted on Bell's and Strieber's Web sites, depicts the companion object "nestled deep in the comet's corona."
Unfortunately for Hale-Mary disciples, all three of these images had come into question by mid-January. Faring the worst of the lot was the Bell and Strieber picture, which University of Hawaii astronomer Olivier R. Hainaut rather convincingly showed to be a hoax. "The mysterious companion object" in the disputed picture "is not real," wrote Hainaut in letter posted on Bell's Web site. It was "added to the image most likely using digital image processing techniques." Hainaut should know. He snapped the original, companion-free picture on September 1, 1995. Someone obviously doctored the image at a later date.
As for the Japanese picture of the "anomalous funnel," University of Hawaii astronomers explained it away as an "artifact" of the image processing -- that is, an optical illusion common to electronically photographed astronomical images. The Japanese have since backtracked on their initial puzzlement over the "funnel," and now agree that it is an imaging artifact. And even Strieber is now cautiously circumspect when it comes to the Hubble photo, citing the prevailing theory of astronomers that the shot depicts a "huge outburst of dust," the equivalent of evaporation of gasses as the comet approaches the sun.
But none of these arguments seem to have fazed Chuck Shramek, the original comet whistleblower. And he's certainly not about to absolve the Pope of sin when it comes to orchestrating the big Hale-Bopp cover-up. Zeroing in on the fact that the Vatican operates an observatory at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Shramek wonders aloud in a special corner of his Web page, "Why would the Vatican use a vast amount of political clout and money to build a powerful telescope and observatory?... Oh yes," he goes on to assure, "they've had their telescope aimed for months now at the comet!" Shramek's nickname for the Jesuit-run observatory? "The Pope-Scope," natch.
To be sure, Papalgate theory-helper arrived last December in the form of an anonymous letter faxed to Art Bell and signed, "PRIEST," by someone claiming to be a renegade padre who had stumbled upon a vast conspiracy run from Vatican City and NASA to suppress comet pictures snapped by the Hubble space telescope. In the letter, the spook-priest claims to have "a Top Level security clearance in the Vatican" and to have conducted "black-ops" on behalf of the Holy See, whatever that means. "Priest" avers that he recently stumbled upon a top-secret Vatican project dubbed "Wormwood," involving a"direct link-up to the Hubble space telescope." Apparently, the Holy Father is "very aware of the existence of the companion, and is VERY worried about it." Alas, as in any conspiracy scenario worth its paranoid salt, the Spook's-Priest's Tale involves martyrs and institutional perfidy: After liberating some encrypted messages from the Vatican's computer database (thus far, Bill Gates and Microsoft have yet to surface in this tale), Vatican contract assassins target our hero, who narrowly escapes his, er, last rites, only to learn that his parents have been "killed in a car crash in France" and that three days later, "my brother and sister were killed when their single engine plane went down on the East coast of the U.S." Despite a one-true religion that will stop at nothing, thus far our renegade priest has managed to avoid death by frankincense.
60GCAT asked Shramek about the sinister Arizona-Vatican angle. Why the, well, hale would the Pope even deign to care about a lay-comet? "The Vatican, like governments, is very powerful," he e-mailed back. "Any hint of 'superior intelligence' out there is a threat to the powers of earth which consider themselves the top authorities. The Vatican may also be privy to ancient prophecies and manuscripts revealing the true nature of 'reality' and 'human purpose' and they want to get their stories straight."
So in other words, the Pope wants to get in on the ground floor of a good thing -- the Millennium! When we asked a spokesman at the Vatican observatory about the Papal-Hubble plot, he acted all nonplussed -- as if he hadn't even heard about Shramek's accusation. Yeah, and Walt Disney isn't on ice under Cinderella's Castle.
So, is "First Contact" with alien intelligence just around the corner? Are the Last Days upon us? Who are we to say no? On the other hand, even if the Four Horsemen are on their way, we have no plans to clean the bathroom and vacuum the apartment. At least not in this Millennium.
Rogue Priest E- Mail to Art Bell about Hale-Bopp “WormWood” Connections

Attached is copy of an E-Mail message received by Art Bell Wednesday and discussed in detail by him on his Wednesday night/Thursday morning radio show. If you heard it as I did, you were no doubt felt the profound impact as I did. If not, I can assure you that the validity of this material was checked out at the highest sources and disturbingly confirmed by Vatican insiders.

Arts guest was Dr. Richard Boyland, an ex-priest and consulting psychologist who shed a great deal of light on the subject of the E-Mail message as well as anticipated contact with Extraterrestrials. Blessings and aloha from Maui, Hawaii.

It appears as the Vatican has now unofficially entered the Hale-Bopp controversy. Plus, apparently there are some high level meetings now occurring with Clinton/Gore and the Vatican. Art Bell, received a warning from a past high level member of the Vatican, suggesting he should drop it, as he could easily be wiped out.

Dear Mr. Bell,
I have listened to your program off and on for around two years now, whenever I get "down-time". I have some disturbing information and I fell that your program would be the perfect vehicle with which to distribute what I have. I have been under the employ of the Vatican for over five years. I have done what could best be described as counter-intelligence work, for the church. I am a man of God and please believe me when I tell you that the information I have is genuine, and very serious.

Without going into too much detail about my former employers, I will briefly tell you that I have had a Top Level security clearance in the Vatican for quite some time. Most of the work I have done regrettably falls into the realm of "black-ops", and I will not go into detail about that now.

Around six months ago, I was working at a data terminal in a highly restricted area following a case that I had just completed, when I stumbled onto something that nearly made my heart stop. Please pay attention here, this is where it gets strange.

I uncovered a heavily encrypted sub-system that was surprisingly well hidden. I found that it was only accessible through the terminal I was at, and one other terminal.(I must point out that the area I was in was not an area that I routinely used.) After two minute of trying to get into the system, the whole lab shut itself down and I was booted off the terminal. Not wanting to raise any eyebrows, I decided to leave and come back later that night. The strange thing was, when I came back, there were ARMED guards standing sentry outside of the lab. I must say that it is not unusual to see guards roaming the Vatican, but it is very unusual for them to stand sentry at a lab, much less while armed.

Over the next month, I managed to slip in unnoticed only once. And after I had found what I came for, I understood the security.

It took me a good deal of time to break into the system, and when I did, I wished I hadn't. When I entered the system, I came across a file titled "WORMWOOD?". (Yes, with a question mark.) Thinking it to be a text file, I brought up the file with the intent of copying so I could read it later. What happened next was truly remarkable. The file sort of "deteriorated" into a series of command lines that lasted approximately two minutes. Once it was done running, there it was. I had found a direct link-up to the Hubble space telescope. Not only that, but it was pointed directly at the comet Hale-Bopp. The program was running some kind of analysis. Taking directional notes, projecting path of travel, etc.

After realizing what I had discovered, I started searching and came across an e-mail data trail that led directly to the office of the Pope himself. What was discussed, I cannot know.

Over the next two weeks, I began to uncover evidence that the Vatican is very aware of the existence of the companion, and is VERY worried about it. I began to copy files and pictures that were present at the terminal, when I found a report from the United Nations to the Vatican, as well as a report from NASA regarding their concerns.

It is very obvious to me that a great many people and entities know of the companion and are doing their best to keep quiet. VERY quiet. As the next part of my story illustrates.

I had found another file that I wanted to look at, but it was independently encrypted. At the time that I discovered it, I had already been online at the terminal for some time, so I decided to copy the file encrypted, and decode it at my leisure. As I was leaving the lab, I was approached by two of the Pope's top aides and was asked to meet them later in the evening. I didn't feel comfortable about the situation, so I agreed and told them that I needed to shower, and would join them later. I haven't been back to the Vatican since.

I found out about a week later through some old friends and contacts that a contract had bee placed on my life. Two days later my mother and father were killed in a car crash in France. Three days after that, my brother and sister were killed when their single engine plane went down on the East Coast of the U.S.
I've been on the run for a very long time now, and am still trying to decode the file that I have in my possession. Approximately ten copies have been distributed to friends in the field in the event that I should disappear. I do not fear for my life, as I am very adept at not being found, however I believe that the world needs to know of the information that I have.
I would be willing to share all that I have with you Mr. Bell. But you need to understand that your life could be in danger if you were to go public with what I give you. I apologize for being so vague, but I feel it necessary at this point in time.

If you would like the information, say so over the air when you get this letter. If I am not listening, someone will get the information to me, as there is no safe way for you to contact me at this point in time. I await your response.

PRIEST

Chapter 13: The Book of Revelations - “WormWood”

I - When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

II - And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets.

III - Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne.

IV - The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, went up before God from the angel's hand.

V - Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.

VI - Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.

VII - The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

VIII - The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood,

IX - A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

X - The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water—

XI - The name of the star is WormWood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.

XII - The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.

XIII - As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice: "Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!"

Is Hale-Bopp The “WormWood” from Book of Revelations ?

Did Ancient prophecies described the coming of a comet that would herald a new age. Was Hale Bopp the “Wormwood” described in the book of Revelations? Interestingly enough when you research the word WormWood it means “Bitter Water” which is a reference to “MARY” which means basically, the sea, hence MARE in latin means sea. It is also the basis of the word MARS which although it is Commonly referred to as the god of war it fits quite well with WormWood, since Mars was Mary who sent a “comet” to earth during the war that happened millennia ago.

Could it be possible that a comet hit the ocean on earth and made the waters “bitter”. Hence the association of Mars (the god of War) with Bitter Water (WormWood) and Mary.

It’s an anagram for the initiated. It would also explain the existence of Phobos and Deimos (Fear and Terror) since they are most likely the two objects (spaceships) or (comets) that stand guard as space stations around Mars. Judging by the disproportionate number of probes and spacecraft that have failed, been “lost” or been destroyed or just plain screwed up, it seems as if there is a an unforeseen factor or hand in all things related to Mars and her two Mysterious “Moons.”

Mars the God of war with fear and terror accompanying her. Perhaps there really was a battle in heaven, except heaven was just a metaphor for space. Perhaps the asteroid belt was formerly a 5th sister planet to Mars. Perhaps that planet was populated by a different species – perhaps a dolphin or cetacean life form that was forced back onto land as their small planets (1/4 gravity of earth) atmospheres were filling up with CO2 gases.

Perhaps a human and Cetacean species both developed on Mars when the oceans were abundant. But as the two races evolved and their atmospheres were depleted, then they would slowly but surely be in competition for dwindling resources.

Perhaps the fifth planet also had beings on it that were also competing for resources. It’s not very important who was where, there could still be only one race, but at some point they advanced their technology to the point that they could destroy each other’s planets. They built a “Death Star” – a captured and orbiting planetoid that was hollowed and made into a space station.

Soon there was a great battle and that battle destroyed the fifth planet which we now see as the asteroid belt.

Perhaps the ensuing explosion blew away the Martian atmosphere, forcing the inhabitants of Mars to either go underground or leave the planet.

Some conspiracy theorists assert that this fifth planet’s symbol was the pentagram and is the basis of the legends of the “devil” being associated with the pentagram. In this scheme then the third planets (Earth) symbol would be a triangle, Mars a Square, and what is left of the fifth Planet is now what we call the asteroid belt, right where we would expect to see planet.

But where would they go?

Well - Earth of course. The technicians had everything figured out. They would encapsulate all the flora and fauna of their home world in DNA sampling and sealed in a cryogenic suspension until revival and cloning was needed. They were hundreds of years more advanced than our technologies can dream of. But they were still living beings and although life could be prolonged almost ad infinitum, without the industry that the home planet provided, this rag tag outfit of survivors was screwed.

Over a period of time the squares began to inhabit the earth and take human triangle woman as their wife’s and intermingled and produced hybrid offspring. Apparently mixed in between the squares and the triangles there is the ever destructive pentagrams. In the movie THE MATRIX, evil or the absence of human emotion in the machines led to a creation of a program (smith) which was the exact opposite of Neo, the long awaited Messiah.



Think Hypothetically about these possibilities:

The length of day on Mars is 23.7 hours (one rotation around its axis). Perhaps the inclination of the earth during this lost age was not 24 hours like today. Perhaps an earth day back then only lasted for 22 hours.

Also the tilt of the earth was all wrong at 12 tilt at the time maybe, compared to the Martian tilt of 21 degrees. A research team figured out that if they took all their belongings and placed them on their death star, and inserted the death star into the right orbit – they could change both the tilt and rotation period of day so that Earth would have the same change of seasons and length of day so that they matched their home planet. That Death Star became our moon. Some of the Martians stayed on Mars but had to dig deep underground to protect themselves from the ultraviolet and other harmful cosmic rays that its magnetosphere and atmosphere once had.

Still others, perhaps the scientists and spiritual leaders of both races warned each other of the pending calamities of the unthinkable weapons that the two advanced races unleashed on each other. Those were the E.T.s of Hollywood fame. They are the caretakers of those who seeded the universe with life.

Are the ET’s, the Scientists of a far off intelligence or a companion species that has been here all along?

If UFO’s are extraterrestrial then it stands to reason that they come from very far away. However we know less about the deepest depths of our own oceans, than we know about the universe around us.
The earth is 2/3 oceans and water. Since we can only scratch the surface of our oceans, perhaps down to 20-30% of its total depth in vast areas, then that means that about half of all the occupy able space on earth, without being inside the earth, is still relatively unexplored. Who knows what kind of intelligence could survive the millennia in their vast ARKS under the Seas of the World.

They come with their great Arks before great calamities and sometimes save those with whom they have established a relationship with, as long as they are deemed worthy.

These scientists left Mars filled with cryonic samples of almost every plant and animal species they could find. They brought that to earth and started all over again. The last great extinction occurred on earth during this period.

Perhaps the stories of Giants on earth are related to the fact that the giants, the Annanuki and Nephilium (fallen ones), the Watchers of Heaven, whatever you would like to call them, were truly giants compared to us simply because they had come from a planet with only ¼ the gravity of earth, meaning mars. It would make sense that with less gravity the average height of a human being would be a little taller on Mars than it would be for an earth born human.

I can imagine a Martian born Human easily growing to 7 or 9 feet tall. There are humans alive today who are that tall. Perhaps they are the genetic offspring of an anti-diluvium race of cast away’s.

Although they would be taller in stature and height though, these Goliaths were weaker compared to our ancestors due to our gravity being almost 4 times denser. That means that everything they touched would be about 3 times heavier than on their world.

March 27, 1997 - The Heaven’s Gate Mystery


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March 27, 1997 - Worst Mass Suicide in US History Tied To Hale-Bopp Comet and UFO Belief

March 27, 1997 - The nation was shocked this morning by the news that 39 people, mostly young computer professionals of the "Higher Source" website development group, had apparently committed suicide in Rancho Santa Fe, California. Early reports claim that their motivation was a desire to join a UFO traveling with Comet Hale-Bopp.

A neighbor, Bill Strong, said five to 10 people, including men and women but no children, had been living at the mansion. He said he noticed vans and trucks coming and going from the residence, and one had New Mexico license plates.

Other people who lived nearby reported that the group had little contact with neighbors. KNBC-TV in Los Angeles quoted a real estate agent who had been trying to sell the house as saying that the sale was hindered by the activity of what appeared to be a religious "cult" meeting there.

There was no indication as to whether the deaths were related to Saturday's mass suicide in Quebec of five members of the Order of the Solar Temple. More than 70 members of that group have committed suicide in the last three years.
March 27, 1997 - Hale – Bopp Observations with Hubble and IUE Surprise Astronomers

Completing an unprecedented year-long study of Comet Hale-Bopp using two NASA observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Ultraviolet Explorer, astronomers report that they are surprised to find that the different ices in the nucleus seem to be isolated from each other. They also report seeing unexpectedly brief and intense bursts of activity from the nucleus during the monitoring period. The Hubble observations suggest that the nucleus is huge, 19 to 25 miles (30 to 40 kilometers) across.
The findings, by a team of scientists, led by Johns Hopkins astrophysicist Harold Weaver, are being published in the March 28 issue of the journal Science.

"Hale-Bopp will probably provide the most revealing portrait of the workings of a cometary nucleus since the spacecraft missions to comet Halley in 1986," said Weaver. "This is a unique opportunity; we have never had the chance to examine a comet in this much detail, over this large a range of distance from the Sun."

During the course of long-term observations, which began in August 1995, astronomers unexpectedly caught the comet going through a sudden brief outburst, where, in little more than an hour, the amount of dust being spewed from the nucleus increased at least eight-fold. "The surface of Hale-Bopp's nucleus must be an incredibly dynamic place, with `vents' being turned on and off as new patches of icy material are rotated into sunlight for the first time," Weaver said.

To their surprise, astronomers found that water ice sublimates (turns directly from a frozen solid into a gas) at a different rate than the trace ices, implying that those components are not contained within the water on the comet. This conclusion is further supported by Hubble data showing that the rate at which dust left the nucleus was much different than the sublimation rate of water. This result is contrary to previous models for a comet's nucleus which suggest that the trace components, such as carbon disulfide ice, are contained inside of the most abundant ice on the comet, frozen water. As water sublimates the trace components and dust should be released at similar rates, but this is not what Hubble observed.

By studying Hubble Space Telescope images, the astronomers have estimated that its nucleus may be about 19 to 25 miles (30 to 40 kilometers) in diameter. The average comet is thought to have a nucleus of about 3 miles (5 kilometers) in diameter, or even smaller. The comet or asteroid that struck the Earth 65 million years ago, possibly causing the extinction of the dinosaurs, was probably about 6 to 9 miles (10 to 15 kilometers) across.

Because Hale-Bopp was unusually bright when it was still a great distance away, well outside the orbit of Jupiter, it has given scientists their best view ever of the changes in a comet's nucleus as it gets closer to, and is progressively heated by, the sun. Those changes, in turn, provide information about the composition and structure of comets, which are believed to be remnants from the formation of the solar system, about 4.6 billion years ago. Learning more about comets can provide important information about the materials and processes that formed the solar system.
March 31, 1997 - Autopsies completed in suicide cult as probe winds down

SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- Autopsies have been completed on all of the bodies in the Heaven's Gate mass suicide, and officials report that eight of the 18 of the men were castrated.

Eleven bodies had been claimed by families and more bodies were scheduled to be released later Monday. Speaking at a news conference Monday, authorities said they were still searching for families of two of the dead.

The eight who had been castrated had all healed properly, indicating that the operations were not recent, Medical Examiner Dr. Brian Blackbourne said. "It is not something a normal physician would do on request," he said.

Both male and female members of the Heaven's Gate group affected a unisex look, with buzz-cut hair and shapeless clothes. Cult leader Marshall Applewhite had preached celibacy.

As reported Sunday on "Impact," a CNN and Time magazine television program, the autopsies revealed that Applewhite did not have cancer. Cult members had said they believed their charismatic leader was terminally ill. Blackbourne said none of the 39 had a terminal illness.

Lt. Jerry Lipscomb of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department said the investigation is winding down. He also confirmed that the deaths are considered suicides.

"This was a voluntary situation," Lipscomb said. "They ingested the drugs on their own. They may or many not have been influenced, but we'll never know that."

Lipscomb said his department has heard "rumors" of other cult activities and of a possible splinter group that may be planning mass suicides. He discounted that prospect.

He said the FBI has also been called to analyze records of the Heaven's Gate cult -- including 11 to 14 computers, "many, many diskettes, (and) stacks and stacks of documents."

Lipscomb said his department is attempting to find out how the cult obtained the phenobarbital used in the suicide, but said the drug can be obtained legally. No criminal charges are pending concerning the drugs, he said.

Two of the dead contained traces of another drug -- a semi-synthetic opiate called vicovin hydrocodone.

Two bodies still unclaimed

Authorities sought the public's help in finding the families of the two whose bodies have not been claimed. They were identified as:

• Alphonzo Ricardo Foster, 44, formerly of Detroit, whose relatives include three sisters and a brother.
• Lindley A. Pease, 41, from Exeter, New Hampshire, whose sister was identified as Sylvia Pease of Palm Springs, California.

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So let me try and sum everything up.

Hale-Bop had an alien space craft behind it, which the Pope considered to be the bringer of the Apocalypse, because the scriptures say that an Angel will make some star-like thing (worm wood) hit the earth and destroy 1/3 of everything.

The war in Heaven was really a war between Martians and the inhabitants of the fifth planet in our solar system, which was destroyed and became the astroid belt. The Martian atmosphere was burned up in the war, so they used the death star which destroyed planet 5 to adjust Earth's tilt and rotation to make it inhabitable for them?

Do I understand what is going on?

BTW, I thought that Hale-Bop came and went, and only the Heavens Gate cult people were the ones effected by it. Obviously armageddon did not come.

Close enough.

now isn't that easier to write and read then pages and pages of crap??


Well done Lenny..nicely summerised

You should be more careful where you step!

i dont step in here justice..i click..

You should be more careful where you click!

And why is that?

One mans crap is another man's treasure.

not if he cant find it???

When I worked nights, I would sometimes listen to Art Bell's show. Personally I would not take anything at face value on there. He was the 'weekly world news' of radio.

After the amateur astronomer made his claim, 'professional' astronomers identified the 'object' as a catalogued star I do believe.

That's wierd, the second post in the thread wasn't there when I replied...

I did notice that the site was down for a little while...

Btw, I love Art Bell... A quote from his show.

Guy with classic nerd voice: "Hey Art, I've had a secret that I have carried all my life"
Art Bell: "And what might that be?"
Guy: "I'm an Angel"
Art Bell: "And how does it feel to be an angel?"
Guy: "It kinda stinks because nobody believes me"

I almost swerved off the road when I heard that!

Is Art back on or is he still retired? I forgot all about his site.