Heaven's Gate

Heaven's Gate (Poarta Raiului) a fost o religie OZN americană din San Diego, California, fondată și condusă de Marshall Applewhite (1931-1997) și Bonnie Nettles (1928-1985).^[1] Pe 26 martie 1997, poliția a descoperit 39 de cadavre ale membrilor grupului; aceștia s-au sinucis^[2] pentru a ajunge într-o navă spațială extraterestră despre care credeau că se află în urma cometei Hale-Bopp.^[3]

Note

^ Hexham, Irving (7 mai 1997). „UFO Religion - Making Sense of the Heaven's Gate Suicides”. Christian Century. pp. 439–440. Accesat în 6 octombrie 2007.
^ „Mass suicide involved sedatives, vodka and careful planning”. CNN. Accesat în 4 mai 2010.
^ AYRES Jr, B. DRUMMOND (29 martie 1997). „Families Learning of 39 Cultists Who Died Willingly”. New York Times. Accesat în 9 noiembrie 2008. According to material the group posted on its Internet site, the timing of the suicides were probably related to the arrival of the Hale-Bopp comet, which members seemed to regard as a cosmic emissary beckoning them to another world.

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Theroux, Louis, The Call of the Weird, Pan Macmillan, 2005, pp 207–221
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