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...birth certificates in the top pockets of their shirts, making identifying the bodies easy. While the how seems clear, the why is not so easy. It appears that members may have simply believed that their time was up. They described on video their obsession with the arrival of the comet Hale-Bopp - to them, the signal to them that it was time to leave this world to head to what they called the Next Level. They believed that the way to get there was by shedding their physical selves in order to board a UFO trailing the comet...
...physical bodies)," reads the "Heaven's Gate" website. "Hale-Bopp's approach is the "marker' we've been waiting for. . . We are happily prepared to leave "this world' and go with Ti's crew." That craft was to be lurking in the wake of the Hale-Bopp Comet, apparently ready to take willing members along on a passage to bliss. But as with all religions, the site acknowledged, "what happens between now and then is the big question." "Rio," the ex-member who discovered the bodies, said members spoke of leaving their bodies, their "shells," behind for the journey...
Alan Hale calls these waves of fear and mysticism "comet madness," and as co-discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp, he's seen more than his share. Ever since his find was announced, he has been inundated with inquiries, pronouncements and accusations from the cometary fringe...
Hale has found that the arrival of a major comet--especially so near the end of a millennium--is still widely regarded as an omen of upheaval and disaster. Several Christian Fundamentalists, he writes in the current issue of Skeptical Inquirer, have proclaimed Hale-Bopp to be one of the "signs of the end times" foretold in the New Testament. They also suggest that the comet might be the object described in Revelation 8: 10 as a great star named Wormwood that "fell from heaven, blazing like a torch." Wormwood, according to the Bible, destroys a third of almost everything...
...ancestors to be apprehensive about the fiery apparitions in the night sky. But he is impatient with their modern counterparts, who should know better. "I ask readers to treat all these irresponsible reports with the disdain they deserve," he says, "and instead enjoy the beauty of the comet for its own sake...