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13 UFO Cult Predicts End of World 13 UFO Cult Predicts End of World Arizona UFO identified scientific community. By achieving such among the ranks of people who refuse to Arizona UFO identified as NASA balloon recognition, the growing synergy experienced conform to the norms of society, including as NASA balloon by Ufology would be escalated by the addition disbelievers, blasphemers, pranksters, rebels, UPI.com of an increasing number of diverse, formerly hackers, pornographers, geeks, and outcasts. strict mainstream researchers." The Church is seeking underground From their web site, British UFO writer bands, indie rockers, performance artists, and PALESTINE, Texas, May 19 (UPI) -- Experts said a UFO spotted over Arizona was a and investigator say, "A one stop shop of peer performers and producers from the adult reviewed material on such subjects would go research balloon launched by the U.S. space entertainment industry, because sexual freedom agency to measure gamma ray emissions. some way to rectifying this problem and I has been an important part of Church doctrine therefore give my wholehearted support to this Bill Stepp of the Columbia Scientific from the start. X-Day will be a celebration of Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, said the exciting new venture." free expression, performance art, rock and roll, MUFON New Jersey Field Investigator UFO reported Monday was a 4,000-pound pornography, and adult entertainment; and balloon sent to measure the gamma ray Ken Pfeifer says, "Finally we have a central certain parts of the event will be restricted to point where UFO investigators can go to get emissions at high altitudes by the National information that can help them in their field. adults only. Only ordained ministers of the Aeronautics and Space Administration, The Finally! Kudos to you and your crew!" [] Church of the SubGenius are allowed at the Arizona Republic reported Tuesday. event, but the Church is accepting memberships Stepp said the balloon was sent out at at its standard rate of $30 up until the final SubGenius UFO Cult about 7:30 a.m. Sunday from Fort Sumter in SubGenius UFO Cult hours of July 4. New Mexico and drifted over parts of Arizona Gathers In New York The Church of the SubGenius has been Gathers In New York Monday before landing at 9 p.m. near Kingman, no stranger to controversy since its foundation, For Apocalypse Ariz. For Apocalypse and the upcoming X-Day celebration promises He said the balloon can be seen from a to be no different. In the late 1980s, members of distance of about 170 miles on a clear day due the Church were accused of spreading a virus in Cult Members Predict to its usual altitude of 130,000 feet, causing Cult Members Predict Macintosh computers known as the "Peace reports of UFOs Monday from Albuquerque to End of the World on July Virus." Numerous articles have been written on End of the World on July Phoenix. the Church in such noteworthy publications as 5th "It's something unusual," Stepp said. 5th the New York Times, Washington Post, Wired "People just don't know what it is." [] Online, Boston Globe, U.S. News and World CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 22, 2009: Report; and broadcast reports have been produced by CNN and NPR. In April 1999, Journal of Frontier The Church of the SubGenius has announced officials of the city of Cambridge, Journal of Frontier Science has high hopes that the end of the world will take place in just Massachusetts shut down an official SubGenius Science has high hopes over one month, on Sunday, July 5, 2009. In Devival gathering in the belief that the Church of cultivating UFO preparation for the fulfillment of this doomsday was affiliated with the Trenchcoat Mafia (the of cultivating UFO prophecy, the Church has issued a call to all of research its members, to participate in a festival with organization blamed for the Columbine high research school shootings), though authorities later examiner.com examiner.com rock concerts and blasphemous rituals taking realized the association was mistaken. In its place in upstate New York, during the final weekend before the arrival of the apocalypse. January 1, 2000 issue, a Time magazine poll UFO research has come up another The Church of the SubGenius is a declared J.R. "Bob" Dobbs the biggest fraud of notch - with a new kid on the block. popular organization often seen as a "parody" of the 20th century. The Journal of Frontier Science religious cults, including Scientology, the The Church received additional media launched April 23, 2009, as an "educational and Raelians, the Unification Church, and racist attention in 2006 when one of its high-ranking peer-reviewed general Ufological" publication. hate groups such as Christian Identity. The members, known in SubGenius circles as Publisher and Editor Steven S. Bass is a organization is widely seen as a satire that Reverend Mary Magdalen, became involved in certified Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) field mocks organized religion, or as the church a legal battle for custody of her son due to her investigator and longtime UFO and paranormal describes itself, "a cynisacreligion." membership in the Church. This case has been researcher. Since its inception in 1953, Church covered in such popular online sites as Boing Bass promises, "A contribution for founder J.R. "Bob" Dobbs has predicted that a Boing, Fark, and Wikinews (Wikipedia's news every educational stage of Ufology, from fleet of flying saucers will arrive at the reporting service). beginner through intermediate to advanced, will beginning of July to destroy the worldwide When the mysterious group greatly benefit the competence of the individual Conspiracy against the Church of the '"Anonymous"' delcared war against the Church researcher and investigator, thereby investing in SubGenius, while all ordained SubGenius of Scientology in 2008, the Church of the the growing contribution each individual can ministers will be rescued by escape vessels SubGenius responded with a declaration of make to the science of Ufology. piloted by the Alien Sex Goddesses, also known solidarity with the hackers on steroids -- and an "By expanding the publication as the Xists. invitation to the legions of Anonymous to join limitations by publishing on the World Wide The Church is inviting all of its the Church in New York to prepare for X-Day. Web, every researcher and investigator can members worldwide to gather together for the [] readily access and benefit by a publication that final hours in Sherman, New York from encourages innovation and connects the Wednesday, July 1, 2009 to Sunday, July 5, at a brilliant intellects devoted to the study of clothing-optional outdoor campground called UFO’s." Brushwood Folklore Center. The first gathering To become an important asset in the at this compound took place in 1996, and the UFO research community, Bass believes the event has increased in size and participants each peer review process is important. following year. 1998 was designated the first "To be valuable, a trade journal must true "X-Day," and each successive year has exhibit the processes of peer review. By added one to the total. This year's celebration in thoroughly, publicly, and respectfully 2009 is X-Day 12, or X-Day XII. subjecting a colleague’s scholarly work, The Church has been engaged in a research or ideas to the evaluation and scrutiny massive recruitment campaign to increase the of others who are experts in the same field, new numbers of its membership before the arrival of and innovative ideas can be vetted and the Xists. According to Church records, the expanded upon. Such a painstaking process organization currently has approximately would thus increase the validity of UFO 100,000 members worldwide. SubGenius research and its acceptance by the mainstream recruitment has been especially dedicated