UFO Missionaries Extraordinary is an early text on Heaven’s Gate. Compiled and edited by Hayden Hewes and Brad Steiger, this book is a long form interview with Bo and Peep, aka Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Lou Nettles. This book was published in 1976, many years before the group was known as Heaven’s Gate.
On March 26, 1997, deputies of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department discovered the bodies of the 39 active members of the group, including Applewhite, in a house in the San Diego County suburb of Rancho Santa Fe. They had participated in a coordinated series of ritual suicides, coinciding with the closest approach of Comet Hale–Bopp. Just before the mass suicide, the group's website was updated with the message: "Hale–Bopp brings closure to Heaven's Gate ...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."
UFO Missionaries Extraordinary is an early text on Heaven’s Gate. Compiled and edited by Hayden Hewes and Brad Steiger, this book is a long form interview with Bo and Peep, aka Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Lou Nettles. This book was published in 1976, many years before the group was known as Heaven’s Gate.
On March 26, 1997, deputies of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department discovered the bodies of the 39 active members of the group, including Applewhite, in a house in the San Diego County suburb of Rancho Santa Fe. They had participated in a coordinated series of ritual suicides, coinciding with the closest approach of Comet Hale–Bopp. Just before the mass suicide, the group's website was updated with the message: "Hale–Bopp brings closure to Heaven's Gate ...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."
