UFO Cults

 Mon 9 Dec 91 12:09

By: Patrick Briggs

Re: Ufo Cults

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After working with a little research project at the local libraries

archieves, I was interested to find a couple of articles in which a UFO

cult group seemed to be going nuts about October of 1975.  I was

originally intending on locating some news on the Travis Walton case for

November of 1975 but I couldn't locate that particular case in the

newspaper microfilm.  However, I did located these articles and right

smack in the middle of it was an editorial cartoon depicting a whole

crowd of people waiting to be picked up by a UFO.  Sounds like a nasty

case of wishful thinking back in 1975.

HEADLINE: Kidnaped after UFO cult show, radio man says

San Jose (AP) - Radio personality Victor Boc says his kidnaping

following a talk show about UFO cult was neither a hoax nor a publicity

stunt.

        "I had absolutely nothing to do with it.  I consider myself to

        have been threatened," declared Boc at a news conference

        Wednesday.

Boc was uninjured in the incident Sunday, when two men subdued him in

the building where KOME is located.  He escaped from his abductors

several hours later by baricading himself in a gas station restroom.

His abductors fled during the commotion.

Police, who say they believe Boc's story, have made no arrests.

Boc's three-hour show Sunday featured a taped interview with "The Two" -

leaders of a cult calling itself Human Individual Metamorphosis (HIM).

The Two, who claimed to be thousands of years old and come from a higher

order, reportedly promise converts that they will be transported by a

spaceship to that higher order. Some people reportedly have given up

their entire family and posessions to join HIM.

Boc, said the men subdued him by placing a cloth, dapped in a chemical,

over his nose and mouth.  He fell unconscious.

When he regained consciousness about three hours later, Boc said he was

in an auto en route to San Francisco with his abductors.

The men showed Boc a letter they intended to send to KOME, saying, "When

you next see Victor Boc, he will be a follower or our causes, and he

will not be the only one."

The note said more newsmen would be taken hostage, given proof that UFOs

exist, and then released, said Boc.

"We are an organisation with access to UFOs," Boc remembered the note as

saying.  "We have fist-hand knowlege that UFOs are real.  The Two are

who they say they are, and alien beings are here for out benefit."

The note was signed by "Worthy individuals Leaving Earth," Boc said.

He also said the note listed three demands for KOME, if the station

"wanted to see Boc again."

It told the station to take a "favorable stand" toward UFOs and give

wide publicity to a meeting scheduled in Oakland for The Two.  The

station was supposed to arrange a similar public meeting for The Two in

San Jose.

Boc said he remained silent about his experience until Wednesday at the

request of the police.

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