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From: Patrick Briggs Submitted: 09 Dec 91 12:09:00
Subject: Ufo Cults Status: Public
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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.
** END of Article
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From: Patrick Briggs Submitted: 09 Dec 91 12:09:00
Subject: Mutilated Cattle 1/ Status: Public
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Here is an article I found in the local newspaper dated Wednesday Oct
15, 1975 which ads some interesting info in regards to Cattle
Mutilations. However, these mutilated cattle in the article do not have
the characteristics in most of those cases. These cattle were clearly
beaten as you shall find out. Also mysterious is the disappearance of
the campers without a trace.
Headline: Police say mutilated cattle found about time of UFO group in
vicinity.
Fox Lake, Ill (AP) -
Police say two cows were found slaughtered and mutilated about the same
time as a mysterious, 50-plus member of a "UFO" people apparently camped
nearby.
Lake Villa police said the animals' remains were left on a farm about 10
miles from here, where the band is believed to have stayed October 2 to
October 7.
One cow was found dead October 1st and the second was killed four days
later, police said.
Persons who left homes in Oregon, Colorado, and California to await
transportation from the Earth make up most of the group's membership.
Officials say scores of cattle mutilations have taken place in those
states.
Lake Villa Police Chief Al Copenharver said persons who killed the first
cow, a Black Angus beifer, left only its head behind. The rest of the
carcases seemed to have been butchered by persons wanting meat,
Copenhaver said.
He said the second cow, a Holstein Beifer, looked as if it had been
beaten to death. The animal's left ear had been severed and was not
found, he said.
In some of the mutilations in Western States, lips had been removed from
the cattle and their carcasses drained of all the blood.
The UFO cult is believed to have camped five days in the Chain O' Lakes
State Park 45 miles northwest of Chicago, rangers said Tuesday.
"A group of about 50 persons took out camping permits on Oct. 2 and
suddenly disappeared Oct. 7" said Mick Egan, chief park ranger at Chain
O' Lakes.
"It was about that time that the story broke about some 20 persons
disappearing in Oregon to await time to leave Earth on a spaceship," he
said.
Egan said a man used the name "J. Seagle, Cherry Creed, California." in
signing a camping permit on Oct 2. The man said other would follow.
"They came in vans and cars bearing license plates from Texas,
California, Washington, Colorado and Oregon," said Egan. "We thought it
was very unusual, because travelers from those areas just don't show up
here at this time of year at all. They wanted the cheapest camping
spots and seemed strapped for money. They were evasive and kept to
themselves. My patrolmen said some of them used Biblical names."
Charlene Petrovic and her husband of Waukegan were camping at the park
when the group was there.
"They didn't look or act like campers at all," said Mrs. Petrovic.
"They kept to themselves, sitting around together and doing nothing. On
October 6 when the story was out about people vanishing in Oregon, the
group got very excited. They milled around the ranger office and I
heard a boy say: "I knew I made a mistake when I wrote my mother from
Colorado to tell her I joined the group. The next day they were all
gone - not a trace. It was if they simply were sucked off the Earth.
All there junk was still at the campsites."
A license check by the Oregonian with Oregon and California motor
vehicle divisions in Oregon and California indicates the cars at the
Illinois camp were driven by people with assumed names, or by drivers
other than their owners.
- A 1967 Rambler driven by a man giving the name "A Smith" is really
registered to Rodney H. Adams, Newport Oregon.
- A 1969 Pontiac operated by a man using the name "J. Simon" is
registered to John M. and M. Craig, Bandon, Oregon.
- A 1970 Volkswagen driven by a man using the name "D. Abel" is
registered to John and Helen Wilson, Bandon, Oregon.
- A 1952 International allegedly belonging to "M. Daniels" is registered
to Suzanne Cooke, Point Reyes, California.
- A 1964 Ford driven by "J. Stell" is registered to Paul Charles Groll,
Milpitas, California.
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From: Patrick Briggs Submitted: 09 Dec 91 12:09:00
Subject: Mutilated Cattle 2/ Status: Public
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- A 1971 Ford camper, operated by a "B.L. Chrisensen" is registered to
Dale F. Mackey of Los Angeles, California.
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From: Patrick Briggs Submitted: 09 Dec 91 12:09:00
Subject: "HIM" another article 1/ Status: Public
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On subsequent further research.. I came accross another article in tie
with the HIM UFO cult which I spoke of ealier.
Headline: UFO convert says commands made "dull life"
San Francisco (AP) -
A young man who asserts he was a covert to a spaceship-to-paradise cult
until he partook of some "forbidden" marijuana says the group
commandments made for a dull life.
Danny Coleman, 20, said Sunday that he joined the movement, called Human
Individual Metamorphosis, in early September but walked out of a camp
in Oregon last month after spending two weeks with the group.
"Nobody was having sex, and everybody was talking about it," Coleman
said.
Coleman talked to the San Francisco Chronicle, which said that his
friends and neighbors insist he was a member of a nomadic group that has
recruited converts in Oregon, California and Colorado.
Leaders of HIM crusade are a man and woman who identify themselves as
"The Two."
Their message is that followers must discard family and most wordly
belongings and have full faith in the eventual death and resurrection of
"The Two." True believers, they say, will be taken to a better world
aboard a UFO. Drugs and other intoxicants are taboo and not allowed."
Coleman said: "My head's really been spinning since I left . . . They
scared us into a lot of things by emphasizing that if we 'understand'
and decide to leave, we'll never be allowed another chance to leave
Earth."
Life at the isolated camp near Alsea Falls, Oregon, included meetings
and meditation session along with recruiting efforts, Coleman said.
Coleman added that no coercion was applied, and the two leaders "lived
in a tent like everybody else... and at times I thought they were
saintly."
A friend smuggled some marijuana into the camp, and said Coleman, the
grass "calmed me" into realization that it was time to leave.
Coleman said he turned over all the money he had - $40 - to the group
when he reached Oregon. He said that at least two middle-aged women
told him they had been wealthy, and converts had contributed a dozen
autos to the movement.
Members were told to abandon "any idea you have held in the past about
anything at all," Coleman said.
** END of Article.
Still intriqued by this really strange events spewed over weeks of
little news articles, I kept on looking some more and located one more
article that ties into the strange disappearances of the HIM cult
members.
Headline: UFO couple: `real nice people'
Eugene, Ore (AP)
A middle-aged couple whose promise of cosmic utopia convinced at least
20 Oregonians to follow then have been named by a Eugene printer as a
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Simon.
The printer, Done Fast, said he made up 5,000 posters advertising their
meetings. The couple also gave that name to the Bayshore Inn in the
coastal town of Waldport where they conducted a meeting Sept 14.
Fast descibed the couple as "read nice, clean-cut people."
He said the man paid him less than $75 in cash for the posters. The man
also paid $50 in cash for a meetin room at the Waldport motel.
Meanwhile, the 20 persons who migrated from the Eugene area and Oregon's
Lincoln County apparently have graduated from a training camp in
Colorado and moved on a new site in Nebraska.
"They knew they were going to be taken from Earth and picked up by some
form of extraterrestrial life but not for sure when or where." Said Doug
Greene, superintendent of Bonny Dam near where the group was camped in
eastern Colorado.
Greene said in a telephone interview he had talked with Frank Lamb, who
said he was part of a group that left Waldport last month.
Greene quoted Lamb as saying his group was moving to Nebraska to join
others from the Waldport group.
In Tillamook, Oregon a judge granted Stephen Berlow legal custody of two
young children whose parents allegdly abandoned them to follow the
middle-aged couple.
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From: Patrick Briggs Submitted: 09 Dec 91 12:09:00
Subject: "HIM" another article 2/ Status: Public
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Berlow told the court he was the children's natural father an had been
supporting them.
About three weeks ago, a newspaper report said 20 persons had suddenly
disappeared after attending a meeting in Waldport in which they were
promised travel to another world and a better life.
Reports trickled in about other disappearances and similar meetings in
California and Colorado.
Some of the original 20 persons contacted friends and relatives by mail
or by telephone to say there were all right before disappearing.
A Portland newspaper columnists said he got a phone call from a
prominent Waldport citizen who said two persons told him they started
the whole thing as a college project.
But that angle was fizzled out and disproven later because the
columnists refuses to identify the caller and the two students, if they
exist at all, aren't talking.
In Lincoln County, the two men who had worked on the disappearances -
deputy sheriff Ron Sutton and state police investigator Melvin Gibson -
have been assigned to other work.
"To the best of our knowlege there has been no fraud, no crime, of any
kind in connection with all this, and at this point the investigation,
if you want to call it that, is at a standstill. These people are
gone." said a state police dispatcher.
"We have no missing persons reports to really work with on this," said a
sheriff's department spokesman.
"True, some residents have left the county. But when an adult chooses
to pick up and leave without telling anybody where he's going, is that a
missing person?" adds the spokesman.
*** END of Article
I am rather curious what has become of all of this since 1975.
I hope you find these articles I've posted of interest. This Cult is
strange but so far, I can't locate the "end of the story" so to speak.
Patrick
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