Spooky UFO cult lured away 20 Oregonians to follow “The Two”

Published: Nov. 18, 2019, 2 p.m.

Two decades later, the cult, now named “Heaven's Gate,” would make national headlines by committing mass suicide in hopes that a UFO hiding behind Comet Hale-Bopp would carry their spirits away to Planet Heaven. (Waldport, Lincoln County; 1975) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1606a.heavens-gate-ufo-cult-394.html)