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INUrcMDNffi By Michael Ryan in RanChO Santa Fe

videotapes mailed tiiends, in which The group, which t'rperated a they revealed plans to leave '.heir Lromputer Web design servite "Earthlyvesseis". called Higher Source, also ral a

self-named site, Heaven's Gate WITH their bags packed as if -ror a trlp' most t,-,ln"T . uro they believed was behind A single computer had been left on carrying a passport or driver's ,rr. rirr.-B"pp comet. Authorities in the mansion and on the screen iicence' 39 members of a yestertlay confirmed the dead was an image of the Hale-Bopp Calif<rrnian computer cult died iange.t in age from 20 to'72. comer. believing they were going to meet a UFO behind ths Though 21 were women, police Hale-Bopp, a large comet, visible originaily believed they were all liom earth fbr the first time in Xf{ale-Bopp comet.

about 4000 years, and will be visible trom Australia in about

men.

The Heaven's Gate sect. led

hv

a

dea<lly coc.ktail

apple sauce, vo<lka and

of :Tttt "l:.T .*t:tktg and new black

serlatives.

.'Nike'

'Bopp comet.

US authorities believe the mass message on one of suicide took place possibly or", Both the women three days ancl . involvecl three men \^'ore thier cropped extremely jl:.. lr.*.t -9a.se1 said in part: short, in a style known as a 'buzz "Whether Hale-Bopp has a groups. compalion

cut.' The tirst 15 tu dic wcre assistcd

or not is

15, u'ho then APpatentiy planning for thier UFO tixtk thier own lives ancl were 1oi4 rendezvttus, each left a neatly "However. its arrival is -ioyously very significant to us at Heaven's out by thier surviving colleagues, packed suitcase beside thier hed'

a

seconcl

group

of

Bonnie Nettles, who died tiom cancer in 1985. Applewhite was known to cuit members as "Do" (pronounced "Doe").

Authorities revealed the couple

were behind a similar movement in the 1970s when they called themselves "Bo" and Space

lead a tlock of humans to higher level of existence with

a a

UFO.

Police yesterday continued the gruesome and grnzly task of unravelling the mass suicide. Police also believe the victims

may have placed plastic bags over thier heads to help them die taster.

Gate.

until onlv two were left.

Those who wore glasses had them

The tast two were the onlv no"" carefully placed at thier side. A "Hale-Bopps approach is the whose faces and torsos were not 9mm pistol was tbund inside one marker u,e've been *'aiting for-the time f-or the arrival of a space craft covere<l in p*rpie silk shrouds. of the suitcases. lrom the Level Above Human to Applewhite is believecl t. have Ea.ch person also carried a $5 take us home to Thier World-in the been among the last to clie. A11 6u, dollar note as well as some smal1 literal Heavens. one of the 39 apperaed

"Ti" was the name used. by Applewhite's tbrmer parmer,

irevelant

h'rm 'rur pcrspcitive

hy

'

Age sheperds on a mission to

Cult members believed that a UFO hiding behind the

sports shoes.

crew.

"Peep"- self:described

self--srylecl prophet Marstratl H The.dead were dressed identically; three weeks time. Applewhite, aleO in shi11s after black pants. black long-sleeved

consuming

this crew and go with Ti's

in fareweil change' - possibly

Good Friday Appeal -page I

tbr using a or

public telephone, aiongside his

"We are happily prepared to leave

her identification.

this

back- page 9

-Baek Pages

According to documents found on the bodies, the victims came

from Califomia, Texas. New Mexico, Florida, Colorado, Arizona, Washington, Miruresota, Utah and C:rrada. It appears no Australians wrre involved.

REPORTS Pages 4,5 & 6

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