UFO
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Chen Tao (1993)
Chen Tao, also known as the “True Way” or the God’s Salvation Church, was a UFO religion that originated in Taiwan. The movement combined elements of Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, and extraterrestrial belief. It was founded by Hon-Ming Chen, a former associate professor of sociology. Hon-Ming Chen was born on April 22, 1955, in Chiayi, Taiwan. Continue reading
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Beta Dominion Xenophilia (c. 1985)
Beta Dominion Xenophilia was a small group based in Carroll County, Maryland, from the mid-1980s until the turn of the century. Founder Scott Caruthers began fabulating stories about his life as early as high school. By the time he dropped out, he was telling people that he was being pursued by extraterrestrials. Over the next Continue reading
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Antrovis (1993)
In 1983, Edward Mielnik, a 42-year-old Polish boiler stoker, claimed to have had a vision of the Virgin Mary, who urged him to save the Slavic people with the assistance of extraterrestrials. He began spreading his message in his native city of Wrocław and eventually expanded his activities to other cities. Mielnik taught that Slavs Continue reading
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Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (2015)
The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light was founded in 2015 by Abdullah Hashem, who was born in the United States in 1983 to an American mother and Egyptian father. He studied comparative religion at Purdue University, and in 2005, he and a friend traveled to Las Vegas to film a Raëlian seminar. They intended Continue reading
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Aetherius Society (1956)
London taxi driver George King grew up in a Protestant family with a strong interest in the occult, and he studied yoga and Theosophy throughout his early life. According to King, on May 8, 1954, when he was 35 years old, he was alone in his apartment and heard a voice that declared, “Prepare yourself! Continue reading
Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religious Movements 