The following excerpts are
taken from stories that ran in
the Jan 22-23,1976, editions
of the Daily Nebraskan. For
the full versions, please see the
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www.unl.edu/DailyNeb/>
UFO disciples still wait for saucer ascension
By Ann Owens
and George Miller
© Daily Nebraskan 1976
Between 15 and 20 people left their
possessions in Waldport, Ore., in Oc
tober 1975 to join a sect of Unidenti
fied Flying Object (UFO) evangelists.
In August, two University of
Northern Iowa graduates and a 20
year-old Kearney woman disappeared
reportedly for the same reason. Only
the Kearney woman remains with the
group.
Tonight, three underground fol
lowers, often referred to as “space fe
tuses,” will “pass the faith” to a Lin
coln audience.
The movement began last spring
when a man and woman calling them
selves Bo and Peep signed up the first
26 disciples in their design for heav
enly ascension.
Three newer followers, a woman
who goes by the name “Hickory,” and
two men who go by “Tuna” and
“Reach” will hold a public meeting at
7 p.m. in the UMHE Commonplace
Chapel, 333 N. 14th St. They will ask
people to give up worldly possessions
and sex and join them in a search for
“the second level,” Tuna said.
Tuna said human existence is
based on many levels with each suc
cessive level being nearer to the ulti
mate paradise.
By breaking all possible ties with
the earthly level of existence, it is pos
sible to enter what Tuna called the
second level.
Sacrifice
However, neither Hickory, Reach
nor Tuna has sacrificed cars, money
or watching television, they said.
Sacrificing possessions is only a
guideline set by Bo and Peep, they
said.
Reach, apparently the spokesman
for the three, said he was a common
worker before he was recruited at a
meeting in Boulder, Colo.
Children abandoned
Hickory did not reveal her previ
ous occupation.
At the meeting in Waldport, people
left behind not only names, identities
and homes, but even children.
After the Waldport meeting, one
couple gave their 2-year-old daughter
and 14-month-old son to a friend.
According to Reach, giving away
one’s child is in the child’s best inter
est.
“When the child’s parents enter the
second level, they can help all man
kind by showing it ‘the truth,”’ Reach
said.
Before anyone reaches the second
level “the two,” as they call Bo and
Peep, must be assassinated by some
Space Fetuses’ tell of new life
George Miller
© Daily Nebraskan 1976
To be taken up to the “higher
level” of existence, a human must
give all of his energy and “give up
all of your possessions and emo
tional attachments” including his
family.
This was the message delivered
to about 100 people Thursday night
by two “space fetuses” at the
UMHE Commonplace Chapel, 15
of whom gave them their telephone
numbers so they could be contacted
and given more information.
Calling their message “the most
important thing that's happened in
2,000 years,” Reach said a person
can go through “a natural meta
morphosis” and can “change into
a totally new life, free from all hu
man activities and hangups.”
Reach said at the time of meta
morphosis, a body is “chemically
and biologically changed into a
new creature.”
The two said the Earth currently
is growing. Reach said “light” or
“special dispensation” has been
shining on the Earth for approxi
mately 10 to 12 years. He said this
light has “accelerated all life cm the
planet.”
one who is against the cause, Reach
said.
To make a total impact, they should
be assassinated in public, Reach said.
In three days, he said, their bodies will
be resurrected.
After the resurrection, all the faith
ful will be spirited away to the second
level “without tasting death,” Reach
said.
Bo and Peep not messiahs
Bo and Peep have been avoiding
public meetings, but Tuna and Reach
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contend they are not trying to avoid
assassination.
“They want to discourage people
from worshipping them instead of
God,” Tuna said.
Tuna added that Bo and Peep “do
purport to be Christ; These people
aren’t doing miracles, rather spread
ing the message of Christ.”
At the end of this level, all follow
ers will be picked up by what looks
like a UFO, and whisked away to the
second level, according to Tima.
Reach said atheists will cease to
exist at the end of this level.
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