Welcome to Heaven's Gate.

The score of persons from a small Oregon town have disappeared.

It's a mystery whether they've been taken on a so-called trip to eternity or simply been taken.

Terried drink water takes a look at that story.

Rocket ships from outer space, buck Rogers fantasy or is it?

This is CBS evening news, October 8, 1975.

If you heard Walter Cronkite and his crew deliver this, you might have been at home.

With your kids, maybe watching over TV dinner trays, millions of people were.

And CBS news was talking about what now?

Over along the cloud-covered coast near Newport, Oregon, a mysterious couple appeared three weeks ago.

Circulating a flyer, proclaiming a UFO would soon be ready to take whomever would follow them to another life, another world.

They held meetings, one at this motel to recruit voyagers.

The man, claiming to be millions of years old, was recorded by one of the listeners in this room.

I know it's hard to hear, but it's recorded by a person in the crowd.

Marshall Applewhite was up there, cheerful, calm, like an uncle you're glad to see, and he was telling these people,

I know how to help with your problems.

He was saying,

We know that you've tried everything to find perfection, or a completion, or lasting satisfaction at the human level.

And it cannot be done.

One who attended the meeting, Judy Martin.

They were talking about another level than this one, and they were saying that we were ready, evolutionary-wise, to go to this other level, and they were trying to convert people to it.

And they were talking about leaving in a UFO.

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