Welcome to one explained extra, with me, Richard McLean Smith, where for the weeks and

between episodes we look at stories and ideas that for one reason or other didn't make

it into the previous show.

In last week's episode, how the end always is, we hitched a ride with the Gulf Breeze 6.

US Army Intelligence Analysts, who became convinced they'd uncovered evidence that the world

was about to end.

The group, who in 1990 went AWAR from their listening post in Ork's book Germany, were

eventually captured a week later in Gulf Breeze, Florida.

Some reports suggested the group had travelled to Florida, intending to either kill the

Antichrist or to rendezvous with a spaceship that would help them escape the apocalypse.

The official explanation, later offered by the group however, was that they'd only

planned to make a brief stop in Florida, before heading inland to find somewhere safe and

remote, to await the end of the world, and prepare for the arrival of the second coming

of Jesus.

Little is known publicly about what happened to the Gulf Breeze 6 after their release, with

the exception of Fantst Davis, who published a book in 1995 titled Unbroken Promises,

which details the entire escapade, and gives a little more insight into their thinking.

For all the groups alleged brushes with siaops training, they're communicating with spirits

through a Ouija board, to the not only being warned of an apparent intergalactic plot

to destroy humankind, but then also actually acting on what they've been told, what stands

out most of all for me, is how reminiscent it all is of modern conspiracy theory.

It's been speculated that before heading off to the hills to hide themselves away, the

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