Subj: 5                     1/5      Conf: (195) UFO
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 20:08:53 +0000
From: United Kingdom UFO Network 
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Organization: United Kingdom UFO Network
Subject: {91} part 4 - United Kingdom UFO Network
To: UFO@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
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     /  /  //  /    /  /  /  N E T W O R K                 part 4 Issue 91
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Some of Mr Bennett's students looked close to tears as they surveyed
the wreckage of a craft described as 'the most sophisticated private
civilian rocket'. Little more than Starchaser's tall fin survived
intact. Mr Bennett, a former tester in a tooth paste factory, said:
'We had a bit of a problem. I was trying to light seven motors
together, but a couple  ignited before the others and it hit the side
of the hill about three or four hundred yards away.
'One has these ups and downs.'
He pledged to go back to the drawing board and also raise the
necessary 40,000 pound to build Starchaser 3A and continue the quest
for the 6 million pound prize offered by an American company for the
first private rocket in space. 'We will fire it and it will be
successful.'
Just before the launch, Mr Bennett spoke eagerly of blasting himself
into space some time after the Millennium.
His success with his Starchaser II rocket in 1996, made in the
garage of his house at Dukinfleld, allowed him to give up his
factory job and concentrate on his dream with a team at Salford
University.
He insisted yesterday that his attempt to put a satellite into low
earth orbit - opening up cheap satellite launches for private UK
companies - would continue.
A spokesman for the University of Salford said: 'Everyone is
terribly disappointed. But Steve is a committed professional. He
will learn from this.'
World News
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[W 1]******
Source: The Sun newspaper (UK)
Publish date: Wednesday 18th March 1998-03-18
Firm to send clips of hair into space
A U.S. firm will send clips of hair into space for 30 pounds, saying
aliens could use the DNA to make a clone. Their rocket goes up in
2001.
[W 2]******
uk.ufo.nw says: This is a follow up from the last issues [W 12]
article.
Source: CNN
Date: 25th March 1998
From: Doug Roberts 
"My predictions...can be considered nonsense"
Teacher Chen
UFO cult calm as God misses predicted TV appearance
GARLAND, Texas (CNN) -- Members of God's Salvation Church gathered
at a member's house Tuesday night, waiting for a sign. Chen
Heng-Ming, known to his followers as "Teacher Chen," had said that
God would appear on television channel 18 worldwide at 12:01 a.m.
CST, and in person via flying saucer on March 31.
When the hour arrived, the set showed nothing but static.
"Because we did not see God's message on television tonight, my
predictions of March 31 can be considered nonsense," Chen said
through an interpreter.
Chen's followers gathered at a cult member's house to watch for
God's appearance.
"I hope that everybody can still have the true belief in God, in the
existence of God. Even though the image doesn't show on the
television, I don't have any reason to doubt the existence of the
supreme being, God."
Chen, who said he would offer himself for stoning or crucifixion if
his prophecies did not come to pass, says he will stay in Garland
"to continue studying and researching." He insists that his followers
are free to go their own way, and have always been.
Chen, who claims he fathered Jesus 2,000 years ago and now talks to
God through a ring on his finger, brought his followers from Taiwan
to the Dallas suburbs to await God's appearance. The 150 members, who
dress all in white, from their sneakers to their cowboy hats, sold
everything back home moved to Garland because, they say, it sounds
like "God's land."
The 'ship'
The group also built what they called a spaceship out of radial
tires and plywood, and stocked a shrine with fruit, cola and crackers
for God's arrival.
Police cordoned off a 165-house area where the group lives, fearing
the group might resort to suicide if God did not appear. Chen
insisted that there was no threat of a mass suicide like that of the
Heaven's Gate cult a year ago, almost to the day.
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