SAN DIEGO - Two "Heavan's Gate" suicide cult members bought a powerful telescope to search for the spaceship they believed was coming to whisk them away to a day's San Diego Union Tribune.
The two men paid $3,645 for a high tech telescope the newspaper said was the size of a refrigerator at a local astronomy store on January 30th. Disappointed, they returned the telescope a week later when, after observing closely the Hale Bopp comet, they could not find the spaceship they thought was travelling in its wake.