Heaven’s Gate ignored Nancy Lieder at their own peril. The phenobarbital was mixed with pudding and apple sauce and washed down with liberal amounts of vodka. In black shirts and sweatsuits with matching "Heaven's Gate Away Team” armbands they applied plastic bags to their heads to finish the job. The 38 members carried $5.75 in their pockets – five dollars for vagrancy laws and quarters for pay phones – "a humorous way to tell us they all had left the planet permanently.”
Two years before Marshall Applewhite’s last video, Do's Final Exit, set the “evacuation” in motion, Lieder warned that Heaven’s Gate – and groups like it – were a distraction from larger and more ominous cosmic phenomena. In fact, the comet itself was a hoax.
“The Hale-Bopp comet does not exist. It is a fraud, perpetrated by those who would have the teeming masses quiescent until it is too late. Hale-Bopp is nothing more than a distant star, and will draw no closer,” she wrote on her own online forum. “Such is the choice for this fraud that its characteristics cannot be affirmatively proven until some time has passed. Is it a distant exploding star? Can't say. Is it moving? Can't say for sure. Is it drawing nigh? Can't say. All is speculation.”
It was Planet X – “a true messenger of death” – the news media should be concerned about. Her writings did manage to gain some national coverage, earning her two paragraphs in a New York Times article tied, “Comets Breed Fear, Fascination and Web Sites” published two days after the Heaven’s Gate’s members were discovered. The mention is more footnote, really, sandwiched between the claims of “an amateur astronomer in Houston” and the standard millennialist apocalyptic religious prophecies.
Lieder had seemingly softened her stance on Hale-Bopp in the intervening years, after its perihelion made it a prominent celestial presence. Soon enough, however, Planet X would grow even more undeniable. With a mass roughly four-times that Earth, it was barreling toward our home and would – at a very minimum – wipe out the totality of human civilization. Despite the bodies’ respective gravitation pulls, however, the two planets would not collide.
But this was still bad news for everyone involved. Planet X would come close enough to cease Earth’s rotation for nearly six days, the poles would shift, catastrophic weather would engulf the surface and the planet’s core would be displaced. Most incredibly, Lieder knew the exact date two planets would be closest: May 15, 2003. The world’s governments were also aware of the impending doom, choosing to keep the whole thing under wraps over fears of mass looting.
“This is what the wealthy fear, the powerful in government fear, and thus the absolutely silence up until the end, no warning to the public,” Lieder wrote. “The flip side of this coin is that the larger population, who would not loot, would be informed, would have a change to prepare, move to safety, and not be hysterical in front of their small children when the time comes. Thus, overall, it is more loving, more considerate, to inform, but those in charge of the cover-up care not for this.”
May 15 came and went without incident. Lieder explained that the date had actually been lie on her part, tricking world governments into declaring martial law and throwing them off the scent in a bid to save humankind from itself.
Lieder noted the following year,
Was the White Lie worth it? Look now to the mess in Iraq, where the oil fields there are worthless to those who would have commandeered both Iraq and Saudi fields, and the world no longer has any respect or desire to cooperate with the strong arm that George Bush wielded in early 2003. They made the move into Iraq too soon! And the thrust to dominate the world’s oil, the commodity of the future when paper moneys becomes worthless, failed! In the game of chess that ZetaTalk and the powers that rule the world are engaged in, this was a win! So, in retrospect, I, Nancy, feel even better for having been made the fool on the May 15, 2003 issue, when I truly believed this date was valid!
Lieder would not make the same mistake twice, however. While her resolve remained, she opted not to give a second date, explaining that doing so would only provoke global leaders in ways that would harm its seemingly doomed citizenry. She seemingly had little reason to doubt her prophecies, as they were not based in the same sort of math terrestrial astronomers relied on to predict such phenomena.
Three years before she shared her knowledge with the world, Lieder was contacted by extraterrestrial lifeforms. Using hypnotic recall, she was able to identify a broad range of alien life: the Chicken Man (“looked just like a flesh-colored chicken without feathers”), the Broom Stick Man (“the very tall and skinny alien from Close Encounters”), the Dino Man (“a small Tyrannosaurus Rex”), the Amoebae Man (“light green and without form or distinction”), the Vampire Man (“a hominoid flea”) and the Greek God (“what a hunk!”). In 1999, Lieder explains, she quit her job in California and moved to Wisconsin to spread the word.
Her predictions have found purchase in online communities in the subsequent decades. December 21, 2012 became a prime candidate for return, with connection to the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. Two years after that failed apocalypse, Lieder noted that the President intended to announce the planet’s arrive, as it was now close to the center of our solar system.
“In that Obama is working closely with the Council of Worlds on the matter of getting the common man informed about the pending passage, empowered with the knowledge the elite have had for themselves for decades, they are an involved party,” she wrote. “Per the Zetas, the Council of Worlds was not amused by the delays, the deliberate blocking that Obama encountered. Per the Zetas, the Council of Worlds is now at war with the cover-up crowd, the wealthy and politically powerful elite controlling the media and blocking the message.”
It's work Lieder continues to this day. In the 00s, “Planet X” name was largely eclipsed by Nibiru, a body posited by ancient astronaut proponents who believed it to be prophesied by Sumerian text. Lieder confirmed that the two were “one and the same” – good news, as Nibiru’s 3,600 orbit puts its next arrive in the ballpark of the year 2900.
Sources:
Comets Breed Fear, Fascination and Web Sites https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/28/us/comets-breed-fear-fascination-and-web-sites.html
Announcement War https://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue423.htm
ZetaTalk dated August 6, 1995 https://www.zetatalk.com/poleshft/p4601.htm