Effective period / Period of releases: 2018

Members: Marshall Herff Applewhite

Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religious cult based near San Diego, California. It was founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Herff Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985). On March 26, 1997, deputies of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department discovered the bodies of 39 members of the group, including that of Applewhite, in a house in the San Diego suburb of Rancho Santa Fe. They had participated in a mass suicide, a coordinated series of ritual suicides, in order to reach what they believed was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following Comet Hale–Bopp.