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The creepy desert road where Tom Cruise’s potty Church pals carved giant ‘hello’ to E.T.
BBC reporter John Sweeney visits cult's alien cathedral
By JOHN SWEENEY
www.thesun.co.uk
12-31-12
The site is home to the buried texts of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard and was built to withstand a nuclear holocaust.
Sweeney says in his new book Church of Fear — adapted here by BEN JACKSON — that the group collects tens of thousands of pounds from each member.
It even palms them off with two cheaply-made electronic gadgets for 100 times the cost of manufacture, according to one former Scientologist.
IF you don’t have a flying saucer, Trementina Base is not an easy place to get to.
But if you’re a visitor from outer space, it’s a doddle because the Church of Scientology has etched two vast interlinked circles on top of a mountain amid the desert scrub of New Mexico.
Each circle has a huge diamond shape inscribed inside as a sign to aliens.
Just dial up Mesa Huerfanita on Google Earth and you’ll find a nearby mountain scarred by a long concrete strip with a short leg at the northern end pointing east. That’s the loony church’s private airport.
A zig-zag white line from the strip heads north. That’s the church’s private road. It leads to the two linked circles — invisible from the land below.
The spot is north of Roswell — a town linked to UFO sightings. . . .
