UFO Religions on Campus: Space-Age Belief and Progressive Millennialism at MTSU

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At MTSU, Benjamin Zeller explained UFO religions as belief systems about space and its inhabitants, citing Heaven’s Gate, the Unarius Academy of Science, the Aetherius Society, the Raelian Church, and Valley of the Dawn, and described progressive millennialism as a post‑1947 idea of sudden societal salvation after Roswell, noting strong campus interest and questions about controversial leaders, new groups, and how these movements evolved, with student Vix Kelley among attendees.