A UFOland is to be built in Las Vegas by a sect which believes humans were created by extra-terrestrials. Visitors will be able to attend a Happiness Academy and see a full-size replica of a UFO.
UFOland is to be set up by the Raelian Movement who say they want to share their belief with visitors to Las Vegas.
They will also host a museum and a 1000-seat theatre where their spiritual leader, Rael, will give lectures.
He said he expects the UFOland to become one of the most popular destinations in Las Vegas within the next five years.
The Raelian Movement was was founded in France in 1973 by a former journalist, Claude Vorilhon, who worked for a racing car magazine.
He claims he was contacted by an extra-terrestrial being who emerged from a flying saucer and told him - in fluent French - that humans were created in laboratories by people from another planet.
Since then the Raelians have grown into an international movement.
In 2002, the Raelian movement is the founder of the Clonaid company claimed to have produced the first cloned baby.
How funny it is to see that the Raelian Movement appears as a "sect" of "paranormal" people when, if investigating a little, you discover that it is made of very rational, science minded and anti-supernatural atheist people, even if with a (still) very minority point of view. Just like the "sect" of Galileo: it was a very small group of Italian scientists saying that the Earth was spinning, what a "paranormal" thinking!!! ;-) With Love, Ely
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