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This paper discusses how Hon-Ming Chen, a native of Taiwan, organized and promoted a fascinatingly bizarre, apocalyptic religious group, multi-labeled as God's Salvation Church, God Saves the Earth Flying Saucer Foundation, the True Way, or Chen Tao, in the United States in 1997. Chen believed that God would arrive on Earth in a flying saucer to save the elect from the impending nuclear and natural holocaust in 1999. The history of Chen and his group, their beliefs, and how they coped with the failed prophecy are discussed.

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"For the most part, God's Salvation Church grew from Hon-Ming Chen's imagination rather than some experience of disenfranchisement, deprivation, disaster, or clash of cultures. This apocalyptic worldview of Chen played itself out mostly in Texas, where he and his followers tried to persuade the world, albeit through very limited means, while waiting for the end to come. After the destruction of the world prophecy fell through, most (about one hundred ten out of one hundred forty) followers returned home, the remaining staying loyal to their teacher."

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