Aliens coming?
NZPA London An American sect has placed a bet in Britain that aliens will visit Earth before Christmas.
If it happens, they will win SUSI.S million. The bet was placed with Ladbrokes, the London bookmakers, by 50 members of Unarius, a quasi-religious group at El Cahon, California, according to the “Sunday Telegraph” newspaper. • Their stake was SUS3OOO .and the odds 500-1. The sect will collect if extra-terrestial creatures land or crash, dead or alive on Earth before December '25. They said they expected the aliens to be “friendly.”
Ladbrokes’ odds against aliens landing in the next 12 months are 200-1.
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Press, 21 December 1981, Page 1
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