The Seekers, also called The Brotherhood of the Seven Rays, were a group of rapturists or a UFO religion in mid-twentieth century Midwestern United States. The Seekers met in a nondenominational church; the group was originally organized in 1953 by Charles Laughead, a staff member at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. They were led by Dorothy Martin (also called Sister Thedra) from the Chicago area, who believed a UFO would save them from a catastrophe on December 21, 1954. They are believed to have been the earliest UFO religion.
Martin told her followers that the United States was going to be destroyed by a massive earthquake and a huge tidal wave on December 21, 1954, according to telepathic messages that she claimed to have received from aliens. She called the aliens the Guardians and said they came from a planet called Clarion. Believers would be saved from the destruction by flying saucers that would take them to Clarion.
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