Wallace C. Halsey

Wallace Carey Halsey (September 25, 1918 - March 27, 1963) was an American engineer, minister, and saucerian, the founder of Christ Brotherhood, Inc. and manufacturer of Mineralife Capsules. Halsey was noted for his sleeping trance mediumship of Space Brothers and prophesies of global catastrophe, and was actively making preparations for survival of himself and his followers in underground shelters located in the mountains east of Smithfield, Utah prior to his death in a plane crash.

Background
Halsey was born on 25 September 1918 in Viola, Kansas to Burgess Josiah Halsey and Mary Susan Clarkson Halsey. He married Juanita Bess Thornburg on 5 June 1938 in Los Angeles, California. At the time of his marriage, Halsey reported working on PBX telephone systems in the hotel industry. At unknown later points, Halsey married Evelyn Meeks and a woman named Tarna or possibly Tanya.

During World War II, Halsey served in the U.S. Navy. According to one report, he underwent engineering training at the "Naval School of Engineering, San Pedro," California and served in both the Atlantic and Pacific during the war. Press coverage of Christ Brotherhood activities often referred to him as "Dr. Halsey," and it was reported he held "doctor of divinity and doctor of law degrees from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, the Lighthouse International Fundamental Evangelism College, Los Angeles, and Christ Brotherhood College of Knowledge," the latter organization apparently being a facet of Halsey's own Christ Brotherhood, Inc. It is unclear whether Halsey held degrees of any kind from an accredited educational institution.

Halsey claimed that during his sleep, he channeled messages from extraterrestrials who warned of the impending destruction of the world and the gathering of a remnant of humanity to be saved. He founded Christ Brotherhood, Inc. in 1956 in California. The group was founded with the goal of "bringing greater understanding to all mankind."

Halsey relocated at least some members of the group to Cache Valley, Utah, where they began construction of underground shelters in the mountains east of Smithfield, Utah in the summer of 1961. The location was selected due to the identification of the Rocky Mountains as a place of safety by Joseph Smith, the founding prophet of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and other Latter Day Saint movement churches.

Disappearance
Though Christ Brotherhood, Inc. constructed several homes and a small church at its canyon complex, the nuclear shelter was not completed and the organization eventually disintegrated following Halsey's disappearance as a passenger on a small aircraft flight on 27 March 1963 from Utah to California with an overnight stay scheduled for Las Vegas. Halsey was facing federal charges at the time and it was speculated by some that he had fled the country.

The plane took off on a stormy day from Logan, Utah, refueled in Milford, Utah, but then failed to arrive for the next refueling stop in Las Vegas and an extensive air search was undertaken. Some of Halsey's UFO coreligionists also attempted to locate him with the assistance of extraterrestrial beings. For example, one seeker claimed extraterrestrials informed him the "[Egyptian] pyramids and the number 14 will solve the Halsey mystery."

Despite these efforts, the plane remained unfound for 13 years, until two lost deer hunters stumbled across the wreckage on a rugged mountainside on 30 October 1976. The fuselage was crumpled but unburned, and contained the bodies of Halsey and Harry Cleveland Ross, Jr. Ross, a former mayor of Seal Beach, California and business associate of Halsey's. The wallets of both men were also recovered. Ross, who had piloted the plane, was the operator of Meadowlark Airport in Huntington Beach, California, and a veteran aviator with an airline transport rating. The wreckage was discovered some 10–15 miles off the filed flight course in a location approximately 30 air miles north of St. George, Utah in a thickly-timbered portion of the Dixie National Forest. The remains were removed from the crash site by pack horses and Halsey was buried on 11 November 1976 in Camas, Washington.

Aftermath
Some of Halsey's teachings to the Brotherhood were documented in Cosmic End-Time Secrets, a volume published posthumously in 1965 that included the messages purportedly channeled from extraterrestrial life forms to Halsey.

In his professional life, Halsey was described as an electrical engineer. He was also involved with the development and sale of a product called Mineralife Capsules as an operator of Nutritional Progress Scientific Company. In this capacity, Halsey and his colleague Owen E. Brosam were charged in Federal court for "misbranding of worthless rock material with false and misleading claims for the treatment of cancer, heart trouble, shortness of breath, and tiredness." Three additional counts alleged the product baselessly claimed it could "cure cancer, constipation, premature aging, inefficient circulation, heart trouble, shortness of breath, arthritis, tumors, ulcers, stomach trouble, nervousness, sleeplessness, anemia, diabetes and tiredness." Brosam and Halsey further claimed the capsules could "restore youthfulness and promote relaxation and calmness." Brosam plead guilty on 21 May 1963 and was sentenced to two years of probation; it was noted Halsey was reported missing in a plane accident at the time.