July 5: The Rupture of the Church of the SubGenius

The Church of the SubGenius claimed that on July 5, 1998, the rupture would occur. Aliens from Planet X, after concluding a deal with Bob Dobbs, would raise all ordained SubGenii into spaceships and then destroy the Earth *very* slowly. Meaning, perhaps, billions of years.

However, the Church of the SubGenius allowed that it may have read the date upside-down, and that these things will happen in 8661 C.E.