[kj] BTATS origins

[gathering@misera.net]

In a message dated 7/30/2003 11:01:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Neilfperry@btinternet.com writes:

> If you search in books on Amazon you get:
> Brighter Than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the
> Atomic Scientists, by Robert Jung
> 
> Was this book title chosen because of the prophecy that an
> explosion Brighter than... etc would destroy the world?  
> Was it
> Mayan?

that I have heard as for the origins but also I have heard that  UFO mothership is supposed to be so bright the term they gave was "Brighter than 1000 suns" 

so between these two- who knows- both could fit