The idea of the Nibiru encounter originated with Nancy Lieder, a
Wisconsin woman who claims that as a girl she was
contacted by
gray extraterrestrials called Zetas, who implanted a communications device in her brain. In 1995, she founded the website ZetaTalk to disseminate her ideas.
[2] Lieder first came to public attention on Internet
newsgroups during the build-up to
Comet Hale-Bopp's 1997
perihelion. She stated, speaking as the Zetas, that "The Hale-Bopp comet does not exist. It is a fraud, perpetrated by those who would have the teeming masses quiescent until it is too late. Hale-Bopp is nothing more than a distant star, and will draw no closer."
[3] She claimed that the Hale-Bopp story was manufactured to distract people from the imminent arrival of a large planetary object, "Planet X", which would soon pass by Earth and destroy civilization.
[3] After Hale-Bopp's perihelion revealed it as one of the brightest and longest-observed comets of the last century,
[4] Lieder removed the first two sentences of her initial statement from her site, though they can still be found in
Google's archives.
[3] Her claims eventually made the
New York Times.
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