Nation of Islam - the Mother Plane / Wheel.
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Core Nation of Islam eschatological cosmology: a half-mile spaceship ('Mother Plane'/'Mother Wheel') carrying smaller 'baby planes', taught by Elijah Muhammad and central to Louis Farrakhan's 1985 'Wheel' experience.
[DOCUMENTED] The teaching is a real, documented strand of NOI theology; Elijah Muhammad began teaching the Wheel/Mother Plane c.1932 (attributed to W. Fard Muhammad) and published it as articles in Muhammad Speaks (from May 1973), collected as 'The Mother Plane'. The FBI is documented to have seized his Wheel drawings during a 1942 raid. Farrakhan's 17 Sep 1985 'more-than-a-vision' experience of being taken to the Mother Wheel is a documented, repeatedly recounted event central to his ministry (analyzed in a 2012 JAAR article). NOI writers today frame Pentagon/AARO UAP disclosure (2020-2024) as vindication of Elijah Muhammad's teaching. [CLAIM] Cosmology: the Mother Plane is the Merkabah/Wheel of Ezekiel, half a mile wide, holding ~1,500 'baby planes' that account for UFO sightings; Fard Muhammad and his scientists (and, per Farrakhan, the never-dead Elijah Muhammad) live aboard it; in the apocalypse it will destroy the white-dominated order and carry the righteous.