Editing Christ Brotherhood (section)

==Leader's disappearance and group's disintegration==
The brotherhood apparently lost cohesion<ref name="Cantwell 3 Canyons" /> following Halsey's disappearance as a passenger on a small aircraft flight from Utah to Nevada in March 1963.<ref name="Goldwag Cults, Conspiracies book">{{cite book |last1=Goldwag |first1=Arthur |title=Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies |date=2009 |publisher=Vintage Books | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=88ZvDwAAQBAJ&dq=christ+brotherhood+wallace+halsey&pg=PA151 |page=151|isbn=9780307390677 }}</ref> Despite an extensive air search and attempts by Halsey's UFO religion associates to solve the mystery using extraterrestrial assistance,<ref name="Knowledge from the Stars">{{Cite book |last=Bateman |first=Wes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DZ5HtcooRg0C&dq=The+incredible+search+for+Dr.+Halsey&pg=PA100 |title=Knowledge from the Stars |publisher=Light Technology Publishing |date= June 1, 1993 |pages=100–102|isbn=9780929385396 }}</ref> the plane remained unfound for 13 years, until a lost deer hunter stumbled across the wreckage (including the bodies of Halsey and pilot Harry Cleveland Ross, Jr., a former mayor of [[Seal Beach, California]] and a business associate of Halsey) on a rugged mountainside near [[St. George, Utah]].<ref name="LA Times Crash found">{{Cite news |last=O'Reilly |first=Richard |date=November 3, 1976 |title=Remains of Ex-Seal Beach Mayor Found at Crash Site |page=164 |work=The Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8879479/wallace-carey-halsey-found/ |access-date= July 22, 2022}}</ref>

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.<ref name="Goldwag Cults, Conspiracies book" />