Alan Hale is an American professional astronomer who co-discovered Comet Hale–Bopp.
Dirty Snowballs and Other Portents of Doom
1 August 1997
Following the mass suicide of the Heaven's Gate cult, Alan Hale, co-discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp, released a statement at a press conference in Cloudcroft, New Mexico. He began by reading from Carl Sagan's The Demon Haunted World...