Mark-Age

Mark-Age
Mark-Age logo
Type	New religious movement
Classification	UFO religion
Headquarters	Pioneer, Tennessee, U.S.
Founder	Pauline Sharpe and Charles Boyd Gentzel
Origin	1962 Miami, Florida, U.S.
Other name(s)	Mark-Age MetaCenter
Official website	www.thenewearth.org/markage.html

Mark-Age (formerly Mark-Age MetaCenter) is an American UFO religion. It was founded in 1962 in Miami, Florida by Pauline Sharpe (Nada-Yolanda) and Charles Boyd Gentzel (Mark). Its headquarters later moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in the 1970s and then Pioneer, Tennessee by the 2000s. The group incorporates New Age, UFO contactee, and Theosophical elements. Mark-Age believes itself to be a contact point with extraterrestrials who govern the Solar System, and believe in an alien-assisted Second Coming. It was one of the most significant and largest contactee groups.

Founded after the founders claimed to receive a spiritual message in the 1950s, members believe in channeling messages which are supposedly communicated through telepathy and automatic writing. Members were affiliated with the contactee Gloria Lee, and claimed to channel her after she died, writing a book claiming to contain her messages from beyond. The group has published its beliefs in several publications and periodicals.