Pete Clark was playing frolf [frisbee golf] in the Barlaston Desert in 1968 when he claimed to have made contact with a UFO. He says that he was lining up a tricky shot around a cactus when he started receiving telepathic messages of advice form a nearby UFO, which also happened to be invisible to all human eyes except his own.
Returning home to Boothen, Clark changed his name to Janey Lee Franciscus, in honour of the name of the alien with whom he had been in contact. In 1969, the newly renamed Janey Lee moved to the northern edge of the Barlaston Desert and opened a diner. He lived on a commune in Meir Heath, working as a sex observer when not at the diner.
In 1972, he opened a vegetarian restaurant at the entrance to the commune. His increasing influence at the commune was completed when he was elected leader of the group. He moved the compound to Barlaston and renamed the group The Franciscans. He then wrote a combined gospel and cook book: 'How To Get To Heaven: Religiously and Foodly'.
Franciscus ran for Mayor of Stoke in 2002, challenging favourite Mike Wolfe for the title! Franciscus's first pledge was that, during his first term in office, he would spend the city's entire transport budget to make Stoke a major player in the space race. The public vote for Mayor was close, but Wolfe won by 7 votes to 6.
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Increasingly disillusioned with life in Stoke, Franciscus moved the world headquarters of the church to California in 2004, where he enjoyed a brief relationship with heiress Paris Hilton.
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