George Van Tassel - Wikipedia
Van Tassel was a classic 1950s contactee in the mold of George Adamski, Truman Bethurum, Daniel Fry, Orfeo Angelucci and many others. He hosted "The Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention" annually beside the Rock, from 1953 to 1971, which attracted at its peak in 1959 as many as 10,000 attendees.
Giant Rock, Space People and the Integratron
In 1953, Van Tassel began to conceive, plan and construct the Integratron, located three miles south of Giant Rock on Linn Road in Landers, California. This sixteen-sided domed wooden structure is thirty-eight feet high and fifty-five feet in diameter, joined together without nails or metal fasteners to interfere with its conductive qualities.
Giant Rock - Wikipedia
In the 1950s, Giant Rock was a gathering point for UFO believers. It is located on land which was at that time leased by George Van Tassel, a friend of Critzer's, a purported flying-saucer contactee and organizer of UFO conventions. [4]
About: The History of the Integratron - Integratron
George Van Tassel, creator of the Integratron, was a legendary figure, an aeronautical engineer who worked for Lockheed, Douglas Aircraft and as a test pilot for Howard Hughes at Hughes Aviation. He was also one of the leaders in the UFO movement who held annual “Spacecraft Conventions” at Giant Rock for 25 years.
Giant Rock, Space People and the Integratron - PBS SoCal
2018年5月15日 · By 1947, Van Tassel, his wife Eva and their three daughters moved to Giant Rock, where they began their new life running the airport and a café called Come On Inn, popular with the locals for Eva’s tasty hamburgers and spiced apple pies.
Integratron - Wikipedia
The Integratron is a 38 feet (12 m) tall cupola structure with a diameter of 55 feet (17 m) designed by ufologist and contactee George Van Tassel. Van Tassel claimed the Integratron was capable of rejuvenation, anti-gravity and time travel. He built the structure in Landers, California (near Joshua Tree), following instructions that Van Tassel ...
Giant Rock – Landers, California - Atlas Obscura
2016年10月13日 · While the rock has been a Native American spiritual site for thousands of years, the modern backstory of the boulder begins in the 1930s, when a German immigrant and miner named Frank Critzer met...
A Time Machine in the Mojave Desert - The Atlantic
2015年2月20日 · Seven stories high and many thousands of tons, Giant Rock dominates the desert landscape and became a local landmark due to its size. It was underneath the boulder that a German immigrant named...
George Van Tassel - Kook Science
George W. Van Tassel (March 12, 1910 - February 9, 1978) was an American contactee and organiser of the Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention (1954-78). He is best known today for the Integratron , a rejuvenation and research tabernacle he constructed near Giant Rock (just outside Landers, San Bernardino Co., California), reportedly ...
Van Tassel, George W. (1910-1978) | Encyclopedia.com
Van Tassel, George W. (1910-1978) Early flying saucer contactee and author of the pioneering flying saucer volume I Rode in a Flying Saucer (1952). As people responded to his claims of extraterrestrial contact and other contactees emerged, Van Tassel organized the Giant Rock Space Convention, held annually at Giant Rock Airport, near Yucca ...