Some more UFO stuff

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Amazon by Kenneth Arnold (Aug 2021)


In 1947, alien enthusiast George Van Tassel moved to the Mojave Desert of California, USA, to live in a subterranean home under a giant boulder. There, he set up a a restaurant, airstrip, and extra-terrestrial research center, nicknamed 'the Integratron'. Van Tassel claimed he was a contacted by a Venusian at the Giant Rock in 1953, whereupon he started his UFO conventions 1954-1978.

Excerpt from LA Times article, April 2006:

Past scrubby fields of Joshua trees down a dusty road in Landers, a gleaming white dome rises abruptly from the jagged, putty-colored horizon, a curious testament to one man’s intergalactic vision: the Integratron.

The life’s work of a onetime aircraft engineer, the bizarre 38-foot wooden structure was meant to add decades to a person’s life (not to mention warp time and suspend gravity) through frequencies generated by electrostatic energy. Now the dome, surrounded by fruit trees, grapevines, vintage trailers and miles of nothing in every direction, will be put to a more modest use -- host to the first Retro UFO convention April 29.

“It’s a new chapter in ufology,” said Harris, a graphic artist by trade. “When you go on that property ... there is something that touches your heart, that touches your soul.”

He built the dome for $150,000 over 18 years starting in 1957, claiming that he was inspired by a predawn meeting with a visitor from Venus named Solgonda.

He didn’t complete the electrostatic device at the heart of the dome before he died in 1978, and his plans and equipment to finish the 50-megavolt Integratron disappeared soon after his death.

The outlandish dome and its unlikely location are “a monument to one man’s field of dreams,” said Joanne Karl, 51, one of three sisters who own the dome and have worked to restore it.

1957 Flying Saucer Convention (check out the photos) and more here


Integratron Timeline

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history

George van Tassel - 1956 Rotary Club, Yucaipa CA:




Giant Rock Drone vid from 2015:



College of Universal Wisdom, 1957 (PDF)





In the end none of their claims panned out. They all sold plenty of books & souvenirs & T-shirts though..creating all kinds of dubious belief systems. Howard Hughes was a pal of George van Tassel. Weird connections with early aerospace, space brothers, occultism and psychological warfare.

Each of them mystically oriented & mesmerized by "star travel":
Isaac Newton
Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
Werner Von Braun
John Goddard
Theodore Von Karman
Marvel Whiteside "Jack" Parsons (JPL NASA; memory holed by L. Ron Hubbard)

Not much different from today.

1957 Speakers poster is from Thy Kingdom Come Issue #5 that I came across from Chasing UFOs - The Bob Beck Collection




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