George Van Tassel

George Van Tassel (March 12, 1910 - February 9, 1978) was an American contactee and ufologist. He is best known today for the "Integratron", a tabernacle structure he constructed near Giant Rock in Landers, California.

Ufo Contacts
By his own accounts, Van Tassel's main contacts with the Space People were accomplished by a method of trance channeling, utilising what he called "tensor" beams, as he first detailed in "I Rode a Flying Saucer". It was by this means that the contactee scene was first introduced to characters the likes of Ashtar and Knut.

Van Tassel later reported his first physical contact took place in August 1953, when he was welcomed aboard a flying saucer by Solganda. This would serve as his initiation into the universal brotherhood, and the beginning of his receipt of plans for the Integraton.

Selected Bibliography

 * "I Rode a Flying Saucer" (1952)
 * "Into This World and Out Again" (1956)
 * "The Council of Seven Lights" (1958)
 * "When Stars Look Down" (1976)