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 through this means that the contactee scene were 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 Integratron.



Integratron
The "Integratron" is a domed structure, patterned after "the design of Moses's Tabernacle and the writings of Nikola Tesla", which was constructed over the course of two decades by George Van Tassel, obstensibly under the telepathic guidance of his space contacts. It stands approximately 35 ft high and 55 ft in diametre, and is built of entirely of wood and fibreglass, using no metal fasteners to hold it together.

According to Van Tassel, the Integratron was designed both to rejuvenate health and for experimental research in time travel, having been specifically built on an intersection of powerful geomagnetic forces that the structure would concentrate and amplify by virtue of its peculiar geometries. At the time of Van Tassel's death, the building was still incomplete.