George Van Tassel begins building the Integratron

Name: George Van Tassel begins building the Integratron
Start: 1957
Location: Landers, CA

When: 1957
Where: Landers, CA
Sources: 1 public source

The Integratron at Landers, California, which George Van Tassel began building in 1957 Shamrox, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Contactee George Van Tassel, host of the Giant Rock spacecraft conventions, began building the Integratron, a wooden dome near Landers, California. He said beings from Venus gave him the idea for a device to rejuvenate cells; its current owners say it is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Sources

OtherAbout: The History of the Integratron (opens in a new tab)Integratron

How sources are chosen and tiered

Where it fits

Earlier in Close encountersDonald Keyhoe becomes director of NICAP1957 Later in Close encountersReinhold Schmidt claims a landed craft near Kearney; Air Force calls it a hoax5 Nov 1957

See it on the timeline More in Close encounters