2 Thursday, July 3, 1997 Pahrump Valley Gazette
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Northern and Central
Nevada
Friday_.Dry and warmer.
Lows in the 40s to lower 50s.
Highs in the 80s to lower 90s.
Saturday and Sunday...Breezy in
the west...Otherwise dry and
seasonably warm. Lows in the
mid 40s to mid 50s. Highs in the
80s to lower 90s.
Southern Nevada
Friday...Dry and warmer.
Breezy in the afternoon. Lows in
the 70s. Highs in the upper 90s to
near ll0. Saturday and
Stlnday...Dry with breezy
al.emoons. Seasonably hot. Lows
in the 70s to lower 80s. Highs
from 100to near 112.
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Friday._Clear. Bzezy during
the afternoon and evening hours.
Lows,
from the 50s Owens Valley to
the mid 70s Death Valley. Highs
from the upper 80s to lower 90s
Owens Valley to 107 Death
Valley. Saturday...Mostly clear.
Locally breezy in the a.moon
and evening hours. Lows from the
50s Owens Valley to the mid to
upper 70s Death Valley. Highs
fromthe 90sowens Valley to 110
Death Valley. Sunday.Mostly
clear. Lows from the mid 50s
Owens Valley to the mid 70s to
lower 80s Death Valley. Highs
fromdae 90s Owens Valley to 112
Death Valley.
Did it all start here ?
For many, the birthplace of the current UFO craze is not
Area 51 or Roswell, New Mexico, but rather Landers. Cali-
fornia -- home of Giant Rock and the Integratron.
It was here -- in Landers -- that George Van Tassel, a
retired aircraft engineer, migrated to in 1947 and soon there-
after encountered visitors from the stars.
George and his family set-
up camp, north of Landers, at
Giant Rock -- a huge free-
standing boulder. Years ear-
lier an old hermit named Frank
Critzer had burrowed rooms
BLM bulldozed The Come On Inn and filled the rooms
beneath Giant Rock. The Integratron, however, still stands at
its original site.
A tour of the Integratron is more than just a walk-through
of the large, two story, white dome... It's an experience!
Although Van Tassel never totally finished the large ma-
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As the mist clears from the
blast, a silhouette emerges.
beneath the large granite monolith, this became storage for
the VanTassels while they constructed The Come On Inn, a
small care adjacent to the rock.
The Van Tassel s held group meditations at Giant Rock
starting in the early 1950's, then in the late summer of 1953
a flying saucer from the planet Venus landed, bringing
George the information needed to rejuvenate human cell
tissue -- the fountain of youth, so to speak. The next year
George and some friends started construction of the Integratron
-- the machine that would carry out this rejuvenation process.
After George had his encounter with the flying saucer and
its occupants, he also began holding UFO conventions at
Giant Rock it is reported that more than 11,000 people
attended these gatherings throughout the years. If these
conventions were not the first of their kind, they'd follow a
close second.
George Van Tassel passed away in 1978, leaving the
Integratron structure finished, but still in the testing phase of
the actual rejuvenation process. After George's death, the
chine, smaller rejuvenation
machines -- called Multi-
wave Oscillators -- are in
use at the site, and the tour
includes exposure to this pro-
cess. [Note: Children under
5 years are not allowed to be
in the room during this part
of the tour]
If you're not interested in
the supposed healing power of the electric arc produced by
these "Multi-wave Oscillators", or the group meditation on
the second floor of the structure, the tour is still worthwhile.
The architecture of the Integratron is quite stunning, no
screws or nails were used in its construction, every ,joist
and floor board is pinned in place with wooden dowe": it
survived the Landers 7.4 magnitude earthquake unscathea,"T ',
the cinder block building next to it wasn't so lucky.
I didn't see any flying saucers during my camp out at Giant
Rock, or my visit to the Integratron. But it was pleasant desert
camping, and a wonderful look at a well preserved piece of
UFO history.
For information on the Integratron and Giant Rock contact
the Landers Chamber of Commerce in Landers, California.
Or visit the Integratron web site at: http://www.integratron.com
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