The Integratron is a structure built by George Van Tassel, an aeronautical engineer and test pilot for Lockheed Martin Corp. It is said to be created from the writings of Nikola Tesla and so-called ...

Reading Susannah Rosenblatt’s “E.T., There’s No Place Like Dome” [April 20] recalls an interview I had with George Van Tassel, “Le Grand Papa” of flying saucers, in the spring of 1970. Van Tassel each ...

Calling All Earthlings pokes around the fringes of a fascinating story, starring a miniature society of UFO cultists, New Agers and desert eccentrics orbiting around an all-powerful ...

Seven years ago, North County filmmaker Jonathan Berman moved to Joshua Tree for five months to start a documentary about ’50s-era space alien-channeler George Van Tassel. Dozens of interviews, ...

Southern California’s Morongo Basin has long been a hotbed for UFO activity, whether real or imagined. Ever since George Van Tassel, a former flight inspector-turned-ufologist, leased an abandoned ...

Jonathan Berman's 'Calling All Earthlings' gets to know the desert folk who believe George Van Tassel talked to aliens. By THR Staff Out in the Mojave desert, near Joshua Tree, sits Landers, ...

I may have had some lunatic notions in my day, but I can assure you that none of them have been implanted or otherwise suggested by extraterrestrials. Not a one. George Van Tassel, however, can’t ...

Frank Critzer’s cave under Giant Rock ended in a mysterious blast—and years later, George Van Tassel claimed extraterrestrial plans for a time machine. Join us in the Mojave to uncover hidden bunkers, ...

At first glance, there’s not all that much exciting about what has been called the “world’s biggest rock.” It’s as huge as its nickname suggests—a freestanding boulder about seven stories high and ...

Though current examples might suggest otherwise, not all conspiracy theories have been based on hate, fear, and intolerance. In late August 1953, George Van Tassel, an aeronautics engineer who once ...

Are we witnessing a renewal of interest in unidentified flying objects? Recent revelations about a secret Defense Department project for studying UFOs continue to draw media attention, while reports ...