George Van Tassel

Van Tassel at Giant Rock, 1968

(b: Mar 12, 1910 - d: Feb 9, 1978 )

In In , George Van Tassel relocated his family to , a site in the California Desert near Joshua Tree, an area which was eventually called Landers. He leased the air strip next to a sixty-foot high boulder: the “giant rock” itself. In 1951, Van Tassel and his Council of Twelve received their first contact from “Ashtar” of the planet “Sanchea.”

The first Giant Rock Saucerian-Convention”>Saucerian Convention“was first held in March 1954 and attracted over 5,000 attendees.

Van Tassel was author of Into This World and Out Again.

(Peebles, 124-125)

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