Case file · Close encounter
Van Tassel's visitor at Giant Rock
George Van Tassel, a former aircraft inspector living beside Giant Rock in the Mojave Desert, said that on 24 August 1953 a man from Venus named Solganda woke him and showed him a landed craft.
1953 CE · 34.33, -116.39 · status: claim
The account
Van Tassel had already been holding channelled 'meetings' in a room dug under the boulder. He said the visitors gave him the plans for a rejuvenation machine, the Integratron.
The sceptical view
There were no other witnesses to the landing; Van Tassel's later claims depended on channelling.
Connections in the atlas
- Giant Rock splits
- Giant Rock Spacecraft Conventions
- The Integratron, Landers
- Adamski meets 'Orthon' near Desert Center