George Van Tassel (1910-1978).
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Former Lockheed/Douglas/Hughes aviation worker who became the contactee movement's chief organizer; ran the Giant Rock conventions, founded the Ministry of Universal Wisdom, channeled Ashtar, and built the Integratron. Scholars call him the movement's most important propagator.
[DOCUMENTED] Real aviation professional who moved to Giant Rock (Landers/Mojave) in 1947, began Friday-night 'meditation' channeling sessions in 1953, launched the non-profit Ministry of Universal Wisdom (1958) and the College of Universal Wisdom, and published The Proceedings. Religious-studies scholar Brenda Denzler calls him probably the most important person for perpetuating the contactee movement. [CLAIM] Said he received telepathic 'thought transference' from Venusians/Schare (from Jan 1952), first channeled Ashtar (18 July 1952), and was physically taken aboard a Venusian ship in Aug 1953 and given a cellular-rejuvenation technique (the basis of the Integratron). His July-1952 prophecy of H-bomb-triggered destruction failed. Died Feb 1978, weeks before the Integratron's planned activation - fueling 'silenced by government' conspiracy lore.