CONTACT in the DESERT

Giant Rock and Crystal Hill have been attracting tourists for thousands of years. First visited annually by Native American chiefs and shamans, Giant Rock served as a prophetic messenger for the entire planet, while crystal hill was known for the unique energetic properties of its smoky white quartz. On this expedition, you will learn the story of Frank Critzer, a cantankerous German prospector who resided and later died under Giant Rock, as well as George VanTassel, an aeronautical engineer who came to experience the rock as a mysterious transducing device allowing him to communicate with extraterrestrials. Believing that his body could be “tuned” to receive transmissions by off-planet visitors, George had two incredible “Close Encounters” at Giant Rock during the early 1950s. In the first, he was told of an upcoming fly-by encounter that would take place over Washington DC, and in the second he was commissioned to build a mysterious “cellular rejuvenation machine.” Incredibly, within a week the fly-by encounter occurred just as he was told it would and, though never completed, the Cellular Rejuvenation Machine (which came to be known as the Integratron) was “95 percent operational” upon VanTassel’s sudden death in 1978.