George Van Tassel was a former aircraft mechanic and flight inspector for Douglas, Hughes and Lockheed. He took over an abandoned airstrip beside Giant Rock and lived in rooms dug beneath the rock, where he held meditation meetings. January 6, 1952. He said a telepathic message arrived from Lutbunn, and the name Ashtar first appeared in his channelled messages that year. His Giant Rock conventions became a gathering place for the contactee circuit. Daniel Fry attended them for about 20 years, and both Truman Bethurum and Howard Menger spoke there.
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Fellow contactee at the Hollywood Hotel convention

Host of the Giant Rock Spacecraft Conventions where Bethurum spoke

Contactee, operator of Giant Rock Airport, sole witness to the 1953 encounter

American contactee whose 1952 messages first used the name Ashtar

