INTEGRATRON-HISTORY  Depending on who you talk to, Van Tassel was either a genius-alien contactee, or a lunatic or at worse a crafty confidence man who fleeced the gullible of their money.  

The naysayers claim that the vast majority of Integratron donations that were given to Van Tassel, were not used on the project.  The money was used to fund Van Tassel's life of travel and good times.  
Van Tassel was and still is a controversial figure.

RIGHT: The INTEGRATRON under construction. BELOW: The Machine is being assembled, but it took years.  When Van Tassel died in 1978, he was supposedly only weeks away from finishing up the final work on the contraption. I think not.

INTEGRATON-HISTORY  = ABOVE: Year unknown, supposedly a UFO over Integratron machine. Is it a light flash, a flying saucer or damaged  or tampered film?

WHY, I think not? The Integratron was supposed its top part of turn at hight speed, this rotating roof was to be turned by pipes with air pressure. The pressure would be supplied an air compressor or many air compressors. I would think many air compressors would be needed, by how big the structure was. I have yet to see in the 1960s, 1970s, (1978 is when Van Tassel died) that there was a large power shop that would house the compressors.

With Van Tassel's death work on the machine came to an end.

INTEGRATRON-HISTORY ---The contraption as stated before was built of wood, it contained very little steel, no nails were put into the structure --  supposedly the largest amount of metal in the machine -- was metal coil wires . The building's materials are similar to HOWARD HUGHES, SPRUCE GOOSE.  It is of note that HUGHES used to fly into GIANT ROCK AIRFIELD and have pie + coffee while visiting with his ex-employee VAN TASSEL.  Did the duo exchange secrets?  Supposedly H.H. was very interested in UFOs and his companies were fronts for the CIA. One story, and is it truth or exaggeration, is that  VAN TASSEL had been the private pilot of HOWARD HUGHES.

TO DODGE TAXES, VAN TASSEL TURNED HIS ENDEAVORS INTO A NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION. ON PAPER THE UFO CONVENTIONS BUT  MAINLY THE INTERGRATRON WAS LABELED A PLACE OF LEARNING AND FAITH, etc. 

RIGHT: A plaque that commemorates the INTERGRATRON.  Some of the  info is a little off.

Also some weird beards claim the INTEGRATRON is on 33 LATITUDE, EL WRONGO.  IT IS on the 34 LATITUDE...

INTEGRATRON-HISTORY Through the decades the land around the structure has changed. I can remember when the area around the odd building (1960s and 1970s) was desolate.  Today there are houses and a number of roads that flank the Integraton. 

BELOW is wonderful video, an aerial view of the Integratron.

Van Tassel's building was somewhat cannibalized after his death.   The place was sold a number of times, today it is a sound bath building. 

INTEGRATRON-HISTORY RIGHT: A pretty good program on THE INTEGRATRON that features BARBARA HARRIS.  At the 35 minute mark, Harris gets on the show, darn good info.  Her segment ends at 2:30 mark.

RIGHT: Harris loves the INTEGRATRON and GIANT ROCK haps as much as I do. 

BELOW: George Van Tassel is interviewed in 1964.  The broadcaster is rude but there is some odd but interesting info in the B/W program.

BELOW: A SHORT DOCU ON THE INTEGRATRON THAT WAS MADE CIRCA 1980, THE SOUND IS BAD - BARE WITH IT. 

THERE IS A SECTION ON THE INTEGRATRON IN MY BOOK = "MYSTERY -MAYEHM: CHRONICLE USA".   YOU CAN GET THIS BOOK AT AMAZON OR  THIS SITE--ORDER BUTTON ON HOME PAGE 

Depending on the source, Van Tassel got all his info on the INTEGRATRON in 1953, or that other bits of info came to him through the years by way of meditation or mind meld.

 It is a fact from 1953-1978, Van Tassel hunted $ and worked on  the project.  In 1978 he claimed he was around 3 weeks away from  finishing it, or it was %90 ready.  

Confident in his machine VAN TASSEL attested that he was going to be the first man into the machine, but then he died.  

In my opinion, unless Van Tassel was going to bring in many portable large compressor trailers, the Integratron could never have been powered up, because, there was not enough compressors on the site to get the machine to work.

His plan was to have 50,000 volts of electricity in a field above the 1st floor, the twirling cupola was to be forced by way of tubes powered by air pressure from compressor power.

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INTEGRATRON-HISTORY

There is not much info on Van Tassels' death, he died in a Santa Monica, California hotel room from heart attack. 
Conspiracy people think he was silenced.

The Heart attack story was a cover for something else that happened to him. 

Or some type of poison or device gave him a heart attack. Hmmm?

Eva his first wife had died in 1975. At the time of Van Tassel's February 1978 death, he was married to a chiropractor.

SO what became of the Integratron plans, were they really all in VAN TASSEL mind? Because none were ever found. Were they taken, destroyed, or again, there never were any?