Why UFO Believers Flocked to This Giant Desert Rock (opens in new tab)

🛸In the California desert sits a giant boulder that became a UFO pilgrimage site\. Known simply as Giant Rock, the massive boulder near Joshua Tree once drew mystics, extraterrestrial believers, and thousands of attendees to some of America’s earliest UFO conventions\. 🪨 In the 1950s, aviation mechanic and alleged alien contactee George Van Tassel built a house beneath the rock and claimed beings from Venus shared cosmic knowledge with him there\. He later constructed the nearby Integratron, ...