New-Age Dome Hosts Star Party for Perseid Meteor Shower

The Integratron, a mysterious, dome-shaped structure in the Mojave Desert, was designed and built in the 1950s by George Van Tassel. You can rent it for weddings ad parties.

Thanks to a thin moon, Friday the 13th promises some good luck this year for sky gazers as Earth passes through the peak of the Perseid meteor shower.

In the California community of Landers, many will be gathering under the skies for the fourth annual Perseid Meteor Shower Star Party, an event put on by the Mojave Desert Land Trust to help save desert resources.

But it's not just the spectacular streaks in the sky that will lure people to this remote desert outpost.

Guests are also coming for a chance to enter the Integratron.The Integratron is a mysterious, dome-shaped structure designed and built in the 1950s by George Van Tassel.

Van Tassel had been an aeronautical engineer and Lockheed test pilot who worked alongside Howard Hughes. He was also one of the leaders in the burgeoning 1950s UFO movement who held annual "Spacecraft Conventions" for 25 years out in the desert to help fund the Integratron's construction.

Based on the design of Moses' Tabernacle, the writings of inventor Nikola Tesla and telepathic directions from extraterrestrials, the building is 38 feet high, 55 feet in diameter and thought to be the only all-wood, acoustically perfect sound chamber in the United States.

via George Van Tassel's New-Age Dome Integratron Hosts Star Party for Perseid Meteor Shower.