Apr
Bat Country
The Mojave Desert region around Las Vegas is a renowned locus of anomie and abjection.
Apr
Jul
John C Frémont
1845 expedition with Kit Carson to find source of Arkansas River, heads for California instead, provokes war, takes control of Bear Flag revolt, murders various people
May
Edwards Air Force Base
Located approximately 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lancaster, California next to next to Rogers Dry Lake, which acts as a natural extension to the runways, and which has the largest compass rose in the world. Location of Chuck Yeager’s flight that broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1, the flights of America’s first […]
Jul
Pasadena
aka: The Crown City Mausoleum of Capitalist Aristocracy In March 1886, Pasadena became the second incorporated municipality, after the city of Los Angeles, in Los Angeles County. In Ojibwe, “pa-sa-de-na,” means “of the valley” The first Busch Gardens opened in Pasadena in 1905 and closed to the public in 1937. When Busch died at his […]
May
George Adamski
(d: April 24th 1965) One of the first American UFO contactees,”very influential upon all subsequent contactees and UFO contact literature. He claimed he saw his first saucer on October 9, 1946 — a black object like a giant dirigible. Thia was the year Maury Island Incident — Adamski he said he saw a long procession […]
May
Norton Air Force Base
A decommissioned base located in San Bernardino. Now the San Bernardino International Airport. Former site of the Defense Audiovisual Agency (DAVA) established in June 1979 to provide centrally managed audiovisual support to the entire Department of Defense components. Disestablished on September 30, 1985. References wikipedia: Norton Air Force Base AF Installations, Environment & Logistics, Legacy […]
May
Mount Palomar
Mountain north of San Diego. Location of the Palomar Observatory. George Adamski claimed his first alien contact was here. In Alchemical Conspiracy and the Death of the West”Michael Hoffman writes of Parsons. Hoffman tells us that the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) had a temple on nearby Mount Palomar. The local Indians regarded the mountain as […]
May
Silicon Valley
The nickname of the inland area in south-central California clustered around San Jose. One of the most intense nodes of tension in the psycho-sexuality of global capital. It’s suburbs include the farming community of Salinas, the resort town of Santa Cruz, and the upscale commuter village of San Francisco. In his 1979 book Messengers of […]
May
George Van Tassel
(b: Mar 12, 1910 – d: Feb 9, 1978 ) In 1947, George Van Tassel relocated his family to , a site in the California Desert near Joshua Tree, an area which was eventually called Landers. He leased the air strip next to a sixty-foot high boulder: the “giant rock” itself. In 1951, Van Tassel […]
Apr
Saucerian Convention
Took place at Giant Rock in the 50’s and 60’s. At it’s peak, there were upwards of 40,000 attendees References http://www.elfis.net/rnr/rnrx/giantrock.htm http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1904.htm
Apr
San Francisco
aka: Frisco A small coastal suburb of San Jose. Locals (“Friscoans”) refer to it as “The City” in ironic reference to their smug provincial isolation. The Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite was said to be more beautiful than Yosemite Valley itself. In order to supply water to Frisco, the Hetch Hetchy Valley was dammed up […]
Apr
Hiram Erasmus Butler
Founder of the American branch of the Order of Melchizedek. In 1889, he moved to California and created a mystical center on 260 acres overlooking the American River near Applegate in Placer County. He died in 1916. (Messengers of Deception, 127) References wiki: Melchizedek priesthood (Latter Day Saints)
Apr
Giant Rock
A place near Joshua Tree in the California desert where a sixty foot high boulder rises from a dry lake bed. The rock was known by local Indian tribes as the Great Stone. A airstrip runs next to the rock, and rock and airstrip became the location of Saucerian Convention for several decades, many of […]
Apr
Valencia
The brand name of a master-planned suburb in Southern California just north of the San Fernando Valley in the municipality of Santa Clarita. Built by Newhall Land and Farming (now just Newhall Land). The route of the flood from the St. Francis dam passed though what would eventually become Valencia. Location of: US Borax California […]
Mar
Vandenburg Air Force Base
Located on the central coast of California, Vandenburg occupies a large area around Point Conception — the point where the California coast turns North which is roughly considered the geographic and climatological division between Northern and Southern California. Location of many missile tests, commercial rocket launches, and some space shuttle launches. While trying to convince […]