According to George, they had chosen him to bring a message of peace and interplanetary brotherhood to the people of Earth. The idea and schematics for the Integratron were given to him by the extraterrestrials as a cell rejuvenaton machine designed to function as an anti-aging device.
The domed structure, made entirely of wood, with no screws, bolts or other metal materials was incomplete at the time of George's death in 1978. Shortly before that, he had stated that the Integratron was about 90 percent completed. Nevertheless, after he died the core of the machine mysteriously went missing and no notes, plans or blueprints survive. As a result the device has never operated as intended.
Today, the Integratron can be rented out for private events, music recording sessions, and meditation sound baths using quartz crystal singing bowls.
Earlier, he had been an aeronautical engineer, a flight inspector, and a test pilot. At one point he was Howard Hughes' personal flight inspector for experimental aircraft. Starting in 1954, George organized annual UFO conventions at Giant Rock that were attended by tens of thousands of people.
Many years before that, local Native American tribes held ceremonies at the site. They considered the area sacred ground. Their name for the rock was the Great Stone. Tribal chiefs had prophesized that one day the rock would split open and a new era would begin. In February 2000, Giant Rock did indeed split open.
