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256 Vegetable Man
George Van Tassel (right) with Long John Nebel (Fortean Picture Library)
physical vision in which, however outlandish
it may have seemed to others, he truly believed.
Van Tassel died in Santa Ana, California,
on February 9, 1978. Since then, some channelers
have reported messages from him. “I
was immediately taken into fellowship with
the Great Masters of the Council of which I
wrote,” he told one (Tuella, 1989).
See Also: Ashtar; Channeling; Contactees
Further Reading
Curran, Douglas, 1985. In Advance of the Landing:
Folk Concepts of Outer Space. New York: Abbeville
Press.
Davis, Isabel L., 1957. “Meet the Extraterrestrial.”
Fantastic Universe 8, 5 (November): 31–59.
Reeve, Bryant, and Helen Reeve, 1957. Flying Saucer
Pilgrimage. Amherst, WI: Amherst Press.
Tuella [pseud. of Thelma B. Turrell], ed., 1989.
Ashtar: A Tribute. Third edition. Salt Lake City,
UT: Guardian Action Publications.
Van Tassel, George W., 1952. I Rode a Flying Saucer!
The Mystery of the Flying Saucers Revealed. Los
Angeles: New Age Publishing Company.
———, 1958. The Council of Seven Lights. Los Angeles:
DeVorss and Company.
Vegetable Man
Jennings Frederick, a young West Virginia
man, claimed that while bow-and-arrow
hunting one afternoon in July 1968, he heard
a “high-pitched jabbering, much like that of a
recording running at exaggerated speed.”
Even so, he could understand it, and it was
communicating to him that he should not be
afraid. “I come as a friend,” the voice said.
“We know of you all. I come in peace. I wish
medical assistance. I need your help.” Then
Frederick saw the creature whom wags would
soon dub Vegetable Man.
The being had semi-human facial features.
Its ears were long, its eyes yellow and slanted,
and it had very thin arms about the size of a
quarter in diameter. It had three seven-inchlong
fingers at the end of each arm. Instead of