Pappy
Living the Dream
Actually held Flying saucer conventions here in the California desert.
[FONT="][FONT=.SFUIDisplay-BoldItalic]H[/FONT][FONT="]ave you ever heard the one about the guy who literally lived under a rock in the Californian desert, where legendary flying saucer conventions were held in the 1950s? It’s one of those weird stories that a friend told me at a dinner party, which I of course Googled as soon as I could leave the table. But all I found was a few unsensational pictures of a big old lonely rock sitting in the middle of the Mojave desert– no sign of an entrance to an underground home or that any UFO conventions had ever taken place there. And then by chance today, during my weekly routine fish of the LIFE archives, I stumbled upon a photo series simply titled, “[/FONT][FONT=.SFUIDisplay-BoldItalic]Flying Saucer Convention, 1957[/FONT][FONT="]“.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="][FONT=.SFUIDisplay-BoldItalic]H[/FONT][FONT="]ave you ever heard the one about the guy who literally lived under a rock in the Californian desert, where legendary flying saucer conventions were held in the 1950s? It’s one of those weird stories that a friend told me at a dinner party, which I of course Googled as soon as I could leave the table. But all I found was a few unsensational pictures of a big old lonely rock sitting in the middle of the Mojave desert– no sign of an entrance to an underground home or that any UFO conventions had ever taken place there. And then by chance today, during my weekly routine fish of the LIFE archives, I stumbled upon a photo series simply titled, “[/FONT][FONT=.SFUIDisplay-BoldItalic]Flying Saucer Convention, 1957[/FONT][FONT="]“.[/FONT][/FONT]
