Bob Lazar
Claims to have worked with alien craft at "Area S-4" in
Nevada
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Topics
- Contact. Note: Lazar has shown little interest in
responding to UFO researchers and enthusiasts. Most mail is not
answered.
- Mail: c/o Tri-Dot Productions, 1324 S. Eastern, Las Vegas, NV
89104
- Searches
- Altavista Newsgroup Search for "Lazar"
- Lycos search for Lazar.
- Major Works
- The Lazar Tape, a video tape by Lazar and Gene Huff in which he discusses his alleged experiences at Papoose Lake and the propulsion systems of flying saucers. [ Ordering Information.]
- Transcripts
- An account of his appearance on UFOs: The Best Evidence, the original 1989 Las Vegas TV news reports by George Knapp. (45k)
- Interview on the Billy
Goodman radio program, Nov. 21, 1989. (59k)
- Interview on the Billy Goodman
radio program, Dec. 20, 1989. (78K)
- Transcript for Lazar interview on On the Record. Interviewed by George Knapp, KLAS-TV/Las Vegas, 12/9/89
- Lazar at the "Ultimate UFO Seminar," Rachel, NV, May 1, 1993
- "The Word of Bob," A compendium of quotes and transcripts
from Lazar regarding technical aspects of saucer operation,
assembled by Tom Mahood. Sources include Knapp's On the Record, The Lazar Tape and several other sources not given above.(37k)
- References
- Exchanges
- Hular
- Gene Huff Responds to "Lazar As Fiction".
- Contentious newsgroup exchange between Lear, Huff and Mahood regarding Zeta Reticuli Corp and other topics. (1/25/96-2/6/96)
- Photos
- Lazar* (Gif at Rutger's FTP, 235k)
- Lazar in jet car. (72K)
- Lazar on motorcycle at Desert Blast. (77K)]
- Lazar at Desert Blast '94.
- Synopses and Investigations
- Gene Huff's Lazar Synopsis, Mar.
12, 1995 (55k)
- The Lazar Timeline*, a chronical of
his life assembled from public records. (27k) by Tom Mahood.
- Tom Mahood's Lazar Corner.
- An Attempt to Locate Lazar's MIT and
Cal-Tech professors (22k) by Glenn Campbell
- Gene Huff provides text of offers from Dept. of Defense's Small Business Innovative Research Project in
support of Lazar. 7/21/95
- Internet Resources.
- Researchers:
These people have looked into the Lazar story and conducted
original research.
- George Knapp. Believes
Lazar
- Stanton Friedman. Says Lazar is a fraud
- Jacques Vallee. Doubts Lazar
- Bob Oechsler
- Glenn Campbell
- Tom Mahood
- Associates
These people are associates of Lazar or knew him prior to his
public S-4 claims.
- John Lear. Met Lazar prior to S-4
claims.
- Gene Huff. Co-producer of Lazar Tape. gufon@ix.netcom.com
- Jim Goodall. Met Lazar at Lear's house prior to claims.
- Jim Tagliani. Worked with Lazar at Fairchild Electronics.
- John Andrews. Designed plastic model based on Lazar's
description.
- Dennis Mariani(?). Alleged co-worker of Lazar at S-4.
- Edward Teller. Lazar suggests
that Teller may have helped get him the S-4 job.
Topics
In this section: Claims | Personal Description and Background | Time Line.
Bob Lazar claims to have worked with alien spacecraft at a secret
U.S. Government facility at Papoose Lake, about 75 miles north of
Las Vegas, Nevada. Lazar intially made his claims on local Las
Vegas news reports in Nov. 1989. He says he worked at a facility
called "Area S-4" at Papoose Dry Lake, south of the known
government air base at Area 51, in late 1988 and early 1989.
There he says he saw nine flying saucers housed in hangars built
into a hillside. Lazar says he had hands-on experience with one
of the craft and he can describe its propulsion system in detail.
Lazar says he read briefing papers about the alien presence but
that he saw no aliens himself (aside from a fleeting glimpse of a
"child" through a window at the facility).
The Skeptic's View
Lazar could have concocted his tale initially to deceive Las Vegas
ufologist John Lear, who had been telling exotic aliens-at-Area-51
stories for several years before meeting Lazar. Lazar does have a
good understanding of Area 51 and how it operates, but this could
have been obtained from workers doing routine classified work at
the base. Perhaps Lazar had actually worked in this highly
restricted military zone and thus knew that, because of the heavy
secrecy here, his fantastic claims could never be disproven.
There are significant weaknesses in Lazar's story: His claimed
education credentials at MIT and Cal-Tech don't check out. The
claim that the government wiped out his records is absurd, since
they could not also wipe out every professor or student he once
took classes with. If Lazar has lied about his education, how can
we trust his more fantasitic claims. Furthermore, the time-frame
of Lazar's alleged UFO experience seems unrealistically
compressed. He is supposed to have gained all his experience in
only a few visits to the site between November 1988 and April
1989. Those familiar with classified government programs say such
a rapid exposure to a top secret project is highly unlikely.
Response
Believers say that although some of Lazar's claims may be false,
it does not mean they all are. They are impressed by the internal
consistancy of the story itself. Although Lazar's rapid
involvement in the program might seem irregular, normal security
might have been bypassed in this case due to a recommendation by
Edward Teller, a prominent
figure in secret government projects.
Unresolved Questions
The public still doesn't have any information on what is going on
a Papoose Lake. Although satellite photos show no obvious
installations, no journalists have ever been allowed to visit
there. Former workers at Area 51 (reported in confidence to this
author), say that there was indeed a big project going on at
Papoose Lake in the 60s and 70s. These workers do not know what
the project was, but they say the area was referred to as "S-4"
and the project was very secret.
Lazar is in his mid-30s (He says he was born 1959.) and lives in
Las Vegas. He says he makes his living through several small
businesses including a photo studio and a company that repairs
radiation monitors. Lazar has also earned income from a movie
option and a plastic flying saucer model based on his account.
In the mid-1980s, prior to coming to Las Vegas, Lazar worked at
Los Alamos National Laboratories, although it is unclear in what
capacity. He claims to have earned master's degrees at MIT and
Cal-Tech, but these claims are unproven, and even the professors
he says he took classes with at these schools do not check out.
Lazar grew up on Long Island, NY, and graduated from High School
in Westbury, NY, in 1976 (confirmed by Stanton Friedman). He is
known to have worked at Fairchild Electronics in the Los Angeles
area in the early 1980s.
Educational credentials aside, Lazar is certainly a highly capable
technician in the area of explosives and propulsion systems. As a
hobby, he owns a high-speed jet car and builds his own elaborate
fireworks. In interviews, Lazar comes across as highly rational
with nothing to sell or promote. He regards mosts UFO buffs as
"nuts" and says wants nothing to do with them.
A more detailed timeline is also available.
- June 27, 1982 -- Lazar meets Edward Teller before a lecture by
Teller at Los Alamos.
- Nov. 1988 -- Lazar was interviewed and given job (Lazar claim)
- Apr. 1989 -- Lazar briefly appears in shadow as "Dennis" on
Las Vegas TV station KLAS
- Nov. 1989 -- Lazar appears as himself in a series of local Las
Vegas TV news reports, UFOs: The Best Evidence.
- 1992 -- The Lazar Tape is released in which Lazar
discusses his experiences in detail.
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