Bob Lazar#United Nuclear

{{Short description|American businessman and UFO conspiracy theorist}}

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| birth_name = Robert Scott Lazar

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| birth_place = Coral Gables, Florida, U.S.

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| occupation = Owner of United Nuclear Scientific Equipment and Supplies

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| criminal_charges = Pandering, trade of illegal goods

| spouse = Joy White

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Robert Scott Lazar ({{IPAc-en|l|ə|ˈ|z|ɑr}}; born January 26, 1959) is an American conspiracy theorist. In 1989, Lazar claimed to have been part of a classified US government project concerned with the reverse engineering of extraterrestrial technology; he also purported to have read government briefing documents that described alien involvement in human affairs over the past 10,000 years. A self-proclaimed physicist, Lazar supposedly worked at a secret site near the United States Air Force facility popularly known as Area 51. His story brought additional public attention to the facility and spawned conspiracy theories regarding government knowledge of extraterrestrial life.

Lazar has provided no evidence of alien life or technology, and his claims about his education and employment history are replete with fabrications. Lazar also has several criminal convictions: he was convicted in 1990 for his involvement in a prostitution ring, and again in 2006 for selling illegal chemicals. As well as being dismissed by skeptics, Lazar has been renounced by some ufologists.

Background

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Lazar graduated from high school late, in the bottom third of his class. The only science course he took was a chemistry class. He subsequently attended Pierce Junior College in Los Angeles.{{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Stanton|author-link=Stanton T. Friedman|date=2012|title=UFOs: Real Or Imagined?: A Scientific Investigation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QEJ7g6rZ4MQC&pg=PA122|publisher=Rosen Publishing|pages=122–124|isbn=9781448848386}} In 1986 Lazar, who at the time described himself as a self-employed film processor, filed for bankruptcy.Public records, Case BK 86-01623, US Federal Bankruptcy Court, Las Vegas.(702) 388-6257

Claims

=Education=

Lazar claims to have obtained master's degrees in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and in electronics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). However, both universities show no record of him.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6meZjKVOAvEC&pg=PT159|title=The Utah UFO Display: A Scientist Brings Reason and Logic to Over 400 UFO Sightings in Utah's Uintah Basin|author=Frank B. Salisbury|publisher=Cedar Fort, Inc.|date=2010|page=146|isbn=9781599557786}} Scientists Stanton T. Friedman and Donald R. Prothero have stated that nobody with Lazar's high school performance record would be accepted by either institution.{{cite book|author1=Donald R. Prothero|author2=Timothy D. Callahan|title=UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens: What Science Says|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G5SFDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA57 |date=August 2, 2017|publisher=Indiana University Press|pages=57–58, 166–169|isbn=978-0-253-03338-3}} Lazar is unable to supply the names of any lecturers or fellow students from his alleged tenures at MIT and Caltech; one supposed Caltech professor, William Duxler, was in fact located at Pierce Junior College and had never taught at Caltech.{{cite web|url=https://www.news24.com/news24/debunking-ufo-expert-bob-lazar-part-1-20120825|title=Debunking UFO 'Expert' Bob Lazar|date=August 25, 2012|website=News24|access-date=December 13, 2022}} Friedman asserted, "Quite obviously, if one can go to MIT, one doesn't go to Pierce. Lazar was at Pierce at the very same time he was supposedly at MIT more than 2,500 miles away."

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Lazar claims to be a physicist and to have worked in this capacity during his tenure at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility.{{Cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UjqFaQq_7I|title=Lazar describes alien technology housed at secret S-4 base in Nevada -- Part 5|date=2019-11-08|last=Knapp|first=George|type=|language=|publisher=KLAS-TV/8 News NOW Las Vegas|author-link=George Knapp (television journalist)|time=4:38 - 7:25|time-caption=Section|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201118192025/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UjqFaQq_7I|archive-date=November 18, 2020|access-date=2020-11-18|url-status=live}} This assertion was echoed by local journalist Terry England, who interviewed Lazar about his interest in jet-powered cars in 1982;{{efn|This was a story by Los Alamos Monitor journalist Terry England, which circulated regionally via the Associated Press.{{cite news|first=Terry|last=England|title=LA man joins the jet set – at 200 miles an hour|work=Los Alamos Monitor|date=June 27, 1982|pages=A1 & A8|quote=[Bob] Lazar, a physicist at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility...}}{{Cite news|last=England|first=Terry|date=July 30, 1982|title='Jet' isn't an idle boast on this car|page=A-6|work=The Santa Fe New Mexican|agency=Associated Press|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/44147720/jet-isnt-an-idle-boast-on-this-car/|access-date=November 22, 2020|via=newspapers.com}}{{cite news|date=July 26, 1982|title=This is a real hot rod|page=8|work=Alamogordo Daily News|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/alamogordo-daily-news-jul-26-1982-p-8/|access-date=February 13, 2020|via=NewspaperArchive.com}}}} some media outlets have since dubbed him a "physicist".{{efn|See: {{Cite episode|title=What Sparked the Government's Interest in UFOs|url=https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/cnr/date/2021-06-05/segment/07|access-date=June 7, 2022|series=CNN Newsroom|series-link=CNN Newsroom|network=CNN|date=June 5, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a28443500/bob-lazar-area-51-netflix-flying-saucers/|title=Area 51 details left out of Netflix's Bob Lazar documentary|last=Seddon|first=Dan|date=July 19, 2019|website=Digital Spy|access-date=June 7, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/09/08/Model-based-on-UFO-witness-description/3157778996800/|title=Model based on UFO witness description|date=September 8, 1994|website=UPI|access-date=June 11, 2022}}{{cite book|last=Peterson|first=Todd|date=November 7, 2013|title=Time Out: Las Vegas|edition=8th|publisher=Time Out Group|pages=266–267|isbn=978-1-84670-398-0|quote=Physicist Bob Lazar...}}}} Asked about the article in 2021, however, England admitted that he took Lazar's claims at face value and did not fact-check his credentials as a physicist.{{cite web|url=https://medium.com/@signalsintelligence/bob-lazar-theres-more-to-the-story-17829c2ff650|title=Bob Lazar: There's More to the Story|author=SignalsIntelligence|date=February 22, 2022|website=Medium|access-date=June 18, 2024}} Inquiry into Lazar's position at Los Alamos revealed his role to have been a technician for a contractor firm, and that he worked neither as a physicist or for the lab directly.{{cite book|author=Arthur Goldwag|title=Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DDbM5GeMgXIC&pg=PA138|date=August 11, 2009|publisher=Vintage Books|isbn=978-0-3073-9067-7|pages=138–}} As such, the facility retains no records on Lazar, whom Prothero states was "in short, rather a minor player". The Smithsonian, along with various other mainstream news outlets, have stated that his designation as a "physicist" is self-proclaimed.{{efn|The Smithsonian, and various mainstream outlets, have noted Lazar's "physicist" designation as either "self-proclaimed"{{cite web|url=https://inews.co.uk/news/science/area-51-what-aliens-conspiracy-theories-storm-raid-event-facebook-memes-latest-news-314042|title=What is Area 51? Alien conspiracy theories and history of Nevada site as Storm Area 51 Facebook event passes 1 million attendees|last=Nelson|first=Alex|date=July 16, 2019|website=iNews|access-date=May 11, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/everything-you-need-to-know-about-area-51/news-story/5a8adfff2c01f2695a8e16f5217dc1f4|title=Everything you need to know about Area 51|last=Bedo|first=Stephanie|date=July 19, 2019|publisher=news.com.au|access-date=May 11, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/08/09/reviews/980809.09vince.html|title=Alien Nation|last=Vincent|first=Glyn|date=August 9, 1998|website=The New York Times|access-date=May 25, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://au.news.yahoo.com/why-people-want-to-storm-the-mysterious-area-51-063710245.html|title='Let's see them aliens': Inside the mysterious Area 51 and why people want to storm the secret base|last=Lambert|first=Olivia|date=July 17, 2019|website=Yahoo! News|access-date=May 25, 2022|url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717102936/https://au.news.yahoo.com/why-people-want-to-storm-the-mysterious-area-51-063710245.html|archive-date=July 17, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://thebaffler.com/latest/close-encounters-robertson|title=Close Encounters|last=Robertson|first=Jesse|date=February 23, 2023|website=The Baffler|access-date=June 14, 2024}} or "self-described".{{cite magazine|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/inexplicable-moments-175793238/|title=Inexplicable Moments|last=Webster|first=Donovan|author-link=Donovan Webster|date=January 2000|magazine=Smithsonian|access-date=May 25, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-06-04-me-9247-story.html|title=On the Road to Nowhere|last=Graham|first=Patrick|date=June 4, 1995|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=May 25, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/alien-visitors-restore-ghost-town-s-spirits-1344789.html|title=Alien visitors restore ghost town's spirits|last=Cornwell|first=Tim|date=March 30, 1996|website=The Independent|access-date=May 25, 2022|url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220525012554/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/alien-visitors-restore-ghost-town-s-spirits-1344789.html|archive-date=May 25, 2022}}}}

Since 1989, Lazar has achieved public notoriety as an Area 51 conspiracy theorist.{{efn|Sources describing Lazar as a "conspiracy theorist": {{cite web|url=https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2022/03/16/obama-conspiracy-theorists-flock-secret-presidential-records/7049409001/|title=Conspiracy theorists, UFO hunters among first to flock to Obama's once-secret presidential records|last=Penzenstadler|first=Nick|date=March 16, 2022|website=USA Today|access-date=May 11, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/09/24/bob-lazar-and-ufos-a-reading-and-watching-list.html|title=Bob Lazar and UFOs: a reading (and watching) list|date=September 24, 2020|website=Toronto Star|access-date=May 11, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/web/a29001318/area-51-raid-canceled/|title=The Area 51 Raid Is Mercifully Canceled|last=Grossman|first=David|date=September 11, 2019|website=Popular Mechanics|access-date=May 11, 2022}}{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/2465240/interview-dissecting-the-autopsy-and-research-features-in-xcom-enemy-unknown/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220513023757/http://www.mtv.com/news/2465240/interview-dissecting-the-autopsy-and-research-features-in-xcom-enemy-unknown/|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 13, 2022|title=Dissecting the Autopsy and Research Features in 'XCOM: Enemy Unknown'|last=Webb|first=Charles|date=August 29, 2012|website=MTV News|access-date=May 11, 2022}}{{cite book|author=Ronald H. Fritze|title=Hope and Fear: Modern Myths, Conspiracy Theories, and Pseudo-History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BGRcEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT15|date=April 18, 2022|publisher=Reaktion Books|isbn=978-1-7891-4540-3|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220512195506/https://books.google.com/books?id=BGRcEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT15|archive-date=May 12, 2022}}{{cite book|author=Lee Mellor|title=Conspiracies Uncovered: Cover-ups, Hoaxes and Secret Societies|date=February 4, 2021|publisher=Dorling Kindersley|isbn=978-0-2415-1899-1|pages=90– (insert)|quote=Conspiracy theorist Bob Lazar...}}
Publications on conspiracy theories that detail Lazar's claims: {{cite book|author1=James McConnachie|author2=Robin Tudge|title=Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories, The (3rd)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0A3c_ZD0KycC&pg=PA296|date=February 1, 2013|publisher=Rough Guides Limited|isbn=978-1-4093-2454-6|pages=296–}}{{cite book|author1=Christopher Hodapp|author2=Alice Von Kannon|title=Conspiracy Theories and Secret Societies For Dummies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4htx62wIXIgC&pg=PA126|date=February 4, 2011|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-05202-0|pages=126–}}{{cite book|author=Barna William Donovan|title=Conspiracy Films: A Tour of Dark Places in the American Conscious|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bJkhqU1IXHAC&pg=PA150|date=January 10, 2014|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-8615-1|pages=150–}}}} In May of that year, he appeared in an interview with investigative reporter George Knapp on Las Vegas TV station KLAS, under the pseudonym "Dennis" and with his face hidden, to discuss his purported employment at "S-4", a subsidiary facility he claimed exists near the Nellis Air Force Base installation known as Area 51. Lazar said that his job was to help with the reverse engineering of one of nine flying saucers, which he alleged were extraterrestrial in origin. He claims one of the flying saucers, the one he coined the "Sport Model", was manufactured out of a metallic substance similar in appearance and touch to liquid titanium. In a subsequent interview that November, Lazar appeared unmasked and under his own name, where he claimed that his job interview for work at the facility was with contractor EG&G and that his employer was the United States Navy. EG&G stated it had no records on him.{{cite news |url=https://knpr.org/desert-companion/2014-11/out-there |title=Out there |author=George Knapp |author-link=George Knapp (journalist) |work=KNPR |date=November 1, 2014}}{{efn|According to spotlight by KLAS-TV:

  • The schools in which Lazar claims to have studied "say they've never heard of him" (6:05)
  • Lazar alleges he worked at Los Alamos, "where he experimented with the world's largest particle beam accelerators" (6:13)
  • George Knapp: Los Alamos officials say they had no records of him ever working there (6:25)
  • George Knapp: "they were either mistaken or were lying: a 1982 phonebook from the lab lists Lazar right there among the other scientists and technicians" (news section shows the cover of a Los Alamos national laboratory phone directory, and then a list of names which includes "Lazar Robert") (6:30)
  • Los Alamos Monitor article of 1982 is shown, the date reading Sunday, June 2X (low resolution), 1982, with the title "LA man joins the jet set – at 200 miles an hour" with a picture of a man with a car, with Knapp saying that it "profiles Lazar and his interest in jet-cars". It zooms in on the clipping to an excerpt which states: "It's not the car so much that's important. To Lazar, a physicist at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility, the important thing is the jet engine. It's something he's been working on for years. It started 'awhile ago' when working with another researcher in NASA on the technology." (6:39)
  • George Knapp: "we called Los Alamos again. An exasperated official told us he still had no records on Lazar. EG&G, which is where Lazar says he was interviewed for the job at S4, also has no records." (6:48)
  • The news section cuts to Lazar who claims he called the schools he attended, the hospital he was born in, and his past job to get records, but to no avail. (7:00)
  • Lazar alleges his employer at S4 was the US Navy. (7:21)}} His supposed employment at a Nellis Air Force Base subsidiary has also been discredited by skeptics, as well as by the United States Air Force.

Lazar has claimed that the propulsion of the studied vehicle ran on an antimatter reactor{{harvnb|Lazar|Corbell|2018}}. Event occurs at 9. and was fueled by the chemical element with atomic number 115 (E115), which at the time was provisionally named ununpentium and had not yet been artificially created.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/08/archives/thing-it-is-copied-therefore-it-exists.html|title=Thing; It Is Copied. Therefore, It Exists?|last=Patton|first=Phil|date=January 8, 1995|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-11-26|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} (It was first synthesized in 2003 and later named moscovium.){{cite web|url=https://www.livescience.com/41424-facts-about-ununpentium.html|title=Facts About Moscovium (Element 115)|last=Sharp|first=Tim|date=December 2, 2016|website=Live Science|access-date=February 13, 2020}} He said that the propulsion system relied on a stable isotope of E115, which allegedly generates a gravity wave that allowed the vehicle to fly and to evade visual detection by bending light around it.{{cite news |url=http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/bob-lazar-the-man-behind-element-115/80762696 |title=Bob Lazar: The Man Behind Element 115 |website=Lasvegasnow.com |date=2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170603121751/http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/bob-lazar-the-man-behind-element-115/80762696 |archive-date=June 3, 2017 }} No stable isotopes of moscovium have yet been synthesized. All have proven extremely radioactive, decaying in a few hundred milliseconds.{{cite journal|last=Oganessian|first=Y.T.|date=2015|title=Super-heavy element research|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273327193|journal=Reports on Progress in Physics|volume=78|issue=3|pages=036301|doi=10.1088/0034-4885/78/3/036301|pmid=25746203|bibcode=2015RPPh...78c6301O|s2cid=37779526 | issn = 0034-4885}}

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Lazar alleges that his employment and education records have been erased, an allegation that Friedman, Prothero and author Timothy D. Callahan consider implausible. His story has drawn significant media attention, controversy, supporters, and detractors. Lazar has presented no actual evidence of alien life or technology.{{Cite web| title = Bob Lazar Says the FBI Raided Him to Seize Area 51's Alien Fuel. The Truth Is Weirder| author = McMillan, Tim| work = Vice| date = November 13, 2019| access-date = August 28, 2020| url = https://www.vice.com/en/article/bob-lazar-says-the-fbi-raided-him-to-seize-area-51s-alien-fuel-the-truth-is-weirder/}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AKy2CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT179 |title=Weapons Grade |author=David Hambling |publisher=Constable & Robinson |year=2016 |pages=178–180|isbn=9781472123763 }}{{cite news |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20/area-51-exhibit-national-atomic-testing-museum_n_1366145.html?ref=weird-news#s285846&title=Area_51_Warning |title=Area 51 Exhibit To Feature Russian Roswell UFO Artifact At National Atomic Testing Museum |work=HuffPost |date=March 20, 2012}}

Lazar owns and operates United Nuclear Scientific Equipment and Supplies, a company that sells a variety of materials and chemicals.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/chemistry.html |title=Don't Try This at Home |magazine=Wired |date=July 2006}} In 2017, Lazar's workplace was raided by the FBI and local police. Although Lazar theorized the raid was intended to recover "element 115", a substance he says he took from a government lab, it was reported as part of a murder investigation (in which Lazar is not listed as a suspect) to determine if United Nuclear sold thallium to a murder suspect in Michigan.

Public appearances and media

Lazar co-operated the Desert Blast festival, an annual event in the Nevada desert for pyrotechnics enthusiasts. The festival features homemade explosives, rockets, jet-powered vehicles, and other pyrotechnics.{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WpVTOroeFJIC&pg=PA76 |title=Desert Blast |magazine=Popular Science |date=April 1996 |pages=76–79}}{{cite news |url=https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.12/desert.blast.html |title=Ka-Booom!! |magazine=Wired |date=December 1, 1994}}

Lazar was featured in Knapp's and Jeremy Corbell's 2019 documentary Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers,{{cite web|last1=Reimink|first1=Troy|title=In 'Bob Lazar: Area 51' documentary, director investigates UFO whistle-blower's story|url=https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/movies/2019/04/10/bob-lazar-area-51-documentary-ufo-freep-film-festival/3419204002/|access-date=July 31, 2019|newspaper=Detroit Free Press}} and he has appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience.{{Cite web|last=Seddon|first=Dan|date=July 19, 2019|title=Area 51 details left out of Netflix's Bob Lazar documentary|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a28443500/bob-lazar-area-51-netflix-flying-saucers/|access-date=2020-08-07|website=Digital Spy|language=en-GB}}{{Cite magazine| title = Loving the Alien| last = Rodrick | first = Stephen| magazine = Rolling Stone| date = 2020-08-20| access-date = August 28, 2020| url = https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/aliens-real-ufo-area-51-nevada-pentagon-history-1046067/}}

Criminal convictions

In 1990, Lazar was arrested for aiding and abetting a prostitution ring. This was reduced to felony pandering, to which he pleaded guilty.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-06-vw-31950-story.html |title=Unusually Fanatical Observers |work=Los Angeles Times |date=February 4, 2003}}{{cite news|date=June 19, 1990|title=Source In Channel 8'S UFO Series Pleads Guilty to Pandering Charge|page=8b|work=Las Vegas Review-Journal}}{{cite news |title=Judge Gives UFO 'Witness' Lazar Probation on pandering charge |work=Las Vegas Review-Journal |date=August 21, 1990 |page=2c}} He was ordered to do 150 hours of community service, stay away from brothels, and undergo psychotherapy.

In 2006, Lazar and his wife Joy White were charged with violating the Federal Hazardous Substances Act for shipping restricted chemicals across state lines. The charges stemmed from a 2003 raid on United Nuclear's business offices, where chemical sales records were examined. United Nuclear pleaded guilty to three criminal counts of introducing into interstate commerce, and aiding and abetting the introduction into interstate commerce, of banned hazardous substances. In 2007, United Nuclear was fined $7,500 for violating a law prohibiting the sale of chemicals and components used to make illegal fireworks.{{cite news |url=https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2007/New-Mexico-Company-Fined-Ordered-To-Stop-Selling-Illegal-Fireworks-Components/ |title=New Mexico Company Fined, Ordered To Stop Selling Illegal Fireworks Components |work=U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission |date=July 20, 2007}}{{cite web |url=https://www.justice.gov/civil/cpb/case/us-v-united-nuclear-scientific-supplies-et-al-0 |title=US v. United Nuclear Scientific Supplies, et al |work=United States Department of Justice |date=2006 |access-date=May 18, 2017 |archive-date=December 27, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141227202620/https://www.justice.gov/civil/cpb/case/us-v-united-nuclear-scientific-supplies-et-al-0 |url-status=dead }}

Journalist Stephen Rodrick and author Neil Nixon write that further doubts have been cast on Lazar's credibility due to his criminal activity.{{cite book|author=Neil Nixon|title=UFOs, Aliens and the Battle for the Truth: A Short History of Ufology|date=November 13, 2020|publisher=Oldcastle Books |isbn=978-0-8573-0431-5|pages=46–47}} Author Timothy Good and filmmaker Jeremy Corbell, who have perpetuated Lazar's story, concur with this assertion.{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/timothy-good/alien-contact/|title=Alien Contact|date=May 20, 2010|website=Kirkus Reviews|access-date=May 23, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.filminquiry.com/bob-lazar-area-51-flying-saucers-2018-review/|title=Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers: One Small Step For Man, One Giant Leap To Conclusions|last=Bedford|first=Tom|date=December 11, 2018|website=Film Inquiry|access-date=May 23, 2022}}

See also

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Sources

  • {{cite AV media|last=Lazar | first=Bob |last2=Corbell |first2=Jeremy |title=Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers |year=2018 |publisher=The Orchard}}
  • {{cite AV media|last=Lazar | first=Bob |last2=Knapp |first2=George |title=Dreamland: An Autobiography |year=2019 |publisher=Interstellar }}