Bob Lazar

From The Book of THoTH (Leaves of Wisdom)

Robert Scott Lazar (born 26 January 1959) is a central (and highly controversial) figure in discussions about UFOs. Lazar claims to have worked at area S-4 of the Nevada Test Site (near Area 51) at the special request of Edward Teller. He further claims to have performed reverse engineering on crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft there. The publicity surrounding his revelations is one of the major factors in putting the previously obscure military facility in public awareness.

In November 1989 Lazar made a special interview appearance with investigative reporter George Knapp on Las Vegas TV station KLAS to talk about his reported work. He suggested this was in part to share the information in scientific interest, and partly to insure himself against any mysterious sudden demise for exposing what Lazar described as classified information.

Opinions are divided as to the reliability of Lazar's claims. Critics argue that he has made unsupported statements, and that Lazar has a weak grasp of the scientific principles he espouses, and that the entire affair is a hoax. Supporters argue that Lazar is the victim of a cover up, and that his claims are accurate and reliable.

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Claims

Lazar says that he met Teller while employed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and that Teller recommended him for an employment interview with EG&G after Lazar had moved to Las Vegas. They passed him over for the job, but not soon after, shuttled him to Area 51 to work on classified projects.

As Gene Huff writes, "At area 51, Bob had to sign a secrecy agreement and an agreement to waive his constitutional rights, which is illegal but was made possible by an executive order with Ronald Reagan's signature on it. He also had to sign an agreement which allowed them to monitor his phone line. Bob already had 'Q' clearance, which is top secret civilian clearance, at Los Alamos but he had never gone through anything like this. The clearance he was now attaining would require perpetual monitoring of his activities and would never simply be attained and forgotten about until the next review date. After some abrupt suggestions that he honor his secrecy agreement and watch his general conduct, he and Mariani boarded a bus with blacked out windows and took a 20 to 30 minute ride down a bumpy dirt/gravel road. They arrived at a base near Papoose dry lake bed known as S4."[1]

After some allergy tests (due, Lazar said, to the potentially hazardous substances he might be required to use) Lazar was informed that he would be "on call" as needed. He continued working at a photography shop, while making jaunts to S4 about once a week.

Eventually, Lazar says he was asked to examine the propulsion system of a disc-shaped aircraft (he insists he saw nine flying saucers in various states of disrepair, but was allowed to closely examine only one of them). Lazar claims that when he first saw disc-shaped craft at the base, he concluded they were secret — but decidedly terrestrial — aircraft, and that sightings of test flights were responsible for UFO reports. Only on closer examination of the craft did Lazar conclude it was designed by and for extraterrestrials.

Lazar claimed that the placeholder element ununpentium (Uup) was the fuel that enabled extraterrestrial craft (commonly called flying saucers or UFOs) to travel interstellar distances. Uup's role was twofold. Firstly, it provided an energy source which would step up to ununhexium under particulate bombardment. The ununhexium would then decay, including a small measure of antimatter in its decay product. Its second function, discovered later, allegedly lay in the intense strong nuclear force field of its superheavy nucleus. This field extended barely usably beyond the atom's perimeter. But properly amplified, this could be employed as a variant of gravity. "Gravity B", as he claimed project scientists referred to it, could thus be employed to "shape" a craft's relation to the gravitized space around it. Lazar said this property explained the "triple dome" structure frequently shown in sketches and photographs of saucer-shaped UFOs, which he believed to be the crafts' gravity amplifiers.

Lazar described ununpentium as a heavy dull orange metal which had to be properly machined for such use. He ascribed the element's absence on Earth to the fact that the supernovae in Earth's region of the galaxy were insufficiently massive to produce nuclei of this density, but other parts of the universe are richer in this element. These areas, according to Lazar, are inhabited by the adventurous (but to date comparatively reclusive) extraterrestrial visitors who could employ it. A significant supply, he claimed, was acquired through direct exchange by supersecret US government operations at Nevada Test Site Area 51.

Eventually, insists Lazar, he gradually came to dislike his job at S4, for several reasons: he disliked the secrecy, intimidation and the danger to his health, and he also thought that the evidence of extraterrestrials visiting earth should be exposed.

After driving some friends to S4 to witness test flights of the craft, Lazar decided to alert the public to the goings on. He first appeared on Knapp's program under the pseudonym "Dennis" with his features hidden. His true identity was later revealed, and the story garnered some major attention.

When quizzed about Lazar's claims, Teller said "Look, I don’t know Bob Lazar. All this sounds fine. I probably met him. I might have said to somebody I met him and I liked him, after I met him, and if I liked him. But I don’t remember him . . . I mean you are trying to force questions on me that I simply won’t answer." [2]

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Criticisms of Lazar

Many of Lazar's statements have been criticised as inaccurate or unfounded. In interviews and public appearances he appears to be well-versed in physics — at least to a non-scientific audience. However, his actual understanding of the science has been questioned. Physicist Dr. David L. Morgan writes that "Mr. Lazar on many occasions demonstrates an obvious lack of understanding of current physical theories. On no occasion does he acknowledge that his scenario violates physical laws as we understand them, and on no occasion does he offer up any hints of new theories which would make his mechanism possible. Mr. Lazar has a propensity for re-defining scientific terms, and using scientific language in a confusing and careless way. For these reasons, I don’t feel that Lazar's pseudo-scientific ramblings are really worthy of any kind of serious consideration." [3]

Lazar claims to hold advanced degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology, but does not appear on the alumni roll of either institution. Lazar's supporters allege this discrepancy is the result of a government cover-up, but there has yet to be a single alumnus of either MIT or Caltech that has backed Lazar's claims by remembering a class taken with Lazar, or having ever seen him at either campus. The yearbooks from that time period also contain no photos of or references to Lazar. Stanton T. Friedman, a physicist and UFO researcher, has said that Lazar's high school transcripts show that he finished "in the bottom third of his high school class"[4] and also asserts that he was registered at Los Angeles Pierce College, a community college, at the same time he claims to have been working on his degrees from MIT. They are 2500 miles apart.

One objection to Lazar's report was that while the element Uup occurred in the atomic number range postulated for greater stability, the first terrestrial experiments to produce it indicated a half-life on the order of seconds rather than years. Defenders answer this criticism on the ground that different stabilities are attributable to different isotopic compositions: that an isotope achievable only under distant stellar formation may be more stable than forms resulting from collision of stable elements by conventional means.

On June 18, 1990 Lazar was convicted in Las Vegas, Nevada of pandering for an illegal prostitute, a felony. This was one of rather few pandering charges sought in Las Vegas, leading to some speculation that the prosecution was intended to harass Lazar. A friend of Lazar's, Gene Huff, explained that this occurred because, in a televised interview with George Knapp, Lazar had admitted installing stereo equipment in a brothel. Although the local vice squad were apparently reluctant to close the brothel or lay charges due to the madame being one of their informants, they figured they could let the madame go with a misdemeanour, and let Lazar take the fall in her stead.

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