Bob Lazar

Bob Lazar
Bob Lazar
Occupation	Physicist[citation needed]

Robert Scott Lazar (January 26, 1959), or Bob Lazar, claims to have worked from 1988 until 1989 as a physicist at an area called S-4 (Sector Four), located near Groom Lake, Nevada, next to Area 51. According to Lazar, S-4 served as a hidden military ___location for the study of extraterrestrial flying saucers. Lazar says he saw nine different alien discs there and provides details on their mode of propulsion.

Testimony

Bob Lazar says he was initially introduced to work at S-4 by Dr. Edward Teller. His tasks consisted in the scientific investigation of the propulsion system of one of nine disc-shaped aircraft, as a general part of the ongoing reverse engineering project taking place at S4. ^[1] In his filmed testimony, Lazar recalls that when he first saw the discs, he concluded they were secret, terrestrial aircraft, whose testflights must have been responsible for many UFO reports. Gradually, on closer examination and from having been shown multiple breifing documents, did Lazar come to the conclusion that the discs must have been of extraterrestrial origin. During 1989 interviews for the Las Vegas based KLAS-TV, Lazar explains how this impression first hit him after he boarded the craft under study and examined its interior. ^[2]

For the propulsion of these space vehicles, Bob Lazar explains how the atomic element 115 (or ununpentium (Uup)) served as a nuclear fuel. From what he was told, element 115 provided an energy source which would produce anti-gravity under particulate bombardment. As the intense strong nuclear force field of element 115's nucleus would be properly amplified, the resulting effect would be a distortion of the surrounding gravitational field. A vehicle producing this distortion could alter its own relation to the space around it – allowing it to dramatically shorten the distance between itself and a charted destination. ^[3]

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W-2 for Robert S. Lazar

Lazar ascribed that element 115's probable absence on Earth was due to the fact that the supernovae in Earth's region of the galaxy were insufficiently massive to produce nuclei of this density. He postulates that other parts of the universe could be richer in this element. ^[4] Lazar indicated stocks of the element 115 were a gift from an off-planet civilization to be used as fuel for our own spacecraft. ^[5]

In 2004, a team of American and Russian scientists succeeded in producing element 115 as an unstable isotope, confirming the existence of such an atom. ^[6]

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Robert Lazar S-4 Security Badge

In November 1989, Lazar appeared in a special interview with investigative reporter George Knapp on Las Vegas TV station KLAS to talk about the several aspects and implications of his work at S-4. ^[7]

In August 1990, George Knapp uncovered a W2-slip for Robert Lazar. This wage and tax statement represents payments from the United States Department of Naval Intelligence ^[8].

The code E-6722MAJ in the upper right corner also features on Bob Lazar's access badge to S-4.

Criticism

Lazar's statements have been criticised as unfounded. His actual understanding of the science has been questioned. Physicist Dr. David L. Morgan, for instance, criticizes how "On no occasion does [Mr. Lazar] 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."^[9]

Some scientific skepticism to Lazar's report was grounded on the fact that while the element 115 occurred in the atomic number range postulated for greater stability, terrestrial experiments to produce it indicate a half-life on the order of seconds rather than years.
This criticism is counter-argued by Lazar on the ground that an isotope achievable only under distant stellar formation may be more stable than one resulting from collision of stable elements by conventional means. Lazar emphasizes how nuclear physics is evolving rapidly and that human scientists should soon be able to officially produce stable isotopes for that element. ^[10]

Lazar says he has advanced degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology. However, according to skeptical investigators, his name does not appear on the alumni roll of either institution. The yearbooks from that time neither contain identity photos nor other references to Bob Lazar. Lazar alleges this is the result of the government's erasure of his past identity. ^[11]

Stanton T. Friedman, a physicist and UFO researcher, concentrates mostly on discrepancies in Lazar's education. Friedman claims Lazar's high school transcripts show that he finished "in the bottom third of his high school class," making him an unlikely MIT candidate. Friedman also cites evidence that Lazar was registered at Los Angeles Pierce College at the same time he claims to have been working on his degrees from MIT. However, the schools are 2500 miles apart.^[12]

On his commercial United Nuclear website, Bob Lazar writes in the 'about'-section: "Bob had previously worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory (specifically in the Meson Physics facility ), involved with experiments using the 1/2 mile long Linear Particle Accelerator." ^[13] Critics have argued that the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory could not back up this claim: the experimental laboratory denied ever having employed Lazar. Investigative reporter George Knapp, however, found Bob Lazar's name in the Los Alamos lab's phone book, indicating Lazar did work there as a technician. ^[14]

Current occupation

United Nuclear

Bob Lazar runs United Nuclear, a scientific supply company based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. United Nuclear sells a variety of materials including radioactive ores, powerful magnets, scientific curiosities like aerogel, and a variety of lab chemicals. United Nuclear claims "over 250,000 satisfied customers," including law-enforcement agencies, schools, and amateur scientists.

A 2006 report in Wired magazine says that Lazar and his wife and business partner Joy White were arrested in June 2003 for selling chemicals which could be used to make fireworks. The couple were charged in 2006 with felony violations of the Federal Hazardous Substances Act. ^[15]

United Nuclear's site also advertizes a prototype kit for adapting normal road vehicles to run on hydrogen power. The company says the kits are on hold due to the actions of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. ^[16]

Desert Blast

Lazar and Gene Huff also run Desert Blast, an annual festival for "explodaholics" in the Nevada desert. Starting in 1987 (but only formally named in 1991, inspired by Desert Storm) the festival features home-made explosives, rockets, jet-powered vehicles, and other pyrotechnics, with the intention of emphasizing the fun part of physics.^[17].