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[Jeremy Corbell] I often wonder about the nature of reality,
about our relationship to the creative force
that forged the particles of our stars and intertwined them
with the molecules of our bodies.
Who are we,
and where are we actually sitting within the architecture of our universe?
Are we alone?
Or is the answer simply stranger than we can think?
My name is Jeremy Corbell.
I seek to weaponize your curiosity.
And if you're ready to suspend your own prejudice,
welcome to the world ofExtraordinary Beliefs.
[theme music playing]
This week, we've heard the contention of UFO researchers
that there's a secret government within our government.
[man] Well, there are several...
Actually nine flying saucers,
flying discs that are out there of extraterrestrial origin.
[narrator] Not to burst your bubble, but the Earth is not the center of the universe.
At least not anymore.
You are not the star of your own movie.
Humans are not the top of the food chain.
And fate is a fantasy.
But I can't prove any of this,
even if I wanted to.
[Mahatma Gandhi] There is an indefinable mysterious power that pervades everything.
I feel it, though I do not see it.
It is this unseen power which makes itself felt.
There is an indefinable mysterious power that pervades everything.
I feel it, though I do not see it.
It is this unseen power which makes itself felt.
There is...
[ominous music playing]
[message alert]
[narrator] Reality simply isn't what it used to be.
Things are not what they seem.
Everything around us is a mental construct.
[echoes] We create our own reality.
Breaking that down is hard to do.
And once it's done,
there ain't no coming back.
What happens to people when their fundamental beliefs,
the bedrock of their understanding,
[echoes] explodes into a million fucking pieces.
When something comes careening from out of the blue
and it messes with everything we know.
[echoes] How do we react?
[message alert]
[message delivery alert]
[message alert]
[Gandhi] There is an indefinable mysterious power that pervades everything.
[narrator] Beliefs are mercurial things.
They direct our lives and choices, moment by moment.
This doorway is to the imagination emporium.
Harness the hunches polished with proof.
They're like clothing you can't afford.
They elevate us, yet they're not ours to keep.
We discard them when they no longer serve our needs.
Or we find out they weren't real at all.
This story is extraordinary.
Especially if it's true.
And it all started in the desert,
just north of Las Vegas.
[mysterious music playing]
[newscaster] Area 51, the most secretive spots on the planet
is located on the north-east edge of the Nevada test site
and is said to be where numerous top-secret weapon systems
have been tested over the years.
According to some UFO researchers,
it's also where the government is test-flying alien spacecraft.
It sounds pretty far out, but some Las Vegas residents
report having seen these flying saucers.
[newscaster 2] A local scientist who says he worked at Groom Lake
and saw the saucers joins us in tonight's interview.
He has asked that his identity be shielded.
Sir, how do we know you are who you say you are
and that you actually have knowledge about what's going on at Groom Lake?
[man] Well, I guess there's no way you could really know. Uh...
Uh, there's really no way I can prove it without revealing my identity
and getting myself into more trouble than I have already.
[newscaster 1] Exactly what's going on up there?
[man] Well, there are several, actually nine
flying saucers, flying discs that are out there of extraterrestrial origin,
and they're being test-flown
and basically just analyzed.
[newscaster 2] You say there're nine saucers. How are those tests going?
[man] As far as what?
[newscaster 2] As far as whether they're successful and that sort of thing.
[man] Oh, well, some of them are 100% intact and operate perfectly.
The other ones are being taken apart.
I was involved mainly in propulsion and the power source.
[man] Where did we get these saucers,
how did they come into the hands of the government?
[man] I haven't the slightest idea
and, you have to understand, the information is very compartmentalized,
and I was only allowed information
that pertained particularly to what I was involved in.
[newscaster 1] But, I mean, couldn't our government have made them
as opposed to getting them from some alien beings?
[man] Totally impossible. Uh...
The propulsion system is a gravity propulsion system,
the power source is an antimatter reactor.
This technology does not exist at all.
In fact, one of the reasons that I'm going forward with this information,
it's not only a crime against the American people,
it's a crime against the scientific community,
which I've been part of for some time,
who are actively trying to duplicate these systems,
yet they are in existence now and basically in the hands of the government.
[newscaster 2] What would happen to you if the government learned
that you were giving us this information?
[man] Anything could happen, I don't know, it's... I haven't the slightest idea.
[newscaster 1] You said... You referred to getting into trouble,
have you had some repercussions already?
[man] Yeah, I've been threatened with being charged with espionage,
I've had my life threatened by them, my wife's life threatened by them.
And...
I mean, I don't know where else you can go from there.
[newscaster 1] Well, I want to thank you for joining us.
Pretty interesting stuff you've got to say.
Thank you.[newscaster 2] Thank you, sir.
We'll have more news in just a moment.
[newscaster 2] Now, first we go to Dan Rather in Beijing
for a look ahead at theCBS Evening News.
[man] CBS Evening News, from China.
We'll have extensive coverage...
[newscaster] The live interview with the shadowy Dennis drew international attention.
Portions were broadcast by radio in six European countries
and in a nationally televised TV special in Japan.
Despite numerous inquiries and feelers, Dennis has remained anonymous until now.
His real name is Robert Lazar.
He says he was hired to work at an area called S4,
which is a few miles south of Groom Lake.
At S4, he says, are flying saucers, antimatter reactors
and other working examples of technology
that is seemingly beyond human capabilities.
George Knapp, Eyewitness News 8.
Good evening, everyone.
You're in the right place at the right time.
Blasting out of the Mojave Desert like a sirocco
blazing across the land into your town, into your home,
slamming into your radio like a super-charged nano particle
of unobtanium.
Greetings to all of you from the boldest, bawdiest,
most outrageous city in the world,
planetary capital of sun, fun, sin, sex and secrets,
my not-so-humble hometown, Las Vegas, Nevada.
[chuckling]
You know, there are a lot of people, myself included,
who would like to focus on big-picture stuff.
Who are these visitors, why are they here, what is the nature of reality,
what is their interest in us, where did they come from?
Those are the questions that people have been asking
about the UFO mystery since the beginning.
We're no closer to answering any of them, but Bob got pretty close.
Bob got to read these briefing documents that provided those kind of answers.
The thing is, when we were covering his story,
so much of the effort was in proving
that he really was the person that he said he was.
Is it true, is it plausible
that really, that was the focus
more than the really important stuff.
You have to cover the story of Bob Lazar.
And the only way to do that is to talk to Bob.
And I don't know if he'll talk to you or not, but you need to try.
It's all going to be circumstance for you,
is the moment that you approach him, the mood that he's in,
what else is going on in his life at the time...
You might hit the jackpot and get him at exactly the right time
and the universe is aligned and he's willing to talk about it.
But you'd have to be awfully lucky.
Because, in general, Bob doesn't like to talk about it.
I think he's very happy in his life,
he's happy to have left the UFO stuff behind,
he misses his friends,
he misses John Lear, he misses Gene Huff, maybe even me, to some extent.
But he doesn't miss the UFO topic and he doesn't miss talking about it.
Because ultimately, it's disturbing. These are disturbing issues.
They go to the heart of who we are as people,
as human beings, the nature of reality itself.
Is this a computer simulation?
Are we all the product of an alien video game?
Or some multidimensional movie,
drive-in movie theater production or something?
Big questions. Disturbing answers.
And Bob has never been comfortable in talking about it. Never.
He reacted by going into a cocoon in a lot of ways. He didn't like it.
He doesn't like the attention, and it totally screwed up his life.
It's not surprising that even years later,
he's still is uncomfortable in discussing these things.
It's a very disturbing view of reality.
[ominous music playing]
A young person's guide to UFOs. This looks old, man.
Hmm.
[clearing throat]
Hey, what are we talking about anyway?
[man] We'll go through... [mumbles indistinctly]
My name's Bob Lazar,
I'm known for working at a classified base
known as S4, out in the Nevada desert, near Area 51.
And there, we reverse-engineered alien spacecraft.
And it's changed my life a lot.
You know, it's probably changed every aspect of it.
[Jeremy] Positive or negative?
Well, for the most part, negative.
I mean, it's really difficult to find positive aspects of that.
I mean, I'm sure there are some here and there,
but most of them were negative.
[Jeremy] Would-- Would you--
Would you take it all back and just be Bob the jet-car guy
and never have done this if you can, or are you glad you had the experience?
Yeah, it's hard to say.
I don't know. I think I'd lean towards not...
At this point in my life, I'd probably lean towards not saying anything.
[Jeremy] You know, what would be your message to a young person now
about looking at your story and thinking about the world,
what would you say to them?
Just pay attention.
I can't really say much.
The world's a lot different now.
The way information is disseminated and the way things are passed around.
It's distorted even faster and more now than it used to be.
So, they've got a rough road ahead
if they're trying to cut through the bullshit.
[Jeremy] What do you want them to know?
That in the late 1980s, the US government had recovered
alien spacecraft, several of them, and the technology
in the Nevada desert that they were keeping quiet and analyzing.
That's a fact.
They don't need my story, but, I mean, that's all my story was.
Is that I was just one of the people working on this ground.
Well, fine, I'll just say everything instead of holding back on anything,
and then you can edit it later on.[interviewer] All right.
Well, we'll take it from the top then.Okay. Well, go ahead.
[chuckles]
How you got involved with this program?
I had sent resumes to several national labs,
I got a response from a couple of them.
I went in for an interview, they had a job in mind,
and then they continued questioning me
mainly on my interests outside of work.
They seemed to be really concerned about that.
What, things like jet cars and...
Right. "What do you do in your spare time?"
You know, "You say you work on little projects."
I said, "Yeah, I have a particle accelerator
in my master bedroom," and things of that sort.
And some time went by and they called me back in,
they said there was a senior staff physicist that was leaving
this organization and they basically interviewed me for that job.
I was given a lot of briefings to read on...
I believe there are 121 different briefings,
and they sat me in a room and they had a...
While they were going and updating my clearance
to a level that they call "majestic..."
[interviewer] You start reading these reports,
you see some of them deal with flying saucers,
what's your reaction?
Well, I was completely shocked, I couldn't believe it.
But I was fascinated, I was so excited, I...
It's a science dream, really.
Eventually, I was shown them.
One close-up, one operating.
They had one of the reactors out of the crafts,
which was an antimatter reactor.
Uh...
I was given a demonstration on how it worked,
things that it did and the physics of it.
The thing I was most interested in is duplicating the reactors
without using this element 115.
Which is, of course, impossible. They were trying to...
And there have been projects before that
just trying to use a normal nuclear generator fueled with plutonium.
And that was, really, a futile attempt.
[narrator] Some people are sources of gravity.
Their certainty and wholeness commands our attention.
We are drawn to them by a natural law
that requires we don't quite understand the mechanism.
But the pull is like a tide, a current you can't deny.
And eventually, it wears you down.
Call George Knapp.
[automated voice] Calling George Knapp mobile.
[phone ringing]
Hey, George. Hey, man.
What's up, man, how you doing? All right. What's going on?
This is now 30 years since you initially broke the story about Lazar.
So, I mean, the amount of the information is overwhelming,
and I just want to go over with you some of the details of the case.
Sure.
We're talking about UFOs, alien craft, back engineering,
and there's Lazar saying he did all that.
And from what I understand, it spread everywhere.
Yeah, you know, we had that first interview in May of 1989,
with him as Dennis, was... not his real identity,
not known, not revealed to the audience.
And even then, before we knew who Bob Lazar was,
that sparked a big... A great deal of interest among the public.
I spent eight months between May and November
trying to verify Bob's background,
to see if we could solidify the case,
to see if we could find out if he was telling the truth.
And then to... The plan was to unleash it in November,
which is what we did...
...it was the highest-rated news series we've ever done.
It was the highest-rated news special that ever aired in Las Vegas.
And then it really exploded, it went all over the world.
Bootleg copies of the tapes were being sold and shown in movie theaters.
You had media interests from all over the world.
And I think a lot of it was skeptical at the beginning
which, of course, it would be.
But in the end, every major news organization in the world
beat a path to Area 51's door.
And tens of thousands of people started showing up out there,
to see whatever it was that was flying around in the desert.
They're still coming, all these years later.
And I know a lot of my media colleagues have had problems with that story,
but they've all covered it, all of them.
It put Area 51 on the map. It's now known all over the world.
Even though Lazar worked at S4,
Area 51 is the term that the public knows.
So it was huge. It was huge then, it's huge now.
[narrator] The mountains appear to float on dry lake beds.
Like spaceships from another world.
They seem to ride on a viscous material,
channeled through empty space by heat that rises and separates.
It petrifies everything it contacts
like a green glass honey.
A goddamn psychedelic liquid
drowning the emptiness with imagination.
This desert is pocked and punctuated by a thousand gaping holes
created in the thousand atomic blasts that define an era.
What are they building in the desert, north of Las Vegas?
[echoing] What are they hiding?
[man chuckling] Yeah.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Jeremy] What is your name and what is your relationship to Bob Lazar?
My name is Mario Santa Cruz, and I met Bob actually in my neighborhood.
He lived, like, one block over.
My attraction to Bob was his jet dragster.
I saw this jet dragster sitting out in front of his house
in our neighborhood which was extremely...
Just the jet dragster alone was rare.
But in my neighborhood, to see something like that was unbelievable.
[Jeremy] People were harassing Bob, threatening him,
and you were with him in one of those experiences, at least one.
A couple of times, actually.
I actually had a weapon with me,
you know, when we rode together because he had been shot at, you know?
What was the weapon, was it the Uzi?
Yes.Yeah. [chuckling]
[Mario] I don't know why I'm being so careful.
I'm used to being that way when it comes to talking about Bob.
Being careful what I say, you know what I mean?
So it's kind of a force of habit
to kind of just walk on eggshells a little bit.
He just wanted to stay alive.
That's why he exposed himself.
His life was... It was in chaos.
Hell, he pulled out of it and he dug deep.
It's a pretty incredible story.
[interviewer] They shot at you? Somebody shot maybe as a warning perhaps.
It was a good warning. I had my back tire shot out on my car
as I was getting on the freeway.
My--You saw the guy?
Yeah.
Is this a secret worth killing to keep?
I mean, the government, would you say?
Obviously.
But in fact, the only reason
that getting this on tape is insurance.
Well, that's one reason, but, I mean, also as an American citizen,
you're bothered by... That this stuff is going on and--
Yeah, I am, but not enough to have, you know,
stood here and have it on the record.
Insurance is the true motivation behind this.
At four months old, in our little apartment in Florida,
that's me holding him, very proud mom holding him.
We had a beautiful little place in Florida.
Look at that.
One Sunday morning, must have been about 6:00 in the morning,
everyone's asleep, and there's this huge bang.
Bob had put a jet engine in the bike.
At 6:00 in the morning, he decided to take it out for a trip.
[Jeremy] What did you guys think when he said, "Mom, Dad, I'm building--"
Scared out of my mind.
I didn't know what he was going to do next.
Was he going to blow up the house, blow up the world?
I don't know.
[Jeremy] It's out there, you know? He's out there.
You know, if he proves his story, let's say,
maybe it would cause problems, maybe it would blow shit up.
It... More than likely it would.
But he's best off keeping things down low, really.
But at the same time, he has said there is a way he could prove his story.
I want him to be happy.
If vindication is what he wants, fine.
But that's up to him.
You believe him or not.
It's a fearful thing to think that there's something out there
that we don't know anything about. Or are they dangerous? Can they hurt us?
Will they attack us? You don't want to know,
so you don't believe it.
You'd rather not believe.
There might be other things out there, other things in the universe.
There has to be. We can't be all by ourselves.
We can't be.
[eerie music playing]
My name is Joy and I am Bob's wife.
We've been together 17 years.
[Jeremy] What is it that you think is most misunderstood?
That he really is an honest guy, you know?
He doesn't make stuff up.
[Jeremy] I guess it's just so big.
So the easier thing to do
is to point the finger and say, "Liar."
[Joy] Yeah, that's so sad.
That's really sad...
That they don't know real Bob.
[narrator] There's particular moments that define each one of us.
We may not know it at the time, but we learn it later.
Every action creates a cascade of reactions.
Life is a web of events.
Actions overlaid by consequence.
And woven across the fabric of time.
Future determined by past,
past defined by present,
present experienced throughout the lens of personal history.
But for some, it's obvious.
You can put your finger on it.
That definable, indelible moment when everything changed.
[Bob] I love my job. There's a lot of craftsmanship in the stuff I do.
I really like working with my hands.
It's a really unique job.
I don't think there's any other job
where you get to do this kind of stuff every day.
We'll either get a really interesting order coming in,
or Bob will get bored
and try to come up with a new project, and that's when it gets really fun.
So, there's another one that he wants to do...
Like recreate a grand atomic chemistry set,
something of that sort, and I think that will be really cool
if he ever decides to hone in on that.
[Bob] This is the atomic energy lab kit.
It's something from the 1950s, a toy,
like a chemistry set you'd get for your kid. It was made by Gilbert.
[man] Chemistry is, today, a fascinating adventure for youth of all ages.
Gilbert has made this exciting science
available in safe and easy-to-understand form.
Made as completely safe as human ingenuity can devise.
[Bob] This actually came with radioactive material.
You could really conduct atomic energy experiments in it.
It was fascinating.
And it was billed as the most dangerous toy ever made,
and still, in some respect, it's still considered that way today.
But the thing is it wasn't, it was just people's fear.
[mysterious music playing]
[Jeremy] So, here I am and I'm watching you do your work.
If people don't know you, it''s so easy for them
to just make shit up about you and to dehumanize you.
How simple that is to do.
The fact that somebody would say you're not a scientist.
I mean, all I've ever done,
is science-related stuff my entire life.
So, I don't know. I guess the point is, do I really care what
people I don't know think?
And probably to some extent, I do.
But I don't dwell on it.
I guess it is easier to discredit someone that you have no information on,
'cause you can just say anything about them,
then there's nothing to refute it.
I mean, I feel privileged I got to work in it.
So, in some respects, I shouldn't be allowed to complain.
I've given the example of, you know,
transporting one of those small modern-day portable nuclear reactor
back into Victorian times, and giving it to the scientists there.
Back in that time, they didn't even know about radiation.
So they'd see a machine making power, kind of like what we're doing,
and marvel at it, "Wow it's producing a lot of power,
there's no smokestack, there's no coal, there's no fuel.
How is this thing working?"
They start taking it apart.
Well, they'll all die, soon as they get close to the core.
If people would come in to check on them, we'll all die,
and no one knows, nothing touched them.
So they're going to think it's haunted or something,
there's some evil forces or something in there.
But, I mean, who says that can't happen to us?
The first time Barry showed me the reactor in operation,
you know, here it is on the bench,
and he said, you know, "Try and touch the sphere on top."
And you couldn't, your hand was pushed away.
Just like in two light poles of a magnet.
It's the exact same feeling. But there was no metal involved.
And that's shocking.
That's really shocking because nothing does that.
That's an operating powerful force field.
So just seeing something like that
immediately starts that whole chain reaction in your mind
going, "Wow, wait, if you could do this, there could be force fields on tanks.
There can be things that lift off the ground.
We don't need jet and rocket engines anymore.
That means, wait, there's no use for cars." I mean, boom!
The whole thing changes the entire world, the economy, everything.
We'd go end-on-end just if we had an answer to how that machine worked
that I was sitting there, touching.
[Jeremy] The potential for us to re-understand
human experience is--Right.
Right. I mean, there's life somewhere else.
It's a big deal.
It's an important part of human history that we've found that out.
It was...
Awesome but fearsome at the same time.
It was being completely fucking scared all day long.
It's not exactly the most fun job when you're there.
You know, almost three decades later, the fear drops off
and you're just left with the amazement and technology that you were exposed to.
Here we have an artifact here from another civilization.
It really changes the way a lot of people think.
We're all looking for an answer.
Having physical proof is an awful big deal.
[Jeremy] I think what a lot of people find really compelling about Bob,
he legitimately appeared...
And appears sometimes just perplexed by what he saw.
Have you noticed that about him?
[George] Yeah, he was aware that this was weird.
He was aware it was weird that they hired him.
I mean, you know, he's a smart guy,
and he thinks outside the box. So in a lot of ways,
he might have been just exactly what they needed
for a program that seemed to be stalled.
But he knew that he wasn't their kind of a guy,
that they could have had their pick of any scientist in the world,
presumably, to work on this.
So it was strange, and it was strange that they started showing him
these briefing books with this incredibly sensitive information.
Right off the bat.
As soon as he gets there, they start showing him this stuff
with alien bodies broken down
so he could see their organs and the history
of human-alien interaction and all kinds of things
that the UFO community had suspected
but no one could prove, and he just thought it was weird
that anyone would show him this stuff.
He wondered what the heck was going on.
I think he was thrilled, you know, part of him was really thrilled
to be there and thrilled to see it,
even if it turned out to be some kind of a ruse.
But, you know, he knew that something was not quite right
about the whole thing, or suspected that anyway.
[Jeremy] You were telling people since 1989 that there was some sort of hand scanner,
there was like a bone scanner. and you tried to describe it. You said
you think it took measurements of the bone,
there were these pegs, you put your hand on it.
[Bob] It's a small plate with some pins on it that you could put between your fingers.
There's a bright light above it...
The interesting thing is when you walk into the facility,
or even to leave, they have a hand reader.
I was told that it has to do something where it measures the...
A bright light measures the bones in your finger, they're unique to each person.
It sounds like something out of a TV show, but it's exactly the way it is.
[Jeremy] I looked for that kind of thing all over the Internet,
I never found anything, and then all of a sudden,
this article comes out and it says that at the Nellis Range,
they were talking about the stealth program,
there was indeed this hand scanner that was used in the secret programs,
and they just admitted or announced it publicly,
and there were some photos, and I just was interested and so...
I never thought I'd see one of these again.
[laughing]
But I tried to explain this to people so many times,
and they either didn't believe me or say, "Yeah, yeah, I'm sure there is."
And there is it. There it is.
[Jeremy] It's like a biometric thing for the hands, yeah?
The beginnings of, yeah, I mean, it wasn't all that advanced back then
but, yeah, that's it.
I can't believe you found a picture of this. I really can't.
This was the scanner used to get in to S4.
And I tried to explain this to people so many times
that there were pins in you stuck your hand, a light above,
and it supposedly measured the length of the bones in your hand
that, you know, is unique in each individual.
It's exactly how it was.
Yeah, that's amazing. It's amazing you came up with these.
It's amazing to see this again.
Back then, this was the hot thing.
[Jeremy] What does it feel like when these little things that you said
become public, and there's this tiny bit of vindication--
It is, there's little moments of vindication,
you know, little pieces here and there,
little I-told-you-so's, you know,
pop up every couple of years or so, but this is a big one.
'Cause a lot of people said these didn't exist,
and, yeah, it was some just...
fanciful thing I came up with. But, yeah, this is exactly it.
[narrator] Ideas are the most dangerous weapons on the planet.
They creep under your skin.
Dormant, volatile, explosive.
They attach to our collective consciousness.
And then one day, they bubble to the surface to assert their power...
And when detonated,
life is never the same again.
And we immediately know we're always wrong.
We're always fucking wrong.
I did not believe that this should be a security matter.
Some of it, sure.
But just the concept that there's definite proof...
We even have articles from another world, another system,
you just can't not tell everyone.
[interviewer] Checking out Lazar's credentials prove to be a difficult task.
He says he earned degrees in physics and electronics,
but the schools we contacted say they've never heard of him.
He also said he worked as a physicist at Los Alamos National Lab,
where he experimented with one of the world's largest
particle beam accelerators, a half-mile long behemoth
capable of generating 700 million volts.
Los Alamos officials told us
they had no records of a Robert Lazar ever working there.
They were either mistaken or were lying.
A 1982 phone book from the lab lists Lazar
right there among the other scientists and technicians.
A 1982 clipping from the Los Alamos newspaper
profiled Lazar and his interest in jet cars.
It, too, mentioned his employment at the lab as a physicist.
We called Los Alamos again, and 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.
It's as if someone has made him disappear.
[Jeremy] One thing that people say about your story and your experience
is that you were a puppet, a marionette,
that you had no control over what was going on at that time,
that you were taken advantage of or compromised,
and you were being used as a source of disinformation.
And what evidence to support that?
Right--Yeah.
And what's the evidence to support those claims?
Is that just something to say? No, I'm just saying, that's the kind--
If you make a statement, you have to have some evidence
to say where the statement came from.
You're basing it on emotion and fear.
And you're afraid that I'm right.
Tell me what you've heard that makes this impossible.
I'm trying to tell you exactly the way things were.
Where is it? Show me the alternate reality that you believe
that doesn't lock up with my actual reality.
I mean, where are those other facts? Show me what they are,
these facts you grabbed together
and painted a different story of my life than I did.
I mean, I thought I set the record straight 30 years ago.
[narrator] Can we ever be made whole if we're not believed?
If our life story is challenged by consensus?
Most of us are not forced to answer for our past.
We couldn't really navigate this moment with an irreverence of what came before.
But some people are placed under a microscope.
Their words, their actions scrutinized and challenged.
And then they're told to quiet the lies.
How much can a man take before he submits to the weight and consequence of distrust?
Does he fade back into the shadows that formed him?
Or does he lash out?
To carve his words into your flesh.
[intense music playing]
I don't know what else can I say.
What else can I say? How can I prove anything else?
[Jeremy] At the worst-case scenario,
you lied for a girl or you lied to get a job.
What does that mean about your story?
Do you think Los Alamos just hired me out of high school?
If you don't think that's possible,
then something had to happen in between.
I don't understand how everybody gets so caught up in the minutiae.
Because you can debate that stuff forever.
We can go back before MIT.
And you can start fighting whether or not,
and where I lived in high school.
That is not going to translate into answering the questions
and the things that I have brought into the public eye.
That's the important stuff.
It almost seems like this is an intentional distraction.
You need to pay attention to the bigger picture.
If you really want to research all the other stuff,
fine, go ahead and do it.
But you really need to pay attention to what I'm saying.
'Cause I have better things to do than come up with this.
I'm not interested in doing this.
I'm not... I don't like being in the public eye.
I don't have money for doing this.
And quite frankly, I could make up a better lie.
But I have no motivation to lie.
This hasn't helped me out.
What does that mean for Lazar's story that we can't prove his schooling in fact?
[George] It was a problem, I mean, I wondered,
can we go forward if we can't verify
what was going on in his background?
The central point for me was, if he worked at Los Alamos,
that suggests he had to have an education somewhere.
I think he said it to me a couple of times, you know.
"What do you think, they hired me right out of high school?"
I looked at people who knew him back then,
Jim Taliani for one, who said,
"Yeah, Bob went to Caltech back then. I dropped him off."
I interviewed another person who also knew Bob then
and said that he would drop him off at Caltech,
or pick him up from the library.
That, if he wasn't going to school there,
he sure was making a good show of it back then.
Would it prove his story about working on flying saucers
if he could show he had degrees from Caltech and MIT?
No, of course not.
It would not prove that he worked on flying saucers,
it would just prove that he went to school.
The people who despise him
and who doubt the story the most, the debunkers,
would find something else to bitch about.
Bob got into some trouble after he became a worldwide UFO celebrity,
he did a typical Bob-sort-of-a-thing
and got mixed up with some hookers, he was helping them
set up a mini brothel in a neighborhood.
And when he told me about it, I thought, "Oh, my gosh!"
My professional life is flashing before my eyes.
The most high-profile witness in the biggest story I've ever done
is now telling me he's involved in this criminal enterprise,
and he kind of thought it was funny.
But it wasn't funny to me, so I said, "You got to stop this stuff,
you got to shut this down." I called the cops.
I let some people know, "Look, he made a mistake,
it's being shut down."
They raided the place, arrested Bob. And in those days,
they weren't many people who were ever prosecuted
and arrested for pandering. Lazar was.
So, Parole and Probation,
they're doing a background investigation,
and they're going to make a recommendation to the court
what the sentence should be for his crimes.
He tells them the same story. Where he went to school,
where he worked, S4,
MIT, Caltech, all that. And they investigated.
They were having the same problems that I was having.
They couldn't verify a lot of this stuff.
If Bob truly was a UFO con man,
that was the time to come clean.
Because Parole and Probation was ticked off.
They thought he was misleading them.
And as a result of that, they were going to recommend,
they did recommend, that he do hard time, go to prison.
He knew it. That was the time for him to come clean.
Because it was a much better chance that he would not be sent to prison.
He didn't. He stuck to his story.
He told them the same story that he told me.
That went a long way for me
in showing that he had been telling the truth.
Because it was definitely in his own self-interest to fess up
at that point, and that's not what he did. He stuck to his guns.
And here's the thing, I could see Bob Lazar
pranks the UFO world and the UFO community,
I could see him doing something like that.
But does he lie to his mom and dad?
Does he lie to his wife?
Does he lie to all of his close friends and tell them the same story
and try to get away with it?
If you look back on the people who knew him while this was going on,
who knew him before he was hired to work out at S4,
who knew him during the time he was going back and forth out there,
and who stuck by him
after this whirlwind of international publicity
kind of rained down on his head.
Everyone who knew him, everyone who was close to him
supports his story and says he's telling the truth.
[interviewer] You saw something up there that you think might have been--
I hate... I really hate to say stuff that I can't put my hands on
and say this is absolutely for sure. What did you see?
I walked down the hallway and, one time, I was working out there
and there were doors, the doors that go to the hangars,
the smaller doors from the corridors that have a 9-inch,
or 12-inch square window with a little wires running through it
just about head level, and as I was walking by,
I just glanced in and I noticed...
At a quick glance, there was...
There were two guys in white lab coats
facing me towards the door and they were looking down and talking
to something small with long arms.
Now, I was just surprised as I walked by and I only caught a glimpse.
But I don't know what on earth that was.
[Jeremy] People say you saw an alien. Did you see an alien at S4, Bob?
I don't think I saw an alien at S4.
You know, we're splitting hairs here.
This had to do with a glance through a window
that I wasn't supposed to be looking at anyway.
And I'm still convinced.
I looked in the window and I think these guys had a doll
in a small chair which was, you know, similar to what was in the craft.
And I think they were just looking at dimensions
and they put something in there.
And I had just taken a glance and it was just, you know,
something tiny sitting in the chair.
I don't think there was an alien in there posing for them.
You know, I think they just had a small character or something.
You know, doing measurements or something. Again, we're talking about, you know,
like a 400 millisecond glance, so...
Now, how much can you see out of that?
I never saw any aliens walking around there.
I never heard anybody saying anything about living aliens, so...
I don't think that was it.
But they did have a nickname for the aliens--
"The kids."
The kids.
[mysterious music playing]
[narrator] Is someone else here?
Maybe visitors interested in us?
In our genes, in our souls?
Maybe we're property, just a goddamn commodity.
Or like livestock.
Maybe they'd like our condors and cupcakes.
A kimono or a top hat, who the fuck knows?
Or maybe, every single sighting of things in the sky
is a product of our collective consciousness.
A false hope that humanity desperately needs
intervention by external powers.
We've always looked to the skies for answers
instead of looking into ourselves.
[interviewer] All right, so when, at what point... Describe the evolution
of your knowledge here, I mean, that you realized that this thing
that you were working on came out of a flying saucer?
Well, of course, I know that technology doesn't exist at all.
Why? It doesn't.
Take my word for it.
[chuckling]
It's...
It's just technology that doesn't exist yet.
I mean, you're talking about... There is...
Science doesn't even know what gravity is,
much less how to produce it or control it.
And here is a device that's producing it and controlling it
and using it as propulsion, so...
[Jeremy] You're telling me there's a different physics?
That was your job, you were working on that?
The science was something we were trying to figure out.
But we knew how the devices would operate.
You know, for instance, the propulsion of the craft,
everything that we have,
whether it's a propeller plane or a jet or a rocket,
it throws something out the back.
Either high-speed exhaust, or a large volume of air.
It's an action-reaction force.
The action is, you throw something out the back,
and it moves you forward, it's how everything works.
This is the first time there's a craft,
it's a reaction-less craft.
It's a field-propulsion craft.
And what it does is it creates a distortion
in space and time in front of it. Where space actually bends.
And my analogy to that has always been
you put a bowling ball in the middle of your bed
and then a foot in front of it,
take your fist and push down on the mattress,
the bowling ball will roll towards it.
And that's exactly how the craft worked.
It creates a distortion right in front of it and the craft follows forward.
[Jeremy] Right. So there's a different physics that--
Well, the science that explains how the technology works.
I mean, it's all encompassed as one thing,
alien technology and science.
[Jeremy] What is the big picture?
What is the takeaway of your story after you're gone?
You're not a rebel kid
with a jet car at Los Alamos today.
Today's a different Bob Lazar, right?
Right. What have we learned?
What's the message of your story?
The big thing is the suppression of extremely advanced technology.
And the suppression of unknown science. That's it.
Those two things,
to me, is the only thing that's important about what was going on out there.
Yeah, there's another civilization
and, like I've said before, that's a crime
not to tell humanity about that, but that's a separate thing.
[Jeremy] Meaning that there is something different in science dramatically
that we're not allowed to know? Right.
Right. That is a true statement?
Yeah, that's a true statement.
The fact that there is another intelligent, technologically advanced civilization,
we have some of their objects.
That is really the pinnacle,
that there is another civilization in existence
that's intelligent that we know about.
And we actually have artifacts from them that can operate.
So, I mean, that's a big, big deal.
But, in my mind, there's a lot to deal with that.
However, the science and technology can change us dramatically,
can change the way the entire world operates,
the economy, everything.
So those stick out in my mind as being critically important.
And we have it? Oh, we have them.
You don't have to believe it, but we do.
And you've seen it? I've seen it.
And you've touched it?
I've dismantled it.
After you're exposed to it, just for a little while,
it begins to settle in your mind, these are normal things.
Like, "Okay, 115 belong there on the chart, and these... this flies,
and this is how gravity works, great."
It's like someone being... From the 1800s being exposed
to a car for a few days. He takes it for granted very quickly.
The most shocking thing was when I actually got to look inside the disc,
the seats in the panel associated with them
were very small, they were, you know, perhaps that far off the ground.
Like something... Now, you've...
If we had made something like that we wouldn't have made it to fit children.
It was, uh...
It just lead me to believe, with the size
of the alien cadavers that I saw,
with the size of the seats inside...
[narrator] Memory is a mirage and mistress to desire,
shapeshifting and ethereal.
She's inherently elusive and malleable.
We acknowledge her if it suits our fantasy in the moment.
We fear her because she's unpredictable.
Can we trust our own memories?
[echoes] What if we can't? What if we can?
Can we return to the scene of the crime
to extract hidden details
and to see more clearly what we thought we saw?
I was told... The rhythmic shouting and the constant threats,
that's a form of hypnosis.
[interviewer] When did they... When did this happen?
Oh, this happened almost immediately.
They started yelling and screaming at you?
Yeah.
Fun place to work.
Well, no. Like I said, it was a terrible atmosphere to work in.
But when you weigh that
with what you're going to be around,
you'll basically go through anything.
"Yeah, go ahead. When can we go back to the flying saucers?"
[Jeremy] You did hypnosis
Mmm-hmm. to try to recall details
from your employment and from the physics...
Right....of what you learned. Is that correct?
Yeah, that's correct. With Layne Keck.Okay.
And did you recall anything?
Yeah, I did. I mean, specifics, things you might have missed.
I basically wanted to try everything I could
to prove what I was saying.
So this was just another tool.
[Jeremy] You're familiar that hypnosis can work to recall--
Yeah. And I had-- had it done to me before.
So, I'd had proven that, yeah, this really does do something.
Let's try and remember some fine details.
You wanted to recall some physics that you learned there?
Yeah, I wanted to recall as much as I possibly could.
I mean, so much went through my mind.
Just imagine all the things you were seeing.
And everyone is completely fascinating
and something you haven't seen before. It's just data overload.
So I was hoping that
hypnosis would get me relaxed enough
where maybe, everything was packed so tight together,
maybe I could just start thumbing through things
and just pick up even a couple little more tidbits
could paint a bigger picture and I could,
you know, possibly explain things better.
Or, you know, possibly locate some of these other guys
or anything, any bit of information.
So, yeah. It was pretty handy.
So you did recall some things, technically--Yeah.
Technically? Yeah.
Technical things and probably others too.
More and more hypnosis is accepted,
however, there's still a lot of misconceptions about it.
[interviewer] Like what?
Oh. They think that you go into a trance
and the hypnotist does something and you don't remember it,
and all of a sudden your life changes.
And that's not the case at all. There's no mind control happening.
[Layne] Take a nice deep breath.
Close your eyes and just think relaxation.
Now, just think about your head and relax your head.
Now, what I want you to do
is to get as comfortable as you possibly can.
And just relax completely.
Now, double your relaxation
and the number 100 will be there.
One, zero, zero.
Double your relaxation.
And the number 99 will come right on in.
Bob. Bob.
From this moment on...
From this moment on,
you will recall and remember the material that you seek.
And no one or nothing, past, present or future
will stand in your way.
Bob. Bob. Bob.
You will remember because you desire
[echoes] to remember.
To remember.
[Layne] At one point,
he was in hypnosis,
I think he was drawing a reactor.
He was trying to recall what was in the books.
He saw in the book and then I told him,
"Well, you'll come up and open your eyes, and you will be able to draw."
And he did. But it didn't mean anything to him.
But it was a drawing that he drew this way.
[Jeremy] Oh, no way! But it was this way.
[Layne] And so afterwards, he looked at it,
you know, he came back over and sat down here for a while
and, "Oh, that's because..." All he had to do was turn it.
So that's the superconscious
and literal, the subconscious takes things literal.
[Jeremy] Right. Like, it's like the mind is absorbing
all this stuff, and then he discovers what his mind had absorbed.
He's remembering.[Layne] Yeah.
I was writing so fast.
[Jeremy] I can't imagine what you were thinking too.
Because you're discovering with them that kind of shock.
What's the truth?
[Layne] Hypnosis is the best possible tool of getting to the truth.
If a person makes things up normally,
they can lie under hypnosis just as easily as out of hypnosis.
But if they're really trying to get to and retrieve information,
then it's the best tool that I know of.
He came in to find out what he didn't know.
We were able to go back, overcome the fear
and bring forth those memories.
[interviewer] According to Lazar, his employer was the United States Navy.
He says he and other government employees would gather near EG&G,
fly to Groom Lake, then a very few people would get into a bus
with blacked-out or no windows and ride to S4.
[interviewer] So, you get off the bus, what do you see?
It's a very interesting building, it's got a slope
of probably about 30 degrees.
Which are hangar doors.
And it has textured paint on it, but it looks like sand.
It's made to look like the side of a mountain.
Whether to disguise it from satellite photographs or what.
[newscaster] He says he was never told exactly what he'd be working on
but figured it had something to do with advanced propulsion.
On his first day, he was told to read a series of briefings
and immediately realized how advanced the propulsion was.
The power sources and antimatter reactor,
they run gravity amplifiers.
There's actually two parts to the drive mechanism.
Uh, it's a bizarre technology.
There's no physical hookup between any of the systems in there.
They use gravity as a wave, using wave guides, almost like microwaves.
[interviewer] Polygrapher Terry Tavernetti runs a corporate security operation
and is a former Los Angeles police officer.
He put Lazar through four tests
and concluded there was no attempt to deceive.
I left there thinking that, um...
...I feel we do have some credibility to what the subject had to say.
And that's when I went to some of my colleagues.
[interviewer] Tavernetti sent the test results to a third polygrapher
who agreed the results appeared truthful.
Bob has explained to me multiple times,
he tried everything in his power to prove his story.
[George] I wanted to feel better for myself.
So I said, "Hey, would you be willing to undergo a polygraph test?"
He did not hesitate. He said, "Yes."
Four different tests on four different areas of Bob's claims,
and he said afterwards, "There was no attempt to deceive at all."
He's telling what he believes to be the truth.
I have asked the question many times over the years,
"How did Bob Lazar know this stuff if he wasn't there?"
He knew there was a place called S4.
I called Dallas Air Force Base public information office.
They confirmed. Told me there really was a place called S4.
Now, there's no news story prior to Bob Lazar
about any place called S4.
He knew about it. He also knew EG&G
had arranged to hire personnel,
that if you were going to get a job out of Groom Lake,
EG&G was the company that you would go through.
He knew that there had been investigators at his home
for the background check, he remembered the guy's name.
It was an odd name Mike Thigpen. Now, how did he know?
How did he know that Mike Thigpen works for a federal agency that does this stuff?
After 30 years, and this guy dodging you, I found Mike Thigpen.
I found Thigpen. That's amazing.
I couldn't believe it. He's on the east coast.
I called him, I've talked with him multiple times.
You know, he won't go on camera because he doesn't want to
kind of put a dark shadow upon the work that he did before,
but, personally, he conveyed to me that that was his job,
that was exactly what he did in Las Vegas in 1989.
And, in fact, he remembers Bob Lazar.
[George] Most important thing Bob knew
is that they were flying something that looks exactly like the flying saucer
over Papoose Lake.
And they flew up on Wednesday nights.
And he took people out there three weeks in a row
and showed it to them.
And at least once, maybe twice, they recorded it on video. That's real.
How did Bob know that? There had been no stories
about test flights and flying saucers at Papoose Lake.
And by the way, that's where it was. It wasn't over Groom Lake,
it was over Papoose Lake.
We checked out so many details that Bob had told us
that turned out to be true.
The existence of S4. Element 115
really did become an element years later
that Bob had been consulted by the lab
which first synthesized man-made element 115.
There was a whole long string of things that he knew that checked out.
These milestones along the way,
no matter how much we nitpick it apart,
no matter how much people don't want to believe it,
the evidence that he's telling the truth outweighs the evidence that he's not.
Well, I agree with you. And if I did not believe that,
I would not still be working on the story,
I would not be publicly defending Bob Lazar.
[uplifting music]
[Jeremy] What was your function at working on this,
you were doing what?
What was your job?
[Bob] We were to reverse-engineer
the power and propulsion system of this craft
and see if it can be duplicated with available materials.
[Jeremy] I just want to go over with you
what is it that you saw, to draw it out for people, to make a sketch.
As you're seeing it, as if you're there at that moment.
You've got to go back in the past.
Something I termed, the "Sport Model."
Underneath this floor,
there are three...
Three large cylindrical devices.
These are on mounts that allow them
to completely swivel up to 180 degrees,
and in 360-degree rotation.
Directly above each one
is a small rectangular object.
This is on the floor above.
And these are the gravity amplifiers themselves.
Looking down from the top,
you'd have the center. In the very center,
there is a small reactor.
Surrounding this,
in three equally-spaced areas are the amplifiers.
So, this is looking at it sideways, this is looking at it down from the top.
And under these amplifiers, underneath the floor below
are the gravity emitters.
So it's the reactor here powering the gravity amplifiers.
Gravity amplifiers' output goes into the gravity emitters at the bottom,
and the resulting gravity beam or anti-gravity wave can be
pretty much put anywhere you want to.
Um...
There was another level up here.
Now, I had access and was permitted
to view and look at the operation of this main level,
with the gravity amplifiers and the level below,
the gravity emitters.
There is a level above,
which consisted of these two areas that I'm not all that familiar with.
I assume these to be some sort of navigational engine.
People called these large black rectangular areas
on the top "potholes," I believe they were
some planar sensor array
that just took in information from the surrounding area,
whether it be patterns of stars or what have you.
And there was their version of a computer or something to make determinations here
that takes input from those sensors
and then lets the craft know how to orient itself
and where it was in space.
So, that's what I assume to be out there.
I don't know for a fact, again, that was not part of my job,
and I was only led to believe that.
The center antenna is really an extension of the reactor in the center.
And that's a wave guide which allows
the emission of the gravity wave, which forms kind of a heart-shape
over the whole craft.
That's how it creates its distortion.
These gravity emitters can be swung all the way up to 180 degrees.
And this allows the craft to essentially stand
on two of them and hover
while this one swings up and creates a distortion in front of it,
allowing the craft to slide forward.
So that's how their low-power mode
omicron configuration operates.
The delta configuration uses all three.
And unlike science-fiction movies where you see flying saucers
just flying on like that,
they actually fly belly first. The craft flies along,
leaves the atmosphere of the planet, it turns its belly to the destination,
the three amplifiers focus in on the destination,
and that's how it proceeds.
So that's basically the operation of it
and overall how things were laid out inside the craft.
[Jeremy] This is an alien spacecraft.
Right. Obviously.
[mysterious music playing]
[Joy] This was the Albuquerque Journal.
[Jeremy] Is that the particle accelerator you had?[Bob] Yeah.
The guy that promised not to say anything
that won't say anything about the UFOs.
The article's titled...
"'UFO Guy' in Spotlight."
Thanks, dude.
Isn't that when, after this came in there, then the fire department, police,
the zoning commission, everybody descended on our house.
Yeah, and wanted to know who. Here's "Lab Supplier in Controversy."
[Jeremy] Oh, look at that.
So originally, the thing was supposed to be about what?
What did the guy say the article--
The hydrogen car, I think--Well, the raid. It was about the raid.
This one? Yeah, that's why,
"Lab Supplier in Controversy." Yeah. Oh, okay.
The raid in New Mexico.
The guy called, and he said, "Hey, I heard about the raid and all that.
Can I come and do that?"
And then he says, "Are you Bob Lazar, the Area 51 guy?"
I said, "Yeah,
but I don't want to get into that, this is something more important."
He said, "Oh, yeah, we won't even mention it, no problem."
[Jeremy] Literally, your house was taken over by a SWAT team?
[Bob] Yeah.Yes.
They don't just send a letter in the mail or call us.
[Jeremy] Right. Have the whole SWAT team
invite themselves to our home.
[narrator] Hidden things are the most seductive.
Secrets reach deep into our desire.
They titillate and torment us like a ticking clock
or a distant alarm with no origin.
They agitate us and force us to react.
They endanger our complacency.
There was a missing element to your faith.
But that's the nature of faith,
that there is something out there that hovers
and promises salvation.
[automated voice] Your call has been forwarded to an automated voice messaging system.
At the tone, please record your message.
Hey, Jeremy, it's Bob Lazar.
Listen. I have something to ask you.
Something's really come up that's important.
If you would text me
and let me know when is a good time to call you,
I don't want you to call me.
I just need to run something by you,
okay? Thanks, bye.
[Jeremy] All right. So the only record of this
is going to be on the audio on this one file
and then this video clip, I'm not going to cut it.
I'm going to let it run.Understood.
Okay. And then what I'm going to do is to encrypt it,
and then I'm going to put both of those two files into an encrypted thing
to not be touched unless we decide it should be touched.
Yeah, that's fine.Okay.
It'll be on two drives. But those two files will both be in an encrypted folder.
So here's the deal.
Did you ever get a piece of element 115 out of Los Alamos?
[forwarding tape]
...I don't know how much monitoring they do with me.
I'm sure it's virtually none after all this time.
The same thing--Hold on a second.
Do you have your phone on you? Yes.
Let's, at this point,
take our phone... Let me put them on the ground over there.
I'll turn mine off.
[Bob] I mean, maybe this has been kept from us for a good reason.
A lot of people agree to keep this secret.
So, first of all, who am I to upset it?
And second of all, who am I to outthink these guys.
Maybe they went over all these scenarios already,
and they know how fucked up everything will be.
So, there's no guarantee that this revelation
is going to make everything great.
There's just as much chance it's going to make everything terrible
and I'll be to blame for that.
They identified themselves as FBI
and they said, "You're Bob Lazar, right?"
And, you know, one of them got on the radio
saying, "Yeah, he's here."
Apparently, they also had my house staked out.
And they were deciding whether or not to go there.
The conveyor belt of vehicles and agents
and police did not stop. The whole thing...
It was like aTwilight Zone episode.
They came in and they said, "There'll be a few other people coming here,
just got a couple of questions to ask you."
In a short time, the street filled up with vehicles
and the building completely filled with agents.
It was really something else.
[Jeremy] Did they identify themselves initially--
Yeah, it was FBI, identified themselves.
Then came in state police
and a few other agencies, I don't remember who.
But, there were a lot. Awful lot.
Standing room only in the building. It was crazy.
[Jeremy] They had like a forensic truck, they had a bunch of different agents,
they gridded off the building. I mean, obviously,
they were looking for something.
Yeah. And what they said, they were looking into some paperwork,
an old order from two years ago about a customer that, you know,
ordered some potentially toxic material,
which they could have called for.
But this was certainly way over-the-top.
I looked up to select the right key and they were right beside me.
It was quite surprising,
considering you can see all around here,
and there-- generally would have to be a vehicle or something Somewhere...
But I just pulled up, got out, picked the key,
and they started talking from behind me. I thought that was really strange.
Of course, it got much stranger as the day went on.
[Jeremy] What got stranger about it?
Well, just the sheer amount of people that came.
Agency after agency.
I mean, they had computer experts here going through,
you know, all the computer equipment we had here,
and they had people sectioning off the building,
labeling it in cubic meters so they can search each one.
You know, what they were looking for was just an order form.
So, very strange.
[Jeremy] You've been raided two times?[Bob] Twice.
By more agencies than I can really recall.
The FDA to the NRC,
the FBI, but they usually come en masse.
And it's hard to pick out who's who.
[Jeremy] So this is beryllium? Yeah.
And what is it used for again?
It's used in aerospace, it's very lightweight.
Quite strong...
And high-temperature metal.
[Jeremy] Do you think that you were shaken down...
To some degree you're being fucked with?
[Bob] I don't think they're just fucking with me.
I am convinced there's ulterior motives.
I firmly suspect that there's a lot more to it
than they're saying. That they're looking for
something else.
[man] What they're supposed to do
is tie you up, put you in the middle of the room,
have everyone watching you so that, you know,
collaborate a story or, you know, try to trick them or what not.
So they just kept us all in separate rooms.
There's bomb squad, computer squad...
I think they had like a biological hazard squad,
hazmat squad, everything, the full gamut.
'Cause they had no idea what we had in our shop
or, like, what we're capable of,
or are we going to retaliate or anything like that.
So, it was pretty much the full Michigan FBI was here.
I mean, they had the van, they had multiple cars lined up,
you know, so...
[Jeremy] I mean, looking at Bob's life, there's always this suspicion
that there's something more going on on shaking him down
because he had that experience before.Yeah.
[man] Yeah, so this was the second time that I know of
that he's gotten raided, so he's always had, like, this kind of
knowledge that there's somebody watching, no matter what he does.
There's always somebody watching you.
And it does have to be related to, what, the Area 51 stuff and all that.
You know, they kind of put him on the list.
I think they do like toying with him and keeping an eye on him.
But I don't believe that it's like
they're opening up a 30-year-old file and they're like,
"All right, we're going to crack down on the Bob story.
We're going to find out what he had, what more information he's got."
I don't think that they're necessarily doing that,
but I do think that there's, like, a culture,
maybe within these agencies. They know who this guy is.
And they'll have, you know... They'll look for any reason that they can
to kind of, you know, poke him with some thorns
and make sure that he knows who's watching him.
I believe that.
It's too coincidental for it all to be just
some luck of the draw, basically. Like, there's something going on.
[Jeremy] Everybody knows the story is
that you guys had element 115 at Los Alamos, that's public knowledge.
Something you said a while back.
Do you think that what happened had to do with that?
We are not going there.
[Jeremy] Are they trying to shake you down to find the 115
that you said, 30 years ago, that you got out of the lab?
People are going to ask that.
Yeah. So let's just address that.
If you feel comfortable addressing it...
No.
You do not feel comfortable addressing it?
No, I don't feel comfortable addressing it.
[Bob] You would think after 30 years, who cares what I have to say?
I'm more convinced than ever that the key to the story is element 115.
If you could get to that piece
and have it independently analyzed,
I think it would prove beyond all question that it came from somewhere else.
We didn't make it.
And it would go a long way to establishing the story that was told by Bob Lazar
as truth, so I think about that a lot.
I think about the cloud chamber experiment.
I get a lot of emails from people who say,
"Oh, God. Where is this video? You owe it to the world
to show this video, cough it up."
And I tell them, "Look, I've looked for it,
I've got all these boxes of crap and stuff and tape
and news clippings, and I've looked for it and I can't find it."
But when somebody like you comes and talks to me about the Bob Lazar story,
it gets the juices flowing, you know. I can't help it, I'm human.
And right now, I want to go find that tape.
I went through every tape
that Bob had in his personal home archive
and one of those tapes on the outside in tiny, tiny little scribble
said, "cloud chamber."
And lo and behold,
there's about just less than a minute of that cloud chamber test on tape.
I have it.
[George] People have been so pissed at me over the years
that I can't find that tape, or if they think I'm hiding it on purpose.
But I've looked everywhere for it.
And if you've found it, that's awesome.
[Jeremy] I did. Now here's the deal in typical, you know, Bob-Lazar fashion,
there's only about a minute of it.
However, after all these years, 30 years, we have some footage of it.
But it doesn't prove shit, because it's recorded over--
I was there the night that they did the cloud chamber test.
I couldn't tell you what it was, I didn't know what a cloud chamber was.
This "beam" of light was bent.
And it was bent because they had element 115
in as part of the experiment.
Well, that's pretty important, that would be huge to include in the story.
I spent time trying to understand why everybody was saying
this 115 being stabilized is pseudoscience.
So I called some of the top heavy-element physicists on the planet
from Russia to up in San Francisco to Washington, DC.
And I spoke with, you know, about eight or nine,
but three in particular who had really talked to me in depth about it.
All of them, across the board, said, "You cannot rule out
a stabilized version of element 115.
In fact, that we believe it is theorized
that in the island of stability, that it would and could
and probably does exist."
So their way of saying is, "We can't rule it out."
So, all the people saying that is pseudoscience,
what Bob said about element 115, I wanted to find out
is it pseudoscience?
And definitively, we cannot rule out a stabilized form of element 115.
I'm sorry, it is not pseudoscience.
And after doing this research,
you know, that argument no longer holds water.
Makes perfect sense that it could be stable.
And scientists have said it for a long time.
So, of course you can't rule it out.
Again, if you want to disbelieve Bob,
if you want to cross him off the list and say he's a fraud,
then your research goes one inch deep,
and you say element 115 as he described it, can't exist,
and then move on.
If you want to be honest about it and dig further into it and understand it,
then you're going to find out that, in fact, what Bob says does make sense,
it can be true.
Element 115 was what we would call the fuel
that provided the power for the reactor to work.
[Jeremy] What happens with gravity and 115?
Element 115 affects gravity.
Element 115 produces its own gravitational energy.
It had a very specific manufacturing technique.
I don't really know how that information came to be.
Its code name was "LA 1000."
That's what it was referred to off-site.
Its purpose
was supposed to be, again, this is just a code in deception,
was supposed to be an advanced armor.
So, it's not a usual material, so now we can take it to a national lab.
This is LA 1000, classified material, it's a very advanced armor.
That takes care of all the weird questions.
So, you know, you immediately start operating on lies.
This...
fuel
is in the form of a...
just a three-dimensional thin triangle, little rounded edges.
It's somewhat copper in color.
You know that reddish brownish...
The way this is manufactured is really critical.
It's not just cut out of a heavy sheet of material.
A cylinder of this material is taken.
This is machined
into a cone. So this is...
The outer part is shaved off using a lathe or something like that,
until you have a three-dimensional cone.
Once you have the cone...
it's sliced...
like this.
And these slices become that.
Now, even this starting piece,
the solid cylinder, is not even a solid cylinder.
It consists of many discs stacked up.
And these are fused together to produce that.
And all of these steps are necessary to produce a successful triangle
that makes fuel. So, actually, you know, if you were
to look at how this came to be, this would actually be
pieces of all these discs that were cut at unusual angles.
Now, apparently, if you don't do all this,
that doesn't work.
Unfortunately, that's the extent of my knowledge on this.
This makes no sense anywhere.
But, that's what it takes for it to operate.
Now, with the alien technology that was present in the craft,
it takes that basis,
that extra gravitational energy in a small reactor
amplifies it through the equipment there,
directs it through the wave guides and archways
into the emitters
and allows it to propel the craft
and manipulate the gravity wave for whatever use they want.
[interviewer] How can this be true? I don't believe a word of this.
But you expect people to believe this?
No, I'm not going to change anyone's mind. That's not my intention.
I'm just relaying the experience, the job that I went through.
It is a fantastic thing. It's a fantastic story.
But it's true?
It's true. These crafts came from another...
Not just another planet, another solar system entirely.
Extremely far away.
And they're here.
[Bob] I mean, I've been making fireworks since I was 12.
And professional fireworks for at least 20 years.
Fireworks aren't just fun, they're artistic. It's like painting the sky.
Controlling a large amount of energy has always been impressive.
[George] SinceThe New York Times story broke,
since Lou Elizondo came forward, sending those videos, went public,
the world is now talking about UFOs in a more serious vein.
I think that's a good thing and I think it reflects positively
on Bob Lazar's story.
And I hope that the world will take another look at it.
[Jeremy] That's the jet bike, the jet car...
[Bob] Yeah, to take, you know, a large amount of energy
which would normally be thought to be out of control,
to take that and harness it and have it do what you want
has always been impressive to me.
[George] The easy way out is to say, "He's a liar, he's making it up."
It's hard to go ahead and accept the possibility
that he's telling the truth.
But if I did not believe it,
if I thought for a moment that he was lying about it,
I'd be done with it.
I wouldn't still be supporting it 30 years later.
[Jeremy] Your life has been under a microscope.
Every word you said for 30 years recorded has been under a microscope,
and that's affected you.
[Bob] Yeah, of course it has. It would affect anybody.
How has it affected you?
In the way I talk and how much I do.
I'd rather not, you know, in a public forum, I'd rather just not say anything.
[Jeremy] Why do you think people are so obsessed
with every word that you say about your experiences?
They're just looking for a way to look for an inaccuracy
and to be able to discount the whole thing.
"Oh, he said this one time, and said it slightly different this time.
You know, obviously, he's making it up."
You know, that's just the first word that entered my mind.
You know, I don't put that much thought into what I'm saying.
Look, as much as a lot of people hate it,
this stuff really happened.
I mean, if it bothers you, that's too bad.
[Jeremy] I think that's just hard for people to accept. I mean, so--
Yeah, it would be, right... I fully understand.
I would feel the same way.
I'm not sure I would believe my story.
"Boy, there's not enough evidence," you know,
but I couldn't discount it either.
[George] The fact is, the people that know him best believe him the most.
I hope that one thing that comes across in your film is the real Bob.
Once you get to know him, it becomes much more plausible as a story.
He's not lying to his mom and his wife and all his friends.
He's not lying to the UFO world either.
[Jeremy] You saw alien ships? Yeah.
You worked on a gravity wave amplification system,
trying to figure it out?
Right, a propulsion system and a power source
that's completely unknown to mankind.
And there's no way human beings could have made it?
There is no way human beings could have made it,
under any circumstances in any country anywhere. Period.
And for 30 years, you are telling us the truth?
You bet.
This shit happened? You got it.
[George] You know, the fact is that that raid that happened back in Michigan,
that's a very dramatic and a very important development.
They weren't there looking for records
about some customer he had a couple of years ago,
they were looking for 115.
When you bring two dozen agents and investigators
and crime lab analysts,
you can bring people to duplicate the whole computer and all that stuff,
they're looking for something else.
They're sure as hell are not looking for a minor receipt.
People may not believe that 115 is real, but somebody does,
'cause that's what they came to look for.
You know, if you want to cross it off and you don't want to believe it, fine.
I don't care anymore whether people believe it or not.
But Bob's telling the truth.
And once you realize that, it changes everything for you.
It changed everything for me.
[narrator] To crack a life open at its seams,
to dissect and examine its contents is unnerving.
Like the reading of omens by viewing the entrails.
We all tell our own stories.
And sometimes we even believe them.
And sometimes,
we tell them one last time.
If you don't believe it, that's your problem.
What you do with that is up to you.
[upbeat music playing]
Well, I am telling the truth.
I've tried to prove that. What's going on up there
could be the most important event in history.
You're talking about contact, physical contact
and proof from another system, another planet, another intelligence.
That's got to be the biggest event in history. Period.
[interviewer] And it's real. It's real and it's there.
And I had an extremely small part in it,
but I'm convinced that what I saw is absolute proof of that.
There is no way we could have created those systems.
There's no way we could have made the discs, the power supplies,
anything to go with it.
Lazar says he has no intention of going on any UFO lecture circuit.
He's not looking to do any additional interviews.
In fact, he wasn't too crazy about doing this one.
He did it after certain unfavorable things
started happening in his life.
And he did it because he feels that whoever is running the show
up at S4 is perpetrating a fraud on the American people
and on the scientific community.
We intend to have much more about this story,
about the operation up there on Monday and beyond.
This is by no means the end of this series of reports.
In fact, on Monday, including in our story there,
supporting testimony from other people who say they have knowledge
of the flying discs at the test site
and information from people who know Lazar very well
and insist his story is true.
Even if they have these flying saucers, George,
it seems like it would be really hard to keep it so secret.
Well, yeah, it would seem that way.
Except for as Lazar asked his superiors up there,
and they say it's the easiest secret in the world to keep.
It's leaked out many times before and nobody believes it.
But what's the Navy saying about all of this?
Well, of course, the Navy is supposed to have been his employer,
and we have... some fairly pointed questions to them.
Of course, number one, it may not be the Navy at all.
Information is so compartmentalized up there,
no one is exactly sure who is in charge.
We have put the questions to several Navy departments,
the answers, thus far, have been unsatisfactory.
We've applied for more information through the Freedom of Information Act.
And that information will be revealed on Monday as well.
You believe his story, don't you?
Yeah, I do. Yeah, I got to know him pretty well over the last couple of months,
and I believe he's telling the truth.
Fascinating stuff. Thanks, George.
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