Robert Lazar and the UFO Conspiracy

Several years ago I wrote a short book entitled “Creatures of Folklore-Fact or Fiction.” The plot was to dispel many of the urban legends that have been floating around for centuries. Although most of the myths revolved around monsters, spirits, and other ghoulish figures. I myself have always believed in the possibility of other life forms existing somewhere in outer space. Existing but not to the relevancy of Orsen Wells adaption of “War of the Worlds.”

When I heard Jeremy Corbell was filming a Robert Lazar documentary for Netflix I already saw the Red-Hearings jumping out of the water. I have classified Corbell in the same category of used car salesman as George Knapp, George Noory, and the late Art Bell. In 1989 Lazar reported that he had worked as a scientist at a location known as S4, a sub-set of Area 51. Lazar reported that he had not only seen but worked on the propulsion system of a recovered UFO while working on the base.

In my podcast “Savage Watch — Killer Chronicles” I dedicated two episodes (4) to Robert Lazar in an attempt to substantiate his claims. Due to the recent pandemic the podcast was not scripted, nor was it filmed in our normal studio so please excuse the occasional bleeps and volume drops. My personal background is comprised of science in the archeological field, criminal investigation in the law enforcement field, and as a cold case novelist. So not withstanding I decided to research Lazar’s claims.

Interestingly Lazar’s educational background could not be proven, not even with a diploma of graduation from any of the institutions Lazar claimed to have attended. Lazar claimed to have worked on the UFO while employed by Los Alamos National Laboratories. The Los Alamos telephone book has Lazar employed as a subcontractor. This would not have given Lazar security access to have contact with classified information, certainly not a UFO.

Lazar claimed that after he went public with the classified information there was an attempt on his life, after which the FBI had searched his business “United Nuclear” on two separate occasions in an attempt to locate a sample of a radioactive material known as element 115 which Lazar reported was used in the UFO’s propulsion system. Several red flags begin to appear after researching Lazar’s statement concerning element 115. Problem number one, element 115 is synthetically produced with a life-span of 220 milliseconds. This means the material would have surpassed its life-span before he put it into his pocket. The FBI raids on his business stemmed as the result of transporting (sales) hazardous materials over state-lines. In one of the cases the chemical was used in a homicide.

In Corbell’s documentary Lazar reports that the Los Alamos base used a thermal hand scanner to identify employees. Corbell shows Lazar a photograph of the secret classified hand scanner at which point Lazar jumps up and states I haven’t seen that in decades. Not true Bob, this specific hand scanner you mentioned went public in 1971 and was used in the 1977 movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”

The only substantiated fact in Lazar’s story was, he made made money and put Area 51 on the map.