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    DATE OF UPLOAD: December 4, 1989
    ORIGIN OF UPLOAD: International UFO Reporter/CUFOS
    CONTRIBUTED BY: Jerome Clark ========================================================

    (C) 1989 J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies
    (Reprinted with exclusive rights to ParaNet Information Service)

    Editorial

    Wild Goose

    Two and a half years ago, the MJ-12 briefing document,
    allegedly written in November 1952 to inform President-elect
    Eisenhower of two UFO crashes (Roswell, 1947, and the Texas-
    Mexico border, 1950) and of a supersecret project called
    Majestic-12, was unleashed on the world, by Bill Moore in
    California and Timothy Good in England. Today the issue remains
    unsettled, though at the moment the skeptics seem to have the
    upper hand. (They argue that the signature of President Truman
    on another alleged MJ-12 document, which arrived on the same roll
    of 35mm film that the briefing document did, is identical to
    Truman's signature on another, undisputed, non-UFO document from
    the same period, the implication being that a hoaxer appended a
    real signature to a bogus document.) Within a few weeks Stanton
    Friedman will have submitted his report on his investigation to
    the Fund for UFO Research, which gave him $16,000 with which to
    conduct the inquiry.
    At that time perhaps we will be able to come to a fully-
    informed judgment. And perhaps then, too, we will have a chance
    to reflect on whether it would have been wiser to spend that
    money on further investigation of the Roswell incident, next to
    which MJ-12 (for which so far evidence barely exists) is a
    distinctly secondary issue. It is sadly true that the MJ-12
    uproar, for all the paper it has generated, has produced not much
    of substance (and not a single serious researcher, even Friedman,
    willing to identify himself as a "proponent" of the document).
    Certainly the MJ-12 affair has done little to enhance any real
    understanding of how the United States government dealt with the
    UFO phenomenon, including the presumed hard evidence from the
    Roswell crash.
    This is not to say that the briefing paper is unworthy of investigation; it certainly ought to have been, and to be looked
    into, at lease as time and resources permit. But in retrospect
    it seems clear that Roswell, not MJ-12, should have remained the
    primary focus. It is too bad that the issue of the cover-up was
    allowed to drift from something substantive (just how substantive
    will become clear next year when IUR reports in full on what
    CUFOS' Roswell investigation has uncovered) to a document sent
    anonymously and presumably by individuals already implicated in
    what everyone now acknowledges to be the spread of disinformation. It must also be noted that it was out of the MJ-
    12 swamp that the lurid pulp fantasies of John Lear, Bill Cooper
    and Bill English bubbled to the surface. According to Bill
    Moore, himself a central figure in the MJ-12 controversy, those
    tall tales about man-eating aliens were cooked up (so to speak)
    by intelligence-agency people seeking further to confuse an
    already deluded UFO buff. Moore acknowledges that he helped the
    process along. As he told an audience at this year's MUFON
    conference, "The entire story of a secret treaty between the U.S.
    government and the aliens, of exchanges of technology between us
    and the aliens, of battles between aliens and American armed
    forces, and of aliens allegedly having implanted human
    beings...came about as a result of this process. I know because
    I was in a position to observe much of this process as it
    unfolded and I was providing regular reports on its effectiveness
    to some of the very people who were 'doing it'..."
    It requires neither imagination nor paranoia to conclude
    that it was also done to Moore, who over a period of years (and
    continuing even now) has been the recipient -- not the only one
    -- of astonishing but unverifiable tales about Extraterrestrial
    Biological Entities, including live ones in government custody.
    Moore's informants, said to be military-intelligence people,
    produced (despite promises) no documentations for any of these
    claims, which had at least the advantage of being less
    insultingly illogical than Lear-Cooper-English's brainless
    scenario. As I remarked in an earlier editorial (IUR, September/October 1988), these sorts of claims "make a certain
    hypothetical sense," given what might have followed from a
    Roswell incident (such as an attempt to contact the controlling
    intelligences behind the attempt to contact the controlling
    intelligences behind the UFO phenomenon to learn what their
    purpose is), but "the evidence supporting them is all but
    nonexistent."
    One of the interesting features of the MJ-12 paper, not
    often remarked on, is that it is not in concordance with the EBE
    story. As the EBE story (or at least a part of it) goes, in 1949
    one EBE survived a UFO crash and spent the next three years at
    Los Alamos before expiring in 1952. Supposedly EBE was blabbing
    the full story of the ET visitation to his captors -- a detail
    curiously absent from the Eisenhower briefing document. At the
    same time, as IUR readers will learn in future issues, the
    briefing paper's account of the Roswell event is essentially
    accurate. That is, I suppose, of some small comfort to whoever
    still harbors hope for the briefing paper's authenticity.
    Another small source of comfort has been the absence of any truly
    compelling arguments against the briefing document itself, though
    plenty of arguments pretending to be that have been advanced.
    (As already noted, an MJ-12-related document, part of the
    briefing paper's appendix, Truman's supposed September 24, 1947,
    order bringing Majestic-12 into being, does appear vulnerable.)
    Friedman and Moore have done a good job of showing where the
    critics are mistaken, but even they concede this is not an
    argument for the briefing paper's authenticity. It is always
    possible, and in this case maybe even probable, that the critics
    are right even if their reasons are wrong.
    Perhaps the most surprising claim the briefing paper makes
    is that Donald Menzel, Harvard astronomer and archdebunker of UFO
    reports, was a member of Majestic-12, thus making him a conscious
    agent of an anti-UFO disinformation campaign. This remarkable
    assertion led Friedman to conduct the sorts of inquiries into
    Menzel's background that no one had done before. Friedman
    learned ("the Secret Life of Donald H. Menzel," IUR, January/February 1988) that Menzel possessed the highest security
    clearances and was well-placed within the U.S. intelligence
    community -- just as he would have had to be to be privy to the
    Ultimate Secret. This amounts to a finding of the consistent- with-the-hypothesis variety, but nothing more. No hint that
    Menzel secretly took UFOs seriously has come to light, and those
    who knew him best, including his wife, reject the idea out of
    hand. To this Friedman rejoins, reasonably enough, that Menzel
    would not have breathed a word of this even to family members.
    Yet Menzel's ferocious UFOobia was far in excess of what he would
    have had to exhibit to lead the press and fellow scientists away
    from the scent (not that most even knew there was a scent),
    suggesting that he was not acting under orders but out of the
    sort of manic obsession that has fueled other sincere if
    misguided debunkers.
    Nonetheless Menzel's appearance on the MJ-12 list is
    undeniably curious. Presumably it means something. It may
    indicate, since practically nothing of Menzel's secret life in
    intelligence was known before Friedman's investigation, that the
    hoax (if hoax it was) was perpetrated by individuals privy to
    classified information. In other words, this is no ordinary
    hoax; it had a serious purpose connected with national-security
    concerns. On the other hand, the hoaxer may have erred in making
    one extraordinary claim too many. Amusingly, it is not the
    briefing document's claim of a UFO crash that is the most
    difficult to believe; it is the claim that Menzel knew about it.
    The evidence for the crash is substantial, that for Menzel's
    knowledge of it is nil. A friend of mine once suggested that
    perhaps Menzel's name was put on the list for a reason: to
    assure any knowledgeable person within the intelligence community
    that the briefing paper was not, after all, a real leak of real
    information.
    None of this is to say, of course, that the MJ-12 briefing
    document has been proven to be bogus, or that no such project
    (whether called MJ-12 or something else) could have existed. But
    it is to say that, despite the enormous, even heroic, research
    efforts of Stan Friedman, the issue is as unresolved -- and
    probably unresolvable -- as ever. It could be true. It could be
    one of those exceedingly rare instances in human history when
    diamonds are found floating in cesspools. That doesn't happen
    often. More conceivably (though also unprovably), the briefing
    paper was hatched as part of a scheme to distract investigators
    form pursuits truly threatening to the cover-up.
    To all present appearances (though future events may
    radically alter our perception), the MJ-12 controversy has gotten
    us nowhere, maybe less than nowhere, since it has consumed
    valuable time that might have been spent more productively on
    other matters, not the least of them Roswell. From the
    beginning, it is true, CUFOS encouraged the MJ-12 investigation
    and IUR has reported, and will continue to report, new
    developments. But ufology's resources are limited and I think
    most would agree, after 2 1/2 years, that MJ-12 has eaten up too
    many of them already. Unless Friedman's Fund report brings forth
    major new evidence, all of us would be well-advised to move on to
    something else. If an answer to the MJ-12 puzzle is to be found,
    perhaps we'll get to it one day, while we're looking for
    something else. But as a whole new chapter in the Roswell saga
    begins to unfold, we have better things to do than to pursue a
    wild goose across a barren landscape. -- Jerome Clark

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    ParaNet File Number: 00040

    DATE OF UPLOAD: November 22, 1989
    ORIGIN OF UPLOAD: ParaNet Alpha
    CONTRIBUTED BY: Robert B. Klinn, ParaNet Director of
    Investigations/Research ========================================================
    Theoretical physicist Robert Lazar and his friend, Las Vegas realtor, Gene
    Huff -- in-studio guests on "Billy Goodman's Happening" live talk
    show, KVEG 840-AM Radio, 10:00 p.m. 11/21/89 until 1:00 a.m.
    11/22/89 -- answered questions for three hours.

    These notes were compiled from 10:20 p.m., thus missing 20 minutes
    (10:00 - 10:20 p.m.) of the three-hour program.

    Lazar says he is tired.

    1. Lazar's Purpose In Going On-Air:
    Although Lazar's main stated purpose in appearing on the broadcast is to protect himself, caller Bill Cooper says one of Lazar's motives is
    anger -- previously expressed privately to Cooper -- that billions of
    dollars are needlessly wasted in the normal U.S. sectors by those without access to this alien technology. Lazar agrees.

    Lazar says another reason for his appearing is to correct incorrect
    information he had heard on previous broadcasts.

    Billy Goodman says Lazar's, Bill Cooper's, and John Lear's lives are on
    the line and that Lazar's best protection is the media, which is keeping
    Lazar alive.

    Lazar hopes "other people out there" working at S-4 will loosen up, come forward, and join with him to present their information as one, as a
    group. He doesn't want to be "the lone ranger."

    Congressional amnesty -- suggested by a caller -- would be nice, says
    Lazar, but merely offers freedom from prosecution. By coming forward,
    he concedes, the other S-4 workers have everything to lose and nothing
    to gain.

    But Huff says there has to be a moral guideline where national security
    has to hang in the balance and that the reporting of the existence of
    alien spaceships is where you draw the line.

    Caller Bill Cooper says there is "a higher value" that those at S-4
    should consider as a reason for coming forward to join Lazar.

    But Lazar makes a point of distinguishing his whole view of the UFO
    situation from that of John Lear or Bill Cooper.

    2. Verification of Lazar's Background:
    Lazar says he worked at S-4 -- a "restrained military environment"
    in Nevada -- from 12/88 to 4/89.

    In response to callers who want independently to check up on Lazar,
    he says his "colorful" background has already been checked by George
    Knapp of KLAS-TV, who had traveled to Los Alamos Laboratories and
    had spoken to former Lazar colleagues, who confirmed he really had
    worked there -- in spite of Los Alamos itself denying the fact of
    Lazar's employment with them. (Knapp's UFO broadcast displayed a
    page from a 1982 Los Alamos Labs internal phone book, listing Robert
    Lazar.)

    Caller Bill Cooper, who says he has talked to Lazar for over a year,
    says that by talking to persons at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and at
    another facility, he and associates have confirmed Lazar's previous
    work in physics at the places Lazar specified. Lazar replied he was not
    aware of this checking done by Cooper.

    Responding to an "investigator" caller wanting Lazar to give him private
    info in order to check him out, Lazar says Lazar himself once took a correspondence course to be a private "investigator."

    Lazar says he has 25 people each wanting independently to check him out,
    but he will not allow that.

    Although Lazar admits he was paid by check, he refuses to discuss anything about the check stubs.

    3. Lazar's Clearance Level:
    He says neither REECO (Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Co., Inc.) nor
    EG&G -- each a well-known U.S. Department of Energy Test Site
    contractor -- has people at S-4, that those persons' clearances are at
    most Q-Clearances, while his own clearance is "38 levels above Q-Clearance." The closest to S-4 that REECO or EG&G people physically get, he says,
    is Area 51.

    4. Threats Made to Lazar/Lazar Shot At?
    When Goodman refers to Lazar's telling him before the broadcast that
    Lazar had been shot at, Lazar says he doesn't want to talk about it.

    Lazar says he was called to go back to work but officially refused
    because he didn't like the idea of returning to that isolated place
    in the desert where they could do what they wanted to him.
    However, he says his clearance has not been revoked.

    Lazar says the executive powers at S-4 have run amok and there are no
    checks and balances. Congress, he says, has no knowledge of all this.
    Lazar says there are no lengths to which the military will not go to
    conceal this information.

    5. Mind Control Suspicions:
    He contacted hypnotherapist Layne Keck of Serenus Clinical Hypnosis in
    Las Vegas because there were a couple of days where Lazar remembered
    only going out in a plane and coming back, but nothing in between.
    He suspected mind control had been performed on him.

    Lazar purposely selected Serenus because it had nothing to do with UFOs.
    [A Las Vegas Yellow Pages ad says:
    Serenus Clinical Hypnosis
    Helen Baucum
    30 years Experience
    "Pin-Point" Method
    Children Our Specialty
    Weight Control, Stuttering, Bed Wetting, Nervous Tensions, Smoking,
    Drinking, Memory Retention
    384-4420
    1833 W. Charleston (across from S. Nevada Memorial Hosp.)]

    Under hypnosis, Lazar recalled intense drilling, threatening actions
    taken against him, and his drinking of "pine," which his hypnotherapist
    said was similar to the "Orion [sp?] Method" of regimented hypnosis used
    by the military.

    Per Huff, Lazar was given drugs and hypnosis by his employers -- not so
    he would forget what he was working on, but so -- by their imprinting
    his subconscious -- he would be afraid to talk.

    Per Huff, after first telling Lazar his phone was tapped, the military
    later threatened him because, having monitored his phone, they knew he
    was planning to release information about the alien craft. Huff says
    the military were amazed that the drugs and hypnosis had not worked.

    Although he is afraid, Lazar hopes they won't come after him now since he
    has already talked.

    6. Location of the Saucers:
    Lazar says the nine saucers are not at the supersecret Area 51
    (Groom Lake) of the U.S. government's Nevada Test Site, but at S-4 --
    10 miles south of Area 51. The disks are only at this one place.
    However, to go to work, Lazar flew (by plane) to Groom Lake, waited a
    short time at a cafe, then got on a bus [with blacked-out windows,
    per Lazar's Knapp-series statements].

    Lazar says he knows someone who drills tunnels at the Test Site, but
    no mention is made that this individual also works at S-4.

    7. Bad Aliens Killed S-4 Workers:
    Lazar says the aliens are not benevolent.

    Some humans were killed in a conflict after a U.S. military
    intelligence power play, after which point a previously ongoing
    information exchange ended.

    Huff says Lazar earlier told him -- and Lazar agrees he had said this --
    that this exchange of information occurred between the aliens and
    human scientists/human security personnel [at S-4?].

    But although the aliens had allowed themselves to be under constant
    human guard, the aliens had insisted there be no bullets in the guns
    worn by the security people. [Bullets may have been a symbol covering
    all loaded weapons.]

    The security people ignored that demand, and they all died from head
    wounds -- which left no evidence of how they had died.

    The aliens even killed the scientists they were teaching.

    [On Knapp's broadcast last week, Lazar said he was told he was one of
    the replacements:
    George Knapp:
    The dangers associated with 115 [the alien element] and anti-matter may
    be the reason Lazar was hired to work at S-4. There was an accident,
    he says, back in April 1987, an accident that was passed off as an
    unannounced nuclear test.

    Robert Lazar:
    Some people got killed. I was told flat out I was one of the people
    that were to replace these guys.]

    Responding to a caller, Lazar says talking about aliens is NOT a touchy
    subject for him. Aliens exist, he says.
    [Lear, in an earlier On the Record KLAS-TV broadcast, says Lazar saw
    aliens.]

    8. Time of Saucer Test Flights:
    The tests of the saucers at S-4 are Wednesday nights.
    Lazar says he was fired because he showed people where and when these
    tests were performed.

    9. Who Pilots the Test Flights?
    Lazar says the experimental UFO flights at S-4 are flown either by
    remote control or by human pilots -- not by the aliens.

    10. Origin of the Saucers at S-4:
    The alien vehicles Lazar saw up close in hangars come from
    "another world: "the fourth planet out from Zeta Reticulum II [sp?],
    a binary system." [Same as on Betty Hill's map?]

    11. Description of the Saucers:
    He says he touched one of the nine UFOs and even stood in its doorway.

    He says the saucers mostly appeared "like new" -- one of them looking
    like the Billy Meier saucer.
    [On George Knapp's recent series "UFOs: The Best Evidence" (KLAS-TV,
    Las Vegas), Lazar says one of the saucers "looked like it was hit
    with some sort of a projectile. It had a large hole in the bottom and
    a large hole in the top with the metal bent out like some sort of,
    you know, large caliber 4- or 5-inch had gone through it."]

    The inside of one craft appears made of wax and then cooled off,
    all like a cast or mold of one thing with no rough edges.

    Inside were small chairs, one or one and one-half feet, as though
    made for little kids.
    (Compare with George Knapp's new Roswell witness who said on Knapp's nine-segment broadcast that a Roswell funeral home worker had told him
    the military had purchased all of the "baby or youth caskets" in stock
    for the purpose of holding the Roswell aliens.)

    12. Nine S-4 Saucers Extraterrestrial -- Not Earthly:
    The nine disks he saw up close -- including the one he worked on --
    were not earthly and were definitely extraterrestrial.

    Lazar can't say whether or not the other disks he saw at a distance
    during testing [seen on video presented in George Knapp's broadcasts]
    are man-made or extraterrestrial.

    13. Physics of the Saucers at S-4:
    Lazar says the vehicle attaches itself to a distorted portion of
    space-time and returns with the distortion. It's a new physics.
    The vehicles brought a space-time warp with them.

    Lazar says the propulsion technology should properly remain
    classified, since everything there is looked at from a weapons
    point of view. A lot is directly applicable to weapons systems, and he
    has no intention of releasing it, he says.

    But he says the craft uses gravity as a lens and the power source is
    an anti-matter reactor.

    Two Modes of Travel for Saucers at S-4:
    1) When traveling around the surface of the planet, the vehicles balance
    on a gravity wave or ride a wave like a cork on the ocean. In this
    mode they are unstable and are affected by the weather.

    2) For space travel, they use gravity generators. But if they fly
    around the surface of Earth using this mode, they may flip over, a
    phenomenon Lazar says has frequently been observed in past sightings
    in the published UFO literature.

    Two gravities: A & B.
    Gravity A works on an atomic scale whose interaction is small and has
    to do with fuel -- the alien Element 115 used for the disks.

    Gravity B works on a macro scale.

    The gravitational field is OUT OF PHASE with [unknown ?] and is like
    a wave generator. It is LONGITUDINAL generation -- not spherical, as
    a caller suggested.

    14. Project Aurora:
    "Aurora," says Lazar, distinguishing it from any UFOs, is the
    replacement for the SR-71 plane. It uses a three-mile runway and
    makes a sound like continuous explosions. It has speeds up to Mach 10.

    15. No Alien Cattle Mutilations?
    As far as HE knows, Lazar says, there is no alien UFO tie-in with
    cattle mutilations.

    16. Few Abductees?
    More persons claim to be abductees than have actually been abducted,
    suggests Lazar.

    17. No Blue Diamond Entry Way for Saucers:
    Notwithstanding UFO watchers congregating at Blue Diamond, Lazar says
    there is only a gravity anomaly around Blue Diamond, not an entry way
    for saucers into our universe.

    18. Other Physics Comments By Lazar:
    Time travel:
    GRAVITY affects time. Moving FORWARD in time is "a breeze": All you
    need do is get close to a gravitational field.
    Moving back in time MIGHT also be possible.

    Some physicists today, says Lazar, invoke superstring theories to simply
    add another dimension to the universe whenever they can't explain something.

    Referring to laser fusion experiments as "stupid," Lazar refers to a
    location where they have been conducted.

    Lazar also speaks of a process of squeezing plutonium.

    In response to a caller's question, Lazar says M-42 is a galaxy.

    19. Lazar says George Knapp's two-hour program on KLAS-TV,
    Channel 8 in Las Vegas, this Saturday, 11/25/89, 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.,
    will contain "much more information" than Knapp's recent nine-part,
    two-hour UFO broadcasts last week.

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    DATE OF UPLOAD: December 27, 1989
    ORIGIN OF UPLOAD: KVEG Radio; Las Vegas, Nevada
    CONTRIBUTED BY: Robert B. Klinn/ParaNet Director of Research and
    Investigations =================================================================
    Below is the transcript of the Billy Goodman Happening Show
    as it aired on December 20, 1989. Robert Lazar was the guest of
    Billy Goodman.

    ==================================================================

    12/20/89
    Billy Goodman

    Goodman:
    What exactly does Area S-4 mean?

    Lazar:
    I really don't know. It might be referred to as "Site" 4 --
    that might be what the "S" is for, but I really don't know.
    There are THREE S-4's in all of the Nevada Test Site. The
    nuclear test site itself is a small area, and it has "sites"
    or "areas" 1 to 29 or 30. The S-4 there, I think, is a
    nuclear reactor. There's an S-4 just south of the Tonopah test
    range. And there's an S-4 -- the one that I worked at -- just
    south of Groom Lake.

    Goodman:
    Bob Lazar, while working there as a Government scientist, saw
    not only one but as many as nine flying saucers. And he's
    telling the whole world about it. He wants everybody to know
    that in fact there are flying saucers out there. Last time
    you were here, you never really told us what are their plans
    with these flying saucers. Do you have any idea WHY we have
    flying saucers at this point?

    Lazar:
    I guess it's just essentially research. The idea is to back-
    engineer them, to go back and find out how they can be duplicated
    using earthly materials and technology.

    606:
    Is it possible these machines travel in time back and forth?

    Lazar:
    It's certainly possible. Certainly, when you create any
    artificial gravitational field, you technically move in your
    own time. So technically, you do slip forward when you create
    your own intense gravitational field.

    606:
    BACK in time too?

    Lazar:
    Theoretically, that's possible. Exactly how you would do that,
    I don't know off the top of my head.

    606:
    So that could be used like a time machine, right?

    Lazar:
    Essentially yeah, that is --

    606:
    For time travel?

    Lazar:
    -- that is possible.

    606:
    Wow! That's really something!

    Lazar:
    Yeah, that's science-fiction-like.

    Fritz, Westlake, California:
    Billy, it is sizzling again on the West Coast. Bob Lazar,
    thank you very much for coming on again. You must come on.
    This has got to go nationwide. The cat is out of the bag.
    I'm sure those little gods in S-54 are listening in, and
    believe me, it's your best security to come on. If anything
    happens to you, we're all behind you, Bob Lazar -- everybody.
    This is like a snowball going down the hill and will become an
    avalanche, and ignorance will be wiped out. We've got to know
    the truth -- for once and forever. They are here! Let's find
    out why they are here and who they are and what their purpose is.

    Lazar:
    Well thank you!

    Fritz:
    Okay Bob, we're all behind you. Billy, keep that show going!
    It's the Number One show in America in talk shows.

    Goodman:
    Well, thank you very much Fritz. He did explain to you why we
    have flying saucers, right?

    Fritz:
    Well, I know why they are here. The general public has to become
    aware; they're just wakening up. It's like a film being lifted
    from their eyes. I mean, they've been laughing for forty years!

    Goodman:
    Wait a minute Fritz. You know why they're here? Why are they
    here, Fritz?

    Fritz:
    Well, first of all, it's a conditioning process.

    Goodman:
    Okay, you got it.

    Fritz:
    We are in a quarantine because we are so ignorant; our ignorance
    keeps us from meeting them. Big brother reaches out the hand and
    says, "Come over, little brother, let's have the cosmic connection,"
    but we have to become a world together -- earthlings.
    We are about 170 nations -- 170 languages; we have to come together.
    When we have a spokesman, then we will meet on equal ground.

    Tim from Pasadena:
    When you looked into the saucer, how does the hatch work? How
    does it seal up, and what are all of the mechanics involved?

    Lazar:
    The hatch -- or whatever it was -- was completely removed; there was
    just an opening in the side of the craft.

    Tim:
    Did the opening have any kind of sealing around it or a lip?

    Lazar:
    I really don't remember. 'Cause I was so interested in looking
    inside, I didn't really catch a strong glimpse of the sealing
    mechanism or any other thing around it.

    Tim:
    When you were previously on Billy's show, you said you looked into
    one, and it was all smooth like it had been a wax casting.

    Lazar:
    Yeah, exactly.

    Tim:
    Now, was that the only one you looked into?

    Lazar:
    No, it was the only one I looked into. The other ones I just saw
    from a distance, so I don't know any detail about them.

    Tim:
    And the one you looked into, was that the "Sport Model"?

    Lazar:
    Yes, exactly.

    Tim:
    And that's the only one you saw fly as well?

    Lazar:
    Right.

    Tim:
    What was your work there?

    Lazar:
    Like I said before, it was essentially to back-engineer the
    propulsion and power system.

    Tim:
    So you weren't really involved in the mechanics of the craft
    itself?

    Lazar:
    No, not at all.

    Tim:
    But mostly just the Element 115 and all that kind of stuff you
    were learning about?

    Lazar:
    Right.

    Goodman:
    What is gravity?

    Lazar:
    Gravity is a wave. It's a force, essentially, just like
    electromagnetic waves are a different type of force. I really don't
    know a good way to describe gravity.

    Goodman:
    Einstein and other scientists really don't have an answer for what
    gravity is, do they, totally; they don't really understand it
    totally, do they?

    Lazar:
    No, no, not at all. In fact, I don't think we understand
    ANYTHING about gravity.

    Goodman:
    Why don't we just float away ourselves? What keeps us down
    on the planet?

    Lazar:
    That is the attractive force of gravity.

    Goodman:
    Some people say it presses down, but it doesn't, does it?

    Lazar:
    No, it doesn't. It's an attractive force. It's like, on
    an atomic scale, the strong and weak nuclear forces hold the
    atoms individually together.

    Goodman:
    Is your actual title government scientist or physicist?

    Lazar:
    You could use either one.

    Goodman:
    You are no longer a government scientist or physicist, right?

    Lazar:
    Not employed by the government.

    Goodman:
    But you are continuing in the scientific field. What do you do?

    Lazar:
    I design and build advanced radiation detection equipment,
    mainly alpha radiation equipment for essentially use in
    detecting plutonium for national laboratories.

    Lee Samuels:
    How long has that craft been on this earth?

    Lazar:
    I really don't know. I don't even know how long it's
    been down at S-4.

    Samuels:
    Do you know where it originally landed?

    Lazar:
    No, you got me on all that stuff. They really never keep me
    in as to --

    Samuels:
    It could have been here for years?

    Lazar:
    Yeah. Or it could have been brought in in pieces from
    somewhere else, too.

    Samuels:
    Did you see just one craft or a number of craft?

    Lazar:
    I saw a number of them.

    Samuels:
    Did the other workers talk about it, where it came from,
    or more they towed in, or whatever?

    Lazar:
    I don't know. There really wasn't that much conversation
    between everyone.

    Samuels:
    Were you by yourself when you were investigating the craft?

    Lazar:
    Walking by myself. There were security people around me,
    but when I crawled underneath on the sub-floor to look at
    the gravity amplifiers, I got away from them. But there
    was no one right next to me the whole time.

    Samuels:
    Any evidence of LIVE aliens held captive?

    Lazar:
    Nothing I could put my finger on.

    Samuels:
    Then you didn't get to see any at all then in that sector?

    Lazar:
    Nothing I could put my finger on.

    Samuels:
    Did the craft have sleeping quarters for aliens? Is it like
    a Star Trek craft? What kind of craft is it?

    Lazar:
    No, it's pretty vacant inside. Granted, a couple of things
    were removed; they were sawed off at the base. I don't
    know what they were; I just saw little stumps on the ground,
    so I don't know what was removed. But it doesn't look
    like it had anything like sleeping quarters or anything
    like that.

    Samuels:
    Any writing you could detect or any language on the walls?

    Lazar:
    No.

    Samuels:
    Any panels, like a dashboard on a car?

    Lazar:
    Yeah. In fact, that was one of the things -- There was more
    than one control panel set up, but it looks like one was
    removed.

    Samuels:
    Were these craft all from the same source? Were they all
    identical?

    Lazar:
    No. Each craft was completely different in physical
    appearance. I didn't get to look in depth at the other
    craft, but I only fooled around with one.

    Samuels:
    I applaud your courage.

    Caller (referring to a certain book):
    Have you heard of him?

    Lazar:
    I think I thumbed through that book once. I think John
    Lear --

    Caller:
    What the heck is an energy grid on our planet?

    Lazar:
    I don't know. I don't buy that theory or anything in
    that book. It's a grid outlined over the entire globe,
    and at each intersection there's an energy vortex of
    some kind. I'd rather not comment since I don't buy it.

    Caller:
    On TV you mentioned something about a time warp and a
    folding over. What did you mean by that?

    Lazar:
    Right. It's how gravity, whether produced artificially
    or naturally, distorts time and space.

    Caller:
    I read about Nicola Tesla questioning Einstein's theory
    of relativity. He says that energy DOESN'T come from
    matter. Where does it come from if it doesn't come
    from matter?

    Lazar:
    That's a strange question. It can be EXTRACTED from
    matter. But it can be extracted by other means, too.
    I really don't understand that [question].

    Tom from Los Angeles:
    How can UFOs be kept secret for 40 years?

    Lazar:
    I did pose that question to some people at S-4, and the
    answer that I got was that it's the easiest thing TO keep
    secret because of the subject matter.

    Tom:
    Is that because it's tied in with a lot of parapsychology-
    psychic-type stuff -- National Enquirer?

    Lazar:
    Maybe so. There is so much disinformation made so available
    to the public via the tabloids and things like that that
    any true information getting out is assumed to originate
    from those sources.

    Tom:
    Carl Sagan is a "people" scientist; he's brought science
    down to the general public. What about getting him involved
    in this somehow?

    Lazar:
    I imagine he's fairly open-minded. I've never met him.

    Tom:
    He's one of the biggest UFO debunkers.

    Lazar:
    He's going to need his own proof, as everyone should require.
    It's impossible to make an absolute believer out of someone
    that hasn't had hands-on experience or has seen something for
    themselves. That's the way any scientist is going to look
    at it.

    Tom:
    How far is Zeta Reticuli?

    Lazar:
    I think it's around 32 light years.

    Tom:
    Do these ships travel faster than light?

    Lazar:
    It's an irrelevant question because they get around it
    because they're not in a linear mode of travel. Since they're
    distorting time and space, there's no true time reference.
    And since velocity is distance over time, when you begin to
    fool around with time, you really can't state a true velocity.

    Tom:
    Re the SETI program -- the search for radio signals --
    couldn't some of these observatories or telescopes be aimed
    at the places where aliens supposedly come from?

    Lazar:
    RADIO waves and frequencies along that band aren't utilized;
    it's GRAVITY wave communication, and a radio-telescope isn't
    going to pick up anything of that sort.

    Goodman:
    The way you got to see this UFO was not planned by anyone
    wanting you to see it, right? You were walking with security
    and you went into a doorway. How did you describe that before?

    Lazar:
    It may have been planned by them. I had no advance warning of
    it. I had been brought in a separate door the whole time, and
    one specific time I was just led into the area where I worked --
    through the hangar doors, which I had never been in before --
    walked directly by the craft, and began to slow down by it,
    and they said, "Just keep walking; keep your eyes forward," and
    it was just like that.

    Nothing was said, and I just went and sat down in an empty room.

    Goodman:
    You went and sat down in an empty room after you saw it?

    Lazar:
    Yeah, waited for this guy that I worked with, Barry, and then
    we went to work on some of the work we were assigned to.

    Goodman:
    What was some of the work that you actually did? What did
    you actually do at S-4? When you had an assignment, what would
    it have been, for example?

    Lazar:
    Most of the time I worked there I was being briefed and being
    brought up to date on what had been done before. Most of
    the hands-on bench work was with the anti-matter reactor
    itself: being shown how it operated, giving demonstrations,
    and things of that sort.

    Goodman:
    There was practically no communication with your fellow workers?

    Lazar:
    Right. They kept that to an absolute minimum. They were on the
    buddy system: you always worked with someone, and that's the
    person you communicated with, and there was really no cross-
    talk between groups.

    Goodman:
    When you went there for the initial interview, you said at
    the time they actually had a gun at your head --

    Lazar:
    No, that was at the security briefing.

    Goodman:
    Security, wherever that may be --
    The initial interview when you went to work at S-4 I'm talking
    about, that's not when the gun was at your head?

    Lazar:
    No.

    Goodman:
    When you went there, what was your understanding about what
    you were going to be doing?

    Lazar:
    Some high-technology work, and I assumed they were talking
    about some sort of gravitational propulsion system.

    Goodman:
    Were you excited about that?

    Lazar:
    Oh yeah, very much so, because there was some talk about
    that because it was something that I was interested in,
    something they KNEW I was interested in, and that was the
    hint that I got.

    Goodman:
    And did it come to fruition? Did what you were told you were
    going to do actually happen?

    Lazar:
    Yeah.

    Goodman:
    For what period of time?

    [Goodman goes right into NEXT question.]
    How long were you actually there before you let people know
    what was going on up there? How many months or days or whatever?

    Lazar:
    Probably a couple of months.

    Goodman:
    Every time you went there you literally had to fly up, land at
    Groom Lake, take a bus that was blacked out at the windows --

    Lazar:
    Right.

    Goodman:
    -- and no communication on the bus. What were you thinking as
    a young man. You're a very young man; let's face it.

    Lazar:
    I'm not that young.

    Goodman:
    Well, you're a very young man; I think you are. Anyway, what
    were you thinking? Were you just saying, well this just goes
    with the territory and I'm just going to go along with this?

    Lazar:
    Oh yeah, you bet! I would have done that and much more just
    to be involved with the project.

    Goodman:
    Ah! The excitement was just being there, being a part of
    what was going on behind the scenes. The secret part about it?

    Lazar:
    Oh sure. I would have taken a LOT more crap than they had
    dealt out.

    Goodman:
    Can you picture it? He's in his thirties, sitting on a bus,
    and accepting the fact, Okay, I'm going to work this morning,
    not talking to his compadres on the bus, is looking straight
    ahead, blackened-out windows, not driving on asphalt, all dirt
    roads. . . Didn't you ask yourself why they didn't do anything
    about the dirt roads?

    Lazar:
    It was a good dirt road. A lot of the roads around there are
    dirt, in fact almost all are.

    Mark in Los Angeles:
    Previously, you described the central column of the propulsion
    device as being a wave guide. There was a disk toward the
    bottom of this thing down near the anti-matter generator that
    spins. What is that disk made of --

    Lazar:
    There's no spinning disk.

    Mark:
    What is the disk made of? Is it a capacitor?

    Lazar:
    A disk? The wave guide extends down, and it widens out and
    sits on the curved portion of the reactor. The bottom of the
    reactor is a plate, but nothing rotates or moves; it's all
    connected together.

    Mark:
    Is that plate a capacitor?

    Lazar:
    No.

    Mark:
    Well, what is it made of?

    Lazar:
    Metal. That's the only way I can describe it; I don't know
    what kind; it's [electric-] --

    Mark:
    Did anyone determine the kind of metal it was?

    Lazar:
    Not to my knowledge.

    Mark:
    I understand that part of the propulsion system involves a
    very large capacitor -- which is usually the entire lower
    surface of the disk -- that can make use of something along the
    lines of the [Bifield] Brown Effect. Do you know what
    the components of the dielectric material in that capacitor
    are?

    Lazar:
    Well, if the bottom of the disk is one plate of the
    capacitor, then the dielectric material would be the air --
    if you're going to look at the earth as another plate of
    the capacitor. But as far as the capacitor being integral
    to the actual craft itself, no, I found no evidence of
    that.

    Mark:
    I understand there's an antenna section in this device; what
    is the resonant frequency that that operates at?

    Lazar:
    The resonant frequency of the gravity wave I do know, but
    I don't know it off hand; I just can't remember it.

    Mark:
    Can you give me a ballpark, like 2,000 kilohertz?

    Lazar:
    I really don't remember. It's a really odd frequency.

    Mark:
    Is it measured in kilohertz or gigahertz or megahertz?

    Lazar:
    I really don't remember.

    Mark:
    When you first started to go public and were meeting with
    people at John Lear's house, I understand that there were
    a number of witnesses at those first meetings. One of them
    claims that you did say that you had seen an extraterrestrial
    while working inside one of those saucers, trying to back-
    engineer the propulsion system, and that you had been
    looking out through a doorway or through a porthole in the
    side of the device and that you had actually seen an
    extraterrestrial walking around on the outside of one of
    those devices.

    Lazar:
    Devices meaning disks?

    Mark:
    Yes.

    Lazar:
    No.

    Mark:
    So you're saying you've never seen an extraterrestrial at
    S-4.

    Lazar:
    I really don't want to get into that.

    Mark:
    The reason I ask is because someone else is claiming that
    you have.

    Lazar:
    Well, stated the way you did, no I didn't. And I never did
    look and see an extraterrestrial. As the story goes, and
    the reason I never bring it up, is because I thought I saw
    something once -- walking at a glance -- and that's all there
    is to it. And I won't stand on that fact because it was
    just a fleeting glimpse; when I came back, whatever was
    there was gone; it could have been a million things.

    Mark:
    I have a contact that claims that you were responsible
    for determining that Element 115 was not in fact necessary
    to operate an anti-gravity propulsion device in the earth's
    magnetic field. Is that true?

    Lazar:
    No, it's the exact opposite.

    Caller:
    Why are you going public? There's obviously a lot of other
    staff on the project that senses a great degree of loyalty.

    Lazar:
    The straw that broke the camel's back was, after I left
    the program I became concerned about what happens now. I
    made a routine request for my birth certificate, which I
    needed just for I.D. purposes, and I was told that it
    doesn't exist, I wasn't even born at that hospital. I sat
    on that for about a week and just wondered, and then I
    began to inquire at previous jobs and also at other schools,
    and that information was also gone. And I got the idea that
    soon someone was going to disappear, so that's when I contacted
    the TV station and essentially let everything out.

    Caller:
    But you left the program under very amicable circumstances?

    Lazar:
    No, that's a long, involved story that I really don't want
    to get into.

    Caller:
    Are you afraid of any repercussions from the govenment?

    Lazar:
    Oh yeah, I was really concerned at one time.

    Caller:
    Less so now?

    Lazar:
    Yeah, less so now, but you still keep in the back of your
    mind . . .

    Caller:
    If anything would happen to you now, that would cause such an
    uproar in itself, the last thing they would do would be to go
    anywhere near you.

    Lazar:
    Exactly. As someone said on the media somewhere, if there're
    following me now, it's to make sure nothing happens to me.

    Caller:
    Did you witness any working models of the vehicle that were
    operational?

    Lazar:
    I only saw one operate. I saw one at close range while I
    was at the area and then at extreme distance -- about 15
    miles, when I brought some friends up to look at it.

    Caller:
    Using the technology that's being used, the craft are very
    agile, aren't they?

    Lazar:
    Oh yes, very, in one specific mode of travel.

    Caller:
    In one direction at a time?

    Lazar:
    No. There's two modes of travel. There's a low-speed mode
    and a high-speed mode. I don't remember what they called them;
    they had a specific name for them.

    Caller:
    What was the size of the staff working on the project?

    Lazar:
    22 people that I knew of, in the area that I worked in. How
    extensive the rest of the facility was, I don't know.

    Caller:
    I understand you were frustrated at the size of the staff.
    You thought it should have been larger?

    Lazar:
    Oh yeah! Much!

    Caller:
    More could have been learned about the program more
    quickly?

    Lazar:
    Sure! I mean, 22 people, c'mon!

    Caller:
    Do you think we understand enough about the alien propulsion
    technology to build our own vehicles, using this technology --
    or are we even close? Do we know what's going on?

    Lazar:
    Yeah, we know what's going on, but the problem is substituting
    earthly materials, and there's no easy way getting around that.

    Caller:
    How is Element 115 involved in the construction of the vehicles?

    Lazar:
    Everything seems to come down to 115. It's a super-heavy
    element. It seems that as you get into the heavier elements --
    and I'm sure this property extends into as-yet-undiscovered
    elements in excess of atomic number 115 -- that the ATOMIC
    gravity wave inside the atoms holding things together begins
    to extend outside of the atomic structure itself, and it's
    this wave that can be tapped off in quantity -- small quantity,
    actually. This wave can be amplified, contained, and used
    for a useful purpose.

    Goodman:
    Are your radiation detectors for nuclear power plants?

    Lazar:
    Not nuclear power plants; weapon . . .where they use
    plutonium.

    Goodman:
    Like the latest flight above us now?

    Lazar:
    The Galileo?

    Goodman:
    Yeah.

    Lazar:
    Yeah.

    Goodman:
    Are you involved with that, Mr. Lazar?

    Lazar:
    Not directly. Someone may have used our probes to
    detect --

    Number 37:
    Are they flying these vehicles within our city areas at any
    time?

    Lazar:
    I really don't know. I was only witness to a couple tests.
    I don't know how far they go. I think they're very careful
    with them. I personally don't think they're whipping them
    around the solar system because I don't know how profficient
    they are at operating them.

    Number 37:
    Do you read any UFO literature in book form?

    Lazar:
    Nothing in book form. I occasionally get handed little tidbits
    here and there and glance at them, but no, I don't delve
    into reading.

    Number 37:
    You mentioned some stuff on the Billy Meiers case. Have
    you read any of that information because you had mentioned
    that you had seen some pictures?

    Lazar:
    Yeah, I looked at the, what caught my eye was certainly
    the -- whatever that book's called -- Contact From the Plaeides
    or something -- but it's essentially a picture book; there's
    really no text in it. One of the craft in there looks strikingly
    similar to the one I call the Sport Model.

    Number 37:
    What did you think of that similarity? Did that puzzle you?

    Lazar:
    Yeah, because originally I had kind of discounted the Billy
    Meiers stuff, but that craft looks AMAZINGLY like the one that
    I worked on. And another thing, somewhere in that book they
    had a picture of a grassy field with three round indents in
    the ground. Now that would coincide with the three gravity
    amplifiers in the bottom of the craft and the imprint that
    they do make, so that kind of makes me believe that that
    really did occur.

    Number 37:
    You said you didn't necessarily share the same views of
    Bill Cooper and John Lear as far as the big picture
    was concerned?

    Lazar:
    I'm not exactly sure what each individual story is.
    John Lear has a specific story; Bill Cooper has a specific
    story. I do agree with both of them in the fact that,
    yeah, there's alien craft here and so on and so forth.
    John Lear thinks there're here to use us for food. I
    don't exactly remember Bill Cooper's story. But the little
    intricate parts here and there -- I just haven't seen any
    evidence MYSELF of it. I don't know what these gentlemen
    have found out on their own.

    Caller 37:
    From everything you know about it, do you believe there is
    a possibility there are benevolent creatures in the universe?

    Lazar:
    Oh sure.

    Goodman:
    How would you describe this picture?

    Lazar:
    It's an interesting picture. It looks like a formation of
    four and a formation of two flying saucers.

    Goodman:
    That picture came in a box delivered to the Vagabond Inn.
    No name, no nothing. Just a note:

    "This picture was taken from the 29-1/2-mile marker on the
    day that I had the best time of my life, thanks to you,
    Billy Goodman Happening."

    That's all.

    Lazar:
    There's even a distortion in the cloud behind a couple of
    them; that's really interesting.

    Goodman:
    That is right up there where people have gone. Bob mentioned
    the same thing that I said when I saw that: "Boy, that's
    a DAYTIME shot."

    Look at the smile on Bob Lazar's face!

    Lazar:
    It would be interesting to magnify it to some degree.
    Very interesting. They're glowing the color that the
    crafts glow.

    Goodman:
    I don't know who you are out there, but I thank you very,
    very, very much, because that is absolute, positive proof
    that they are up there in the sky having a good time.

    Do you think that they're flown by alien beings, or are
    WE -- the military -- doing it?

    Lazar:
    I think that the ones that we're testing . . . the one
    that I was involved in I think is being flown by the
    military. Whatever else is going on I don't know.

    Was that picture taken over Area 51?

    Goodman:
    That's right. And it looks like it. Recognize the peak?

    Lazar:
    Yeah. Of course, that's a daytime photograph. And I was
    told that all the testing was done at night. And, I mean,
    that's interesting.

    Goodman:
    You described, when you went inside one of these little
    puppies, that there were very, very small seats, almost like
    a kindergarten type.

    Lazar:
    Right. Exactly.

    Goodman:
    So we have to have some small guys doing it -- jockeys
    or something?

    Lazar:
    No,no. You could squeeze into it.

    Paul:
    Do these craft appear to be shuttle craft, not the main
    craft?

    Lazar:
    I don't know how you'd differentiate between the two?

    Paul:
    In most instances, people speak of them joining up with
    another craft and then going out of the atmosphere. Could
    the models you've seen be classed as shuttle craft in
    that respect?

    Lazar:
    I really don't know.

    Paul:
    They wouldn't carry a big fleet of people?

    Lazar:
    No, definitely not. They are small, I'm guessing right in
    the mid-30-, 40-foot range, somewhere in there. And as far
    as carrying a lot of cargo or beings or whatever, no, there's
    not a whole lot of room there. So possibly there is a larger
    craft that they join with, but I didn't see any.

    Paul:
    Are there more engines than there are craft at S-4?

    Lazar:
    That's a good question. There's nine craft. I really don't
    know.

    Paul:
    It would be something to explain how in the hell we got more
    engines than we do craft. There's got to be some kind of an
    agreement or somebody helping us.

    Lazar:
    Right. There's certainly more fuel than there needs to be.

    Paul:
    Since they have released you and taken away your scientific
    livelihood, I hope you go on the national circuit, 60 Minutes,
    the Carson show, everything you can get on, and milk it for
    every dime you can get.

    Lazar:
    [laughs]

    Paul:
    You have a right to do that since they interrupted your career.
    But the important thing is to get this stuff into the hands of
    the scientific community, that can do some good with it.

    They've been toying with it for years and nothing's come out of
    it. We can't get anywhere. We've got to get it out of the
    hands of these power-mongers.

    Lazar:
    I agree one hundred percent.

    Paul:
    I think that's why you took people up there in the first
    place. You were tired of their games.

    Wesley Crumb, Charleston, Illinois:
    It's a great privilege to get a chance to speak with you.
    I greatly admire your courage in coming forward. I saw a
    copy of the KLAS program you did. When I first heard about
    you I ran up about a $300 phone bill calling New York and
    Chicago, and everywhere. I got a rejection today from the
    Donahue show that they don't want to do a program about you.

    Did you go inside all nine spacecraft?

    Lazar:
    No, no, just one.

    Crumb:
    When you were inside the craft, did you see any indication
    that either through markings on the controls or otherwise
    that these ships were from a different place? Was there
    any writing on any controls or anything?

    Lazar:
    No, not on controls and things like that. But I did see
    some evidence of writing.

    Crumb:
    When you saw the slight demonstration that was performed for
    you, were you the only person that was there that saw this
    craft operate?

    Lazar:
    No, there were several people. I was standing right next to
    the person who was in radio contact with the craft.

    Crumb:
    How long did this demonstration last?

    Lazar:
    It was a short duration. It lifted off the ground, slid
    over to the left, then back to the right, and set back
    down. It was a very short duration.

    Crumb:
    But you never saw who was at the controls?

    Lazar:
    No, because when I was brought in, the craft was in the
    hangar. When I came out, it was already out of the hangar
    and sitting on -- well, sitting out away from the hangar
    some distance. So I don't know how it was brought out, who
    brought it out, who got in it. I can only guess.

    Crumb:
    Is the entire thing underground -- all nine different
    hangars?

    Lazar:
    No, it's not underground; it's just butt up against the
    side of a little mountain, a little hill kind of, but it's
    kind of inside the mountain.

    Crumb:
    Do you feel that the billions of dollars that are being
    spent on the space program by the administration is a waste
    of money, as we already have these ships in our posssession?

    Lazar:
    No, because look at all the technology that we did get out
    of the space program.

    Crumb:
    Was it ever disclosed to you that these craft were on loan
    to us. Is there a chance of them being repossessed at any
    time?

    Lazar:
    No, none of that was ever disclosed to me -- anything about
    the origin.

    Crumb:
    I heard a rumor earlier this evening that your van was shot
    at recently. Is there any truth to that?

    Lazar:
    I don't have a van. I was shot at in my car.

    Crumb:
    It got passed on to me from the Video Clearinghouse in
    Yucaipa, and we've been keeping pretty close touch ever
    since this news broke.

    I did get a call yesterday from the National Enquirer. They
    might follow up and try and do something for you, Bob.
    The Enquirer is not exactly the best way you want to go,
    but at least it does have some national exposure.

    Burt in Burbank:
    You said there's more fuel than necessary at the Test
    Site?

    Lazar:
    Yeah. I don't know exactly where it is, but there's
    500 pounds.

    Burt:
    500 pounds of Element 115?

    Lazar:
    Yeah, and it takes 223 grams per craft, so there's
    definitely an abundance of fuel out there.

    Burt:
    Could you quickly describe the underside of these
    ships?

    Lazar:
    No, because I only saw from a SIDE view of only
    one craft. The other ones were always sitting on the
    ground; I never saw it. But the underside is
    essentially flat. Now, I never got directly under it
    to look. There might be some features down there, but
    I really don't know.

    Burt:
    The reason I ask is because you were talking about the
    three distortions that can come down from the gravity
    engines to distort the graph.

    Are you aware of any time distortion within the saucer
    itself while they are running?

    Lazar:
    Yeah, there has to be.

    Burt:
    What about SIZE distortion within the ship?
    I've heard reports that people who have been in
    these that the inside seems much larger than the
    outside would indicate.

    Lazar:
    I have heard that too, but I haven't really seen
    any evidence of that.

    Burt:
    You were talking about the low- and high-speed modes
    and the control factors in there. Can you describe
    those modes and what the ship looks like each time
    it is going through those modes?

    Lazar:
    The low-speed mode -- and I REALLY wish I could remember
    what they call these, but I can't, as I can't remember
    the frequency of the wave --

    The low-speed mode: The craft is very vulnerable; it bobs
    around. And it's sitting on a weak gravitational field,
    sitting on three gravity waves. And it just bounces
    around. And it can focus the waves behind it and keep
    falling forward and hobble around at low speed.

    The second mode: They increase the amplitude of the
    field, and the craft begins to lift, and it performs a
    ROLL maneuver: it begins to turn, roll, begins to turn
    over. As it begins to leave the earth's gravitational
    field, they point the bottom of the craft at the
    DESTINATION. This is the second mode of travel, where
    they converge the three gravity amplifiers -- FOCUS
    them -- on a point that they want to go to. Then they
    bring them up to full power, and this is where the
    tremendous time-space distortion takes place, and that
    whips them right to that point.

    Burt:
    Did you actually bench-test a unit away from the
    craft itself?

    Lazar:
    The reactor, yeah.

    Burt:
    About how large is this, and could you describe it?

    Lazar:
    The device itself is probably a plate about 18 inches
    square; I said diameter before but it is square. There's
    a half-sphere on top where the gravity wave is tapped off
    of, but that's about the size of it.

    Amy:
    Are there subjects you won't talk about regarding what
    was going on at Groom Lake at the project?

    Lazar:
    No, I don't think so.

    Amy:
    Do you have future plans for more publicity?

    Lazar:
    There are several networks that are interested.

    Amy:
    60 Minutes?

    Lazar:
    That's been mentioned, but I haven't heard anything
    officially.

    Amy:
    Would you do it?

    Lazar:
    Yeah, I'd do a major network thing, sure.

    Amy:
    Are you familiar with the movie Hangar 18?

    Lazar:
    Yeah, I think I saw that when it first came out.

    Amy:
    Do you remember any parallels to what you know now?

    Lazar:
    I don't remember enough about the movie.

    Amy:
    The KLAS-TV program showed a Los Alamos newspaper
    article about you during the time that you were
    at Los Alamos. What paper was that? When was it
    written?

    Lazar:
    The Monitor, July 1982, or something like that.
    I think I still have a copy at home.

    Amy:
    Did the alien craft create harmful radioactivity
    in the area?

    Lazar:
    No.

    Amy:
    The woman talked about on the show a few days ago --
    the child and the two women [Cash/Landrum case?] -- and
    they now have cancer. How did that occur?

    Lazar:
    I've heard of that before, and that sounds like a
    really poor attempt at us producing a craft -- a
    nuclear-powered craft, really dirty, spewing nuclear
    material all over the place. It sounds something
    that we would make. It really rings human.

    Amy:
    Do the aliens appear to be the same physical makeup?
    From your research on the craft itself, can you tell
    if they are similar to us -- by the way it was
    designed?

    Lazar:
    Certainly smaller.

    Amy:
    But there's nothing other than that?

    Lazar:
    Not from the crafts. I read some material pertaining
    to what they call the typical grey. I believe
    them to be that.

    Goodman:
    It was interesting when you asked for your birth
    certificate, and you could not locate it. And
    they told you that literally you did not exist?
    They TOLD you this in so many words?

    Lazar:
    They said we just have no records here.

    Goodman:
    And YOU felt that you didn't exist?

    Lazar:
    I felt that that's what they were trying to
    make happen.

    Goodman:
    Are you familiar with that type of thing
    being done?

    Lazar:
    No, I never heard of it before. I guess
    other people have.

    Goodman:
    Did you ever get your birth certificate?

    Lazar:
    Nope.

    Goodman:
    What about diplomas and things of that nature?
    Was there any record of any colleges you have
    attended?

    Lazar:
    George Knapp tracked down one, and they still
    had a record there.

    Goodman:
    All the rest are gone?

    Lazar:
    Yeah.

    Goodman:
    Have you called the colleges yourself and asked
    for copies?

    Lazar:
    Yeah. Yeah. Just like I went and called Los
    Alamos, too, and they said, no, you never worked
    here, and you know, I've been there for years. You
    can present them with the information, look, here's
    my name in the [Los Alamos] phone book, here are the
    people that I've worked with, here is the guy that
    I worked for, this is the project I worked on, and
    all they say is no. I mean it's ridiculous.

    Goodman:
    And when you're talking to these people, I'm sure
    there are some that probably are just working there;
    they don't know any different. They are just checking
    the records and saying we don't have anything.

    Lazar:
    Right. You can hear them when you call up. They
    are checking on the computer. They will type in
    your name and it won't come up. So that's
    probably all they do know.

    Goodman:
    People should realize this -- nowadays especially --
    you could be pulled out -- all of us could -- and
    anything we've ever done. If someone pulls your
    name out of a computer where you've worked before
    or you've had some past, you don't exist because
    the new person or a personnel director going in and
    checking -- you're not there. You have no record
    of that individual.

    Lazar:
    Right. It depends on the level that you look into
    it, too. Like I said, George Knapp went out to
    Los Alamos, and that's where he got the telephone
    directory and spoke to someone I worked with out
    there, and so on.

    Goodman:
    This mode of travel involved in moving these
    UFOs around: Can you see that being a mode of
    travel for us in the future. You said it only
    took grams of fuel. That sounds pretty good
    to me as far as being efficient. Do you think that
    it's possible that we could be traveling like that
    in the future?

    Lazar:
    Well, obviously, THEY do, so I imagine it's possible
    in the future.

    Goodman:
    I'm talking about our automobiles. And do you have to
    be off the ground in order to travel like this?

    Lazar:
    Yeah, I think you do. It's not a very good mode of
    slow-speed travel.

    Goodman:
    Something else we talked about off the air. We might
    as well tell the people about it. Some strange things
    are going on in your life. You mentioned about car doors
    being opened. Describe what happened the other night
    when you and your . . . Shelley left the house and you
    came back and the doors were wide open. What do you
    think about all this?

    Lazar:
    It's crazy! A friend of mine, Shelley, was over, and
    we went out to a bar to have a, a, well, a buffet. We
    went out, locked the door, checked everything, and we
    came back several hours later, and all the doors were open.
    And nothing was disturbed in the house; nothing was
    taken. In her car that was left in the driveway, the
    seats were moved all the way back like someone big sat
    in them.

    I've gone with other friends to a health club that I
    go to. We lock the doors and check them; in fact, I
    usually keep a gun in the car and put my wallet on the
    dash. We've come out and the doors have been not just
    unlocked but actually open -- not even the wallet taken
    or the gun. Certainly kids would have done THAT. It's
    just like someone wants me to know that they're still
    there.

    Goodman:
    The last time you were on the Happening, you revealed
    the gentleman's name --

    Lazar:
    Dennis Mariano

    Goodman:
    -- saying he was threatening you and was the biggest
    problem in your life. Have you had any problems with him since
    then?

    Lazar:
    No, not recently, no.

    Goodman:
    How would the anti-matter reactor act in a car?

    Lazar:
    I don't know if I'd use that in a car. But if you wanted
    to, you could use it as a tremendous electrical power.

    Goodman:
    Which goes back to the beginning of time: We were going
    to have electric cars and were convinced we shouldn't have
    electric cars because we were told we would have to plug
    them in along the way.

    It wouldn't be necessary -- as they said years ago -- to
    plug in along the way to re-charge the batteries if we had
    something inside to generate --

    Lazar:
    Right. Along the same lines, you could make a NUCLEAR-powered
    car, too, running off plutonium.

    Goodman:
    If we wanted to get involved with this anti-matter-reactor-type
    or mode of travel, we'd have to have Element 115 --

    Lazar:
    Right.

    Goodman:
    -- which you had in your possession at one time.

    Lazar:
    Yeah, that's one of the things I got. And that was my
    ace-in-the-hole.

    Goodman:
    And they got it off you.

    Lazar:
    Yeah. We did get it. . . For people that saw the KLAS
    tape, where George Knapp points and says, "It's stored in
    containers similar to this one," well, that WAS one. And
    that's why we put it on there. It was kind of a jab at
    them to say we got it. That was the real ace-in-the-hole
    because if everyone came out and jumped on it and said
    this is all garbage and everything, you know, just to pop
    that out and say, go check this!

    Goodman:
    Listen guys out there at Area S-4: I know you're listening
    'cause we heard this recently. Why don't you get some of
    that somehow to Bob.

    Why would that be your ace-in-the-hole?

    Lazar:
    Because anyone can verify that it's an element that
    doesn't exist.

    Goodman:
    Boy, that would be wonderful if we could just get that.
    Any of you Mercury Workers up there that want to get
    involved, and say that you do want to get involved, that
    might be a great way to help Bob's cause out and to prove
    his story, behind the story.

    Bill from Las Vegas:
    Someone previously called in and said that some of the
    Mercury Workers had decided to get behind Lazar. Has Bob
    Lazar ever heard anything in relation to that? Have any
    of the Mercury Workers contacted him, and do any of them
    intend to go public as you have done?

    Lazar:
    I don't know what the situation is with those guys, if
    they're for real or not. I've got messages through people
    that someone called once and said there were three of them
    and two of them were captured down at S-4 being tortured.
    And there was another guy out here. And so I really don't
    know what the story is with those guys -- if they're for
    real or not.

    Bill:
    Have you had any contact from other scientists that you
    had worked with or any other scientists either at S-4
    or any other scientists that don't work there?

    Lazar:
    Scientists that DON'T work there, yeah, that I worked with
    at Los Alamos, sure. But none at S-4, no.

    Bill:
    Since you've gone public with this, you've had contact with
    them calling you and wanting to know what's going on,
    etcetera?

    Lazar:
    Oh yeah. There were a couple that I gave information to
    as we were going along. And they knew what was going on
    already -- through me.

    Bill:
    If you had other people to back you up and support you, it
    might lend more credibility to what you're saying.

    Lazar:
    That was part of the idea of getting it on the news, and
    I thought hopefully I would shake the tree and have these
    other guys come forward and all be able to corroborate the
    story and also have 115 under my belt, but that whole plan
    backfired.

    Bill:
    This is for them if they're listening: The rest of us
    simply just don't have the guts to do anything,
    apparently.

    Lazar:
    I wish they did.

    Bill:
    Anything in the works with regard to any national television
    coverage or news media coverage of any sort?

    Lazar:
    There's been lots of talk but nothing definite. There's no
    date set for anything, but there's been a tremendous amount
    of interest, national and international.

    Bill:
    I heard talk that there's a BIG underground base up there,
    too. Did you know anything about that?

    Lazar:
    I've heard that story, but I have no first-hand knowledge of
    it. I haven't been in any tunnels or any underground stuff.

    Bill:
    If these aliens that have these UFOs are obviously thousands
    of years advanced in technology, it seems, how in the world
    would it seem that the Government would come in possession
    of these UFOs, if in fact the aliens didn't actually want
    them to have them?

    Lazar:
    I don't know. They look in very good condition. It doesn't
    look like they were crashed, that they were retrieved somewhere.
    It really looks like they were given. So I don't know; that
    might be the case.

    Goodman:
    Have you ever given thought to the fact that maybe they were
    invited here and they actually landed here and that's why
    they were here?

    Lazar:
    Yeah, it's possible.

    Goodman:
    They could have come right to this area.

    Jim from Las Vegas:
    On TV, you spoke of observing a demonstration of this
    anti-matter gravity wave controller device. And you
    made a mock-up copy?

    Lazar:
    A friend made one, yeah.

    Jim:
    I heard you speak of bouncing golf balls off of this
    anti-gravity field?

    Lazar:
    Yeah.

    Jim:
    And also about the candle, the wax, and the flame
    stood still?

    Lazar:
    Right.

    Jim:
    And then the hole that you saw appear --

    Lazar:
    It wasn't a hole; it was a little disk.

    Jim:
    Under what conditions did you see this demonstrated.
    Elaborate on this. And how large was the force field?

    Lazar:
    The force field where the candle was?

    Jim:
    The force field created by the anti-matter device.

    Lazar:
    It was about a 20-inch radius from the surface of the sphere.

    Jim:
    Where was this area, just above the device?

    Lazar:
    Yeah, surrounding the sphere.

    Jim:
    Did the sphere surround the device?

    Lazar:
    No, the sphere sits in the center of the device.
    It's a half-sphere sitting on a plate, and a field
    surrounds the half-sphere.

    Jim:
    And you just place a candle in there?

    Lazar:
    No, no, no. That was a separate demonstration. I'm
    just telling you where the field EXTENDS from.

    Jim:
    Oh, that's what I'm curious about.

    Lazar:
    No, they tap the field off using a wave guide, off of
    the sphere. And this is a completely different setup, where
    they had a mockup small gravity amplifier, and there were
    three focused into a point, and that area of focus was
    probably nine or ten inches in diameter.

    Jim:
    They displaced this area or moved this area?

    Lazar:
    No, it wasn't displaced; it's just where the field was
    generated.

    Jim:
    And in there you put the candle?

    Lazar:
    Right.

    Jim:
    And that thing can actually bounce golf balls of of it?

    Lazar:
    No, no. The golf ball thing, again, had nothing to do with that
    setup. The golf ball thing had something to do with just when
    the reactor was energized, before the wave guide was put on or
    anything. We were just pushing on the field; it was being
    demonstrated to me; and we just bounced a golf ball off the top.

    Jim:
    And the candle: Does it melt and the flame stand still in
    this DISK that you're talking about?

    Lazar:
    Well, in the AREA, yeah.

    Jim:
    You don't have to put it in the center?

    Lazar:
    Right.

    Jim:
    Just anywhere in the area?

    Lazar:
    Well, the actual flame of the candle WAS in the area --
    in the center of the disk.

    Jim:
    And you saw this happen?

    Lazar:
    Yeah.

    Goodman:
    You don't show much emotion.

    Lazar:
    Maybe that's my nature, but that's what happens after ten
    o'clock if I'm sitting in one place.

    Goodman:
    I'm not being derogatory about it. I'm just saying it
    seems like there's no emotion. Some of this stuff that
    you're talking about just gives me chills!

    We get mail from people at Jet Propulsion Laboratory and
    McDonnell Douglas. Would you like to work for people
    like that?

    Lazar:
    I don't know. I'm kind of used to working for myself. I
    don't know about going to work for . . . especially anything
    attached to the Government again, [look with] distrust . . .

    Goodman:
    Off the air, I asked what would you like to see for the future
    and what could you do for humanity? He said we could talk about
    that, but the main concern right now is how he can support
    himself, and I didn't realize you were having difficulty as far
    as that.

    Lazar:
    Oh no, not really difficulty, but it's something always
    to look for.

    Goodman:
    How could anyone in our listening audience assist you?

    Lazar:
    Oh, they really can't. There's several things I did
    before I began to get into the program up there. I used
    to race my jet car. I'll probably start that up again
    this season and expand my scientific business, United Nuclear.
    I'll probably increase that into a sales field and things
    like that.

    Goodman:
    Okay, I just thought we could bring that up just in
    case there was someone out there that could use your
    services. What service do you offer, if someone out
    there could use it?

    Lazar:
    Someone would have to be fooling around with plutonium,
    and there aren't many people that do that.

    Goodman:
    Don't bet on that. You never know.

    Caller:
    Was the craft you worked on one that WE made or was it
    one that was brought here by the aliens from another
    planet?

    Lazar:
    This is a craft of alien origin.

    Caller:
    That was brought here BY them from another planet?

    Lazar:
    Yeah.

    Caller:
    Do we know anything about their way of life? Do they
    speak the same language or what?

    Lazar:
    I really don't know. I really know very little about
    that. I'd LIKE to know a lot about that. You assume
    that they mass-produce the craft, so there must be
    some sort of factory somewhere. That means there must
    be workers in the factory. Do they have a social life?
    I mean, the questions are endless. I'd like to know
    myself.

    Caller:
    And if they are here on this planet, WHERE are they?

    Lazar:
    That's another good question. You got me. I really
    don't know.

    Caller:
    If one walked up to my door, what am I supposed to do?

    Lazar:
    I don't know. I guess you'll find out really quick if
    they're benevolent or not. But as far as what to
    do, who knows?

    Goodman:
    Say you're up in Kansas out in a farmland and you see
    this person that looks really far-out, do you think
    they're just going to wait for them to come to the
    door or do you think they're going to shoot and ask
    questions later?

    Lazar:
    Probably shoot and ask questions later --

    Goodman:
    That's the problem. Wouldn't that cause all kinds
    of consternation amongst these people if they find
    out one of their people were --

    Lazar:
    Well, you have all the stories of the abductee
    reports, about medical examinations; I mean they go
    through a lot of trauma and stuff like that. When it
    came right down to it, if I was confronted by a bunch
    of them -- my car stopped or something to that effect,
    a craft obviously in sight -- yeah, I'd take on
    a hostile attitude really quickly.

    Goodman:
    Unless you were told differently --

    Lazar:
    Right.

    Goodman:
    -- by the Government: these people don't mean to harm
    you; they're going to be landing in your cities, whatever;
    just [kinda act friendly.]

    Caller:
    Do you think in the future our President will tell us
    on national television that the UFOs are here, that he
    will make it known to us?

    Lazar:
    I doubt it.

    Caller:
    You don't think he ever will?

    Lazar:
    No, I don't think he could muster up enough to do that.

    Caller:
    One of the presidents in the past was supposed to say
    that if he was elected he was going to tell us all about
    it, but he didn't.

    Lazar:
    Carter. That tells you something right there, because
    he never got in and denied it. He just got in and didn't
    say anything.

    New caller:
    Did you have a badge when you went to work?

    Lazar:
    Sure did.

    Caller:
    Did it have any designation on it?

    Lazar:
    As far as what?

    Caller:
    What did it say?

    Lazar:
    It's a white badge. It has two -- a light blue and a
    dark blue -- diagonal stripes through it. On the top
    it says MAJ-12. The clearance level is called
    MAJESTIC; I don't know if that was, like I said before
    I don't know if that means anything as far as the
    MAJESTIC-12 documents go, or if they just called that
    clearance that as a nostalgia type of thing. My picture
    was on it -- what else was on it . . .

    Caller:
    Did it have both MAJ and MAJESTIC -- both words?

    Lazar:
    The only place I ever saw MAJESTIC was on Dennis's
    [Mariano] badge, who was my supervisor, and his badge
    looks slightly different. I don't know if it was an
    older kind or what.

    Caller:
    You mentioned you were doing back-engineering, but
    specifically, what was the breakdown of your duties,
    for example, for one day, with respect to, say, what
    your co-workers were doing? What was the breakdown,
    the division of tasks?

    Lazar:
    I have no knowledge of what the other people were doing.

    Caller:
    But you were not working simply by yourself.

    Lazar:
    No, just with one person.

    Caller:
    And what was the difference between what you did and
    what he did?

    Lazar:
    Well, we were basically in the training phase. He was
    getting me up to date on everything, so we never split
    off, and you know, he went and did his thing, and I --

    Caller:
    Did you ever see an analysis or spectrogram of 115?

    Lazar:
    Yes.

    Caller:
    And what did that tell you?

    Lazar:
    Well, that it was an unknown element. Then we did density
    and weight calculations, which are pretty basic, and of
    course it was too heavy for its physical size. It was
    an X-Ray spectrograph. I don't remember what other
    tests we did to it.

    Caller:
    How did you know what the times of testing would be to
    go up to the sites to view the object. And do you know
    where it's being tested now?

    Lazar:
    Dennis told me the testing times. And of course those
    were the times that I relayed to other people, and we
    went out there. What was the other question?

    Caller:
    Do you know where it's being tested now?

    Lazar:
    Oh, I have no idea. In fact, if I was them, the last
    place I would test them would be S-4.

    Another Caller:
    Are you familiar with Alnico 5 magnetic material we
    use here?

    Lazar:
    Yeah, it's a common -- I never heard the 5
    designation.

    Caller:
    It's a very dense magnet. Is that close to the
    material of 115?

    Lazar:
    Oh no, not at all. That's an acronym for aluminum,
    nickel, iron, and cobalt, none of them being anywhere
    near it whatsoever.

    Caller:
    Are there portholes on that craft?

    Lazar:
    At the very top, there is portholes; they are square,
    though.

    Caller:
    But they must be able to see by TV or. . .?

    Lazar:
    I don't know. I just saw from the outside. When I was
    inside, I never -- I don't think I really even bothered
    to look up there; I don't recall.

    Caller:
    With the gravity generators running, is there thermal
    radiation?

    Lazar:
    No, not at all. I was never down on the bottom WHILE
    the gravity generators were running, but the reactor
    itself -- there's no thermal radiation whatsoever. That
    was one of the really shocking things because that
    violates the first law of thermodynamics.

    Caller:
    The atomic weight of the 115 material: Is that heavier?
    We know the 115 atomic weight would be different from the
    gravitational weight. Is the gravitational weight of
    that material very heavy?

    Lazar:
    Yeah.

    Caller:
    How does that stuff break off? Do you saw it or does it
    grind up. How do you get to test grams or whatever it is?

    Lazar:
    I don't know. I really don't know how that's machined into
    it. I know it is machined, but I don't know if there's
    any special procedures employed.

    Caller:
    Does it melt?

    Lazar:
    I'm sure it does. And just historically, all heavy elements
    are also toxic. I imagine it is a very toxic thing. What
    else? If you use the standard designations as started at
    103, its name would be "unuspentium [sp?]." Its symbol --
    if it's going to be plugged into the periodic chart -- would
    be UUP. In fact. I have a friend that gave it kind of a cute
    name; he calls it "unobtainium."

    Caller:
    In your wildest dreams, do you think you would be able to
    create any of this stuff on earth -- in order to do the same
    thing?

    Lazar:
    In fact, I'm in the process of fabricating the gravity
    amplifier, but then I'm at a tremendous shortage for power.
    So yeah, I have even tried to do that stuff on my own.

    Caller:
    Is there any electronics as we know it -- chips or
    transitors?

    Lazar:
    No, nothing like that. Because of the tremendous power
    involved, too, there was no direct connection between
    the gravity amplifiers and the reactor itself.

    Caller:
    Are the wave guides similar to what we use with
    microwaves?

    Lazar:
    Very similar.

    Goodman:
    You mentioned all heavy metals are toxic?

    Lazar:
    Yeah, they seem to be. Lead, radium, plutonium . . .

    Goodman:
    Element 115?

    Lazar:
    You would just assume it would be toxic.

    Caller:
    Is Sector 4 also called Papoose Dry Lake Bed?

    Lazar:
    Yeah.

    Caller:
    Is it also in a place called Emigrant Valley?

    Lazar:
    Right. You can see Papoose Dry Lake from out of the
    hangar doors.

    Caller:
    In regard to the long-range method of travel, isn't
    a propulsion unit the wrong idea? I feel this device
    is creating a situation where it is diminishing or removing
    the localized gravitational field, and long-distance body
    that they're heading toward is actually PULLING the vehicle
    rather than it being pushed. Am I correct in this?

    Lazar:
    The vehicle is not being pushed. But being pulled implies
    it's being pulled by something externally: it's pulling
    something else to IT. IT's creating the gravitational
    field.

    Caller:
    Is there any relation to the monopoles which [scientists]
    have been looking for?

    Lazar:
    Well, they've been looking for the monopole magnet.
    But then this [the UFO force] is a gravitational force.

    Caller:
    Different things but exhibiting similar effects?

    Lazar:
    Right.

    Caller:
    Last night I saw a four-door Japanese car. On the
    right-side, rear, passenger door there were three
    9mm bullet holes, about a 12-inch group. Is that
    the vehicle that was shot at?

    Lazar:
    No. That's similar to my car, but they missed me.

    New Caller:
    Do we give something in exchange for all this information
    they're giving us?

    Lazar:
    I really don't know. I don't know what went on behind
    the scenes as far as how we got the technology.

    Caller:
    Did they give us the 115 in large quantities?

    Lazar:
    Yeah, 500 pounds is what I'm told. The way I've
    seen it, it comes in little thin disks close to the
    size of a half dollar.

    Caller:
    Did you ever own any, or -- ?

    Lazar:
    Yeah.

    Caller:
    What happened to it?

    Lazar:
    It's gone. It was stolen out of my house along with
    some other stuff that I got from there.

    Caller:
    [By] the Government?

    Lazar:
    That's what I assume; I HOPE it's in their hands;
    I'd hate it to be in . . . A few people did know
    about it -- some UFO-related people -- and I'd hate
    for unexperienced people to be in possession of
    the stuff.

    But yeah, that was taken. We did get some film of
    it and some film of it doing some really unusual
    things.

    Caller:
    How did you get hired at Area 51?

    Lazar:
    I was referred by a well-known physicist to talk to
    someone. And I really don't want to go all into that
    because then I'm pointing fingers at specific people.

    Caller:
    Were everyone's mouths shut where you worked?

    Lazar:
    Yeah, everyone wouldn't let you talk, and it wasn't a
    really happy environment. Everyone was just into what
    they were doing and that was it.

    New Caller:
    What year were you working up there?

    Lazar:
    Last year.

    Caller:
    I heard from someone I know that's a pretty good
    source that a small amount of plutonium, like a picogram,
    might be good for you. Is that true?

    Lazar:
    No, not at all.

    Goodman:
    What would you use plutonium for?

    Lazar:
    To die. In the lungs, it's almost immediate lung cancer.
    It's toxic in itself. The body has a tough time getting
    rid of it. It's just bad news.

    Goodman:
    And you're messing with it.

    Lazar:
    I don't have any at my house.

    Goodman:
    You said that's part of what you're working on.

    Lazar:
    Electronic equipment to detect plutonium: They're
    called alpha radiation detectors or air proportional
    detectors.

    Goodman:
    Why do you want to detect the plutonium?

    Lazar:
    They use them to screen personnel that are leaving an
    area that's been plutonium contaminated; they check
    equipment for plutonium contamination; so on and so
    forth.

    Goodman:
    This is as bad as radiation?

    Lazar:
    Plutonium does produce radiation.

    Goodman:
    So it's as bad as when they've been clearing the people
    in nuclear power plants and stuff like this?

    Lazar:
    Yeah.

    Goodman:
    And you're devising a device that's going to be
    easier?

    Lazar:
    No, our device is just less expensive.

    Caller:
    Can you list your credentials?

    Lazar:
    As far as what?

    Caller:
    Schooling, degrees.

    Lazar:
    I have two masters degrees; one's in physics; one's in
    electronics. I wrote my thesis on MHD, which is
    magnetohydrodynamics.

    I worked at Los Alamos for a few years as a technician
    and then as a physicist in the Polarized Proton Section,
    dealing with the accelerator there.

    I was hired at S-4 as a senior staff physicist to work on
    gravitational propulsion systems and whatnot associated with
    those crafts.

    Caller:
    What school did you go to?

    Lazar:
    I'd rather not say, the reason being I am currently
    working with them under contract, and I'm having enough trouble
    with this as it is.

    Caller:
    Why did you leave the Groom Lake project?

    Lazar:
    I don't want to go into that either. That's a big,
    long complicated story. It gets into my personal life,
    too, and I don't want to get into that.

    Caller:
    Have there been any attempts made on your life?

    Lazar:
    Yeah.

    Caller:
    When was the last one?

    Lazar:
    There was only one direct one. I really don't remember
    when that was, maybe six, eight months ago, something like
    that. Just being shot at getting out on the freeway.

    Caller:
    Did another car drive by and shoot you?

    Lazar:
    Yeah.

    Caller:
    Are there any weapons on board the alien craft?

    Lazar:
    Not that I know of. Of course, the gravity generators
    themselves can be focused, and I imagine that can be
    used as a weapon.

    Caller:
    How many alien people do they hold?

    Lazar:
    I don't know. How many people can you fit in a car?
    I imagine if there's a bunch standing up, you can pack
    them in there.

    Caller:
    Is Element 115 an extraterrestrial material?

    Lazar:
    Yes, definitely.

    Caller:
    How do you suppose the S-4 project came to acquire
    500 pounds if it's not from this world?

    Lazar:
    I would imagine it came on one of the craft.

    Caller:
    Extra fuel, huh?

    Lazar:
    Maybe.

    Caller:
    How close can a civilian get to Area 51 or Emigrant
    Valley? What is security like? How many guards and
    so forth?

    Lazar:
    I think the closest you can get is probably about 10 miles,
    and then you get a mountain between you and them.

    Caller:
    A lot of patrols?

    Lazar:
    Oh yeah.

    Goodman:
    Off the air, you said you traveled one time on hydrogen
    in your car.

    Lazar:
    Yeah, I had a 1978 TransAm I converted to run on hydrogen.

    Goodman:
    We were talking about this one night as a new fuel for
    transportation. Is that more dangerous than gasoline?

    Lazar:
    It depends how it's stored. There's ways you can do it.

    You can store it as a gas, compressed in a cylinder where,
    yeah, it's dangerous and explosive.

    You can store it as a liquid -- cryogenic liquid --
    where it's also dangerous and explosive.

    Or you can also store it in a hydride [sp], a chemical
    that absorbs hydrogen like a sponge absorbs water. When
    it's in that storage state, it's really not flammable.
    You heat the chemical using the radiator water, or electrically,
    or the exhaust gas to produce the hydrogen, and there's only
    a small amount at a time ever produced. And in that instance
    it's a lot safer than gasoline, and that's the method I use.

    Goodman:
    In other words, we could put these in automobiles?

    Lazar:
    Absolutely, definitely. The only exhaust is water vapor --
    essentially steam and very little oxides.

    Goodman:
    Where do we get hydrogen?

    Lazar:
    The most common place is from water. When you pass electricity
    through water, you break down the bonds and wind up with oxygen
    and hydrogen.

    Goodman:
    What could we be charged if we pulled up to a tank and asked
    for some water?

    Lazar:
    It takes energy to separate the water back into its molecular
    state, or atomic state rather.


    Goodman:
    But forgetting what the components are inside the car, if
    a driver were to drive up, they would just have to put water
    into this particular unit? Could they make it that simple?

    Lazar:
    You could make it that simple, yes.

    Goodman:
    Has this been known for years in the scientific field?

    Lazar:
    There's been plenty of cars that have been made to run on
    hydrogen. In fact one state somewhere has their entire postal
    fleet with little jeeps that run on hydrogen. There's a
    company called Billings Energy that does the conversions.

    Goodman:
    Why do you think it's not being made readily available to us?

    Lazar:
    There's probably lots of reasons. You're looking at the oil
    companies. . .

    Goodman:
    Okay. That's what I wanted to get to.

    Lazar:
    But you can always point your finger at them for anything.

    Goodman:
    But I mean, it's just being held back from us even though it
    could be here.

    Lazar:
    But you've got the problem of availability, too, if you're
    going to just use gaseous hydrogen.

    Goodman:
    What would it take to change our current motor in a car to
    accept this?

    Lazar:
    Not very much at all. It's very similar to a propane
    conversion.

    Goodman:
    Have you heard from Mr. Teller at all?

    Lazar:
    No.

    Goodman:
    Not one word? In other words, he's done nothing at all?

    Lazar:
    No.

    Goodman:
    You said we're nowhere near being able to have an
    anti-matter reactor?

    Lazar:
    No, not at all. The first thing we'll come up with
    when we toy with that some more is -- and there's already
    been talk of it -- is an anti-matter weapon. Unfortunately,
    that's the easiest thing to produce. First we'll see that
    before we'll see potential useful uses.

    Goodman:
    I was talking to Bob Lazar off the air, and Bob is a jet
    car driver. That's how he relaxes, doing 350 miles per hour.

    Roger:
    Are the nine disks quite different in appearance?

    Lazar:
    Yeah, they're all completely different in appearance.

    Roger:
    Are they then perhaps from different star systems?

    Lazar:
    Could be.

    Roger:
    You said the one you looked at, the Sport Model, was from
    Reticulum, right?

    Lazar:
    That's what I READ.

    Roger:
    So that has the gravity propulsion system. But then some
    of the others may have some other type of propulsion system?

    Lazar:
    I was told that the reactors are all similar in them [the crafts],
    and from that I just assume that the propulsion system is the
    same. But it is possible that the other ones have different
    propulsion systems, yeah.

    Roger:
    How many light years from Earth to Reticulum?

    Lazar:
    32, 33, 34, somewhere around there.

    Roger:
    They must get away from Earth before they amplify these
    gravitational systems, do they not?

    Lazar:
    They don't HAVE to, but it has to be a line of sight where
    they can move to.

    Roger:
    In other words, it wouldn't have any effect on the Earth even
    though it were close to it when they turned it on?

    Lazar:
    No.

    Roger:
    Where do the aliens fit into religion? They must say
    something about it. I heard that they had a [bearing]
    on us through religion, perhaps through colonization.

    Lazar:
    I've read some about that. You know, I don't want to
    go into that because that's going to upset everybody.

    Caller:
    What is the top speed of the craft?

    Lazar:
    It's tough to say a top speed because to say speed you have
    to compare distance and time. And when you're screwing
    around with time and distorting it, you can no longer judge
    a velocity. They're not traveling in a linear mode where they
    just fly and cover a certain distance in a certain time.
    That's the real definition of speed. They're bending and
    distorting space and then essentially snapping it back with
    the craft, so the distances they can travel are phenomenal --
    in little or no time. So speed has little bearing.

    Caller:
    Is the laser part of their technology or their flying speed?

    Lazar:
    No, I haven't seen anything along that line.

    Caller:
    Is Rockwell involved with that?

    Lazar:
    Not that I've seen.

    Pistol:
    You've mentioned anti-gravity generator and anti-matter
    generator. Are they different?

    Lazar:
    It's not a gravity generator; it's a gravity amplifier. I
    get tongue-twisted all too often.

    The anti-matter reactor provides the power for the craft and
    the basic low-amplitude gravitational wave, which is too low
    of an amplitude to do anything. It's piped into the gravity
    amplifiers, which are found at the bottom of the craft.
    There it's amplified into an extremely powerful wave, and
    that's what the craft is flown on. But there is an anti-matter
    reactor: that's what provides the power.

    Roger Nelson, KBAY-Radio San Francisco announcer:
    Last time I asked Bob Lazar about the hyper-light propulsion
    systems he had seen, he said the crafts have hyper-light
    capabilities -- beyond the speed of light. Do you know
    anyone in our government or who worked on the craft who
    might be from Earth who has taken those craft and flown
    past the speed of light to other galaxies?

    Lazar:
    I don't, and I don't know if they have been used for that.

    Nelson:
    Is there any way to find how many of our guys on particular
    programs have gone to space, what they're learning, exactly
    where they are now, and whether or not there's any tie-in
    with the Alternative Three Escape-Earth Plan that supposedly the
    Government leaders are stirring up now. Is there any place
    that you know of that this information can be found?

    Lazar:
    I imagine, if any of that is in fact true, it would be found in
    the midst of S-4 or 51 down there. But how to contact those guys
    and actually get them to talk is a feat not yet attained.

    Nelson:
    What is it you are now doing now that they have cut you off
    at the knees?

    Lazar:
    I do other scientific research and produce, design, and
    repair alpha radiation detection equipment.

    Nelson:
    A number of copies of these broadcasts and the show on
    Channel 8 and all the other stuff has been getting around,
    perhaps even internationally. Has anybody bothered you since
    you went public?

    Lazar:
    Other than the sily little things that have been done, no,
    nothing, nothing big to be concerned about.

    Nelson:
    Are we going to see you at any of these things like the
    January 7th conference ["An Evening With Bill Cooper," Showboat
    Hotel Sports Pavilion, Las Vegas, Nevada, 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.,
    $15 per person], or other symposiums in the future?

    Lazar:
    I don't think so, no.

    Nelson:
    Well look, I think you're a very brave man. With that kind of
    an onus on your head, it takes a lot of courage to keep coming
    back to the airwaves. I stand up and cheer as one.

    Caller:
    How do your magnetohydrodynamics studies relate to the hot
    spots in the earth's magnetic flux, and does that relate to the
    deep-hole theory, the Soviet Union's plan?

    Lazar:
    I don't know what the Soviet Union's plan was. I looked at
    it from a power point of view, as producing on a large scale
    plasma-generated energy in a power-plant situation, or producing
    something that would retrofit -- like a coal-fired plant that
    has a lot of waste heat and high-energy plasma.

    Caller:
    The question is, are you experimenting using the earth's flux?

    Lazar:
    No. There's stand-alone high-energy magnets that I use.

    Caller:
    What is the atomic weight of 115?

    Lazar:
    I hate even to guess. I know it because we've written it down
    because we've calculated it, but I really don't remember.

    Caller:
    Can you give us a ballpark?

    Lazar:
    No, 'cause I'd be wrong! Just like if I gave a ballpark on the
    gravitational wave frequency -- and that's really bugging the hell
    out of me.

    There were three things, as a matter of fact, that for some reason
    I've developed a mental block on. I'll have to call Billy, and
    then he can announce it on the air. I'll just call him and then
    he can relay it to everyone.

    New Caller:
    I'd like to stand up and cheer for Bob Lazar! It does take a
    lot of courage, and it's about time somebody stepped forward with
    some information that's being kept from us for so long.

    How long do you think it took them to make their journey here,
    using their methods of propulsion?

    Lazar:
    An extremely short time. I'd hesitate to say, but I don't think
    you're even looking at days.

    Caller:
    Is that because of this gravity lines-of-force thing or because
    time stands still for them and it really does take a long time
    but they don't know it because time stands still?

    Lazar:
    No, they're actually traveling almost IN-BETWEEN time because
    of the way that they distort time and space. So that they're
    traveling vast distances without the incrementation of time.
    The time would be very, very little. Days is probably --
    I'm way off saying that, too. But I hate to say something
    and be really far off.

    Caller:
    Could these aliens be robots and not actually be native beings
    from that galaxy?

    Lazar:
    I imagine it's possible. Who knows what actually flew the
    craft, whether or not aliens have ever been in Area S-4
    down there, but it's possible that some automated creature
    flew them. Who knows?

    Goodman:
    You made a statement when he asked how long it took them
    to get here, and when you were inside the spacecraft itself
    you didn't see any sleeping quarters. So perhaps they just
    start in the morning and they're here in the afternoon;
    it's that simple as far as OUR time goes.

    Lazar:
    If it even takes that long.

    Barbara:
    When your hypnotherapist, Layne Keck, talked on the air
    about you, did you request that?

    Lazar:
    That he talk about me?

    Barbara:
    Uh huh.

    Lazar:
    No, George Knapp requested that, and then Layne called me to
    find out if it would be okay, and I said yeah, go ahead.

    Barbara:
    Well, I called the office and that was what I was told,
    and it didn't seem quite --

    Lazar:
    That I requested Layne to go on? No.

    Barbara:
    That's what the person in the office said.

    How was your experience there with him? How did you feel
    about your experience?

    Lazar:
    As far as what? How I got along with Layne?

    Barbara:
    No. As far as how you felt comfortable with going back
    to some unpleasant experiences.

    Lazar:
    The emotions came up when you're under hypnosis, and that
    part wasn't exactly pleasant.

    Barbara:
    How do you feel about it today?

    Lazar:
    I feel better. At the time, it wasn't very pleasant.
    But in general, just being under hypnosis is a really
    good feeling.

    Barbara:
    You have the videotape of that?

    Lazar:
    Yeah.

    Barbara:
    It's in your possession?

    Lazar:
    I don't want to say where it is, but I know where it is.

    Barbara:
    I'm going to be doing that because I was with him. So for
    my own personal information, I just wanted to do that,
    because I have good aliens, bad aliens, you know, it runs
    in my family. And there's an extreme reason why I'm going to
    be doing this, so I wanted to clarify that and try to
    make myself . . .Although I can do it on my own, I won't
    go deeper than a certain point.

    New Caller:
    Is there any limit on the distance a spaceship can travel.
    Can it actually travel out of our galaxy to the Andromeda
    galaxy? How far can 223 grams of Element 115 take you?

    Lazar:
    I really don't know. From what I understand, the actual
    consumption of the element is very low; I imagine it is
    possible with enough [junk] made to travel to another galaxy.

    Caller:
    I assume the gravity wave is more powerful than the
    gamma wave, correct?

    Lazar:
    Than the GAMMA wave?

    Caller:
    Or the spectral wave? What's the limit on light waves
    with the 10 billion light years or something -- how far light
    can travel?

    Lazar:
    A limit as far as what? It depends on the interaction:
    the gravitational fields the beam passes through, the
    photons pass through, and so on and so forth, so there's
    no real limit at true dead space.

    As I said last time, and only one person took advantage
    of it, if anyone does have any questions they want to ask
    me, they can write in care of this station. A person called
    earlier and wanted a copy of that newspaper article. I
    have no problem in copying that and sending it to him.
    So just write to the station, whatever the address is.

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    REPORT ON A SURVEY OF THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE
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    SUMMARY


    Refereed journals, to which scientists turn for their reliable
    information, carry virtually no information on the UFO problem. Does
    this imply that scientists have no views and no thoughts on the
    subject, or that all scientists consider it insignificant? Does it
    imply that scientists have no reports to submit comparable with UFO
    reports published in newspapers and popular books? The purpose of this
    survey is to answer these questions.

    Of 2,611 questionnaires mailed to members of the American Astronomical
    Society, 1,356 were returned, 34 anonymously. Only two members offered
    to waive anonymity. These facts and many comments confirm that the UFO
    problem is a sensitive issue for most scientists. Nevertheless, only a
    few (13) respondents made critical remarks about the subject or the
    survey; 50 made encouraging statements, 34 offered to help, and 7
    indicated that they are actively studying the problem.

    Each respondent was asked to state his opinion on whether the UFO
    problem deserves scientific study: 23% replied "certainly", 30%
    "probably", 27% "possibly", 17% "probably not", and 3% "certainly not",
    which represents a positive attitude among 53% of the respondents, as
    against a negative attitude among 20%. Analysis of the returns shows
    that older scientists are markedly more negative to the problem than
    are younger scientists. One also finds that opinions correlate strongly
    with time spent reading about the subject. The fraction of respondents
    who think that the subject certainly or probably deserves scientific
    study rises from 29%, among those who have spent less than one hour, to
    68% among those who have spent more than 365 hours in such reading. It
    appears that popular books and publications by established scientists
    exert a positive influence on scientists' opinions, whereas newspaper
    and magazine articles exert negligible influence.

    Respondents were asked to express their views on possible causes of UFO
    reports by assigning "prior probabilities" to four "conventional"
    causes [(a) a hoax, (b) a familiar phenomenon or device, (c) an
    unfamiliar natural phenomenon, and (d) an unfamiliar terrestrial
    device] and four "unconventional" causes [(e) an unknown natural
    phenomenon, (f) an alien device, (g) some specifiable other cause, and
    (h) some unspecifiable other cause]. There was a very wide spread of
    opinions on this issue. Averaging all returns gives the values: (a)
    .12, (b) .22, (c) .23, (d) .21, (e) .09, (f) .03, (g) .07. This average
    response is therefore quite open-minded, although many individual
    responses are not. Older people tend to give more credence to the
    possibility of a hoax and less to unconventional possibilities. By
    contrast, those who have studied the subject extensively attach less
    weight to the possibility of a hoax and greater weight to the
    unconventional possibilities.

    Over 80% of respondents expressed a willingness to contribute to the
    resolution of the UFO problem if they could see a way to do so but, of
    those expressing this interest, only 13% could see a way. This is a
    notable consensus which may encapsulate the dilemma which this problem
    presents to scientists. Those who have studied the subject are more
    willing to help and more likely to see a way to help.

    Most respondents consider that meteorology, psychology,
    astronomy/astrophysics and physics have relevance to the UFO problem
    and some consider that aeronautical engineering and sociology may also
    be relevant. Most respondents (75%) would like to obtain more
    information on the subject, but they express a strong preference for
    getting it from scientific journals rather than from books or lectures.

    The returns identified 62 respondents who had witnessed or obtained an
    instrumental record of an event which they could not identify and which
    they thought might be related to the UFO phenomenon. The total number
    of events reported was larger (65) since some respondents reported more
    than one event. In addition, ten _identified_ strange observations were
    mentioned, four investigations were described (including one detailed
    study of ground traces), and attention was drawn to a few strange
    events described in the scientific literature. It was found that these
    62 respondents have spent longer than average studying the UFO problem,
    that they are more positive in their assessment of the scientific
    importance of the problem, and that they tend to be more open-minded
    about unconventional explanations. Only 18 (about 30%) of these
    respondents indicated that they had previously reported their
    observations; seven to the Air Force, Navy or NORAD, one to the police,
    two to airport authorities, seven to other scientists, and one to a
    newspaper.

    Sixty-three percent (63%) of those reporting events were night-sky
    observers, as against 50% of respondents who did not report events.
    Thirty-six (36) of the events comprised lights seen in the sky at
    night. Twelve (12) were of point lights which were more or less
    puzzling; four (4) were of formations of lights; and four (4) were of
    diffuse lights. Three respondents independently described what appeared
    to be a searchlight playing on a cloud when there were no clouds in the
    sky. Four described disk-like objects, and five described objects with
    different shapes. Three cases concerned objects which appeared to emit
    smaller objects or "sparks." One case described apparent interference
    with an automobile electrical system (as did also a daylight case).

    There were sixteen accounts of strange objects seen by day. Five were
    of small objects, seven were of disk-shaped objects, and four described
    other miscellaneous observations.

    Seven respondents described photographic records of strange phenomena,
    and three were kind enough to provide me with copies of the photographs
    or film. (With help, I was able to make plausible interpretations of
    two of these.) One respondent recalled a radar observation he had made,
    another described two strange radio records, and a third described
    puzzling records obtained by a satellite tracking station.

    This study leads to the following answers to the questions initially
    posed. To judge from this survey of the membership of the American
    Astronomical Society, it appears that:

    (a) scientists have thoughts and views but no answers concerning the
    UFO problem;

    (b) Although there is no consensus, more scientists are of the opinion
    that the problem certainly or probably deserves scientific study than
    are of the opinion that it certainly or probably does not;

    and (c) a small fraction (of order 5%) are likely to report varied and
    puzzling observations, not unlike so-called "UFO reports" made by the
    general public. As is the case with reports from the public, many may
    be unusual observations of familiar objects, but some seem to be
    definitely strange.

    These results are consistent with the findings of an earlier but more
    limited survey of members of the American Institute of Aeronautics and
    Astronautics (Sturrock, 1974b), except that the opinions of astronomers
    (expressed in 1975) concerning the significance of the UFO problem were
    more positive than were the views of aeronautical engineers (expressed
    in 1973).



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