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Bob Lazar
By Tim Ventura | Published  04/1/2006 | Feature Articles | Rating:
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Wired calls him "The Linus Torvalds of Antigravity", but NASA still won't return his calls. Since the birth of American Antigravity in 2002, Tim has been featured on a multitude of television networks, such as Nippon TV and the BBC, as well as extensively covered in print by sources as diverse as Wired Magazine and Jane's Defense Weekly. 

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Truth, Lies, and Top-Secret Propulsion Systems

In late 2003, Bob Lazar recruited me to work on a top-secret propulsion project at Sandia National Labs that probably never existed. Lazar speaks believably, and if it wasn't for the story itself, I never would have questioned his veracity. Two years later I still don't have the answers, but I've got a lot of questions -- and the biggest is who let him work at Sandia in the first place?

In 1989, Bob Lazar came forward with the stunning announcement that he had worked as a technician on captured alien spacecraft at Area 51. He claimed that he'd been hired after famed scientist Edward Teller saw him racing "jet-cars" in the Nevada desert, and it had led him to a series of closely-monitored visits to Area 51 as a consultant in the effort to determine exactly how UFO propulsion systems might work.

Lots of claimants have come forward telling stories about seeing UFO's at Area 51, but Lazar's story had a bit more evidence than most -- he had a mysterious pay stub from the Department of Defense indicating that he'd received compensation for working as a scientist, and more importantly, he had details about the times of several test-flights in 1989 that had led a group of acquaintances into the desert to watch mysterious lights in the sky that Lazar said were Alien Spacecraft being tested by the US Air Force.

Ever wonder what happened to Lazar after the media went away? So did I, so in 2002 I decided to find out what the real story was behind Bob Lazar's amazing tale, and began my own journey into a realm of government cover-ups, black-projects, and half-truths that would lead me to question not only the foundations of Lazar's story, but also my own circumstances as well. I didn't know it at the time, but I would become the next chapter in the continuing saga of Bob Lazar...


Note: You can listen to Bob Lazar's response to interview questions by George Knapp about this story in mp3-format, windows-media format, or online from the Coast to Coast AM show archives for April 2nd, 2006.

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  • Comment #1 (Posted by Marc)
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    Is this your idea of an April Fool's joke? [EDITOR - LIKE THE ARTICLE SAYS, IT'S NOT A JOKE. THIS WAS A REAL EXPERIENCE, AND I WROTE IT UP EXACTLY AS IT HAPPENED.]
     
  • Comment #2 (Posted by B-ware)
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    It will be interesting to see if Bob has a response to this article. It's also possible that the project went ahead but that they decided it would be best to keep Tim out of it :)
     
  • Comment #3 (Posted by Lode)
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    Why is Lazar still alive if what he says is true ?
    Disinfo is the mixing of much truth with occasional lies. I think the purpose of element 115 in his story is to make antigravity unattainable to the ordinary researcher. Antigravity can be obtained with the rotating magnetic field. So, I regard old Bob as a disinformation agent. This explains his nervousness on the phone after x years of "retirement" in some spook agency.
     
  • Comment #4 (Posted by alesir1)
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    on this site , you only talk about the propulsion system that is used on ALL those crafts ( magnetic double-coils in resonance ) , so whether lazar has worked on this or not is irrelevant and of no importance because the subject revolves around private industrials and their ops , not lazar story .
     
  • Comment #5 (Posted by X)
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    Well its April 3. How about a link to Lazar's latest interview so we can see what he says now.
    Like Tim, I have always found Lazar's comments to be very interesting, almost irresistable. Maybe its just that "I want to believe".
     
  • Comment #6 (Posted by Marc)
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    Follow up to my first comment. Comment#1
    I wrote this the night of the C2C broadcast with Lazar, but the American Antigravity site went down. So I saved my thoughts and am posting them now.

    OK, but that's just bizarre. I've listened to his original story since it first came out and I heard you call Art Bell for the first time years ago when you first talked about JLN. OK, I listened to coast to coast and heard how they just dismissed you tonight. I've followed your site for several years now and you strike me as being highly credible, honest and forthcoming. I was always intrigued with Lazar's story, but to be honest the biggest problem I had with it... was him. For me it starts with him not being a credible physicist in my eyes. He strikes me as an amateur in everything he does, from the projects he tinkers with to the language he uses. He never uses the language of the physics profession, but that of a learned amateur. I've never talked to him as you have, but I find it very difficult to get beyond his aire of amateurishness especially when the discussion turns technical. Like I said, I found his story to be so intriguing that I've often contemplated it, but my better judgement has put him in the category of a pathological liar with bouts of delusions of grandeur. I think Stanton Friedman might have once referred to him as a Walter Mitty character. I think that nails it dead on. I mean the whole thing is just bizarre. For the third time in this comment, I'll admit how intriguing his original story is and I guess I'll continue to be interested until I have an answer that will completely satisfy me. We take people like Lazar to be intelligent rational people, but I seriously have to consider that he was off his meds so to speak, when he made these calls to you. I mean mentally off-balance people do exist even though most of us don't encounter them day to day and especially the ones who are functional 99.999% of the time. The whole thing just sounds bizarre and incredible (in the bad sense). Tim, I believe you 100%, but I have a serious problem believing these flights of fancy that Lazar seems to string people along with. Seriously, who in any position to run a top-secret project would hire such a squealer. Lazar may be a smart guy, but he doesn't have a monopoly on intelligence. Reminds me of a Hollywood scenario where the gov't has no choice other than to pull the unlikely hero out of retirement because no one else is up to the job. This just doesn't happen in real life. I'm still following this, but my better judgement tells me he's pathological and delusional like so many of the famous hucksters throughout history.
     
  • Comment #7 (Posted by Adrian)
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    Why doesn't bob respond to this story? Because he knows it's true. How do I know? Lets just say a little bird told me...Your friends at MIT
     
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