32 Facts About Bob Lazar

Robert Scott Lazar is an American conspiracy theorist.

In 1989, Bob Lazar claimed to have been part of a classified US government project concerned with the reverse engineering of extraterrestrial technology; he purported to have read government briefing documents that described alien involvement in human affairs over the past 10,000 years.

Bob Lazar's story brought additional public attention to the facility and spawned conspiracy theories regarding government knowledge of extraterrestrial life.

Bob Lazar has provided no evidence of alien life or technology, and his claims about his education and employment history are replete with fabrications.

Bob Lazar has several criminal convictions: he was convicted in 1990 for his involvement in a prostitution ring, and again in 2006 for selling illegal chemicals.

Bob Lazar graduated from high school late, in the bottom third of his class.

Bob Lazar subsequently attended Pierce Junior College in Los Angeles.

In 1982, Bob Lazar worked as a technician for a contractor company that provided support staff to the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility, within Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Bob Lazar filed for bankruptcy in 1986, where he described himself as a self-employed film processor.

Bob Lazar owns and operates United Nuclear Scientific Equipment and Supplies, which sells a variety of materials and chemicals.

Bob Lazar is unable to supply the names of any lecturers or fellow students from his alleged tenures at MIT and Caltech; one supposed Caltech professor, William Duxler, was in fact located at Pierce Junior College and had never taught at Caltech.

Bob Lazar was at Pierce at the very same time he was supposedly at MIT more than 2,500 miles away.

Bob Lazar was found to have fabricated not only his employment at Nellis but indeed his entire background; almost nothing of what he said was true.

Still, Bob Lazar's lies propelled Area 51 into the public's consciousness.

Since 1989, Bob Lazar has achieved public notoriety as an Area 51 conspiracy theorist.

Bob Lazar claimed the site consisted of concealed aircraft hangars built into a mountainside.

Bob Lazar said that his job was to help with the reverse engineering of one of nine flying saucers, which he alleged were extraterrestrial in origin.

Bob Lazar's supposed employment at a Nellis Air Force Base subsidiary has been discredited by skeptics, as well as by the United States Air Force.

Bob Lazar has claimed that the propulsion of the studied vehicle ran on an antimatter reactor and was fueled by the chemical element with atomic number 115, which at the time was provisionally named ununpentium and had not yet been artificially created.

Bob Lazar said the craft was dismantled, and the reactor he studied was topped by a sphere or semi-sphere which emitted a force field capable of repulsing human flesh.

Bob Lazar explained that the craft was split into two main levels.

Bob Lazar has claimed that during his joining of the program he read briefing documents describing the historical involvement of Earth for the past 10,000 years with extraterrestrial beings described as grey aliens from a planet orbiting the twin binary star system Zeta Reticuli.

In 1989, Bob Lazar said the seats of the saucer he saw were approximately child-sized and that he had seen alien cadavers of a corresponding size.

Bob Lazar said that while walking down a hallway at S-4, he briefly glanced through a door window and saw what he interpreted as two men in lab coats facing down and talking to "something small with long arms".

Currently, a Bob Lazar Archive exists that documents interview transcripts and includes other various documents.

Bob Lazar's story has drawn significant media attention, controversy, supporters, and detractors.

Bob Lazar has no evidence of alien life or technology and remains a polarizing figure among ufologists.

In 2017, Bob Lazar's workplace was raided by the FBI and local police, which Bob Lazar theorizes was to recover "element 115", a substance he says he took from a government lab.

Bob Lazar is not listed as a suspect in the investigation.

Bob Lazar had met and discussed his alleged works on UFOs with Navy pilot and commander David Fravor, who witnessed the USS Nimitz UFO incident in 2004.

In 1990, Bob Lazar was arrested for aiding and abetting a prostitution ring.

Bob Lazar was ordered to do 150 hours of community service, stay away from brothels, and undergo psychotherapy.