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- November 11, 1989
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- ParaNet Information Service (Denver, CO)--This evening saw
- perhaps an unprecedented event in UFOlogy. KLAS-TV in Las Vegas,
- Nevada has been airing a UFO special during the evening news
- which began on Monday dealing with the UFO mystery and cover-up.
- The series, which has been covered by ParaNet, began its coverage
- with a history of UFOs beginning in the late 1940s and moving
- forward through the numerous sighting reports to the cattle
- mutilations, which was aired last evening. As promised at the
- close of last evening's show, George Knapp, a news anchorman for
- Channel 8 in Vegas, stated that a scientific person would be
- featured on tonight's program who has claimed to work at Area 51,
- the government's super-secret test range at Nevada Test Site at
- Mercury, Nevada.
- Indeed, quite a story was told by Robert Lazar, a physicist who
- claimed that he had worked on a project at Area 51 involving
- flying disks provided by alien intelligences.
-
- Over the last year, ParaNet has carried stories relating to
- possible involvement with the government in projects of this
- nature at the Nevada test site. Up to now, the stories have been
- of a very speculative nature. Although the material presented by
- Robert Lazar remains unconfirmed, enough information has been
- disclosed that ParaNet's large investigative staff in Nevada has
- started an intensive investigation into this release. Both Lazar
- (formerly known only as "Dennis") and Lear have appeared on
- Channel 8 -- Lear appearing on numerous occasions together will
- Bill Cooper discussing Lear's famous 'ET Hypothesis.' On a past
- KLAS-TV report, Lear was shown to have traveled to locations
- appearing to overlook the test site which purportedly provided a
- good view of the objects as they flew into the night sky. Lear
- attempted to shoot video of an object as it maneuvered through
- the night sky during last summer, however nothing was captured on
- the tape of a substantive nature. Lear also relates that his
- group was harassed by a Lincoln County sheriff following his
- attempts to take the pictures.
-
- Below is a transcript of the program that aired this
- evening. All paragraphs out of quotes are the narrator of the
- segment. We were as accurate as possible on the transcription,
- however there are a couple of places where comments were edited
- out due to inability to understand what was being said.
-
- Further reports will be provided as information becomes
- available.
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- We've been working on the story for some time....UFO
- researchers claim that there is a secret government within our
- government. Now this may be hard to believe coming from the UFO
- perspective, but we have learned that Watergate and the Iran
- Contra scandal that factions within our government can and do
- pursue their own hidden agendas outside of the law; outside the
- control of the Congress or the knowledge of the American people.
- This is exactly the type of operation that we hear about tonight.
- It's a chilling scenario with worldwide implications that may
- have its roots right here [Las Vegas, Nevada].
-
- Area 51, that mysterious corner of the Nevada Test Site, is
- no longer considered a secret. The fact that secretive things
- go on here isn't evident; even to the Soviets who make daily spy
- flights over the facility to take a peek at what's going on.
- These photos, never before shown in public, are about as close as
- anyone will ever come to seeing what the place looks like again.
- The dry bed at Groom Lake, the corrugated buildings, a three-mile
- long runway and some highly sophisticated radar and detection
- equipment. Its been known by many names over the years --
- Dreamland; The Ranch; The Skunk Works. If ever there was a place
- to test the secret new technology, this is it. And that's
- exactly what has been done here for decades.
-
- Area 51 is where Francis Gary Powers and the other U-2
- pilots were trained in the 50s. And, where the U-2 itself was
- developed. The SR-71 spy plane that spotted Soviet missiles in
- Cuba in the early 60s were also developed at 51. 51 is where
- Stealth technology was nurtured, where Star Wars devices are
- still tested, and where all manner of CIA [unknown] business has
- been plotted and refined. It's the perfect place for secret
- things, but of course, that's no secret. 51 is ringed by the
- forbidden vastness of the Nevada test site; by the looming Groom
- Mountain and by sparsely populated desert expanses. But the
- people that do live out here have no love lost for the military,
- but they're conservative, patriotic and they mind their own
- business.
-
-
-
- Interviewer questioning a nearby resident of Area 51: "Ever see
- something that you can't explain?"
-
- Resident: "Sure, lots of times."
-
- Interviewer: "Care to elaborate?"
-
- Resident: "No." (Laughter).
-
-
-
- On any given night at the Rachel Bar and Grill, you might
- find three or four people who work at Area 51. They are among
- the flowing Budweiser and the cowboy hats. You might find them,
- but they are not going to talk to. Not about the things that
- they have seen over the mountain. A steady trickle of curiosity-
- seekers flows through here; strangers, drawn by strange stories
- of lights in the night sky. Their questions also go unanswered.
- No one who has worked at Dreamland has ever publicly acknowledged
- what so many people have suspected for years: That alien
- technology is being tested in the Nevada desert.
-
- The speculation first surfaced in documents obtained by UFO
- researchers. Documents about something called Project Aquarius.
- The document allegedly prepared for an organization called MJ-12,
- states that a program to fly recovered alien spacecraft was
- established in 1972 and is continuing in Nevada. The National
- Security Agency has confirmed it does have a Project Aquarius but
- denies that it has anything to do with flying saucers. NSA will
- not say what Project Aquarius is.
-
- Speculation was heightened in 1984, when the Air Force
- seized nearly 90,000 acres around Groom Lake. The action was, by
- most accounts, illegal. During Congressional hearings about the
- land grab, Congressman John Siberling grilled the military about
- the legal authority used in the action and was told the authority
- was at a much, much higher level than the Air Force.
- Siberling asked what authority is higher than the laws of the
- United States? The Air Force official said he could respond, but
- only in a closed briefing. In 1987, when the Air Force sought to
- renew its stranglehold on the Groom range, news articles once
- again mentioned the talk about alien spacecraft and subsequent
- articles in national magazines quoted un-named sources about
- things of alien origin flying in Nevada. Things that would make
- film-maker George Lucas drool. Despite the speculation, no one
- who knew Area 51 from the inside ever talked publicly about the
- saucer story.
-
-
-
- Bob Lazar: "Well, there's several uh, actually nine uh flying
- saucers, flying disks that are out there of extraterrestrial
- origin." The live interview with the shadowy "Dennis" drew
- international attention. Portions were broadcast by radio in six
- European countries, and in a nationally televised TV special in
- Japan.
-
- Despite numerous inquiries and "feelers," "Dennis" has
- remained anonymous until now. His real name is Robert Lazar. A
- young scientist with eclectic interests. The choice of "Dennis"
- was an inside joke -- he says that's the name of his superior at
- Groom Lake. It wasn't a joke to Dennis.
-
-
- Lazar: "He called right after and said, 'Do you have any idea
- what we're going to do to you now?' and I said no, and he hung up
- the phone."
-
-
-
- Lazar's story is by any standard, fantastic. He says he's
- telling it in order to protect himself. He said he was hired to
- work in area called S-4 which is a few miles south of Groom Lake.
- At S-4, he says, are flying saucers, anti-matter reactors and
- other working examples of technology that is seemingly beyond
- human capabilities.
-
-
-
- Lazar: "Right. This stuff came from somewhere else. I know it
- is hard to believe, but it is there and I saw it. I know what
- the current state-of-the-art is in physics and it it can't be
- done."
-
-
-
- Checking out Lazar's credentials proved to be a difficult
- task. He says he holds degrees in physics and electronics, but
- the schools that we contacted say they've never heard of him. He
- says he also worked as a physicist at Los Alamos National
- Labs where he worked with one of the world's largest particle
- beam accelerators, a half-mile long 'behemoth' capable of
- generating seven-hundred million volts. Los Alamos officials
- told us they have no record of Robert Lazar ever working there.
- They were either mistaken or were lying. A 1982 phone book from
- the Lab lists Lazar right there among the other scientists and
- technicians. A 1982 news clipping from the Los Alamos newspaper
- profiled Lazar and his interest in jet cars. It, too, mentioned
- his employment at the Lab as a physicist. We called Los Alamos
- again, and an exasperated official told us he still had no
- records on Lazar. EG&G, which is where Lazar says he was
- interviewed for the job at S-4, also has no record. It's as if
- someone has made him disappear.
-
-
-
- Lazar: "Well, they're trying to make me look non-existent to the
- places that I called...."
-
- Interviewer: "Explain. Called where?"
-
- Lazar: "Well, the schools that I went to; the hospital that I
- was born at; past jobs, and nothing comes up with my name on it."
-
-
-
- He smiles, but out of futility, knowing the whole thing must
- sound ridiculous. According to Lazar, his employer was the
- United States Navy. He says he and other government employees
- would gather near EG&G, fly to Groom Lake, then a very few people
- would get into a bus with blacked out or no windows and drive to
- S-4.
-
-
-
- Interviewer: "You get off the bus, what do you see?"
-
- Lazar: "A very interesting building. Its got a slope of
- probably about 30 degrees which are hangar doors, and it has
- textured paint on it, but it looks like sand. It's made to look
- like the side of the mountain that it is in, whether it's to
- disguise it from satellite photographs or what...."
-
-
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- He says he was never told exactly what he would be working
- on, but figured it had something to do with advanced propulsion.
- On his first day he was told to read a series of briefings, and
- immediately realized how advanced the propulsion really was.
-
-
-
- Lazar: "The power source is an anti-matter reactor. They run
- gravity amplifiers. There is actually two parts to the drive
- mechanism. It's a bizarre technology. There is no physical
- hookups between any of the systems in there. They use gravity as
- a wave using wave guides that look like microwaves."
-
-
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- It took awhile, Lazar says, before he actually saw one of
- the flying disks, however there were hints everywhere.
-
-
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- Lazar: "Right. They had a poster, and it looked like a
- commercial poster, like it was lithographed, like you could buy
- it at K-Mart or someplace, but they were all over the place and
- it had the disk that I coined the term 'the floor model' which
- lifted off the ground about 3 feet out at the area, in the Dry
- Lakes area, and the caption on it said 'They're here.' These
- posters were all over the place."
-
-
-
- Later, he got to see the real thing.
-
-
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- Lazar: "When I was led in, it was the first time that I saw the
- 'floor model' in the hangar sitting down, and I was told they
- could have walked me in the front door but they purposely wanted
- to walk me by it. I was told not to say anything and to keep my
- eyes forward and walk past the disk to the office area. And I
- did. And as we went by it, I just kinda stuck my hands on it,
- just to run it alongside the thing and uh ....After that I got to
- see actually lift off the ground and operate."
-
- Interviewer: "You actually got to see more than one?"
-
- Lazar: "Yeah. The hangars are all connected together. There
-
- are large bay doors between each one. There were nine total that
- I saw, each one being different. Like they had the assortment
- pack."
-
-
- Security at S-4 was oppressive Lazar said, and his superiors
- used fear and intimidation almost as a brainwashing tool.
-
-
-
- Lazar: "They did everything but physically hurt me."
-
- Interviewer: "They put a gun to your head?"
-
- Lazar: "Yeah."
-
- Interviewer: "You mean they actually put a gun to your head?"
-
- Lazar: "They did that even in the original security briefing.
- Guards there with M-16s. Guys there slamming their fingers into
- my chest, screaming into my ear, they were pointing weapons at
- me. Like I said, it's not a good place to work."
-
-
-
- That fear factor would surface later. Lazar agreed to
- undergo a polygraph exam as part of this report. Polygrapher Ron
- Clay asked about the technology that Lazar had seen.
-
-
-
- Polygrapher: "Did you knowingly lie when you had actually seen
- anti-gravity propulsion in operation?"
-
- Lazar: "No."
-
-
-
- The results of this exam were inconclusive. Lazar appeared
- to be truthful on one test; deceitful on a second. Clay
- recommended that a second examiner be brought in. Polygrapher
- Terry Tabernetti (sp?) runs a corporate security operation and is
- a former Los Angeles police officer. He put Lazar through four
- tests and concluded there were no attempts to deceive.
-
- Tabernetti sent his test results to a third polygrapher who
- agreed the results appeared truthful. The charts were then sent
- to a fourth examiner who did not agree suggesting that Lazar
- might be relating information he'd learned from someone else.
- The polygraphers concurred and decided they would not issue a
- final statement on truthfulness until more specific testing can
- be conducted. And that's where it stands.
-
- Tabernetti believes the difficulty in determining Lazar's
- truthfulness stems from the fear that was drilled into him.
-
-
-
- Lazar: "Well, I am telling the truth. I've tried to prove that.
- What's going on up there could be the most important event in
- history. You're talking about contact, physical contact and
- proof from another planet, another system, another intelligence.
- Thats got to be the biggest event in history, period. And, it's
- real and it's there. And I had an extremely small part in it.
- I'm convinced that what I saw is absolute proof of that. There
- is no way that we could have created those disks. There is no
- way we could have made the disks, the power supplies, anything
- that goes with it."
-
-
-
- Lazar says he has no intention of going on any UFO lecture
- circuit. He is not looking to do any additional interviews. In
- fact, he was not too crazy about doing this one. He did it after
- certain unfavorable things started happening in his life, and he
- did it because he feels that whoever is running the show up at S-
- 4 is perpetrating a fraud on the American people and the
- scientific community.
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