Bob Lazar | |
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Born |
Robert Scott Lazar January 26, 1959 Coral Gables, Florida |
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Spouse(s) | Joy White |
Robert Scott Lazar (/ləˈzɑːr/; born January 26, 1959) claims to have worked on reverse engineering extraterrestrial technology at a site called S-4, near the Area 51 test facility, and that the UFOs use gravity wave propulsion. This is powered by the, at the time, undiscovered element 115. He further claims to have read US government briefing documents that describe alien involvement in human affairs over the past 10,000 years.
He runs a scientific supply company. Universities from which he claimed to hold degrees show no record of him.
Lazar claims to hold degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Investigations into his background and could not find any records of Lazar ever having attended either institution.Stanton Friedman, a prominent ufologist, was able to verify that Lazar took electronics courses in the late 1970s at Pierce Junior College in Los Angeles, at the same time as he was supposedly attending MIT in Massachusetts.
He further determined that Lazar had graduated high school in the bottom third of his class, and that only science course he took was chemistry. He believes that this would almost certainly have excluded Lazar from MIT, as MIT usually only takes from the top percentiles, and only those who have taken many science courses.
Lazar's occupation was listed as self-employed film processor on bankruptcy documents.
Lazar claims to have worked as a scientist "in the Meson Physics facility" at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His name does appear in a Los Alamos National Lab telephone directory; however, this lists both employees and contractors, and Stanton Friedman claims that he actually worked as a technician for Kirk Meyer, an outside contractor.