Editing Bob Lazar (section)

==Background==
[[File:Groom Lake and Papoose Lake.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.2|[[Groom Lake]] (left) and [[Papoose Lake]] (right)]]
Lazar graduated from high school late, in the bottom third of his class. The only science course he took was a [[chemistry]] class. He subsequently attended [[Los Angeles Pierce College|Pierce Junior College]] in [[Los Angeles]].<ref name=reaima>{{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Stanton|author-link=Stanton T. Friedman|date=2012|title=UFOs: Real Or Imagined?: A Scientific Investigation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QEJ7g6rZ4MQC&pg=PA122|publisher=[[Rosen Publishing]]|pages=122–124|isbn=9781448848386}}</ref>

In 1982, Lazar worked as a technician for a contractor company that provided support staff to the [[Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility]], within the [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]].<ref name=reaima/><ref name="ProtheroCallahan2017">{{cite book|author1=Donald R. Prothero|author2=Timothy D. Callahan|title=UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens: What Science Says|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G5SFDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA57 |date=August 2, 2017|publisher=Indiana University Press|pages=57–58, 166–169|isbn=978-0-253-03338-3}}</ref><ref name="Goldwag">{{cite book|author=Arthur Goldwag|title=Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DDbM5GeMgXIC&pg=PA138|date=August 11, 2009|publisher=Vintage Books|isbn=978-0-3073-9067-7|pages=138–}}</ref> He filed for bankruptcy in 1986, where he described himself as a self-employed [[Photographic processing|film processor]].<ref name=reaima/><ref>Public records, Case BK 86-01623, US Federal Bankruptcy Court, Las Vegas.(702) 388-6257</ref> Lazar owns and operates United Nuclear Scientific Equipment and Supplies, which sells a variety of materials and chemicals.<ref name="Wired2006">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/chemistry.html |title=Don't Try This at Home |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |date=July 2006}}</ref>