Bob Lazar: Difference between revisions
EnWikiAdmin (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| (7 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{Short description|American businessman and UFO conspiracy theorist}} | {{Short description|American businessman and UFO conspiracy theorist}} | ||
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2022}} | {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2022}} | ||
{{Wikipedia_fork | |||
| import_date = 3 November 2024 | |||
}} | |||
{{Infobox person | {{Infobox person | ||
| name = Robert Lazar | | name = Robert Lazar | ||
| Line 31: | Line 31: | ||
==Claims== | ==Claims== | ||
===Education=== | ===Education=== | ||
Lazar claims to have obtained master's degrees in physics from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) and in electronics from the [[California Institute of Technology]] (Caltech). However, both universities show no record of him.<ref name=reaima/><ref name=salrea>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6meZjKVOAvEC&pg=PT159|title=The Utah UFO Display: A Scientist Brings Reason and Logic to Over 400 UFO Sightings in Utah's Uintah Basin|author=Frank B. Salisbury|publisher=[[Cedar Fort, Inc.]]|date=2010|page=146|isbn=9781599557786}}</ref> Scientists [[Stanton T. Friedman]] and [[Donald Prothero|Donald R. Prothero]] have stated that nobody with Lazar's high school performance record would be accepted by either institution.<ref name=reaima/><ref name="ProtheroCallahan2017"/> 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.<ref name=reaima/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.news24.com/news24/debunking-ufo-expert-bob-lazar-part-1-20120825|title=Debunking UFO 'Expert' Bob Lazar|date=August 25, 2012|website=[[News24 (website)|News24]]|access-date=December 13, 2022}}</ref> Friedman asserted, "Quite obviously, if one can go to MIT, one doesn't go to Pierce. Lazar was at Pierce at the very same time he was supposedly at MIT more than 2,500 miles away."<ref name=reaima/> | Lazar claims to have obtained master's degrees in physics from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) and in electronics from the [[California Institute of Technology]] (Caltech). However, both universities show no record of him.<ref name=reaima/><ref name=salrea>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6meZjKVOAvEC&pg=PT159|title=The Utah UFO Display: A Scientist Brings Reason and Logic to Over 400 UFO Sightings in Utah's Uintah Basin|author=Frank B. Salisbury|publisher=[[Cedar Fort, Inc.]]|date=2010|page=146|isbn=9781599557786}}</ref> Scientists [[Stanton T. Friedman]] and [[Donald Prothero|Donald R. Prothero]] have stated that nobody with Lazar's high school performance record would be accepted by either institution.<ref name=reaima/><ref name="ProtheroCallahan2017"/> 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.<ref name=reaima/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.news24.com/news24/debunking-ufo-expert-bob-lazar-part-1-20120825|title=Debunking UFO 'Expert' Bob Lazar|date=August 25, 2012|website=[[News24 (website)|News24]]|access-date=December 13, 2022}}</ref> Friedman asserted, "Quite obviously, if one can go to MIT, one doesn't go to Pierce. Lazar was at Pierce at the very same time he was supposedly at MIT more than 2,500 miles away."<ref name=reaima/> | ||
===Employment=== | ===Employment=== | ||
{{Infobox_insider_account | |||
| name = Bob Lazar | |||
| role = Alleged scientist, UFO whistleblower | |||
| affiliation = Los Alamos National Laboratory (disputed), S-4 (claimed) | |||
| affiliation_in_practice = Claims to have worked on reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology from around Feb 1989 to May 1989 | |||
| bureaucratic_obfuscation = | |||
| status = <!--Active in public appearances and interviews--> | |||
| status_date = <!--2022--> | |||
| experience_date = 1988–1989 | |||
| experience_location = S-4, near Area 51, Nevada, USA | |||
| experience_type = Alleged employment as a scientist/technician | |||
| technology_encountered = [[Extraterrestrial]] [[non-human intelligence]]-derived [[electromagnetogravitic]] craft with anti-gravity propulsion system, [[moscovium]]-based fuel-powered reactor | |||
| beings_encountered = None claimed directly | |||
| alleged_activities = Reverse engineering extraterrestrial spacecraft at S-4 near Area 51 | |||
| claims = Claims to have seen and worked on alien technology, specifically the propulsion systems of UFOs | |||
| physical_evidence = Claimed to have exfiltrated some of the [[moscovium]]-based fuel | |||
| disclosure_type = Voluntary disclosure allegedly induced by personal stress; pseudonymously at first, then publicly; alleged unwitting [[psy-op]] | |||
| first_public_account_date = May 1989 | |||
| suppression_of_evidence = Confiscation of some videos that were recorded of alleged electrogravitic test flights on Wednesday evenings in Area 51. | |||
| suppression_of_testimony = Claims of threats and intimidation from government agencies, shooting at his car on the freeway from another car | |||
|retaliation = Alleged pretextual or selective or otherwise retaliatory criminal prosecution | |||
| suppression_of_corroborative_testimony = Claims that corroborative evidence (such as employment records) was erased | |||
| public_accounts = Numerous interviews, including with George Knapp | |||
| known_for = Whistleblowing claims on UFO reverse engineering at S-4, associated with Area 51 lore | |||
| notable_contributions = Popularized conspiracy theories surrounding Area 51 and S-4 | |||
| notable_coverage = "Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers" (2018 Netflix documentary) | |||
| attempts_to_debunk = Multiple debunking efforts by skeptics, journalists, and scientists questioning his claims | |||
| website = | |||
| signature = | |||
| notes = Bob Lazar's claims remain highly controversial and are debated within the UFO community. | |||
}} | |||
{{quote box | {{quote box | ||
| quote = "Lazar's claims were later disproven (by UFO skeptics and believers alike). He 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, Lazar's lies propelled Area 51 into the public's consciousness." | | quote = "Lazar's claims were later disproven (by UFO skeptics and believers alike). He 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, Lazar's lies propelled Area 51 into the public's consciousness." | ||
| Line 183: | Line 125: | ||
{{UFOs|state=collapsed}} | {{UFOs|state=collapsed}} | ||
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lazar, Bob}} | {{DEFAULTSORT:Lazar, Bob}} | ||
| Line 198: | Line 139: | ||
[[Category:Individuals with alleged personal knowledge of exotic technology]] | [[Category:Individuals with alleged personal knowledge of exotic technology]] | ||
[[Category:Conspiracy theories involving exotic technology]] | [[Category:Conspiracy theories involving exotic technology]] | ||
[[Category:Humans]] | |||