UFO PSEUDO-JOURNALISM ALERT In two televised reports this week, George Knapp referred to Bob Lazar as a "former government scientist." This claim is a well-documented falsehood. Lazar is a scammer who merely impersonates a scientist. Lazar has only a high-school diploma, and a B.S. from a mail-order mill ("Pacifica... University") that was soon thereafter closed down by the state of California. Lazar was never employed by the government or by any government contractor as a scientist. Lazar's claims to hold advanced degrees from Caltech and MIT were lies that even George Knapp once admitted he did not believe.show more

There’s proof he worked at Los Alamos national labs. His name was in the phone directory and many former employees confirmed he worked there. When he came out there was a concerted effort to discredit Lazar. This explains why it’s hard to confirm he ever worked for the Gov. He may have embellished his educational career, but so did our current president and he’s in the White House so…

@g_knapp The phone directory is one of the many proofs that Bob Lazar is a scientist-impersonator--he is listed there as "K/M," a subcontractor that provided low-level techs, not scientists. To read what former Los Alamos associates really say about him, read this:

@g_knapp What's fascinating is that if you watch Lazar's early interviews and take note of claimed observables of the tech, they're consistent with the FLIR videos released by the USG and what the USG has claimed in an official capacity. I get it. It isn't easy to process.

Bob Lazar swiped many elements from the UFO literature (good and bad) that John Lear and others shared with him. For example, at that time (1988-1989), the alien-contact claims of Billy Meier were hot stuff (Meier was the most profitable "contactee" story ever, according to The UFO Encyclopedia 3rd Edition, 2018). So Lazar copied his "Sport Model" from Meier's "beamship," down to fine details. Lazar said that the two were "astonishingly similar," as indeed they were. (The "Sport Model" was the one that Lazar licensed to Testors for a model kit.) Of course, Meier later was proven to be a mega-hoaxer. As to the Navy FLIR videos, surely the most interesting of the three is Gimbal. There are ongoing and highly technical debates about what that video actually shows, versus which elements may be artifacts of the recording technology--but for the purposes of this tweet, let us just assume the validity of the interpretation that both the glow around the Gimbal object and its apparent tilting (rotation) are real-world effects and not instrument artifacts--then would that make Bob Lazar a prophet? Hardly! Glowing air surrounding UFOs, but also travel while tilting. were commonplace elements in UFO reports for decades before Bob Lazar popped up in 1989! As Dr. Hal Puthoff wrote in 1997, "One of the most consistently-observed characteristics of UFO flight is a ubiquitous pattern in which they tilt to perform all manuevers." To cite another example: Accomplished NACA-NASA engineer Paul R. Hill, who died in 1991, wrote a book (Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis) in which he presented such tilting behavior as well established, then devoted several chapters to his notions of how a UFO-generated force field related to the desired maneuver, degree of tilt, etc. Hill devoted another chapter to his analysis of "the sheath of illumination surround the UFO" in many reports. Hill's book was not published until 1995, so I don't suggest Lazar had read that particular book, but Hill based his theories on commonplace elements found in public reports in the UFO literature. Incidentally, some of Lazar's utterances also seemed to suggest "bottom first" travel by discs, at least in space (the "bottom" being the side displaying three "generators"). After the Gimbal video came out, some thought that it also showed a craft moving "bottom first." However, that claim is highly doubtful. UAP writer/researcher Marik von Rennenkampff, a former staffer at the State Department and the Defense Department, has written extensively on analyses of the Gimbal video, which he strongly believes recorded genuine anomalous movement by a non-prosaic object. I asked him whether he and other Gimbal analysts with whom he works believe that the Gimbal video shows an object traveling in a "bottom-forward" or "tower-forward" orientation. He replied, "The short answer is that, per high-confidence geometrical modeling of the 'Gimbal' incident, the object did not travel 'tower-forward.' For most of the video, the object's long axis is largely parallel to the ground/horizon as it decelerates rather rapidly. Rotation is associated with the object increasing velocity; but it is not flying tower-forward (quite the opposite, in fact)." (email to Douglas Dean Johnson, May 11, 2023)

@g_knapp What’s with the daily lazar obsession/ vendetta? Aren’t there more important things to talk about these days?

@g_knapp The question is best answered by Mr. Knapp--he's the one who put the Bob Lazar story on TV twice already just this week. His sidekick @JeremyCorbell has been talking publicly for months about their view that Lazar's story is suitable for presentation to a congressional committee.

@g_knapp And I think everyone can agree that both Knapp and Corbell rose to fame on the coattails of Bob Lazar. If Bob was a fraud and the proof has been out there for everyone to see, and neither Corbell or Knapp will conceded, then that should speak volumes on their own credibility

@g_knapp It's a lot easier for a clandestine government agency to erase and discredit Bob Lazar than it is for Bob Lazar to accurately describe these crafts 30 years before the government admits they exist. You're saying it's just a coincidence that he was right about it all?

Nobody "erased" Bob Lazar. That is just fan-fiction for the gullible. The real timeline of his checkered past is now documented in considerable detail. Do some serious reading. And I love it when people talk like Bob Lazar discovered UFOs in 1988, as if we didn't have 40 years (at least) of reports before he popped up in 1989. In reality, even Lazar's stories about a secret captive-UFO program were patched together from UFO literature (good and bad) and tall tales that John Lear, Bill Cooper, and others shared with him. For example, at that time (1988-1989), the alien-contact claims of Billy Meier were hot stuff. (Meier was the most profitable "contactee" story ever, according to The UFO Encyclopedia 3rd Edition, 2018.) So Lazar copied his "Sport Model" from Meier's "beamship," down to fine details. Lazar said that the two were "astonishingly similar," as indeed they were. (The "Sport Model" was the one that Lazar licensed to Testors for a model kit.) Unfortunately, Meier later was proven to be a mega-hoaxer. As to the Navy FLIR videos, surely the most interesting of the three is Gimbal. There are ongoing and highly technical debates about what that video actually shows, versus which elements may be artifacts of the recording technology--but for the purposes of this tweet, let us just assume the validity of the interpretation that both the glow around the Gimbal object and its apparent tilting (rotation) are real-world effects and not instrument artifacts--then would that make Bob Lazar a prophet? Hardly! Glowing air surrounding UFOs, but also travel while tilting, were commonplace elements in UFO reports for decades before Lazar! As Dr. Hal Puthoff wrote in 1997, "One of the most consistently-observed characteristics of UFO flight is a ubiquitous pattern in which they tilt to perform all manuevers." To cite another example: Accomplished NACA-NASA engineer Paul R. Hill, who died in 1991, wrote a book (Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis) in which he presented such tilting behavior as well established, then devoted several chapters to his notions of how a UFO-generated force field related to the desired maneuver, degree of tilt, etc. Hill devoted another chapter to his analysis of "the sheath of illumination surround the UFO" in many reports. Hill's book was not published until 1995, so I don't suggest Lazar had read that particular book, but Hill based his theories on commonplace elements found in public reports in the UFO literature. Incidentally, some of Lazar's utterances also seemed to suggest "bottom first" travel by discs, at least in space (the "bottom" being the side displaying three "generators"). After the Gimbal video came out, some thought that it also showed a craft moving "bottom first." However, that claim is highly doubtful. UAP writer/researcher Marik von Rennenkampff, a former staffer at the State Department and the Defense Department, has written extensively on analyses of the Gimbal video, which he strongly believes recorded genuine anomalous movement by a non-prosaic object. I asked him whether he and other Gimbal analysts with whom he works believe that the Gimbal video shows an object traveling in a "bottom-forward" or "tower-forward" orientation. He replied, "The short answer is that, per high-confidence geometrical modeling of the 'Gimbal' incident, the object did not travel 'tower-forward.' For most of the video, the object's long axis is largely parallel to the ground/horizon as it decelerates rather rapidly. Rotation is associated with the object increasing velocity; but it is not flying tower-forward (quite the opposite, in fact)." (email to Douglas Dean Johnson, May 11, 2023)

@g_knapp I stand with Bob Lazar.

@g_knapp Ah, another champion for "disclosure."