1/25) Deep-dive research by @SignalsIntelUFO shows that in 1980, Bob Lazar married a woman 16 years his senior, Carol, previously convicted of 2nd-degree murder for armed assistance to Hells Angels in committing a brutal slaying. Why is this pertinent? medium.com/@signalsintell…
2/25) The Knapp-Corbell fable of Bob Lazar, senior physicist, is very far removed from the sordid realities of the life of a serial scam artist during the 1980s, as revealed by research of Tom Mahood in the 1990s, and now in many interviews and document finds by @SignalsIntelUFO.
3/25) Lazar has claimed that he was granted a "Q" security clearance (equivalent to Top Secret) less than two years after his wedding, to work on secret stuff at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Lazar was not actually employed by LANL. Rather, he worked briefly AT the facility for
4/25) Kirk-Mayer, a contractor providing technical support services, not physicists! Lazar was clearly designated a Kirk-Mayer employee in a phone directory. He was not there for long (< 1 yr) for reasons documented by @SignalsIntelUFO in an earlier piece. medium.com/@signalsintell…
5/25) Los Alamos National Laboratory recently told @SignalsIntelUFO that it has no record that Bob Lazar had any security clearance at LANL.
6/25) What came later: On April 19, 1986, Bob Lazar married a second woman, Tracy. But Lazar was still married to Carol at the time. This has been pointed out many times over the past quarter-century, and has never been rebutted.
7/25) However, Bob Lazar was a bigamist only briefly, because Carol Lazar died two days after Bob married Tracy. Carol died on April 21, 1986. Records show that Bob Lazar summoned law enforcement. He told them that he was Carol's husband and a "race car driver" (not a physicist).
8/25) Carol's death was ruled a suicide.
9/25) "No divorce proceedings were on file with the Clark County Clerk's office, and Carol's published obituaries and death certificate identified Robert Lazar as her husband at the time [of her death]," wrote investigator Tom Mahood in "The Robert Lazar Timeline" (1994, 1997).
10/25) On July 21, 1986, Bob Lazar filed for Chapter 7 (liquidation) bankruptcy in Las Vegas. Records show his debts exceeded his assets by roughly $100,000. In documents, Lazar was identified as a self-employed photo processor, without reference to being a physicist or to LANL.
11/25) Bob Lazar later claimed that in December, 1988, he went to work for a super-secret government UFO program that possessed nine intact alien spacecraft. In 1989 he said that in connection with this program, he received a "Majestic" clearance, which
12/25) he said was "38 levels above 'Q' clearance, which is the highest civilian clearance." (In his 2019 autobiography, Lazar told the story as "22 levels higher," which is typical of Lazar's lazy-liar contradictions, which have been innumerable.)
13/25) So, consider: In 1988, anyone in the government who was considering whether to enlist Bob Lazar in a purported super-secret UFO program, would have had before him the file of a high-school graduate with some modest tech skills, who was at times impersonating a physicist
14/25) (Lazar later falsely claimed two Masters degrees), but who in another unusual context had identified himself as a "race car driver." The candidate under review had married a second woman (Tracy), while still married to a woman convicted in a brutal murder while armed,
15/25) in association with members of a longstanding crime organization called "Hells Angels." Also, Lazar had filed for liquidation bankruptcy less than two years before (leaving various creditors in the lurch). Clearance approval? Highly implausible!
16/25) In 1989, @g_knapp put Bob Lazar on the map by televising a tale of Lazar having worked in a secret UFO program, with control of 9 intact alien spacecraft (retained even after previously collaborating aliens had killed 44 humans in a snit, as told in the early Lazar tale).
17/25) Lazar claimed to possess a sample of an alien isotope that can defeat gravity and power spacecraft. While Knapp has promoted that claim for 33 years (as has @JeremyCorbell more recently), Lazar has never produced the purported proof of alien tech for independent analysis.
18/25) In June 1990, Lazar himself became a convicted felon. He had set up an illegal brothel, with holes cut in the wall to allow photography from an adjacent apartment--all this at the very same time that Robert Bigelow was paying Lazar to $2500/month do research, involving
19/25) alien stuff, in a little laboratory provided by Bigelow. Bigelow fired Lazar when he discovered that the laboratory was being used for furniture storage by Lazar, who was occupied elsewhere (at the illegal brothel).
20/25) In his 2019 "autobiography," Lazar blamed wife #2, Tracy, for putting his security clearance in jeopardy by infidelity in 1989. Bob and Tracy were divorced on July 25, 1990. A July 1990 court report said that Lazar was in a "common-law relationship" with another woman.
21/25) I do not believe that scientist-impersonating small-time scammer Bob Lazar ever held a Q (top secret) security clearance. Of course, I also do not believe he held a clearance 38 levels higher, in a mythical system for which evidence remains lacking 24 yrs after the claim.
22/25) If you do believe those things, perhaps it is because the Bob Lazar you have in your mind is mostly a developed fictional construct, owing as much or more to George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell, as to Lazar himself. In my informed opinion, the Bob Lazar story-- in its current,
23/25) widely disseminated form--has been carefully cleaned up, heavily edited, polished, and much enhanced. The streamlined and enhanced tales have been peddled by Knapp & Corbell in recent years to their great profit. Look to primary sources, not to story tellers. #ufotwitter
24/25) Some key documents cited above are posted on this web archive maintained by @SignalsIntelUFO.
25/25) Tom Mahood's landmark article "Looking at Bob Lazar from the Perspective of 2018," detailing his groundbreaking research in the early 1990s, is at this link: otherhand.org/home-page/area…
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1/5) Here again is a link to the slideshow presented on January 11, 2023, by Sean Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., director of the DoD's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), to the Transportation Research Board, about AARO's "UAP Mission & Civil Aviation." drive.google.com/file/d/1Lln8JF…
2/5) "[The] consequence of UAP in the vicinity of strategic capabilities is high, potentially threatening strategic deterrence and safety of civil society. DoD [is] strengthening observations and reporting capabilities near US strategic capabilities and critical infrastructure."
3/5) "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena are sources of anomalous spaceborne, airborne, seaborne or transmedium observations that are not yet attributable to known actors or causes...material, behavioral, or capability attributes perceived to be beyond known performance envelopes."
1/11) A PROPOSAL NASA WILL SURELY DECLINE: @JeremyCorbell is promoting a column by The Toronto Star's "pop culture columnist," @vinaymenon. Menon suggests that the recently constituted NASA UAP study team should bring on Bob Lazar as a consultant, asserting that #ufotwitter
2/11) "nothing Lazar said has ever been disproven," and "the man is a brilliant scientist." In the real world, however, Lazar is no scientist at all, but a man with only a high-school diploma, who brazenly fabricated claims to have earned Masters degrees from CalTech and MIT.
3/11) Lazar possesses some modest technical skills, and a disarming matter-of-fact manner of peddling manifest bullshit. Each remarkable claim collapses under critical investigation. Neither Lazar nor his promoters submit to sustained questioning or debate with informed skeptics.
1/13) The "United States Department of Naval Intelligence," an agency Bob Lazar claimed employed him for captive-UFO studies in 1988-89, has never existed, two key authorities on Navy intelligence history (both former 2-star admirals, one now the Navy's head historian) told me.
2/13) Bob Lazar, in muddled and conflicting statements, has claimed that a 1989 W-2 form from the IRS proved that he had worked for a "United States Department of Naval Intelligence." Lazar promotors such as Jeremy Corbell have made much of the document. #ufotwitter #BobLazar
3/13) But in a 10-19-22 email, Samuel J. Cox, Director of the U.S. Navy's Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC), told me no such organization ever existed. "There has been no Department of Naval Intelligence, either external or internal to the Department of the Navy."
1/11) JUST RELEASED: The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) has released its explanatory report (No. 117-132) on S. 4503, the Intelligence Authorization Act. As I reported July 14 (see my pinned tweet), S. 4503 contains 31 pages of proposed new UAP-related provisions.
2/11) In the report, SSCI rebukes the DoD for slow response. "At a time when cross-domain transmedium threats to U.S. national security are expanding exponentially, the Committee is disappointed with the slow pace of DoD-led efforts to establish" the UAP office/mission set in the
3/11) NDAA enacted Dec. 2021. The three new UAP provisions proposed in S. 4503 are meant "to accelerate progress." (Note: SSCI adopted this report just before the Pentagon issued July 20 release announcing the selection of Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick as director for the office, etc.)
1/7) CONGRESS UPDATE: A huge government-wide spending bill unveiled 3-8-22, on a fast track to enactment, incorporates (as Division X) the long-delayed Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) for FY 2022. This includes a UAP provision that was written before formulation #UFOTwitter
2/7) of the new "Gillibrand-Rubio-Gallego" UAP law (Sec. 1683 of Public Law 117-81), enacted 12-27-21. The IAA provision would NOT remove or nullify any UAP requirement of PL 117-81, but imposes two new requirements on the Dept. of Defense and Director of National Intelligence.
3/7) First, the IAA provision would require that all DoD and Intelligence Community components provide UAP data "immediately" not only to the central UAP office (now called the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group, AOIMSG), as required by PL 117-81,
BREAKING: Just-released text of FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA),H.R. 4350, already approved by the U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, contains a 571-word section to impose new obligations on DoD regarding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).
H.R. 4350 was approved by the full House Armed Services Committee on Sept. 2, 2021, by a 57-2 vote, but text has only now been made public. The House committee's UAP-related requirements differ from those contained in a proposed Intelligence Authorization Act (S. 2610),
approved by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in July. The two bills are not in direct conflict, but they take somewhat different approaches--the House language has more detailed substantive requirements on some points, but requires less frequent reports to Congress.