I do not believe in UFO's. You can't even google about UFO's because there is so much junk out there. But I remember Bob Lazar from when I was a kid and yesterday @salvia_d posted a video about Bob Lazar that got me thinking.
Like everyone else, I knew that Bob Lazar was an attention seeking habitual liar or a delusional. Wikipedia confirmed this. It almost confirmed it too good because the whole thing is negative. E.g. it was written by someone trying to make him look bad. It goes on to include quotes from a scientist who, in the fashion of a hard-core atheist or zealot, says he has refuted most of Bob Lazar's claims.
Looking for the last nail in the coffin I got on youtube and started searching for things like "bob lazar is a liar". First thing that comes up is this guy but I remember watching him argue with Bill Nye on Larry King and thinking he was an idiot so I skipped it and moved on to a surprisingly interesting clip Bob Lazar: 25 Years Later done by the news crew that originally interviewed him. I'm sitting there looking for signs of a liar but came away seeing him as pretty believable.
A little more googling:
An honorable mention is a youtuber who claims to have found the S4 hangars. I think he's just imagining it so I cracked open Google Earth to look for myself. I didn't find anything but took a few screenshots. general layout, road going by s4, where youtuber sees the hangars, Maybe if I apply a filter I can see it. Nope. I have no idea what I'm doing. I guess the big take away is that Lazar said where all of this stuff was years ago before satellite photos were commonly available.
I listened to a few more interviews (1, 2, 3) and he sounds very honest and like he knows what he's talking about to me. He is very clearly not some idiot who just attended community college as Wikipedia wants you, so very badly, to believe. There's something else. The story is that he claims he attended the California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology but there is no record of it. Now, a quick note, there was also no record of his birth at the hospital until George Knapp tracked down the Dr. who gave birth to him (reference to this is in the lie detector video). What I want to know is if he can provide basic information about, say MIT. Can he tell you where the drinking fountains are or the names of any of his professors? It seems like this would lend a lot to his credibility. He actually claims, though, that he does not want people to believe him anymore because he is running a scientific supply company and doesn't want to be known as "the UFO guy" but if you look at his companies website it's clearly not representing itself as a professional business. So is this resurgence of Lazar just another lie and he actually is trying to get attention while pretending he does not want attention so he doesn't have to be grilled about simple things that anyone who went to MIT would know? Or is he really just a guy who doesn't want attention and doesn't want to add more to a story that has made the whole world ridicule him?
EDIT I just want to make clear that I think @xeemee's comment is absolutely ridiculous. No offense. I was not looking for someone to post a wall of text about a hundred different things with links to wacko UFO nut videos. I was wondering about a very specific thing that seems like it could be reasonably figured out. I am not a space cadet starting a journey into ufology or whatever the shit.
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xeemee ago
would you put a known liar in a missile silo? or a radar site? or make him a pilot? what are the chances of some bullshitter obtaining a top secret clearance?
i was in the military too
then why would you be curious about Lazar?
ElspethTirel ago
Hillary Clinton?
xeemee ago
is she part of the Disclosure Project?
there's ~500 witnesses IN JUST THAT ONE GROUP ... all liars, right? out for ... what? to destroy their careers and their names?
or what about the declassified documents from several governments? all ... what? fakes?
get real