Bob Lazar Vindicated

Introduction

Bob Lazar is a former Los Alamos Labs technician, business owner, and self-proclaimed physicist who allegedly worked on reverse-engineering UFOs in the late 1980s at a location he called S4, near Papoose Lake, just south of Area 51 at Groom Lake, Nevada. He has been referred to as the "original whistleblower," but others labeled him a fraud, liar, grifter and more.

This website was created to dissolve the confusion surrounding Lazar's story by using primary sources, documents, and thoughtful analysis, so that all may have access to the historical material and are able to paint a more balanced picture of the man.

In the Answers section we have a list of common charges Lazar has been accused of and the appropriate answer or rebuttal to the charge. In the Articles section you can find primary research related to Lazar's life and history. In the Library you can search for information related to Lazar's story using radio and movie transcripts and books as sources.
For anyone who has never heard of Lazar I recommend the video "Best of Ufo Whistleblower Bob Lazar" in the videos section to start with.

Accusations & Answers

education

career

life

area51

education

Caltech has no records of Bob Lazar's engineering master's degree.

Caltech does not publish its list of master graduates nor does the education conclude with a master's thesis. All information related to Lazar could have been easily classified (See Executive Order 12356 1.3/10).

MIT has no records of Bob Lazar's master's degree in physics.

Everything at MIT including a student's records can be classified. (See Executive Order 12356 1.3/10)

There is no evidence that Bob Lazar wrote a master's thesis at MIT

While most universities would not allow the perpetual classification of a thesis MIT is an exception in this regard.

Administrators at MIT could not find Lazar's name on their commencement list.

Asking about any classified or FERPA protected record would result in a claim of: no match found.

Bob Lazar's picture and name does not appear in any yearbook.

Only undergraduates appear in yearbooks and Bob Lazar never claimed to have gotten any bachelor degrees.

If Lazar did not have a bachelor degree he could not have gained access to the graduate program at Caltech.

An undergraduate degree is not required for Caltech's master's program, only the courses are.

Bob Lazar went to Los Angeles Pierce College instead of MIT

This scenario assumes that Lazar was an undergraduate at MIT, something he never claimed himself.

Bob Lazar only got a 2 year electronics degree from Los Angeles Pierce College.

The 2 year electronics engineering associate degree was convertable into a 4 years degree if the student continued their education elsewhere.

Most of the courses Lazar took at Pierce College were electronics.

This is true, however given that Lazar spent 3 years at Pierce he could have easily taken 2 years of electronics and 1 year of transfer classes (maths, physics etc.).

Bob Lazar could not have gotten admitted to Caltech or MIT with his poor scores from high school.

Grades from Pierce automatically negate any poor high school score Lazar may have had.

career

Bob Lazar worked as a technician at Los Alamos Labs and was not a physicist.

Lazar began work at LANL as a contract technician through Kirk Meyer, however he later got a job (allegedly) in the Polarised Proton Section and Weapons Division as a scientist. The technician position does not exclude the other.

Los Alamos Labs denied that Lazar worked as a physicist at the lab in the past.

LANL also claimed to have failed to find anyone who knew Lazar even though several such people were found (including his first supervisor) years later. LANL's statements about Lazar are not reliable.

There is no evidence that Bob Lazar ever worked on highly classified weapons at Los Alamos Labs.

Correct, but he did manage to get a film crew into the lab long after his affiliation with LANL ended, which implies a stronger connection than what was confirmed by the lab.

Bob Lazar was no longer employed at the laboratory by February of 1983 according to a LANL phonebook.

The basis of this claim is a redacted non original LANL phonebook and therefore may not be historically accurate.

Lazar could not have gotten a Q clearance due to his debts.

Lazar did not have any debts when he claims to have gotten his Q clearance or when it was reactivated.

Lazar could not have gotten a Q clearance due to his bankruptcy.

While many clearances are denied or revoked for financial reasons a bankruptcy alone is not reason enough to deny a clearance. There has to be a pattern of negligence.

Lazar could not have gotten a Q clearance due to his first wives criminal past.

There are no strict regulations regarding denying a clearance for a partners former misdeeds. Given that all activity happened in the past and there was little risk of a recurrence this issue could have been insignificant.

Lazar could not have gotten his Q clearance reactivated since he owned a brothel in Nevada at some point (allegedly).

Past ownership of any legal business will not necessarily lead to a clearance denial.

Bob Lazar never published any scientific papers therefore he is not a physicist.

Given the short length of his professional career and the classified nature of the subjects he allegedly worked on this should not be surprising. Nikola Tesla also never published a paper.

When Bob Lazar declared bankruptcy in the mid 1980s he listed his occupation as self employed film processor.

Given that this would have been when Lazar was between jobs at a time when he was running a photo business, the accusation is accepted as it agrees with Lazar's own recollection.

Bob Lazar never met Edward Teller and Teller never helped him get the job at S4.

When Teller was asked on tape or via mail if he knew Bob Lazar he always refused to answer, which begs the question why couldn't he simply deny knowing or meeting Lazar.

area51

Bob heard about element 115 and its possible properties from the May 1989 issue of Scientific American.

Element 115 is sparsely mentioned in the paper which was written to showcase super heavy elements. There's no reason to believe that this indirect connection is anything but a coincidence.

Bob stole the idea of greys coming from Zeta Reticuli from the story of Betty and Barney Hill.

Just as Bob's claims do not prove Betty and Barney's story neither does the latter disprove Bob's information.

Bob stole the idea of the reactor design and explosion from the Demon Core story.

Any half sphere in a box will resemble any other half sphere in a box and all nuclear devices are dangerous and can go critical.

Bob stole the idea of the Sport Model UFO from John Lear's Billy Meier collection.

Bob could have made up any UFO design if he really wanted to deceive people, but instead described the Sport Model as being almost identical to the most well known UFO ever photographed.

Bob claimed to have been taken to S4 on a bus from Groom Lake, however on satellite images no roads lead to the facility location Bob claimed to have been to.

The satellite images of secret military facilities made by domestic or foreign instruments are not always reliable and it is also difficult to tell if a bus could have gone all the way to S4 using such imagery.

There is no S4 at Papoose Lake only an S2 USAF facility (allegedly) or not even that.

The question of the existence and correct location of S2 and S4 is very much up for debate. It is possible that one is to the West while the other is to the East of Papoose Lake.

The name of Bob Lazar was missing from the Area 51 entry logs (allegedly)

When Lazar first came out he did it anonymously, and given that only 6 months later was his real name published there was ample time to redact his records.

Bob Lazar's name is in the Area 51 entry logs (allegedly), but his job was designated to be a custodial engineer at Area 51 and not that of a staff physicist at S4.

Official documents alleging Lazar's job being an engineer at Area 51 have been circulating since 1990 and could have been easily forged by those who had access.

About Me

Me

I am Daniel Vintner, the creator of BobLazarVindicated.com. I am a professional programmer, author, and UFO researcher. My research into Bob Lazar's story began in January 2023, shortly after I published my first book. I have gathered all the available data about Lazar and made it accessible to everyone through the Library. I’ve spoken with as many people who knew Lazar as possible, and I am deeply grateful for the help and advice they have provided. I’ve also written several articles on the subject, although much has been left unsaid.
Initially, I had little interest in UFOs or extraterrestrials. My first book was a critique of Darwin’s theory of evolution, written from my unique perspective as a programmer. Titled Some Mistakes of Darwin and a Programmer's Theory of Life, it offered a fresh take on the origins of life.

Contact

My experience

The story of being visited by some unknown entity. This happened 6 months after I began my research on Lazar. By then I have pretty much exhausted all of my sources and was pretty much stuck. Read it below if you wish.

Woo Woo Alert!

June 24, 2023
Imagine a hooded figure. Now imagine that this figure is made of sunlight, but that this light is not reflected on anything despite everything around being dark. Then if you look at the face, you see two completely round dark eye sockets. Due to the contrast of the dark surrounding and the figure of light, it seemed that the Entity's eyes were hollow. I could not see any feet, and the hoodie was extremely pronounced and created a triangle between the top of the head and the shoulders. Since everything was homogeneous light except for the eyes, only the contour of the being was visible so any dimensionality is simply implied by the humanoid appearance. I also seem to recall a very thin slightly more dim aura around the being. The shape and color of the eyes as well as the dark environment are the parts of my memory that I am least certain of. Everything else I can still easily recall. I estimate this experience to have taken approximately 15 to 30 seconds.
I can clearly remember what I felt. I was elated. Really happy to see this thing. My thoughts were, and I wish they weren't, something like: Yippee, they are real! Then it was over. I was in bed, and it was about 2AM.

About six months after the incident, I've decided to seek out a hypnotherapist. I've picked one who seemed trustworthy and agreed with him to have a two-hour session together. I gave him the task to find out if what I saw was real or a dream and told him that I would comply as best as I could. Not because I was still disturbed at this point, but more because my money was being spent and I didn't want to waste it. Once under hypnosis, the first thing I felt was pain. I could feel it from the left side of my chest and then a bit later from the right side. I also felt an almost unbearable urge to open my eyes. I had to constantly apply force to my eyelids to keep them closed. This struggle went on for almost the whole duration and eventually I could feel moisture building up around my eye due to exhaustion.
I have never been hypnotized before. I've never prayed or meditated or taken any drugs or been drunk (despite quite some effort) and I have never seen anything illusionary outside my dreams while being conscious. This time, however, I did see some things although they were mostly very simple mostly geometric shapes. My sight was clear but without context it is hard to say what I saw, but I will share my best guess that I have come up with.
Firstly, I saw a circle in the center of my vision. Everything around the circle was pulsating energy which was going inside the circle, like a reversed hollow Sun. My deduction for this is that this is simply a focus point which is also called the third eye (best guess doesn't mean it is a good guess).
Second, I saw a snout specifically a reptilian snout. The image came and went by very quickly, but my therapist did ask me about it and I did reluctantly say that I saw a reptilian. I don't know why and honestly, I don't want to know why. Third, I saw something that resembled the Entity or at least the outside shape of the glowing being. This shape was stuck to the bottom of my vision so once again I could not see any feet. That's pretty much all that I saw