<   Calendar  1988   >

(some time June) John Lear was approached by Gene Huff, who proposed a trade: a real estate appraisal of Lear’s house in return for access to his collection of UFO-related materials, including tapes and documents like those on Billy Meier. Lear accepted the offer, and when Huff arrived to do the appraisal, he brought along Bob Lazar to assist him. This marked the first meeting between Lear and Lazar.

Joe Vaninetti visited Bob from Los Alamos and stayed until the 10th. "Groom Lake=125 miles" is put on Bob's calendar.

John Lear visited. At the time Bob was running a photo business and had a contract to repair radiation detection probes and Lear would help him with the latter from time to time.

Bob sent out resumes around mid October including to presumably Edward Teller

Jim had brought over a newspaper article about Lear’s UFO claims and suggested attending one of his lectures. Lazar dismissed it as nonsense but agreed to watch a TV special that evening featuring Lear and others discussing alien abductions.

Jim Tagliani begins working on secret aircraft projects at Tonopah Test Range while still waiting for his background check to finish.

Bob Lazar hand-delivered his resume to EG&G. According to Lazar this was nothing special and since Bob lived nearby it was presumably faster then sending by mail.

Bob Lazar writes "Talk about stuff" in calendar. The Reason is not clear.

Bob Lazar writes Linda (Moulton) Howe in his diary after mentioning John Lear

Edward Teller told Bob he could not employ him since he was no longer active, but he gave Lazar a name and number to call at the EG&G building. John Lear claimed he was present during the phone call.

Bob Lazar has an interview in the EG&G building where he is told that he’s "overqualified" but that "something might open up soon."

Lazar is called back for a second interview shortly after the first. He refers to it as the "Big Interview"

Bob Lazar was unexpectedly called in the early afternoon (around 2 PM) and instructed to report to EG&G. There, he received a briefing about a remote job site within a test area. Later that day, around 4 PM, he flew—along with Dennis Mariani and other passengers—to Area 51. This marked Lazar’s first trip to Area 51, which he later referred to as the "Trip to Nowhere."

Bob prepared an unusual fireworks show.

Bob Lazar enlarged an old 1960s black-and-white photo of Groom Lake in an attempt to identify the building he had visited about a week earlier. He created a negative from an existing photo and enlarged it in a darkroom but found the image too unclear to confirm details. He also described his arrival at the site: after landing, he and others were transported in an open electric shuttle to a central cafeteria area that included vending machines and a buffet.

Bob claims the first trip to S-4 was before the 23d of December. This date was no recorded in the calendar.

Between December 26 and 30, 1988, Mike Thigpen visited Bob Lazar's home. This visit, along with an earlier unrecorded surprise visit, was part of Lazar’s background check process. Thigpen was identified as working for the Office of Federal Investigations (OFI) — a little-known division under the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) responsible for conducting security clearance background checks.

Bob Lazar discusses an incident that happened before January where government agents delivered a transcript of a private phone call between him and Gene Huff.