Bob Lazar

Bob Lazar said in a 1989 broadcast interview that he had worked on alien flying saucers at S-4, a site near Groom Lake at Area 51 in Nevada. Universities he said he attended report no record of him.

The journalist George Knapp wrote in 2014 that the first interview aired in May 1989 with Lazar's face hidden and the pseudonym Dennis. Lazar claimed he had worked on and off at S-4, a site he placed south of Groom Lake, which is Area 51's main facility. He described nine hangars built into a mountainside next to Papoose dry lake and disguised as desert floor, holding nine saucer craft that he said were alien, in a program he said the U.S. government ran.

Lazar said he had studied at MIT and Caltech. National Geographic reports that both schools found no trace of him in their records, and that Los Alamos officials denied he had worked at the lab as a physicist, as he claimed. According to Wikipedia, Stanton Friedman and Donald Prothero have said no one with his high school grades would have got into either school, and a man Lazar named as a Caltech professor, William Duxler, taught at Pierce Junior College.

Skeptic magazine notes that Friedman cited evidence Lazar went to a Los Angeles school, Pierce Junior College, which Friedman said sat badly with the timeline Lazar gave later. Lazar says his records were changed or deleted. Skeptic also reports a 1990 guilty plea by Lazar to a felony charge of pandering in Nevada.

The 2018 documentary Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers, by Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell, a mixed-media artist, set out to explain Lazar and his claims, according to a review in Film Threat.