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June 20, 2019 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #1315 - Bob Lazar & Jeremy Corbell
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joe rogan
Two, one, boom.
And we're live.
First of all, cheers, gentlemen.
Let's have a little toast.
Relax.
Bob, thank you very much for doing this.
I really appreciate it.
I understand that you've told this story many, many times.
You've been grilled many, many times, and it's very stressful for you, so I really, really appreciate your time.
For people who don't know the story, there is a documentary.
Jeremy Corbell has a documentary out right now.
It's called Bob Lazar, Area 51 and UFOs.
jermey corbell
And Flying Saucers.
joe rogan
And Flying Saucers.
jermey corbell
Bob Lazar, Area 51 and Flying Saucers.
joe rogan
I first heard your story decades ago.
I told you last night when we went out to dinner.
I've seen pretty much every interview you've ever given.
I've followed the story incredibly closely.
But for people who don't know the story, let's give them the bullet points.
You...
You used to work at Area 51. And Area 51...
Well, you know, we want to be accurate.
bob lazar
Area S4. S4, okay.
It's about 15 miles south of Area 51. Okay.
joe rogan
You worked in...
How would you describe it?
bob lazar
I guess within the Area 51 compound.
You can call that a subset of Area 51. And you got that job.
joe rogan
Before that, you were working...
bob lazar
Before that, I had worked at Los Alamos National Labs in New Mexico.
joe rogan
And you were involved in what kind of work?
bob lazar
Nuclear weapon development, physics.
I mean, they do everything there.
joe rogan
So how do they approach you to say, hey, Bob, why don't you come on out to the Nevada desert?
bob lazar
Well, the way this went down was...
At that time, it was 1982, I had put a jet engine in my Honda and Los Alamos put it on the front page of the paper.
I said, you know, Los Alamos man, physicist at the lab, you know, built this 200-mile-an-hour Honda jet car that I drove to work every day.
So I was known in Los Alamos, the guy with the weird car, and you could hear it from a mile away.
Anyway...
The day that came out on the front page of the paper was the day Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, was giving a lecture down there at the lab.
And we didn't have much going on that day in our group, and I asked if I could go down there.
And I went down there early, and Ed Teller was outside, leaning on a brick wall there and reading the front page of the paper.
Now, this is a guy out of history, so I introduced myself.
Hey, I'm the guy you're reading about there.
And we talked for a little while, and it was cool.
You know, fast forward to years later, I had moved out to Las Vegas and had, you know, left Los Alamos and, you know, went on to other things and I wanted to get back into the scientific community.
You know, I left to start other businesses and that sort of thing.
So I sent resumes out and one of them went out to Ed Teller and referenced our meeting.
You know, back in the day.
And anyway, he remembered me and gave me a reference, somebody to contact at EG&G. And that's pretty much how it started.
joe rogan
So you get a phone call or a letter?
Like, what do you get?
bob lazar
Well, I got a letter initially and went down for an interview probably a couple times.
And it was down at EG&G Special Projects, which was at McCarran Airport at that time in Las Vegas.
joe rogan
And did they give you any sort of job description of what you were applying for?
bob lazar
They said it was for...
I can't remember exactly what they did.
This was a long time ago.
But I think it was advanced propulsion or something like that.
Something relatively generic.
And they said it's in a remote area.
It's going to be some days on, some days off.
And it was kind of a...
It was kind of, not exactly a full-time job, but you might have to be out there for two weeks at a time and take two weeks off.
So it was kind of, the work schedule would be kind of broken up.
joe rogan
And did this seem attractive to you or did it seem weird?
bob lazar
No, it really wasn't weird because people that work at the test site, anybody that's familiar with the area up there, you know, working at the nuclear test site or at the Tonopah test range north of there, That's typically how things go.
joe rogan
So you had known about it from the scientific community?
Because Area 51 at that time was still classified?
bob lazar
No, they didn't say anything about Area 51. Okay, so they just...
They just said it was in a, you know, in a remote location and you just know it was up at the test site.
unidentified
Right.
bob lazar
So, but there was no mention of Area 51 at that time.
joe rogan
So they've done hundreds of nuclear tests in Nevada.
Nevada, that whole area was, there's been, there's giant chunks of Nevada that people...
bob lazar
Big piece of Nevada, and it's split up into different areas.
There's a nuclear test site.
There's Area 51. There's the Tonopah test range north of that.
There's little sub-areas.
There's areas where they test chemical weapons and things like that.
So it's all broken up as a gigantic test area.
joe rogan
So take me back to first day on the job.
You accept a job.
They take you out there.
bob lazar
Yeah.
It's...
The first day, really, I didn't really get to see a whole lot.
The first day was essentially just paperwork.
That's when I flew into Area 51 proper.
And I left McCarran Airport and flew what they call the Janet flights.
Just...
You know, a passenger plane from Las Vegas to Area 51. And it was really just going through a mountain of paperwork that day.
From security clearances to...
God, it was like two or three hours of just solid paperwork.
And that was really an uneventful first day.
joe rogan
When did things get weird?
When did you realize, at what point in time did you say, hey, this is not normal work?
Like, this doesn't even seem like it's from this planet.
bob lazar
I can't tell you what day that occurred on, because so much time has gone by.
The days have kind of fused into one, and I can't separate the days.
joe rogan
Was it a slow burn, or was there a moment of recognition?
bob lazar
Well, there...
The first inkling I had was when I came in.
There's this facility that is at S4. It's in the side of a mountain.
And normally we had pulled in with the bus and gone around the front through a normal double door.
This time that I went in, there were hangar doors open.
I went into the hangar door, and in the hangar door was the disc, the flying saucer that I worked on.
I saw it sitting there, and we walked by it.
It had a little American flag stuck on the side, and I thought, oh my god, this finally explains all the flying saucer stories.
This is just an advanced fighter, and this is fucking hilarious.
So I went by.
I slid my hand alongside it.
I got reprimanded immediately for touching the thing.
And there was a guy, an armed guard, that followed us in and just said, keep your eyes forward and your hands at your side and just walk in the door.
So that was the first time I had seen anything that was weird.
It was some time later that I was introduced to my lab partner, Barry.
And we had some of the subcomponents of the craft in the lab.
And Barry was very anxious to get a new lab partner.
So he was very talkative and couldn't wait to show me different things.
And it was in the demonstration of the reactor working where it caught my attention to where this is technology that doesn't even exist.
So, I mean, that was the first time I knew that this is really something different.
joe rogan
What was it?
What was it about this reactor that made you think that it didn't exist?
bob lazar
Well, I actually have to back up because there were some briefings that I read before that that certainly gave me the impression that this was going to be a weird job.
But this was the first hands-on thing.
This was a small reactor about the size of a hemisphere about the size of a basketball.
On a metal plate, and when it was running, it produced a gravitational field, a gravitational field of its own.
Now this is something that we can't do.
We can't produce any gravity.
The only way we get gravity is from large quantities of mass.
But there's no machine we can have that turns on that makes gravity.
Like, you know, you can turn on an electromagnet and it makes a magnetic field.
We can't make a gravitational field.
Anyway, this device was producing that.
And Barry said, almost like he was bragging, go ahead, try and touch the sphere.
And I couldn't.
It pushed my hands away, just like two light poles of a magnet.
joe rogan
So like when you take two magnets and you try to press them together and they push against each other?
bob lazar
Yeah, kind of cushioned feeling, but you can't get them together.
The closer you put them, the more they push.
joe rogan
And you felt that physically with your hand?
bob lazar
Yeah, now there's nothing that does that.
And that immediately caught my attention, going, wow, this is something else.
joe rogan
What was your thought?
Like when you felt that and you knew that there was nothing that you were aware of that could produce this?
bob lazar
Then that connected me to the briefings that I read on the first day at S4 was that, you know, everything that I had read was apparently accurate.
joe rogan
What were you reading?
bob lazar
It was kind of an overview...
This project was to back-engineer the alien craft, and specifically it was to try and back-engineer and see if we can duplicate the technology with available materials.
Now to do this, they split the project into, you know, many different pieces for several reasons.
They do this on all classified projects.
So nobody has the complete story, but they compartmentalize everything.
Now we had the power and propulsion system.
So what briefings they gave me were like a one or two page overview of some of the other projects that were going on, you know, on the craft.
The only reason they do that is just in case what you're working on is connected intimately in some way that we don't know of to one of the other projects.
You have to know their existence.
So, again, everything from metallurgy to weapon potential, the craft.
These were all, you know, essentially very short briefings, but mine was just power and propulsion, and it made it very clear that what I read was accurate.
joe rogan
So when you're reading that, before you actually saw the reactor, what were your thoughts on what they were describing?
If you knew that something like that didn't exist, and they're describing it in the briefings, what did you think you were going to see?
bob lazar
I really...
I didn't know at the time.
I mean, I was reading...
I thought, is this some kind of test?
joe rogan
See if you're crazy?
bob lazar
Well, not to see if I'm crazy to...
You know, a lot of times they'll take in real high security jobs.
I mean, they'll intentionally insert nonsense into them.
Whether it's to confuse the fact or if for someone was to leak it out, they would carry that information along and know where it came from.
So I... Read through the documents.
But, you know, I didn't know if this was, you know, part of some kind of test or, you know, or what?
Or was it potentially realistic?
I mean, I really didn't consider it being all that possible as far as being the actual thing that I was going to work on at the time.
joe rogan
How did they turn it on?
bob lazar
The reactor?
The reactor can be turned on or turned off in a lot of different ways.
The way Barry showed me, the hemisphere is removed.
There's a small tower in the middle.
When you put the hemisphere on, the reactor activates.
The reactor shuts down.
It's load sensing.
So if there's no load on the reactor at all, it shuts down.
When there's a load present on it, it starts up again.
joe rogan
Load meaning?
bob lazar
You can consider it an electrical load.
So...
Although it doesn't necessarily operate electrically.
There's no wiring that connects any of the sub-components together whatsoever.
They just have to be in the immediate vicinity.
The stuff is borderline magic.
And that's essentially where we left it, you know, when I left the project.
joe rogan
So there was no progress made?
bob lazar
There was some progress.
I mean, we did identify, at least we think, some processes and had a rough idea, we think, of what was going on, but I think this is a problem that they've had for a long time.
And, you know, I was replacing somebody that Barry worked with prior to me, and I think there was some horrific accident that I didn't have a whole lot of information on, but, you know, Barry alluded to that.
joe rogan
Horrific accident, like where someone died?
bob lazar
Yeah, where somebody died.
joe rogan
Because they were trying to tamper with things or figure out how something worked?
bob lazar
Yeah, the reactor in particular.
joe rogan
But yet he let you touch it?
bob lazar
Yeah, I think what they were trying to do was cut into one.
Now, they had more than one there.
Supposedly, there was an unannounced nuclear test, and that's what it was.
At the time, remember, they were still doing underground nuclear tests at the test site.
But from what I understand, according to Barry, there was an attempt made.
Now, this must have been a pretty desperate attempt because it's not a very scientific process to cut, you know, analyze something that way.
But it looked like they used a plasma cutter or something I got to cut into an operating reactor.
joe rogan
How many of these things did they have?
bob lazar
They had nine craft altogether.
I only got hands-on with one of them, so I can't really say how the others operated.
joe rogan
Did you see the other ones?
bob lazar
Yeah.
At one time, and only one time, the bay doors between the hangers were all open, and I could see all the way through.
joe rogan
And were they all exactly the same?
bob lazar
No, they were all different.
joe rogan
Different shapes?
bob lazar
Yeah.
joe rogan
But they were all from somewhere else.
bob lazar
Yeah, absolutely.
joe rogan
Now, did anyone make any attempt to explain or to tell you where they came from?
bob lazar
No, no one is the least bit interested in letting everybody know all the facts.
They want to give you the minimum information that's necessary to complete your task.
So you're not getting the story of where they came from.
You're not getting the story of how much progress other people are making.
You just focus on the small component.
joe rogan
But they gave you some indication that they've been working on these for a while?
bob lazar
Yeah.
joe rogan
When do you think they acquired these?
bob lazar
I really couldn't say.
I think they've been around for a while.
joe rogan
So they bring you into this room, you see this reactor working, you realize this is nothing that as far as like the scientific community at current time has the ability to create.
bob lazar
We still don't.
joe rogan
What is your life like from that moment on?
Is that where everything changes?
I would imagine the moment you actually make contact with something that's extraterrestrial, whether it's an object or a being, something where you can absolutely be certain it's not from here, your whole paradigm, the whole world you live in, is now a different place.
bob lazar
Well, this is the only time it became exciting.
You know, the rest of the time, it was really an ominous feeling being at work.
But at that time, it was exciting.
I mean, this was...
Now I knew we were on the absolute beyond...
Actually, beyond the cutting edge of science.
And I was so absolutely excited to be there every single time I was.
You know, this was a fantastic opportunity.
However...
In short order, it began to concern me.
We really have no idea what we're talking about.
The excitement kind of turned to dread at some point because the amount of power we're dealing with is astronomical.
I mean, to affect gravity, to produce the effects like this equipment does, takes huge amounts of power.
And I've given the example before of You know, taking a small portable nuclear reactor and, you know, putting it back into Victorian times, you know, with the scientists of the time, and just dropping it in a room.
And they come and look at it and see that it's producing power and wonder how it works.
So they start taking it apart.
And as soon as they get some of the shielding off, the people are going to drop dead because of the radiation inside.
Now, people have no idea that radiation even exists back then.
But anybody that comes in to check on them will also drop dead.
And, you know, there's no reason that that exact scenario couldn't happen with what we're dealing with.
We have no idea how the physics operate within this thing.
The power levels are, like I said, astronomical.
It's incredibly dangerous to tinker with something like that.
And, you know, in some respects, we were guinea pigs.
Just try to find out how to make this thing.
joe rogan
So they had a series, as far as you surmised, they had a series of different scientists try to back-engineer this thing, try to figure out what this thing was, and they would bring in new people and, like, let's throw Bob at it.
bob lazar
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know how many, but I knew there was certainly one before me, and I knew he died during the analysis of the reactor itself.
joe rogan
And you don't know how many have worked on it, and no one gave any indication?
bob lazar
This could have been there for 50 years.
It could have been there for five years.
joe rogan
When they're giving you instructions, what are they saying?
Like, when they're giving you direction, they're showing you all this stuff, like, what are they saying?
Specifically, what are they asking of you?
bob lazar
Well, essentially what they ask is what I said.
We are just to gather as much information as possible, find out how it operates, and see if we can duplicate it.
joe rogan
But they never told you where it was from.
They never let you ask questions about where it's from.
bob lazar
If the information I read in the briefings was accurate, now what I do have to say is the information that pertained directly to the reactor was accurate.
What I read did, I mean, did jive with reality.
joe rogan
In terms of how?
bob lazar
In terms of how it was made, what we saw, how it operated, the materials, how it turned on, and what was discovered about it.
I'm sorry.
The migraine is really making it hard for me to think here.
joe rogan
Sorry.
We talked that before the podcast.
You tell everybody Bob is getting a migraine.
I know you're very stressed out by this.
It's just one of the reasons why I appreciate you doing this.
bob lazar
Where was I already?
Oh, right.
We explained it.
And so there was some paperwork that indicated that this was from the Zeta Reticuli star system.
Now, yeah.
Now, how they obtained that, I haven't the slightest idea.
But it wasn't just from the Zeta Reticuli star system.
It was what they called ZR3. So it was a third planet in that star system.
So...
There was no other information about it other than that's supposedly where the craft came from.
Now, is that true?
I don't know.
I have no way of verifying that, but that was printed in the same materials that referenced the reactor.
Now, I looked that stuff up when I went home, and Zeta Reticuli is a binary star, two stars that orbit one another.
And it's only visible in the Southern Hemisphere, and it's about 30 some odd light years away.
So that's literally all the information I have about that.
I don't know how they found out it came from there.
joe rogan
And you also probably have some suspicions that they give you some disinformation like you were talking about before.
Yeah.
I mean, if you ever decided to talk about this, they added a bunch of nonsense to make whatever is factual look ridiculous.
bob lazar
Right.
Or be able to trace it down.
Like, okay, this fax came out and, you know, this Lazar guy said it came from Zeta Reticuli, so they knew it would be me.
joe rogan
When you read Zeta Reticuli, were you like, what in the fuck is this?
bob lazar
Well, reading all of the stuff, it was, what in the fuck is this?
joe rogan
You're like, why did I sign up for this?
bob lazar
No, no.
To me, this was cool.
This was interesting.
I was just excited to be out in a secure area, you know, in the middle of the desert.
I said, this is awesome.
How old were you at the time?
As in my 20s.
joe rogan
Yeah, so you're probably totally geeked out.
bob lazar
Oh, yeah.
This was great.
I mean, I was excited.
So I didn't care.
I'm reading through everything.
joe rogan
So you read through all the Zeta Reticuli thing, but then when you see the actual starship with the little American flag sticker on it, I think...
bob lazar
Well, that was...
joe rogan
Was that later or before?
bob lazar
That was before.
joe rogan
So before.
So you see the thing before and you say, oh, this is American.
bob lazar
Wait, what's that before?
unidentified
Hard.
joe rogan
So many years.
bob lazar
Yeah, I can't.
unidentified
Either way.
joe rogan
It doesn't matter.
bob lazar
The days have fused together.
It's so hard to separate what happened in each visit to the place.
joe rogan
Do you remember the thought process when you read that it's from Zeta Reticuli?
bob lazar
Yeah, it didn't hit me like a ton of bricks or anything.
It was just like, yeah, okay.
joe rogan
You think it was bullshit?
bob lazar
I don't know.
Now I don't.
I mean, because when I read it, I hadn't verified anything.
And this was just a bunch of stuff I was reading.
And I thought, maybe after this, they're just going to give me a test and see what I can remember in crazy information.
But like I said, when I finally went in with Barry...
And had hands-on experience with what they were talking about.
It's on a completely different meaning.
joe rogan
So there's a plate.
There's this thing that looks like half a basketball.
And when it's on, you can't come anywhere near it.
You can't touch it.
bob lazar
Right.
joe rogan
What is gravity about that?
The concept of gravity to most people is gravity is bringing something towards it.
bob lazar
Right.
Well, I guess you would say it's anti-gravity.
It's gravity shifted 180 degrees.
It's anti-gravity.
joe rogan
And did they have any understanding about what could possibly create this effect?
Did they have any areas where they'd like you to look into?
bob lazar
Well, they knew there was a fuel source in it and they were proficient at making it work.
And again, my analogy to something like this is you can drop a motorcycle off in the wagon train days and just leave it with the keys parked outside, you know, somebody's place.
Everybody will come around it and they'll poke and prod and eventually they'll turn the key, get it to start and become proficient at riding it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
bob lazar
But they won't be able to understand what the hell's going on.
They won't be able to make the plastic fender, much less anything else.
And I think that's exactly the state we were at.
We played around with the parts long enough before I got there where they could make the reactor operate, take the fuel out, and know that it makes it work.
How exactly what was going on in the reactor remained a mystery at the time.
I think we made some progress on what was going on inside, but I don't think anybody really knew anything.
They could just watch what was going on and make note of it.
joe rogan
How long were you there?
bob lazar
I'd say about six months or so.
joe rogan
And what progress was made while you were there?
bob lazar
Well, we came up with a bunch of Reasonably good ideas about how the reactor worked.
And one of them was the base, the square base of it was essentially like a cyclotron, which is a small particle accelerator, a circular one.
Particle accelerators, linear particle accelerators are just, you know...
Long tube, essentially, and they accelerate particles with high voltage and radio frequencies until they reach high speeds.
But a cyclotron does that in a small circular area.
And there's this very heavy element fuel, element 115, something that wasn't on our periodic charts at the time.
joe rogan
But it is now.
bob lazar
It is now, yeah.
joe rogan
When did it become on the periodic table now, the charts now?
bob lazar
You know, I don't remember.
Do you remember when they...
jermey corbell
2004, Dermstadt, Germany, I think, is where they first fabricated four atoms.
It lasted 220 milliseconds with the atoms.
It's nothing, right?
And then it later was discovered a couple more times they could fabricate it.
Then they gave it a place then on the periodic chart.
After that, called it Muscovium.
joe rogan
So they told you about this stuff in 1982?
bob lazar
Yeah, well, we kind of...
joe rogan
What year was this?
bob lazar
It was 88 and 89 when I was there.
82 is when I was at Los Alamos.
joe rogan
I'm sorry.
bob lazar
Yeah.
joe rogan
So 88, 89, they told you about this stuff.
So this was not like...
bob lazar
No, they didn't tell me about it.
That's one of the things that this group came up with.
God, I keep losing my train of thought with this thing.
joe rogan
So this one area...
This element 115 was the fuel.
unidentified
yeah it was the fuel um the the world will forgive you for having a migraine i can It's really hard to think through this.
bob lazar
Just give me a minute.
joe rogan
We'll just give you more booze.
jermey corbell
Yeah, definitely.
I was going to say one thing.
For the last 30 years, people have just been on the attack on Bob, getting to know him, the personal effects on his life.
It's really hard to understand unless you meet his family and his wife.
I mean, this is the last thing he wanted to fucking do, was have to talk.
joe rogan
Yeah, we should explain that, Jeremy, that you and I had this conversation.
I watched your documentary.
We had this conversation, and I said, I have to talk to him.
The document, there's been detractors, there's been a bunch of people that called bullshit on many of the things that you've said, but over time, many of the things that you talked about, even in the 80s, have proven to be true.
Things that people said were not true were proven to be true.
Element 115 was one of them.
bob lazar
Right, right.
Element 115, the fuel they had, was stable.
In other words, it didn't decay.
It wasn't emitting radioactivity.
When they synthesized the two or three atoms of the 115, it did decay, and it was not a stable element.
So they're kind of two different things.
But this is kind of typical.
Elements Always have, or pretty much always have, stable isotopes and unstable isotopes.
I think cesium has like 30 unstable isotopes to it.
Well, hydrogen, for example, you're familiar with hydrogen gas.
It's stable.
It's not radioactive.
But there's also two other types of hydrogen.
Deuterium and tritium.
And deuterium isn't radioactive, it's another stable isotope of hydrogen, but tritium is radioactive.
Now they're all hydrogen, but they just have different amounts of neutrons.
So it's the same thing with other elements and element 115. Depending on the amount of neutrons it has, It's the stable version that has the properties that we're talking about.
joe rogan
So they somehow or another had acquired a stable version.
Did they say that the stable version had come with this craft?
bob lazar
Yeah, it absolutely came with the craft, yeah.
joe rogan
So at the time, you having a firm knowledge of the periodic chart and knowing what was real and what wasn't real, what was your reaction to having this stable element 115 that wasn't even supposed to exist?
bob lazar
Well, everything was impossible.
joe rogan
Right.
bob lazar
I mean, down to the metal, I did get a chance To look inside the craft on only one occasion, and this was important because where the reactor sat might have been critical to how it operated since everything operates without any interconnections, so the placement of components might be critical.
So they allowed me to go inside and look at it.
Shoot, again, I forgot where the hell I am.
joe rogan
So you're going into this craft, and what are you thinking when you're inside of it?
Like, what are you seeing?
bob lazar
It's a very ominous feeling, because it's, there are no, first of all, everything is one color.
It's like a dark pewter color, and there are no right angles anywhere.
It's as if somebody took, I've said this before, somebody took a model and fashioned it out of wax and then heated it just for a short time so everything melted.
Everything looks like it's fused together.
Everything has a radius of curvature where two items meet.
It's a really weird-looking thing.
But...
There was almost nothing other than a small foldable hatchway that looked recognizable.
Everything was really unworldly, to pick on it, a way to describe it.
joe rogan
So you get inside this thing, and it's designed for something that's much smaller than a human being.
bob lazar
Yeah, you can't really stand up until you get to the very center of it.
joe rogan
And how tall are you?
bob lazar
I'm 5'10".
joe rogan
And what do you think this was designed for?
bob lazar
I'd say something close to half my height.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
So these little three foot tall-ish creatures.
bob lazar
Yeah, and the seats were small, too.
I mean, obviously it was made, you know, for something, something small.
But there is no, like, there's nothing else in there.
There's just seats, the reactor, and some of the subcomponents.
There's no control panels, there's no bathroom, there's no decorative components or artwork or anything that you would recognize or trim.
I mean, it's just a very bare-bones thing.
joe rogan
You're not seeing any screens?
bob lazar
Well, there are archways around it that are part of the superstructure, and one of the archways can become transparent.
When I was in there, there was another group working on one of the archways, and you could call that a screen, more or less.
joe rogan
So, through that archway, it would maintain the solidity, the solid, whatever metal it was?
bob lazar
Yeah.
joe rogan
But you could see through it?
bob lazar
Yeah, it just became transparent, yeah.
I saw that happen once or twice before I left.
joe rogan
Did you ask any questions about what the fuck that was?
bob lazar
No, there's no asking questions.
joe rogan
There's no asking questions.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
But when you watch something become transparent, and you realize it's still there, but you can now see through it...
bob lazar
Yeah, I mean, no, that's not that impressive.
We do have some liquid crystal materials that are like that.
joe rogan
I've seen that in bathrooms.
bob lazar
Smart glass.
Yeah, they call it smart glass.
And I don't know if the craft is made of an advanced metal or a ceramic.
It was cold to the touch, so I would lean more towards the metal.
joe rogan
And again, you're not allowed to ask questions.
bob lazar
No.
They work on the buddy system.
So I can only exchange ideas and talk to Barry.
Now, this really interferes with science because science is based on free discussion.
And ideally, you get a bunch of guys together, exchange ideas, work on problems, and that's how things move forward.
But they're so over-the-top concerned about security, they split everything off and everybody becomes stagnant.
It just destroys any of the progress you can make, or at least makes it go so slow.
I think they wind up shooting themselves in the foot.
joe rogan
Which is probably why they arrived at this bottleneck that they needed to get this madman with a...
see what he could do.
bob lazar
I think that was an act of desperation.
I think they wanted someone that thinks out of the box and let's just give this guy a try here because they weren't.
And they might have done this four more times since, you know, up to the point in time today, assuming they're still working on this thing.
joe rogan
And when you see this craft and you're inside, was there any indication that there was an area that they would use to control it, to pilot it?
Was there a pilot seat?
bob lazar
There were three seats.
They sat around.
The reactor was in the dead center of it.
And then equidistant around there were three seats.
And that's all.
There was a large...
They're not consoles.
They're large rectangular objects, also spaced, equidistant around the center.
There's nothing on them.
There's no buttons.
There's no lights.
unidentified
There's no controls.
joe rogan
And they look the same color, the same thing.
bob lazar
Everything is the same color.
joe rogan
It's just a different shape.
bob lazar
Right.
And directly underneath them, there's three levels in the craft.
The main level is what we're talking about.
Directly under that...
are the gravity amplifiers, the big rectangular objects.
Underneath them are the gravity emitters that look like, for lack of a better word, a trash can hanging on a pipe, three of those.
And then the top layer, this is just my personal belief, I think that has to do with a navigation or their version of a computer with some planar panels, sensor panels around the craft that we would call portholes, but they're not portholes, they're just black areas. sensor panels around the craft that we would call portholes, And I think that just determines its, you know, position in space.
But I physically was in the center section and I stuck my torso in the bottom section and hung upside down so I could see how the gravity amplifiers were positioned.
joe rogan
What is roughly the size of this thing?
bob lazar
I don't remember from being there, but after all this stuff was over, I had John Andrews, a guy from the Testers Model Corporation, and we sat down and tried to figure out from what I saw and known sizes of things, and we came up with 52 feet in diameter.
joe rogan
So it's fairly small.
bob lazar
Yeah, so I think that's a fair, a reasonable guess.
joe rogan
Now, you said there's nine of them, and you got a brief glimpse at the other ones.
How were they different?
bob lazar
Oh, they looked completely different.
One looked like a, I called a jello mold, and it looked like a classic jello mold with the rippled sides to it.
One was a very flat disc.
You know, like a straw hat or something like that.
That was sitting up on its edge and the thin part of it looked like a projectile had been fired through the edge of it.
So I don't know if they were attempting to see if the metal could be penetrated or if that's where the thing came from.
Maybe it was shot down.
But that was the only one where I saw there was actual physical damage to it.
joe rogan
And that one was roughly the same size?
bob lazar
They were kind of too far away to tell.
joe rogan
And there were several teams that were working on the propulsion system, so there were different teams that were working on these different aircrafts?
bob lazar
I don't know.
I could only assume.
joe rogan
Now, when you're sitting in this thing and you're looking at this otherworldly craft, your goal is to try to figure out how this thing functions.
Your goal is to try to figure out how this reactor...
I mean, imagine they would give you more time than just one day to check that out.
bob lazar
Oh, it wasn't one day.
joe rogan
Right.
bob lazar
Yeah, I mean, this is...
Barry was there.
I think Barry was sleeping there.
I'm sure they had...
Now, that isn't weird.
I mean, up at the Tonopah test range where they work on stealth fighters, you know, you go, I think, three weeks on, one week off, and you stay up there, too.
So it's not weird to stay up at the test site.
So, yeah, I think he pretty much...
And he acted like he's been up there for a long time.
But...
joe rogan
But he's still there.
bob lazar
Yeah, who knows?
joe rogan
Do you have contact with this guy?
bob lazar
No.
Oh, no.
I wish I did.
I kind of thought he was going to come out after I did.
And I think I took so much flack and it's so much shit for what went on.
I think actually I wound up helping security there and everybody became afraid of, you know, doing or saying anything after that.
joe rogan
So what kind of reports did you have to give?
So you're not making much progress, right?
You're just trying to figure out what this thing is, and it seems impossible.
bob lazar
Well, we didn't personally make them.
I mean, we were always – there was never a lot of information that we gained.
The guy, you would call him our supervisor, his name was Dennis Mariani, and kind of a military-looking guy.
And he would routinely pop in during the day and, you know, hey, what's going on, guys?
And he would essentially relay any information, anything new we came up with.
I mean, he was our go-between, where we presented him the information, and then he took it to wherever they were, you know, assembling all the data from everybody.
joe rogan
Now, I assume you're working normal days, like an eight-hour day?
bob lazar
No.
joe rogan
No?
bob lazar
No, it was really weird that I would be only called in on certain times and certain days, and they would be weird hours, too.
Most of the time was later in the evening.
I mean, I can get a call at 11 o'clock at night, and they'll say, you know, it's now 11 o'clock.
By 11.45, you need to be at McCarran Terminal, and, you know, we'll let you know when...
We have more information.
joe rogan
But what did you do while you were there?
If you're looking at this object, this reactor, and you can't figure out what it is or how it works, other than the fact that it works on this element that we don't even know about.
bob lazar
Sure.
I mean, the thing was to...
What you do, you know...
With anything.
If you're trying to analyze it, all you can do is perform tests.
And all we did is try and come up with every kind of test we possibly could.
I mean, we tested, you know, it violated a lot of what we thought was impossible to violate.
I mean, one of the first laws of thermodynamics, I mean, essentially, any machine, any device that operates always makes extra heat.
Nothing works at 100% efficient.
Even the headphones you're wearing, anything that takes power, some of that power is going to be converted to heat and it's just wasted.
This didn't.
I mean, we looked at, back then we had infrared cameras.
They're different today, but back then you had to pour liquid nitrogen into the camera to cool the sensor down and get these infrared images you've seen.
But it never got, no matter what the load was on the reactor, it never got above the ambient temperature, which is impossible.
Pulling out huge amounts of power and nothing ever gets warm.
We tried measuring magnetic fields and there was nothing there.
So we started playing around with the emission from the emitters, the gravity wave itself, and saw what we could do with it and how it was focused.
So we really spent all our time Just trying to see what the stuff can do and what we can control.
joe rogan
So you were seeing what it could do, but you couldn't ever figure out how it was doing it?
bob lazar
No, not really.
I mean, we really could only come up with a best guess.
Now, I can't say that I could absolutely state for certainty how anything actually worked.
joe rogan
Now, did you know at all how they were piloting it?
Because they were doing some tests where they were having these things fly around in the sky.
And this is what gets us deeper into your story.
bob lazar
Right.
I was out there for one test.
In fact, I was with Barry in the lab, and Dennis came in and said, we're about to run a test.
Why don't you guys come out?
Or I think he said, Barry, why don't you come out here and bring Bob with you?
We went out there, and the craft was already outside the hangar and was just preparing to lift off.
Now, they were in communication with somebody in the craft.
joe rogan
So there was a person in the craft.
bob lazar
Yeah, there was certainly a person in there.
Now, it's not a comfortable place to be in because it's small, so the guy has to be sitting on the floor in the middle, my best guess.
joe rogan
And this is the same specific craft that you worked on because that was the only craft that you were in?
bob lazar
The only one that I touched and worked on.
And it quietly lifted off the ground, which was incredibly impressive to see.
joe rogan
Quietly or silently?
bob lazar
Well, quietly because it produced a little corona discharge from the bottom.
A corona discharge is kind of a high voltage brush, little bluish glow discharge.
As it was lifting off the ground you can hear a slight hiss sound.
Now as soon as it cleared the ground by about five or ten feet, maybe even less than that, the hissing stopped and the blue glow disappeared.
It lifted off quietly and then it hovered silently, if you want to be specific.
joe rogan
Wow.
So then what kind of maneuvers was it doing?
bob lazar
For that particular time, it took off, moved a little around to the left and right, and then sat back down.
The craft itself, they communicated with it because I saw the guy talking.
And a regular VHF radio to the person in the craft.
And I even saw the frequency that was on the frequency counter of the communication, the transceiver there.
But what's weird is he shouldn't be able to communicate with the craft with a radio.
The radio waves should bend around the craft.
I mean, it shouldn't be possible.
Every single thing about the craft and the way they operated didn't make any sense to us.
I mean, that's something we talked about for a while after.
joe rogan
Why should the frequency bend around the craft?
bob lazar
Well, you really have to look at the way the gravity wave comes out of the craft.
The reactor's in the center, and there's a waveguide that goes up to the top.
There's actually a small appendage that sticks out of the top of the craft, and it produces a heart-shaped gravitational distortion around the craft.
Now, if the craft is sitting in the air and you walk underneath it and look up, you actually cannot see the craft.
The light bends around it.
Your bending gravity bends light.
It bends radio waves.
It shouldn't be possible to communicate with a craft that has an envelope around it that's distorting all forms of energy.
But they were apparently in contact with it.
joe rogan
Somehow or another, through some...
In an unexplained way, that they didn't bother explaining to you.
So this thing gets up, it just does some very simple maneuvers, left, right, left, right, goes down.
And did they discuss this with you?
I mean, they said they wanted you to see it.
bob lazar
No, they just wanted, no, they didn't discuss anything with me.
It sat down, we looked around for a bit, and Barry said, let's go back.
We went back in the lab.
All we got to do was see it.
Fast forward to some months later, I did have the test flight schedule of the craft.
Now they had times they had designated high performance tests.
This obviously wasn't one that was a high performance test.
The high-performance test goes above the mountain range, and they do much more radical moves with the thing.
Look, this is a prized item, and they're not doing anything like taking it out of the atmosphere or flying around to other countries or anything like that.
They just play with this thing right over the test site.
But they were doing some radical moves with it.
And since I had the test flight schedule, statistically...
The amount of traffic in the surrounding areas on the highway was lowest on Wednesdays and that's why Dennis told us that all the test flights occurred only on Wednesdays because it'd be the least chance that anyone would see what's going on.
joe rogan
And this was before the government had expanded the forbidden territory around Area 51 and Papoose Lake and all that stuff, right?
bob lazar
Yeah, I think that occurred after my story came out.
Then people started going up on the mountaintops and trying to look down into there and they kind of freaked out and then did the land grab and pushed everybody back.
But yeah, I think all that occurred long after, I'm sorry, that I came out.
joe rogan
So you're working there and while you're working there, you're under this crazy schedule.
Forgive me for explaining your story, but you would get these phone calls, you would have to go to the airport at 11pm, and your wife started thinking that you were having an affair.
bob lazar
Yeah, apparently so.
Now, I did give my permission to have, as part of the security clearance process, I gave written permission to have the phones monitored and things of that sort, so they weren't doing any covert stuff.
They...
You know, with any Q clearance, which is civilian top secret clearance, or military top secret clearance, they go talk to friends and, you know, places you've been, make sure you're not connected to foreign countries, but, you know, monitoring your phone is nothing unusual.
However, they insisted that, you know, you don't even talk to your loved one, to your partner, to your wife, whatever, about what's going on.
So she was essentially in the dark and didn't know the phone was being monitored.
Well, part of the security clearance is that not only do you not have any connections to foreign countries and aren't a maniac, but you have to have a stable home life too.
Well, she started having an affair with a flight instructor Now, they were monitoring this on the phone and they knew it and I didn't.
So they stopped me coming in and their attitude at the time was, we need to see how this is going to play out and if Lazar is going to get a little weird or anything.
So let's just, you know, hold him off from coming in and, you know, see what happens.
joe rogan
And they explained this to you, what was happening?
unidentified
Yeah.
bob lazar
Well, after the fact, yeah, because time kind of went on and there were guys that were following me around and I started getting a little concerned going, well, Chit, are they booting me out of the project?
And if so, they're not just going to let me hang out at home and go get a new job knowing what I know.
So as time went on, I started getting a little concerned and I took my closest friends and just kind of got together and I said, hey...
Remember that job I told you about?
This is what's going on.
And you don't need to take my word for it.
Wednesday night, we need to all go out here.
I want to show you what's going on.
So I took everybody and we went out to...
Remember, since I had the test flight schedule...
And went outside the base, out into the desert, and so everybody could see, you know, one of the high-performance tests.
And, you know, it left quite an imprint on everybody, so they knew I wasn't...
joe rogan
And there's videos of these tests, right?
bob lazar
Yeah, but remember, this is in the...
It's in the dark in the 80s with a big monster-sized camcorder, and you've got a bright light jumping around.
But yeah, I mean, we did video of it, but by today's standards, it's...
joe rogan
But is your video specifically available, the video that you took?
bob lazar
Well, George Knapp has it.
Is it online?
I have no idea.
joe rogan
Jeremy?
jermey corbell
Yeah, I show clips of it in my film.
It's online.
And someone did a deep analysis of it.
It was interesting to take a look at how...
joe rogan
Pull this microphone up to your face.
Cut about a fist from your face.
jermey corbell
You know, to see how his video looks now, but as far as video evidence, I mean, we are talking 80s camp, where the most important thing is the human story here.
Everybody that he took up there on three separate occasions, they don't all like each other.
They don't all talk.
They all agree on one thing.
They saw something that night at the exact point in time and space that Balbazar said, and remember, this is 17, 15, 17 miles south of Area 51. No one even knew really about Area 51. We're talking Papoose Lake, and they all agree.
They saw something that night they had never seen before and they've never seen since right when he said it.
So that's one of the six things where I'm like, how did he know?
You can dismiss him.
I tried to dismiss it.
But some things we can't get around.
And there's about five or six of them.
How did he know about those?
joe rogan
If Jamie wants to find that video right now, what would he look under?
jermey corbell
Bob Lazar, UFO, S4, Area 51. Just kind of like that.
So it's like the S4, UFO video, Bob Lazar.
And a guy does an analysis, but you're analyzing these 80s videos.
unidentified
Right.
jermey corbell
From the very beginning, Bob never said, I have proof of my story and I'm going to tell the world.
He said at the very beginning, I cannot prove my story.
That's not why I'm telling this.
George Knapp convinced him to tell people and he lived through it.
And I didn't believe it either until I talked with George.
joe rogan
Okay.
So you filmed this test flight, one test flight, and then you get caught.
bob lazar
Actually, it was, I think, the third time, because we went out there the first time.
Everybody saw it.
Everybody was amazed because it did some radical maneuvers, and everybody had a lot to say about it.
joe rogan
The maneuvers that I've seen, I've seen the video.
I don't think there's something we have now that does that.
bob lazar
No.
joe rogan
In terms of a human-piloted craft?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
I mean, I don't know, obviously, what the government...
bob lazar
No, it's impossible.
Nothing can move like that.
And remember, we didn't start filming from the very beginning.
You know, we were waiting for something, you know, to happen.
The craft took off and then came flying at us, stopped, you know, turned at a right angle, flew back.
And then, you know, after it did some, you know, amazing stuff, we were like, to get the camera.
And then we started filming.
So it doesn't have all of it on there.
It just has some...
joe rogan
The way I describe it to my friends and they said, what does this look like?
I said, take a laser pointer.
And then have a wall and then move it around the wall.
Like, you know how it moves around the wall?
It doesn't seem like it has anything to do with inertia or physics or it's not impeded in any way by the atmosphere.
That's what it looks like.
bob lazar
You're essentially separated from reality.
As crazy as that sounds, being in case it's own gravitational envelope, inertia is not going to affect it.
And, you know, this is...
This is how some of those recent sightings of Commander David Fravor, I'm sure you've heard of the Tic Tac UFO, I mean he describes exactly, the thing operates exactly the way I was describing.
That's why he was interested to talk to me.
But we saw this and You know, on the way home, it's like, hey, we got away with it.
We should try it again the next test flight day.
So this became a thing to do.
And I think it was on the third time that we got caught.
I mean, we started becoming a little careless.
I think we took a motorhome out there.
You know, I mean, it was like the stupidest thing you could possibly imagine.
Yeah, it was ridiculous.
joe rogan
Again, you're in your 20s.
bob lazar
Yeah.
And, you know, what was funny was we went out there and my friend Gene Huff and I were leaning on the front of a vehicle.
And just for some reason, we just started talking shit.
Like, well, I hope they realize that...
I don't remember what we were saying, but, you know, something about attacking the base or something along those lines and stealing the craft or something like that.
And then about 20 feet in front of us, we see a little green light.
Fall on the ground and roll to us.
And unbeknownst to us, now it's pitch black, you can't see your hand in front of your face, there were a bunch of guards standing right out there and they had a night vision scope where they were like from here to the wall looking at us, listening to us, and the guy dropped it and the scope rolled over to us and you could see the green screen.
We turn the lights on and all these guys are there.
So we did incredibly stupid stuff and got caught as we should have.
joe rogan
So when they catch you and they bring you in, then what happens?
bob lazar
Well, I went in for debriefing.
The following day, I went to Indian Springs Air Force Base, which is kind of a defunct base that they used to use at the nuclear test site.
And this is when they brought out the transcript of the phone call with my wife.
And, you know, they sat me down and we said, you know, when we meant to keep this secret, we meant you can't tell your friends, right?
You know, and it just being sarcastic and trying to...
And then they got real serious.
But this is where they...
You know, took the transcript out and were reading me what my wife and, you know, our friend were talking about.
And it was a hard time.
joe rogan
So what happens from there?
What do they do with you?
Why don't they arrest you?
bob lazar
I don't know.
I don't know why.
I'm not sure exactly they knew what to do.
But they did let me go that night.
And I went home.
And this is kind of when the most stressful part started.
joe rogan
Because you're realizing that you're being monitored.
bob lazar
Yeah, now I know not only am I being monitored, but now I know I'm in trouble.
And it wasn't a short time after that that I contacted, you know, at that time the only investigative reporter I had heard of in Las Vegas was George Knapp and, you know, told him some of the story because I had no idea what the hell was going to happen at that point.
joe rogan
So George Knapp tries to dissect your story, tries to find holes in it, Tells it, puts it online, and makes everybody aware of it, and that's how I found out about it.
bob lazar
Yeah, to make a long story short.
joe rogan
What happens...
Yeah, to really make a long story short.
What happens from there on?
I mean, do they contact you and say, Hey, Bob, it's probably a good idea if you shut up.
bob lazar
Oh.
joe rogan
Do they try to label you as crazy?
Was there...
bob lazar
Boy, there were a lot of things that happened between that point.
I'm leaving out a lot of stuff to fill in the story.
We'd have to go back to Los Alamos and, well, I really don't want to talk about that.
joe rogan
The top secret weapons stuff that you were working on.
bob lazar
No, I'm talking about the 115. Mm-hmm.
Well, I don't know.
unidentified
I have to think about how I... What is the problem?
bob lazar
I don't want to get myself into more trouble by admitting something, so I just have to dance around a couple.
jermey corbell
He was rated just during the filming of the movie.
joe rogan
Yeah, the movie's great, by the way.
jermey corbell
Thanks, Joe.
joe rogan
And it's on Netflix right now, if anybody wants to check it out.
And if you're one of those people like me, who, you know, I've always loved the idea of UFOs.
I became extremely weary talking to people who are UFO believers and UFO fanatics because there's so many of them that are full of shit.
And not just full of shit, they're childishly delirious.
Like the way they talk about things, I mean there's so many people that I'm in contact, they reach me in the night and they explain to me what we're doing to the ocean is wrong.
And you're like, okay.
bob lazar
This is one of the reasons I didn't want to do the show.
I'm sure.
One of them.
I mean, it's no joke.
We've had people literally camp out on our front lawn, and in some ways I can relate to some of these people.
Maybe some of them did really have some kind of experience or saw something, and all their friends think they're crazy, but hey, now there's this guy I heard on the radio, and at least he knows I'm not full of shit, so I've got to talk to him.
And so most of the correspondence I get are people trying to get a hold of me going, Bob, you've got to listen to me.
I'm coming to talk to you.
I'm driving from Oklahoma or whatever.
But some of them are just fucking batshit crazy and they're frightening.
joe rogan
There's a lot of schizophrenics that are involved in the conspiracy world.
There's a lot of people that have real issues.
jermey corbell
Joe, it would be a disservice to your audience to not say that We have to look at what's going on now and understand.
I've heard on your show a bunch of stuff about what's going on now.
And to not really understand what's going on now, you can't see Bob's story in the correct light after 30 years.
The biggest being that things like the Tic Tac UFO case that came out, I've heard people even on the show say, oh, there's a glitch in the radar.
That's a data poor perspective.
You just don't know yet what's really going on.
Commander Fravor, I was able to get the interview with him to talk with him way before it became public.
I got that from him.
He saw it.
Other pilots saw it.
This is a big thing that's going on right now.
They had more sightings on the East Coast recently, cubes with spherical oars.
These are not aerodynamic and these are the people we trust to defend us on 9-11.
Commander Fair protected Los Angeles on 9-11.
So we trust them, but they're not trained observers.
Radar.
Individuals see these things.
And the big one, just to throw it down so we can consider a story a little differently, there's more depth to it.
The big one is the United States government has admitted that they have been continuously studying the UFO phenomenon.
That program was called AATIP, was called OSAP. That's the mother program.
George Knapp got that out.
They announced through the New York Times about AATIP. But OSAP, these acronyms, OSAP, Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Applications Program, who cares?
That was the mother program.
So they've admitted, we didn't stop studying UFOs in 1969 with Project Blue Book.
We don't think it's crazy.
We actually want to reverse engineer the technology.
That's why on your other show, you said, what's this AAV thing?
It's like, they're making up another UFO name.
Well, hold on.
There's a reason.
Because in the documents, the DIA documents that George Knapp released, that everybody said was fake until now they know is real, they call them AAVs, which is Advanced Aerospace Vehicles.
People are getting the acronyms wrong.
So the reason for the terminology change is so that we can mimic what we're reading in the DIA documents.
People can look for that now.
So they changed the names to get people away from UFO or UAP, even like Hillary Clinton said, on air, right?
joe rogan
What are you talking about, Hillary?
jermey corbell
Hillary Clinton informed the public on Jimmy Kimmel.
Oh, Jimmy, we don't call them UFOs anymore.
We call them UAPs, Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon.
The Clintons are very into the UFO topic.
Senator Reid, he's done a lot for the subject, the study of it.
So she informed the public so they could look for the right term.
So these terms are important because the DIA in those documents, they've been calling them AAVs for quite some time now.
joe rogan
And they changed the name to anomalous.
jermey corbell
No, that's kind of a misnome.
So...
They always mess around with things, but it's actually advanced.
joe rogan
Right, but when they're describing it in the news, they were calling it anomalous aerospace vehicles.
jermey corbell
Totally.
And that's cool.
They were also saying anomalous aerospace threats, A-A-T, right?
Because they want the sense of a threat.
So my point is...
If people don't know this now and they think this stuff is fantasy, this part of it, that we're studying it, that we take it seriously, we're spending money on it, and that we're getting great data from visual pilots to radar.
That's why we know it's aerospace.
They dropped from 80,000 feet.
But guess what?
That's the top scope of the SPY-1 radar is 80,000 feet.
So the radar system they were using, it was coming from above that.
So my point is this.
If you don't understand that this is happening, you're just behind the curve because you don't have the information because of the stigma that you're talking about.
I saw you get totally upset with the UFO topic.
I met you first when you got totally upset with the UFO topic.
It's the people.
joe rogan
When?
jermey corbell
When you're doing your… Hold this, Mike.
I'm sorry, man.
When you're doing your show, you know, the Joe Rogan questions everything, I could see how frustrating it is.
Trust me, I have been frustrated to hell.
Luckily, my mentor is George Knapp, and he's taught me the pitfalls as I went through it.
My whole point in this rant right here...
It's just that we have to now look at Bob's story, but knowing the facts, not someone saying it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a glitch.
They're not.
And so if you don't know that, you just don't have the information yet.
joe rogan
Well, not just that, knowing the facts as we know them in 2019, not in 1988. Absolutely.
jermey corbell
And so what has he said that has come true?
He's totally unimpressed with it, right?
What has he said that's come true?
So I was like, Bob, they've announced gravity as a wave.
You were right, man.
You're vindicated.
And he looks at me and he's like, well, if you think about it, Jeremy, I had like a 50-50 chance.
He was not very impressed, right?
joe rogan
When did they announce gravity as a wave?
jermey corbell
So they detected, in a sense, they detected gravity waves.
joe rogan
Who is they?
jermey corbell
You might know more.
There's two black holes that were colliding, and that's how they were able to detect...
bob lazar
Yeah, somebody built...
I don't know which group it was or what part of the government.
jermey corbell
That's what Google's for.
bob lazar
Yeah.
But they built a gigantic gravity wave detector, and pretty much...
jermey corbell
That there are such things as gravity waves.
joe rogan
First observation of gravitational waves, it says it was in 2016. Okay, the first observation of gravitational waves was made on 14th of September 2015, as announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborators on the 11th of February 2016. Previously, gravitational waves had only been inferred indirectly via their effect on the timing of pulsars in binary star systems.
jermey corbell
Dante!
joe rogan
The waveform connected by both LIGO observatories matched the predictions of general relativity for a gravitational wave.
Emanating from the inward spiral and merger of a pair of black holes around 36 and 29 solar masses and the subsequent ring down of the single resulting black hole.
bob lazar
Well, I mean, in the 80s, the predominant theory was gravity is produced by gravitons, theoretical particles.
But they're not.
They're waves.
They're not particles.
joe rogan
So the thought is that the way we experience gravity, it's based on mass, which is why the moon, which is roughly one-quarter the size of the Earth, has one-sixth of the Earth's gravity.
So there's some sort of a computation you can make based on mass.
bob lazar
Right.
And remember, we can observe the effects of gravity, but we have no idea what it is.
All we can do is observe it, and we can't make it.
The only way you can make gravity is just put more mass together, and it's just a product of gravity.
But if you have a machine that makes gravity, you can pretty much do anything.
You can affect time.
You can have force fields.
All that stuff that's in science fiction becomes reality if you have a machine that can make gravity.
And what we worked on in the desert was a machine that makes gravity.
joe rogan
I love your analogy of dropping off a small nuclear reactor to the Victorian era.
I love that analogy.
Because back then, that was impossible.
That was magic.
What you're talking about here, the fact that they just discovered this four years ago, that this is a wave.
As much as we know and as impressed as we are, as we should be, with how much more technologically advanced we are than every other creature on this planet, We're still, in many ways, in the adolescence of technological innovation.
bob lazar
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
If even adolescence.
joe rogan
And when you're talking about this binary star system and zeta reticuli, and who knows how much longer these things have been around than us?
Who knows what their evolutionary cycle's been?
Who knows?
We might be talking about something that's a million years more advanced than us.
bob lazar
Yeah.
Yeah, it could easily be.
Now, I'm not in – believe it or not, I'm not into UFOs.
I don't follow stories or, you know – Even after your experiences?
No, I'm fascinated with the technology and I – it really – it irks me like every night I go to sleep that, you know, I don't – That it was my own doing, essentially, that prevented me from continuing on in the project.
To be on that cutting edge of technology is so alluring to me.
By the same token, I don't really care that there's aliens or where they come from.
I mean, the prize is the technology, and that's what I'm fascinated by.
So I don't listen to UFO stories and that sort of thing.
But George Knapp is...
I mean, he's the guy that has the context and tries to thread everything together.
And what he recently told me is he found...
I don't know, it was either documentation or people that he spoke to.
It's that the existence of this project, the project that I was on, it's something that they...
jermey corbell
It's a big topic of conversation right now.
It's called the Wilson Memo.
You can look it up.
Admiral Wilson met with a scientist who's actually was featured in one of my films.
Everybody has been debating whether or not this document Of a conversation with a sitting admiral at the time is a real document.
It's an actual conversation that happened and this document is real.
Everybody wants to know the world is going crazy right now in the UFO world.
I'll tell you straight up right now, I'm in the position to know and it is a real document.
That it is real.
So the conversation you read in that That conversation was had.
I can't attest to every...
joe rogan
You're not being very clear.
jermey corbell
Sure.
No problem.
So, there was a document that is circulating right now that is really big.
It's going around everywhere.
People are asking and wondering.
joe rogan
What is this document?
jermey corbell
It's called the Wilson Memo.
It's how you can find it online.
Or the Wilson Leak.
joe rogan
There it is.
Jimmy's got it.
The Wilson Memorandum.
Use of Human Voluntary.
jermey corbell
No, no, no, no.
No, that's not it.
So...
Admiral Wilson meets with this scientist and they have this discussion, oddly enough, at special projects at EG&G. And if I remember, the document is from 2001. I'm telling everybody right now, it's real.
And we'll see.
My history's pretty good with saying if something's real or not, right?
So here we go.
The document comes out.
They meet at EG&G Special Projects.
In 1989, they stumble into a problem.
This happens.
They put the technology away, and then they bring it back out and see if material science has caught up and if they can make any progress.
So this document kind of talks about this process.
The big thing I get from it, and a lot of it's vindicating to Bob, and one of the things it's vindicating, besides the EG&G thing, Is that private industry...
So this guy's an admiral.
And he says, I found out about your SAP, your special access program.
I need to know about it.
And he's going to a private part of industry.
And he is denied access.
And he says, you know, I should be running this program.
And they were able to deny him access.
So I think the takeaway here is, check it out.
I'm telling you that that is an actual, correct, that is a leak.
Now, everything said in that document, I don't know.
joe rogan
What are you talking about?
What is said in that document specifically?
jermey corbell
It's between a scientist and an admiral that are sitting and they're having a meeting and they're talking about the search for the UFO subject, the search to get special access program access to all of these different things like reverse engineering programs.
So in this document, they talk about it.
I believe that this document, the person that went was employed by Robert Bigelow, you know, one of the guys that has a couple of orbiting satellites and all that stuff.
joe rogan
He's the guy who owns Skinwalker Ranch.
jermey corbell
No, he's not.
He was the guy that owns Skinwalker.
He used to own it.
joe rogan
Okay.
jermey corbell
Yeah, he used to own it.
There's a new owner, and I interviewed him for my other film, But there's a new owner, and you'll be hearing a lot more about that soon.
But there's stuff that you'll be hearing about Skinwalker Ranch soon because there's a new owner.
Anyway, the whole point of this insertion here is just that that document kind of validates a lot of this idea Bob just said, that they make a little progress, then they can't go anywhere.
They tuck it away.
And then they bring it back out, you know, 10 years later and start working on it.
What is the limiting factor?
I think Bob should speak on this, but it's the material science.
bob lazar
Yeah, it's really where physics is, so I can see them doing that.
I mean, I didn't have any information on that, but I think what, you know, George uncovered is probably accurate, that, you know, we try and do what we can, and once we reach a roadblock going, we really can't figure it out, it's just...
Friggin' wait.
Put the thing away.
Wait for science to catch up.
And, you know, a decade later, let's take the project out again and see, all right, now where can we go?
joe rogan
But there's got to be someone who remains informed, right?
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
So you've got your scientists like you and Barry.
You've got your people that you compartmentalize.
You've got these people working on this project.
bob lazar
Yeah, there has to be some people that know everything.
joe rogan
You've got security.
And then someone's going to be in the outside saying, hey, we need people to guard this building.
Don't let anybody in for 10 years.
bob lazar
I think a lot of that is private industry, and I think that's how they keep it.
Yeah, I think that's how they literally, because the government is just so leaky.
I think that's kind of what they're doing.
jermey corbell
That's what the document kind of proves.
You just articulated that, that it is in control of private industry.
joe rogan
What private industry?
Some aerospace company, something?
bob lazar
I don't know.
jermey corbell
Yeah, the admiral wouldn't name it in the car, in the car station.
joe rogan
So they still have these things, supposedly.
Right.
bob lazar
I would guess.
I mean, I don't have any information on it at all.
joe rogan
Have you ever asked anyone that has any inkling of any idea of where they got them or how they got them?
bob lazar
No, but something must have been said to me from Barry.
But it was just too long ago and I can't quite remember what was said, but it just left a seed in my mind.
I think at least one of them was part of an archaeological dig.
So, it's old.
At least one of them is old.
I don't know if it was the one I worked on, but I remember something to do with an archaeological dig.
joe rogan
Whoa.
bob lazar
So, that means it's not just old, it's ancient.
joe rogan
That'd be a great Steven Spielberg movie.
bob lazar
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right?
unidentified
Yeah.
bob lazar
As all of it would.
jermey corbell
Yeah, that tripped me out when he said that for the first time.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a freakout right there.
Just a couple of dudes with some brushes looking for a Tyrannosaurus Rex bone to hit metal.
jermey corbell
And when did they find it, you know, that they have nine of them?
bob lazar
Well, and how could we have not heard about that?
What about the guys with the brushes?
How could you uncover something like that?
jermey corbell
Well, Joe's newspaper at home does.
I mean, they said it on that first day.
joe rogan
Oh, you mean the Roswell Dewey record?
jermey corbell
Yeah, the one you told me.
joe rogan
Yeah, I have a cover.
What is this here, Jamie?
unidentified
This is the document, but I had to do some digging to find it.
jermey corbell
Yeah, it's just kind of...
Yeah, so this is where they meet at EG&G, and this is Admiral Wilson, and there's a lot more coming out.
Now, I want to be clear, George didn't put this out.
He didn't leak this out to anybody.
unidentified
This is – I can tell you how I – Who recorded this conversation?
jermey corbell
So this was an employee of, at the time, Robert Bigelow.
joe rogan
And this is in 2002?
jermey corbell
Right.
Do you remember when he had that government contract called ASAP, the world all knows about now?
And he had NIDS that studied the ranch.
So that $22 million, everybody is saying it was for AATIP, Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
The $22 million was for ASAP that was pushed through Congress, three congressmen, right – An astronaut.
It was pushed through.
And that's what that $22 million, by the way, they spend more money on Viagra every year than they do studying UFOs, if it was just this program, which I think is funny.
joe rogan
They probably make a lot more money from it.
jermey corbell
They probably do.
Well, you never know how it seeds into a population.
But anyway, this program, this is what was the mother program.
So it got the $22 million.
And really, it was to study Skinwalker Ranch.
Oddly enough, that $22 million all was inspired by the phenomenon they were seeing at Skinwalker Ranch.
Because the scientists, they're seeing vehicles come through like a space in the sky.
joe rogan
Yeah, we went there.
I went there with Duncan.
We interviewed...
A bunch of people that seemed full of shit, but a couple that didn't.
It was very, very interesting.
jermey corbell
Totally.
And if you look, I spent a lot of time in the area.
I'm not talking about those stories.
I'm saying there were scientists hired by the government, right, through Bigelow to study the ranch because they thought it was important.
And, you know, whatever, whatever.
The point is that $22 million was to study that.
Then we have ATIP, which is like an auxiliary kind of program of military settings, like Commander Fravers and that sort of thing.
This document is just one of those things that has now come forward that through the Bigelow studies, it was government funded, and then it was personally funded, and then government funded.
It's just one of those things that kind of shakes you because you got this military guy who can't get access because of the private industry that's holding these non-terrestrial materials.
They can't study it.
So that's the claim right now.
Give it some time.
Let people dig more into this.
It's fascinating, man.
unidentified
So you are...
joe rogan
Essentially, you're kicked out, right?
You're out of this program.
You can't work with these crafts anymore.
And do they give you any threats?
Do they tell you what you have to do from here on out?
bob lazar
Yeah.
I mean, the way it ended was I told George Knapp all this stuff.
And, you know, he said, well, let's just get it on tape.
Should something happen, at least we have a record of it.
And...
I don't remember what the impetus was, but at some point, George wanted to air it.
And he said, you know, you make the call on it.
And look, if at any point you change your mind, we won't air it.
And it came down to the day where George wants to put it on the 5 o'clock news.
He said, this is important stuff.
People have to know about it.
And I thought it was too.
I thought it's kind of a crime.
I know you've got to keep the technology secret, but you can't not tell everybody that this stuff is going on, that we have, you know, actual hardware from another civilization.
It's a big fucking deal.
You know, probably the biggest one there ever was.
And George said, you know, today's the day we've got to put it on the news or something to that effect.
And when it came right down to the time to air it, I changed my mind and I said, We're not doing it.
And that's what turned into the famous wrestling match between me and George trying to get the tape, but he won because he was a bigger guy.
joe rogan
So he actually physically wrestled?
bob lazar
Well, I think it was more of a pulling match.
I don't think we ever hit the ground, but he got the tape, he put it in the player, and boom, 5 o'clock news was on.
And then I got a call after that, and they said, it was from Dennis.
They said, do you have any idea what we're going to do to you now?
And he hung up the phone.
That was the last communication I had with him.
joe rogan
And what has happened to you since then?
bob lazar
After that, a lot of people I've known either were audited by the IRS. Anybody I know that had clearances that worked in secure programs had the clearances pulled.
One of them A friend, one of mine that Jeremy knows.
jermey corbell
He's going on camera with me soon.
He'll tell the story now that he's out of work up there.
bob lazar
He was working up at the tonal pot test range waiting for his clearance to come through.
And, you know, they pulled that.
It became, it's like if they can't get the person that's involved, they just create a problem for everybody that surrounds them.
And so, I mean, the way it turns out, it hurt a lot of people's lives that I was connected to.
And that's an effective way of shutting someone up.
joe rogan
Did you feel that by coming forward and going public, they couldn't just snuff you out?
bob lazar
That was, I mean, that's what I was told, and George and everybody, you know, said that.
It's public, no one will touch you, and I fell for it.
joe rogan
Do you wish you didn't?
bob lazar
Yeah, sometimes.
joe rogan
Sometimes when it's just overstressed and people are camping on your lawn.
bob lazar
Yeah, but this is going to make things worse, doing this.
joe rogan
No, this is going to make things better.
jermey corbell
That's what I was trying to tell him.
bob lazar
How is this going to make things better?
joe rogan
Well, because you're getting a real chance to explain yourself in a way that's going to make people who not only work in the government, people that are Police officers and firefighters and first responders and doctors and scientists, they're going to emphasize.
Empathize and empathize with what it must be like to be a person like you in your 20s who gets thrust into this world unknowingly and confronted with One of the most, if not the most, important discovery in the history of human beings, the big question, are we alone?
It's the number one question.
There's two questions, right?
What happens when we die and are we alone?
Those are the two big questions.
And if we're not alone, And someone knows we're not alone.
And these some people who know we're not alone are these bungling sort of military folks.
bob lazar
Even if they weren't, it's a crime that they're not telling the rest of us.
joe rogan
I don't mean bungling in terms of they're incompetent.
I mean, they can't be competent.
It seems to me, to what you're describing, that no one can be competent with this technology.
Like the Victorian era scholars analyzing some sort of a nuclear reactor.
There's no way.
jermey corbell
It's beyond us.
Why do you think they're not telling us?
Let's just make an assumption that this is true right now.
Why do you think that they're not telling us, that our government doesn't tell us?
What's your best thought?
joe rogan
Well, let me put it into what you do.
If I'm the president, okay, and I get this information, what do I do with this?
What do I do with this?
There's something that we don't know.
There's something we don't understand.
There's something that came from another world.
We got it tucked away in the mountains.
And I just wanted you guys to know about it.
Hey, sleep tight.
Hey, American Auto's on tonight.
Who do you think's going to win?
bob lazar
Yeah.
joe rogan
Who's going to win America's Got Talent?
bob lazar
That's not going to happen.
joe rogan
Da, da, da, da, da.
jermey corbell
So one is uncertainty, and the other one is what Bob and I have talked about a lot, Absolutely not knowing what to tell people, because you don't really understand it yourself, even though you've got these...
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
What do you say?
You want to run a government?
You want to get people to pay their taxes?
jermey corbell
But there's something else.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
What do you say?
jermey corbell
So you have these objects flying with impunity, right?
But you have something else.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Well, not only that, what can you say?
josh olin
Like, how much do you really know?
bob lazar
I think it's mainly the technology.
They just want to keep the technology secret.
Because if there's...
Yeah.
jermey corbell
Whoever gets this wins, dude.
bob lazar
They win.
You control the...
You literally become invincible once you master the technology.
You cannot penetrate a field like that.
So I imagine that's...
I know it's all science fiction, but science fiction turns into science fact.
If you have...
Real force fields around aircraft and battleships, you win.
You win.
You can force your will upon anybody.
And like I said, there's so much more to the story.
When I was first there, there were Russian scientists at S-4.
This was early on in the project.
joe rogan
So this was before Operation Paperclip became public as well, right?
bob lazar
I would imagine.
I don't know what the dates were.
jermey corbell
When was that?
joe rogan
When was that?
unidentified
98, I think.
bob lazar
98. Yeah, I don't know the dates on our paper.
joe rogan
So roughly 10 years later, Operation Paperclip becomes Freedom of Information Act.
jermey corbell
We're talking about Russia, not Germany.
We're talking about Russian scientists.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I mean Russian scientists, a lot of them came from Germany.
A lot of those rocket scientists that work with NASA, they all came from Nazi scientists.
jermey corbell
Got it.
joe rogan
So Russians got some of them.
bob lazar
I just know at some point there was intense cooperation with Russia.
I mean, even exchanging some ideas on nuclear weapons and, you know, EMP tests and stuff like that.
Things we would never have discussed with them.
But at the same time, it was in the late 80s, they were involved and actually in the area at S4 with us.
joe rogan
So you got to communicate with these guys, or you saw them?
bob lazar
No, I knew they were there.
Barry would talk about the commies that were there.
joe rogan
The commies?
bob lazar
Yeah, the commies.
joe rogan
That was back when they were the commies, right?
bob lazar
Yeah, they were real commies.
Isn't that interesting?
And...
At some point, it wasn't our group, but at some point, there was a big discovery made.
And this did not happen when I was there.
It happened in between my trips to there.
And after that, apparently, they decided it was just too cool to share with anybody, and the Russians were never allowed back on the base after that.
joe rogan
But you don't know what that discovery was?
bob lazar
No.
unidentified
No.
bob lazar
Like I said, it wasn't my group.
So one of the other groups really found out something.
But, you know, in typical American fashion, it was, alright, this is ours.
You guys get the hell out of here.
joe rogan
Was there any inkling that any other government had something similar?
bob lazar
No, nothing that I had heard.
joe rogan
See, that was the thing that always freaked me out, was why, if something was so superior to human beings, it's almost like visiting an ant colony.
Like, why would you go to the queen?
I don't give a fuck who the queen is.
I'm a human.
I'm so superior to you ants.
I don't care who you have running your hive.
I'm just going to study it.
bob lazar
I think it's who got it.
joe rogan
Who got it?
bob lazar
Look at the, you know, rocket technology in Germany.
joe rogan
But they got nine of them?
bob lazar
Yeah, that doesn't make sense to me either.
So they were either in the same area or, you know, one had clues to where others were.
I mean, I don't know, you have to fill that in there, but you're right.
I mean, nine of them, that's a big dig if it was archaeological.
joe rogan
Well, one of the more recent sightings and these discussions that have been coming out recently from Air Force pilots and Navy pilots, they've been talking about things happening in the ocean.
And that something literally goes into the water or something maybe below the surface of the water.
jermey corbell
2004 Tic Tac Nimitz case.
So that's when George Knapp and I broke on the radio twice before the New York Times.
So I know this one really well.
Commander Fravor and those pilots.
There was a disturbance on the surface of the water.
Commander Fravor visually saw what looked like similar to a cross some object specifically.
So it's like as if you have some coral under the water and it's breaking over.
The Tic Tac is doing this crazy maneuver that defies, it's a gravity propelled system.
joe rogan
They saw it in the sky before they saw it in the water, right?
jermey corbell
Yeah, so there was radar that was picking these things coming down from 80,000 feet and dropping to 50 feet in less than a second.
joe rogan
This is it, Jamie?
What is this?
jamie vernon
This is actually on the news today.
unidentified
There was a briefing.
jermey corbell
So a lot of people get this confused.
unidentified
Not this one then either?
jermey corbell
No, so that is called the gimbal.
So there's three videos released by the Pentagon that are all actual.
joe rogan
Just play and keep the volume off.
unidentified
Okay.
jermey corbell
I would really just pay attention to the source video.
So you've got the tic-tac, which is this object that Commander Fravor saw.
Another pilot filmed it with a FLIR pod, and it goes...
But this one you see is really important to Bob's story.
The gimbal craft.
It's been recently analyzed.
It's FLIR. Not only does it...
It's definitive that it's not a conventional anything by its movements, but there's a pocket of cold air around a propulsion source.
So this object, by the way, sat stationary.
For days, if not weeks, it sat stationary.
joe rogan
Yeah, they found it 11 hours later, and they were saying there's no way this thing, using that kind of energy to go that fast, could just hover for 11 hours.
jermey corbell
The amount of time.
And by the way, you're seeing a very small part of what happened that day.
This object was not alone.
And so hopefully that information comes out and we can, I mean, I wish we had video of it.
I'm sure we'd all want to see it.
But that's called the gimbal.
That was East Coast, right?
2015. West Coast, 2004, was the Tic Tac.
The disturbance on the water, Commander Fravor believes there was something under that water that was causing that disturbance when the Tic Tac was coming around and doing it.
With inside the people that are studying this, they're thinking maybe the Tic Tac system was causing the disturbance, but the USO, an identified submerged object that he visually saw, the whole interesting thing about that is, I would love Bob to describe it, is why it doesn't matter if these craft are in space, air, or water.
Why doesn't it matter?
I love when he talks about this shit.
bob lazar
Well, first of all, Commander Fravor was the F-18 pilot off the Nimitz that was sent out to find out what this stuff is.
And it wasn't just...
I got a chance to talk to him recently.
And it wasn't just a radar image.
I mean, Commander Fravor had eyes on it for over five minutes watching this thing, as four other pilots did.
So this wasn't a radar blip or anything.
I mean, these guys were watching this thing.
But...
You know, one of the things I think in the gimbal video, the way the craft that we worked on flies is it doesn't fly like a conventional aircraft does, and it doesn't fly like a flying saucer would in a 1950s movie.
It flies belly first.
I mean, it may set down conventionally, but it always rotates.
It does a roll maneuver, puts its belly towards the target, and then moves away at high speed.
joe rogan
So it would be like a car flying with the wheels forward.
bob lazar
Right.
Right.
I mean, it may land on the wheels, but at some point when it wants to leave, it's going to...
Flips up, points the wheels where it wants to go and takes off.
And the gimbal video, you can see the craft do the roll maneuver.
And it's really interesting.
It behaves exactly like the craft that I worked on.
joe rogan
So much like we have different shaped aircrafts and fighter jets and cars, they probably have different shapes of these objects that operate under similar principles.
bob lazar
Right, but they all have the same power source.
joe rogan
They all have the same power source.
And we're also dealing with, if you think about the laws of technological progression, you know, you think of Moore's Law and you think of how things accelerate, you've got to think that if this civilization is who knows how many years more advanced than we are, if not even years.
I mean, we're thinking about in terms of conventional terms, right, the way we look at the world.
I mean, they might be just superior in terms of their intellect.
They've got to be.
Maybe.
We don't know, right?
bob lazar
Well, the only reason I say that is because Look, everyone doesn't necessarily start at a steam engine and go to an internal combustion engine and then, you know, electric power, nuclear power, and go up the ladder that we came on.
You know, if this stuff is true about the origin and the binary star system, and they have heavier elements that we don't have, and this element, stable element 115 is a naturally occurring material, Maybe that's the first thing they started experimenting with.
And the version of their steam engine, their first product, was something that operated like this.
And actually when they came to Earth to look around or whatever, they were amazed at the stuff we were doing.
These guys burned stuff and squirted out the back to go forward.
So who says they follow any kind of normal progression like that?
joe rogan
My thought was if you went back to the 1400s and then you went from 1400 to 1500, you're not going to see that much of a difference technologically.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
If you go from 2,000 to 3,000, I assume there's going to be a radical change.
bob lazar
Right.
Well, yeah, the delta, the rate of change is magnificently higher than it used to be.
joe rogan
Right.
So if you think about what they had in 1988 and you think about what they probably have in 2019, just logically, it seems like they would advance.
bob lazar
I would think so.
joe rogan
The only question is, like, are they living?
Is that a living thing in terms of, like, a biological thing?
Or are they some sort of an artificially created creation like we are working on right now?
I mean, we're in the middle of working on artificial reality, artificial beings, sentient beings, artificial intelligence.
There's silicon-based life forms that they're essentially trying to create.
Was it Boston Dynamics at the company?
Robots, yeah.
jermey corbell
You can make machines out of flesh, right?
So a cyborg or a cybernetic organism is just that, you know, that's what a lot of people think those, like, gray things are, you know, that people call the grays.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jermey corbell
Is like, they were like, they're machines printed from flesh.
So what you're saying is like, not so far off.
bob lazar
Well, they could just be synthetic life.
They don't even need to be, you know, machines.
joe rogan
Well, they seem to have no sex organs.
The way they're described by people that have had interactions with them, assuming these people aren't liars or crazy or whatever.
jermey corbell
Right.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
That they have no sex organs and that they don't seem to have any muscle.
They're just almost like a frame.
jermey corbell
Right.
joe rogan
And they have enormous heads.
I mean, if you look at – You see Australopithecus or depictions of, you know, ancient hominids, and then you go to human beings.
One of the things you see is bigger heads and weaker bodies.
bob lazar
Well, you see a clear progression of evolution, too, where something like that, I would lean towards a synthetic organism because it looks like it was made for a specific task.
There's no reproductive organs, so, I mean, that almost kind of leaves out any kind of, you know, physical evolution.
joe rogan
Right.
Well, that's also our bottleneck, right?
Our bottleneck is our biological imperative.
The need to breed, emotions, fear, anxiety, all these different things that exist in order to force us into making sure we reproduce.
I mean, that's essentially what it is.
There are human reward systems that aren't necessary once they can figure out a way to make some sort of sentient, artificial life.
Some sort of thing that doesn't have these biological limitations that we have.
jermey corbell
By the way, these craft, all these different kinds have been reported because it was confusing.
I always thought of flying saucers when I heard Bob Lazar talk about flying saucer, right?
But if you look back in history, people have always reported the weirdest shapes, like none of them are alike.
You know, there are the saucers, but you got cigar shaped, you got, you know, the top hat shaped, you have orbs.
Why?
Maybe they're serving different purposes.
They're doing different things like we'd use different tools.
And I want to be clear, the reason I know that memo is real is because I spent a lot of time with Dr. Edgar Mitchell, a sixth man to walk on the moon, last guy to film him before he died, right?
That's how I know I don't want any journalists thinking I got it from anywhere else.
I know because of Dr. Mitchell.
And he said the same thing.
Maybe these things are performing different tasks, you know?
joe rogan
Well, they seem, if you think about what an alien is in terms of the sort of iconic image of an alien, like Steven Spielberg, Closing Cows are the third kind alien.
They seem like what we'd assume a human being would eventually become.
jermey corbell
Right.
joe rogan
And if these things are tiny, human beings are smaller than they've ever been before.
They're weaker than they've ever been before.
And there seems to be a trend in that direction.
And this trend seems to be amplified by our technological progression.
There are a lack of need for muscle strength and our lack of need for violence.
And we're moving in a society to try to get away from all the things that we think are abhorrent about human beings and the terrible behaviors that we have.
If we one day do give birth to some sort of an artificial being, like Marshall McLuhan's quote, we are the sex organs of the machine world.
You know, that one day we...
bob lazar
Okay, I'll buy this.
joe rogan
Yeah, McLuhan was brilliant.
And that quote has always been one of my favorites.
Because, okay, what are we doing when we're constantly technologically innovating?
We're constantly looking for faster cars, better computers, bigger screens, faster, more resolution, more pixels, more this, more that, higher bandwidth, 5G, 10G.
What are we doing?
We're moving into this – if you just follow it, objectively stand back, don't attach yourself or your civilization, your culture to it, and look at what it is.
We're moving 100% towards technological innovation.
If you looked at this species from afar, and if you weren't a part of it, you would say, what does this species do?
Oh, they make things.
They make things better every year.
Beehives are the same fucking thing that you see 10 years ago.
You go by, you see a beehive, it's amazing, it's cool, but they're the same fucking thing.
They figured out how to do it, they make a beehive.
We don't do that.
We make better things.
unidentified
What would you do?
joe rogan
Constantly.
bob lazar
And at some point, I think that technology is going to fuse with us.
joe rogan
Yes.
And we're going to become… It's already happening.
bob lazar
Yeah.
joe rogan
Elon Musk talked about it on my podcast that we are cyborgs.
You just carry it in your pocket.
It's a phone.
It answers any question you want.
You can talk to it.
It will give you the answers instantaneously.
It navigates you.
It has all your phone numbers in it.
It has all your contacts.
You can get a hold of people, people listening to you through it.
It's connecting us in ways even involuntarily.
jermey corbell
Haptics, that kind of thing.
joe rogan
It's also getting on your wrist.
How many people have iWatches, Apple Watches?
bob lazar
Right, and that's only because we can't integrate them yet.
But you know that point is coming.
joe rogan
100%.
Yeah, I didn't joke about it last night, but I have a bit about it that I do.
About the integration between humans and technology.
jermey corbell
What would you do if you were a hyper-intelligence, right?
Would you do the work yourself?
Or would you create some cool things called like humans to do it for you?
Would you create things that are cybernetic organisms to come in with machines and do it for you?
If you're a hyper-intelligence that has kind of changed like you've described, you'd probably create workers, right?
joe rogan
Well, that's a vast conspiracy theory.
jermey corbell
I'm not talking about conspiracy.
joe rogan
But it is a kind of a conspiracy.
jermey corbell
I'm asking you.
joe rogan
Well, I mean, I don't think it's necessarily that.
I mean, you could look at it that way, but that is the way a conspiracy theorist would look at it.
The way I would look at it is like there's obviously a progression going on, a biological progression.
There's some sort of an integration with technology.
There's some sort of imperative, this need for technological innovation.
It's inescapable.
Everyone has it.
And I think it's attached to materialism in some sort of a strange way, because so many people work so hard to get new things.
God, that seems so illogical and preposterous, and it makes people unhappy, and depression's on the rise, but nobody seems to be able to stop it.
Why is that?
Well, maybe it's because we are the electronic caterpillars that give birth to the butterfly.
Maybe that's what we're doing.
bob lazar
That could very well be.
joe rogan
What our job is to do is to make some sort of a cocoon.
We don't even know we're doing it while we're doing it.
Do you think a caterpillar is a whale?
Hey, caterpillar, what are you doing?
Man, I'm doing my thing.
It's my job.
I have to make a cocoon.
Then I'm going to become a butterfly.
bob lazar
This could be a natural part of evolution.
joe rogan
It could be.
bob lazar
That we're just supposed to do this.
joe rogan
Exactly.
bob lazar
And make the jump to some sort of mechanized, non-biological.
joe rogan
Have you ever seen an orangutan that is fishing with a spear?
No.
They've figured out how to fish with spears.
There's primatologists.
bob lazar
Wait, without somebody showing them how to fish?
joe rogan
No, they've imitated human beings doing it.
And now they do it, but they do it independently.
They're not trained orangutans.
They're wild orangutans.
Look at that.
bob lazar
That's impressive.
That's impressive.
joe rogan
Well, there's these primatologists.
I guess you would call them primatologists?
That's a term?
bob lazar
That's a great term.
joe rogan
Biologists that believe that monkeys and chimps and some of the great apes are moving into the Stone Age.
That they've currently entered the Stone Age.
Like, they're not staying.
What they were 100,000 years ago or 500,000 years ago.
But they're actively using tools and they're experimenting with different ways to use those tools.
And then they're making tools out of stone.
They're making tools out of sticks and they're using them.
Well, this might just be what happens.
This might just be what happens.
I mean, why else?
Why the fuck do we work so hard?
I mean, I was driving to L.A. this morning.
I had a doctor's appointment, so I was on the 405 at 8 in the morning.
Like, Jesus Christ!
Like, this is so crazy!
When you're on the 405 in L.A. at 8 o'clock in the morning, you see literally a million cars.
Yeah, red light.
Everywhere you go, it's people.
And also, I'm in a Tesla, so I have it on autopilot.
So I'm there sitting, I'm listening to a podcast.
I barely have my hand on the wheel.
I'm not touching shit.
This car is driving me along.
I'm not even doing anything.
I'm just hanging out.
It's so much less stress, by the way, to do it that way.
So it encourages you to innovate.
It encourages you to embrace this new technology.
I got this giant screen.
It's showing me the navigation in front of me.
Oh, I'll be there five minutes early.
Excellent.
And I'm listening to a podcast wirelessly.
It's Bluetooth streaming from my phone.
And I pulled that podcast, which came out today, out of the fucking sky.
And I'm listening to it.
And I'm all comfortable in my nice little car, just driving on my way to the doctor's office.
bob lazar
This is irresistible stuff.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
jermey corbell
It's different than your Walkman, you know, back in the day.
joe rogan
It is irresistible.
It is irresistible.
bob lazar
It's frighteningly irresistible.
joe rogan
But is it frightening?
I mean, if you were a monkey, right?
If you were an Australopithecus, would you go, man, I don't want to fucking be a person and live in a house?
That's bullshit.
I like just swinging around on trees.
I like running from jaguars.
This is life.
Guys, life is running from crocodiles.
It's not living in a fucking suburban community.
bob lazar
No, there's probably some that are like that.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't think so.
I think when it comes, we're going to embrace it.
We're going to embrace it the same way you embrace cell phones, the same way you embrace television.
There's going to be a few holdouts.
I don't even have an email address, man.
There's a few and far between.
Good luck with that, fuckface.
Go move to the woods, Ted Kaczynski.
bob lazar
Yeah, I was just going to throw Ted Kaczynski in there.
joe rogan
Ted Kaczynski was right.
This is something that I think about sometimes when I get really high.
That Ted Kaczynski was a part of the Harvard LSD studies.
This has been proven.
Ted Kaczynski, they cooked his fucking brain when he was at Harvard.
And then when he went over to Berkeley and became a professor, his goal was to make enough money so that he could...
Just implement this program and live in the woods and then write his manifesto and start killing people that were involved in propagating technology.
jermey corbell
He was expunged from the Harvard logs, by the way.
This is something my friend just called me about.
So there's like this private library and they used to print people's names whenever they were part of a university and he was one of a handful of people that were expunged from it.
I want to jump back to the one thing, Joe.
I want to be very careful with that word, conspiracy theorist.
What I was saying to you was, we terraform our Earth, right?
We terraform.
We change the environment.
We do all this innovation.
What is stopping us from thinking that that's not being done?
I'm not saying it is.
I'm saying, what's stopping us from thinking that that's being done on a much bigger level, on a cosmic level?
joe rogan
You mean like aliens coming down doing that to humans?
jermey corbell
Well, I'm telling you that there is something here.
There's a fact.
You know, there's something.
They're a craft.
They're here.
They're not ours.
They're here.
So, the question is, what is that about?
And I'm just looking at what we do with what you're describing with technology and terrifying.
joe rogan
It's much more likely that the same way we observe chimps, and we observe that they are now in the Stone Age, that they're observing us, and that they're recognizing that there is a pattern, that there's steps that happen.
I mean, Carl Sagan talked about the different levels of civilization, and that if we don't get past certain levels, we're never going to reach We're in this warring, polluting, pillaging civilization.
We're awesome in a lot of ways.
jermey corbell
But in that way, we're not.
joe rogan
We're children that have immense power.
The other thing is, you're using the immense power that other people have created.
Even when you're driving a car and you're stomping on the gas like, woo!
You didn't invent the fucking engine.
You didn't invent tires.
There's all these things that were involved in the creation of this thing that is really outside of your grasp of understanding, but yet you have the ability to use it.
Like a person with a gun.
I'm just going to bang, bang, bang people.
You didn't invent a gun.
Without the intellect to craft and engineer and manifest these creations, you just have access to them because you have paper or you have Bitcoin or you have whatever the fuck you're using.
You're using a credit card.
Now you have almost no responsibility.
You could just flippantly use these things, which is why we were very childlike in our actions.
We haven't had to earn the responsibility.
We haven't had to earn these things that we've been able to have, and you've only been able to have them because other people have innovated and spent Ungodly amounts of time and effort and focus in the lab to create these things.
And then they've all put them together.
And then what's the reason to put them together?
To profit.
Well, what's the reason to profit?
Well, why are you doing this?
So you can buy more things.
Well, what are we doing?
What are we doing?
We're making better things.
That's what we do.
That's all we do.
bob lazar
That's all we do is make better things.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Why the fuck do we need oil?
Why do we need oil?
Why can't we just burn wood and stay home?
Why can't we grow chickens and food in the backyard?
Why can't we do it?
Well, we fucking can.
We certainly can.
People do do it.
But we decide to make that almost impossible.
Our preferred way of living is to stuff everyone into a very small area where no one grows anything other than weed.
This is what L.A. is.
L.A. is 20 million people with hard surfaces, as many hard surfaces as you can.
Boy, if you've got an acre backyard in L.A., holy shit, look at all that grain.
This is amazing.
Well, no, that's the fucking earth coming through this weird sort of creation that we've put on top of the earth.
But the goal is, like New York City, there's none of it, right?
You've got Central Park and then you've just got human shit, stacked up, no one's growing anything.
And then constant work.
Everyone's up early.
Go, go, go.
Innovate.
Progress.
Make that money so you can buy more things.
And every year, hey Apple, where's this fucking new phone?
As if your phone isn't good enough.
Your phone's taking pictures and videos and people are calling you and you've got applications to tell you which way the wind's blowing.
That's not good enough.
jermey corbell
A blink of an eye.
It's all gone, though, that, you know, like 10,000 years and the Hoover Dam goes or whatever, you know, Mount Rushmore disintegrates.
So it's amazing because we have created that and everything's trying to spring up through that.
We keep it in maintenance down, but we're a blink, man.
Something hits.
joe rogan
But we don't think that way.
You think in terms of your own life, right?
You think in terms of what you want and what you need right now.
We are, in many ways, this combination of this weird, primitive, ape-like thing with The ability to calculate and manipulate our world and our environment that makes us wholly unique.
On top of that, with existential angst and fear.
So what do you do with that?
We fucking water it down with antidepressants.
Give these fucking people some shit that keeps them moving.
They're worried about the future.
They're trying to figure out what reality is.
You're on a goddamn convertible spaceship, spinning a thousand miles an hour, hurling through infinity.
There's no meaning to this thing.
Just keep making shit.
Keep making stuff.
And then one day, they're going to be able to hit that switch, and this life will be born out of innovation and thinking and progress and technology.
And more than likely, it's probably going to be what we're seeing that these things are, that you're observing.
jermey corbell
I'm not observing them, but yeah.
bob lazar
Are you implying that they're us?
joe rogan
I don't think they are us, but I think they are what happens when things keep going.
It's not us, just like we're not monkeys, right?
I'm not a chimp.
jermey corbell
Oh, that'd be cool.
They're from here, is your idea?
joe rogan
No.
jermey corbell
No.
joe rogan
No, that this is what happens all over the universe.
unidentified
Yes.
jermey corbell
Yeah, totally.
joe rogan
That this is what happens.
Look, here's the thing.
You know, I went to see Brian Cox's, he has this amazing live show with Robin Ince where they have these LED screens, these huge screens with high-resolution depictions of the cosmos.
And one of the most mind-blowing things...
Was he has this large-scale image of the universe, and it shows all the individual galaxies of the universe, and it just keeps moving through all these galaxies in three dimensions.
And it's fucking incredible.
But what's stunning is the relative uniformity of it even at you know, I mean you're obviously looking at an incredibly small depiction of something that's immensely large like a galaxy of hundreds of billions of stars You're seeing it as this little dot, but this little dot that's flying through space surrounded by other little darts with very similarly space distances.
Yeah, I'm actually So, Mike, if we see uniformity in that form, in terms of the distance between galaxies, so many galaxies, it's so similar.
They might vary slightly, and that slightly might be hundreds of millions of light years, right?
But there's so much uniformity.
Why would we not assume that that uniformity exists pretty much everywhere?
And that all these things that you're seeing that are so similar, you do see binary star systems, you do see single star systems.
But there's also some speculation that Earth, that our solar system one time was a binary star system.
Right?
I mean, that's one of the speculations about that object that they find outside the Kuiper belt that they think is ten times larger than Earth.
They think it might have been at one point in time a star.
But this uniformity that you see, why wouldn't we think that that has its same implications biologically?
That there's some sort of a biological uniformity, and that this happens, given the right sets of circumstances?
bob lazar
Yeah, it could be.
jermey corbell
You should tell him some of the stuff that you've read that you don't know is true.
I mean, if the stuff was true about the propulsion stuff, I mean, anyway.
joe rogan
Well, what have you read?
jermey corbell
What you saw, too.
joe rogan
What are you talking about?
Spill the beans, Bob.
jermey corbell
I've got to poke the bear here.
joe rogan
Get some more liquor in you.
bob lazar
Well, I mean, again, the only thing I could verify was what I had my hands on.
There was talk of weapon systems.
There were different projects.
Project Galileo, Project Sidekick was supposed to be weapon applications of the craft.
Project Looking Glass had to do with time, any effects of time in the craft.
Now, I don't think...
We're not talking about making a time machine like in science fiction, but we're talking about, you know, small distortions, intentional distortions of time and how that can be used, you know, as a...
Not as a...
Well, it was part of a weapon program.
joe rogan
How were you informed in this?
bob lazar
These, again, were just those small briefings that I read.
But, again, I don't really like to talk about those because I don't have any information on them, and it was just, you know, small briefings.
jermey corbell
But you told Commander Fravor that what he saw might have been a time dilation...
bob lazar
Well, it could be, because gravity affects time.
You know, space-time, I'm sure you've heard of that.
And, you know, what...
What Commander Fraber saw as he was in the F-18 approaching it, he described it as a ping-pong ball in a cup and shaking it back and forth.
It was moving that fast.
Now, obviously, if there's anything inside there, it's going to be battered to hell.
But, you know, my point was, was that, well, one of two things.
Either there's a gravitational envelope in there which negates any inertia effects, or You are seeing through a gravity distortion field.
So, you know, just like you're looking at a hot highway and you see, you know, an optical distortion going through there.
Well, the same thing happens in gravity.
And the craft may not actually be moving like that.
It may just look like it.
Because you're seeing, you can only see it through the field.
So it may be making much more gentle moves.
I'm not saying that's it, but it has to be one of the two.
jermey corbell
And the thing shows up 60 miles away.
They noticed it on radar 60 seconds after it left Commander Fravor, but it was at his cap point, which is the next point he was destined to go to, 60 miles away.
And in 60 seconds on radar, the same object ends up there.
joe rogan
So it's going a mile a second?
jermey corbell
No.
I think the radar just picked it up in 60 seconds.
bob lazar
Yeah, it could have been there instantly, but...
jermey corbell
Yeah, we don't know.
bob lazar
Nobody knows.
jermey corbell
That's the whole thing.
joe rogan
Oh, so it cycles?
Like radar cycles?
bob lazar
Yeah, it doesn't sweep, but I mean, it scans.
It's a planar array, so it just, you know, scans around it random places.
jermey corbell
That's the spy one does the really cool...
Yeah, it doesn't do the whole loop anymore.
bob lazar
Right, the point is, though, that the craft moved to his next location before he knew where his next location was going to be.
joe rogan
Jesus.
bob lazar
And that's, I mean, that's well documented.
So that's a pretty shocking piece of information.
joe rogan
What's fascinating to me, too, is that you were discussing this, the way this reactor worked, and that these things were not really connected to No, nothing is connected.
bob lazar
There's no wiring at all.
joe rogan
That freaks me the fuck out.
jermey corbell
Charge your iPhone, you know?
joe rogan
Well, wireless.
bob lazar
Yeah, I mean, that's the simple electromagnetic...
Yeah, I know, again, but that's just simple electromagnetic induction.
joe rogan
Right, but I mean, Tesla, the scientist, had this concept of...
Right, that's what he said.
bob lazar
That's what I'm talking about.
joe rogan
I mean, for other people that don't know what you're saying, he wanted to send wireless electricity through the sky, and Westinghouse was like, get the fuck out of here with that.
Like when anybody could just pull electricity out of the sky?
jermey corbell
Can't meter it.
bob lazar
Yeah, they couldn't meter it.
jermey corbell
We had this talk in the car ride over and trying to chill him out.
unidentified
You know, we're talking about Tesla and how he couldn't be metered and how it all went down.
jermey corbell
So it's funny you bring it up.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I mean, who knows what would have happened in terms of innovation had he been allowed to go forward with that.
bob lazar
Well, we probably wouldn't have computers.
joe rogan
You think?
bob lazar
Yeah, I'm pretty positive.
I mean, forget about microelectronics.
Well, this is dumping huge amounts of electromagnetic energy in the air.
And yeah, we'd be able to wirelessly turn on our lights, but there'd be no radio communication.
The interference would be something that would be overwhelming.
It would induce electric currents in anything with a small wire on it.
So integrated circuits, transistors would be disintegrated before they were even, you know, tested for operation.
So it would...
joe rogan
Maybe it would have fucked us up.
bob lazar
Yeah, it would have stopped us dead.
It'd be great.
You can turn lighters on and heaters from all over the place with no wires, but it would stop modern electronics.
joe rogan
And if we became dependent on it, it would almost be like our dependence on fossil fuels, although it's destructive.
It's very difficult for us to get off the nipple.
jermey corbell
It would have changed the course of how we developed, which is so interesting when you talk about if a civilization of the star system didn't even start with fossil fuels.
They had 115 naturally on their planet.
And they're like, cool, anti-gravity is pretty awesome.
bob lazar
I think it's important that that actually happened.
It might have been stopped in its tracks for a reason.
unidentified
Whoa.
joe rogan
I think it's incredibly difficult for us to imagine technological progression under another timeline other than the one that we've experienced.
bob lazar
Yeah, that's difficult.
joe rogan
If we imagine what this alien race must have been like, I mean, God, just to be able to see something.
I mean, obviously we've seen it in different life forms, right?
Like we see the life of certain beetles in comparison to the life of certain beetles.
of certain fish very very different existence very different life cycles octopus yeah octopus yeah I mean we see all these different variables in terms of biological entities on earth but we don't see it in terms of technological innovation as we're the only one that's intelligent that can innovate We have intelligent creatures but they're in the ocean.
The only other thing that are like us are dolphins and orcas and whales.
And they don't have the ability to manipulate their environment.
And subsequently, because they don't have the ability to manipulate their environment, we put them in fish tanks.
And we're like, get in the tank, do some tricks.
jermey corbell
You know, the only thing he saw in the craft, if we were considering Bob's story, the only thing that he saw in the craft that he related to, that looked like a human could make, was this honeycomb hatch.
And I always love that because you're like obsessed with this thing that you could recognize.
bob lazar
You know, I only focus on that because it was the one thing that I understood how it worked.
joe rogan
What was it?
bob lazar
And it was the access to the level below.
And it was...
Well, you know, if you have a six-pack of beer and you take out the cardboard dividers, set it on the table, you can put a lot of pressure on the top.
But if you push it from the sides, it collapses flat.
So it was something like that in a honeycomb shape that was essentially some sort of sheet metal, and you could walk on that in the upper layer, but if you took the corner, stuck your finger in, and pushed, it collapsed and made an entryway.
So I thought that was a really unique, I'd never seen that before, and it was the only thing in the craft that made absolute sense to me.
I said, ah, we can make that, and all that is is a hatchway.
joe rogan
Was there any discussion about the materials that were used to make the craft?
bob lazar
I'm sure there was, but that was the metallurgy division.
It had nothing to do with us.
joe rogan
So you never got a...
bob lazar
Not even the slightest briefing.
I don't even know if it was metal or it was ceramic.
I think there's a fine line between the two.
joe rogan
Now, one of the things that's happened to you that has allowed people to discredit you was there's obviously been some sort of an effort to erase your past.
bob lazar
Yeah.
joe rogan
Some sort of an effort to erase your education history, your employment history at Los Alamos.
In fact, the only way your employment history was proven at Los Alamos is someone got a list, a directory of the employees from the past and read into it and you were on that list.
So it proved that you worked there even though people were trying to deny it and they were trying to use that as a way to discredit you, that you never did work at Los Alamos.
You weren't really a scientist.
What was that like to experience?
I mean, of course, we're talking about the 1980s, the 1990s, when you could get away with something like that.
bob lazar
Yeah, obviously, there were a lot less records on computers at that time.
It was still file cabinets and folders.
But, yeah, that was frightening.
That was one of the first things I sort of— I think George Knapp was the first one that uncovered that.
I mean, he saw my birth certificate disappear.
joe rogan
It disappeared?
bob lazar
Yeah.
joe rogan
There was no record of you being birthed?
bob lazar
Yeah, there was no record of that.
There was no record.
jermey corbell
His mom tells me about that.
Like, it was frightening for her.
He's got a real family.
He's a real person.
It's frightening for her.
bob lazar
But the Los Alamos thing really surprised me and that they were so adamant that, no, this guy never worked here.
Don't be ridiculous.
And George went back and forth for months.
I mean, it was ridiculous.
But fortunately, somebody came up with a 1982 phone book directory.
I mean, and also, originally I told you, you know, when I worked there, I was on the front page of the paper.
So they were still able to archive, you know, bring that back from the archives.
And, you know, Bob Lazar, a physicist working here at Los Alamos, so there was at least something there.
But somehow George came up with the phone directory.
jermey corbell
And then Bob took George with cameras into Los Alamos.
bob lazar
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
So we flew out there and I said, look, come on in.
I'll show you where I worked.
We'll go in.
We'll meet people.
And George went with me and filmed inside there.
joe rogan
And you knew how to navigate the place.
bob lazar
Oh, yeah.
And met people.
joe rogan
Well, Salmos was also the place where they had the machine that was able to read the size of your digits.
bob lazar
No, no.
That was in Los Angeles.
joe rogan
That was S4. That was S4. And explain that.
bob lazar
So, now this was back in the 80s.
joe rogan
And this was back in the 80s where, when you discussed this, people were like, this doesn't even exist.
bob lazar
Yeah.
joe rogan
Okay.
What was it?
bob lazar
It was a way, you know, this was before fingerprint scanners and, you know, anything of...
Any high-resolution scanner at that time.
So what it was was a device that had a little picture of a hand on a glass plate with pins in it, so you could jam your hand in there.
And there was a bright light above it and a sensor underneath.
And when you put your hand in there, the light would turn on, and it would measure the bones in your finger because the light shone through your bones.
And apparently...
The length of the bones in your fingers are extremely unique and easy to measure.
And they use that.
When you put your hands on there, the light would turn on and your badge would pop out.
Oh, there it is!
That's it.
And I tried to describe this to people and they said, that is the most ridiculous thing we've ever heard.
And I said, hey, my badge came out of that thing.
I put my hand on it, badge popped out, and that's how I could open the doors and get into S4. And...
joe rogan
And everybody discredited that.
They said it was bullshit.
It was science fiction.
And Jeremy, you found this.
jermey corbell
I found it through a good friend of mine named Tyler Rogoway, and he had some good sources inside of Area 52 where they also used these for the stealth program right around that time.
So now I've got all these people that worked within...
Who, you know, said only if you're in certain programs would we use this technology.
It was kind of shit, actually.
They didn't keep it for very long.
Beginning of Biometrics.
So I was able to reveal it in my film.
I kept my mouth shut until I showed it to Bob.
You know, in the movie, the first time he saw it was how you see it in the documentary.
That's his genuine reaction.
I'm getting goosebumps.
joe rogan
That was a great idea, the way you did it.
jermey corbell
Thank you, man, because you know what?
Guess what?
I'm actually trying to see if he's telling the truth.
That's how I started.
You know, that's how I started.
So it was really cool to see that and that you get to see it, his actual reaction.
joe rogan
Has that been verified by other people?
jermey corbell
Yeah, so to me it has.
Personally, I get emails every day and people are telling me where these are used and how they're used and send me photos.
I got a lot of photos of identimats now.
joe rogan
How they were used, right?
jermey corbell
How they were used, but yeah.
The most recent one was...
Way more recent than I thought in another country.
But yeah, that technology was used.
So what's so funny is that this technology, even in the Area 52 where they'd use them for Tonopah, one of the guys who will go on camera with me, he will do an interview with me.
He was a technician for one of these.
And he hated them because they were really bad.
They always broke down and never.
And he was a technician for them.
Now he won't tell me where.
He worked at Area 52, so it was probably Tonopah.
It's very separated, even on bass, but yeah.
joe rogan
So, there was that.
There is your education record.
That was also, like, what happened with that?
bob lazar
Well, that disappeared also.
I've never gone anywhere for education.
I never attended any classes at Caltech.
I never attended anything at MIT. You did attend classes in those places.
I did attend classes in those places.
joe rogan
Do you know anybody that you went to school with?
bob lazar
Yes, I do.
joe rogan
And have they verified that they went to school with you?
bob lazar
Well, I gave Jeremy some names, but the reason I don't say these names publicly is because every single time I mention a name, somebody gets in trouble.
jermey corbell
They don't want to be.
joe rogan
Of course.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, of course.
But what is that experience like, seeing your birth certificate erased, seeing your employment history?
bob lazar
Well, it's frightening.
It's absolutely frightening.
joe rogan
But it's also the fuel that the debunkers use, the so-called, air quote, skeptics.
I don't like the term skeptics.
I'm going to say this publicly because I really have only said this privately.
I think it's a sloppy, lazy way to look at things, to just be a skeptic.
I want people to be objective.
And I think there's a lot of things you should be skeptical of.
I think you should look at things and look at things...
From a hardline science perspective, you should be objective.
But the idea of skeptics, the problem with that is you're always looking for things to be bullshit.
And I think that's dangerous because I think some things aren't bullshit.
jermey corbell
It's confirmation bias on the other end.
You're just deciding to take a square thing and put it in a round hole no matter what.
joe rogan
And I find a lot of them to be lazy.
A lot of them to be lazy thinkers.
Because they're always putting it into that box instead of going...
Instead of just separating their ego, they're playing a game, and the game is calling bullshit.
I want to call bullshit, and I'm going to line up all these reasons why it's bullshit, and I'm going to ignore anything that might be contrary to that definition.
jermey corbell
Every time I'm thinking I'm going to catch him in something, you know, all along this process, I found Dr. Krangel.
He came forward and said, I was in security briefings with Bob Lazar, the physicist at Los Alamos.
He went on the record with me.
Now, the other people I talked with, why won't they go on the record with me?
Because they're still working there.
So that's the difference, right?
What can the public have, right?
joe rogan
Or even if they're not working there, you know, they want to live their lives.
I mean, obviously people have seen what's happened to you.
jermey corbell
Mike Thigpen.
After 30 years, I found him.
bob lazar
Yeah, really, if you look at all the information on, you know, concerning my accounts, that's verifiable.
It can't possibly be a bullshit story anymore.
It's really way past that point.
I mean, Mike Thigpen is, I mean, how could I possibly know?
jermey corbell
So, Mike Thigpen...
Was the guy that did the security clearances to go to the base.
One of the guys that was used.
joe rogan
And this is the guy that you worked with?
jermey corbell
He said he did.
joe rogan
Right.
jermey corbell
And George Knapp, you know, George didn't believe him.
George put him through four polygraph tests, right?
He tried to see, man, this is a big risk.
It sounds interesting, but let's see if he's telling the truth.
One of the things was, Bob said there was a guy named Mike Thigpen.
He did security clearances for the base.
And that's a weird name.
It's a very specific...
For 30 years, George found this guy in this weird department that he didn't even know.
It was my thick pen.
The guy wouldn't talk to me.
Ghosted him.
Totally ghosted him for 30 years.
Used Facebook and Google Image Match through his children.
I was able to find him after 30 years.
And I talked to him three times on the phone.
He lives on the East Coast.
He almost went on camera with me.
Confirmed that he did security clearances for the base in 1989. Confirmed he remembers Bob Lazar.
And what you don't know is there's a handwritten note that a friend of yours has from Mike.
bob lazar
What?
jermey corbell
I know.
I'm going to give it to you later.
But that is real.
That is actual.
joe rogan
A handwritten note that says what?
bob lazar
This is new to me.
jermey corbell
So when you're...
bob lazar
When they do security clearances, they go through all your friends and family.
jermey corbell
And they go to your friends and family, yeah.
So this is to Bob and I had people come to me for a friend of mine that's serving and they're doing a security clearance for him and even though I'm like the UFO guy, they did, you know, the FBI will come and visit my house and make sure that they talk about my friend and they lift a little card.
And when my wife told him to get away because he didn't know who they were, they left a little card.
It's super cute now.
Back then it was a handwritten note and his friend has it for him that you haven't seen in Oh my god.
Two decades.
So if you're listening, friend...
bob lazar
How come you're telling me this now?
jermey corbell
I don't know why I'm telling you this.
joe rogan
What is this card?
jermey corbell
It's just a little handwritten note with Mike Thigpen's signature.
joe rogan
A card, like a postcard.
jermey corbell
Like a piece of paper that he left on the door saying when Bob gets back or whatever it says on it.
So it's just another little funny thing.
I found the guy.
He does the security clearances.
He admitted to me he did it.
He admitted to me he was dodging George Knapp because when George said his name on the news, he dropped his fork into his steak or into his potatoes or whatever, and he's looking at his wife.
He was in trouble.
His name's never supposed to be out there like this.
It's just a security clearance guy.
But you don't want national attention associated with anything Bob has to say.
But anyway, this unique name Bob said for 30 years, and the guy ghosted George Knapp.
George could prove he existed.
He actually talked to me, man.
He talked to me three times.
He almost went on camera with me.
It's just crazy.
What happens after 30 years?
You just get more info.
joe rogan
Well, that's one of the reasons why when you and me and Jeremy and George Knapp had that conversation on the phone, I said, I think what we can do with this podcast is important.
I really do.
I think it's important for people to hear this from you in a very clear, just very concise way.
And if you examine all the information that you've said today, if you look at all the things that the detractors have said, if you look at all of the new recent evidence that's coming out and all these really high-level people in the military and the government that are discussing this, It gives you far more credibility than you would have had in the 1980s when this came out.
jermey corbell
Fuck yes!
You can't ignore his story just because you don't like it anymore.
joe rogan
That's why I thought it was important that you come out and refresh the world's memory and let people know.
And like I said, I've been...
I don't want to say I'm a fan of yours, but I guess I'm a fan of yours.
As a human being, I'm a fan of yours.
But I've been following you for decades.
I've been following the story for decades.
bob lazar
No kidding.
joe rogan
I have VHS tapes.
jermey corbell
Bob, like a lot of the world has?
joe rogan
Yeah.
jermey corbell
It's crazy.
joe rogan
Well, anybody that has any sort of vested interest or just a fascination with UFOs has followed your story because there's no one else.
There's no one else that comes forward.
There's some guy who said, I worked underground with the aliens and they shot my hand off.
There's a bunch of wacky dudes.
They're underground.
There's bases.
They're shooting lasers through the Earth's crust and they move them at light speed.
There's a lot of those guys.
They seem schizophrenic.
They seem crazy.
They might even be disinformation agents.
They might be people that are designed to muddy the waters, which for sure happens.
jermey corbell
People are coming forward though now.
It's amazing.
And by doing this, what you're doing, you're providing an opportunity for Bob to tell his story.
Believe it or not, he can tell his story.
It's amazing because more people will come forward now that are involved with these projects.
They'll come forward to you, to me, they're coming forward.
And so what you've done here is provide that opportunity if they need it.
And it's amazing.
I just want to say, Bob...
bob lazar
Just don't come forward to me.
jermey corbell
No, don't come forward to Bob.
Why were you freaking nauseous at the beginning of this, like, so upset?
Why did you have a migraine?
Because that started off so hard, my God.
I was sitting here like, did this...
joe rogan
Well, why are you asking him why?
It's obvious.
Anxiety.
The guy's gone through 30 fucking years of being persecuted.
They've erased his birth certificate.
jermey corbell
What do you want to hear from him?
I want to hear him say...
I want them to hear his...
bob lazar
Why do I have to say that?
You don't.
unidentified
We get it.
jermey corbell
I stay.
Step out.
joe rogan
Settle down!
Yeah, well, I get it.
It was hard for you to get them here.
jermey corbell
It was hard for us.
joe rogan
You did a lot more than me.
bob lazar
What really annoys me are the people that say, you know, you guys just came up with the story to make a bunch of money or get a bunch of attention.
joe rogan
That's a good point.
Please explain that.
bob lazar
First of all, I don't get any money out of this at all.
And I didn't even let you guys buy plane tickets for me to come out here or anything.
I mean, any time, like when Jeremy pre-previewed, I guess, the movie up in Michigan, I mean, it brought in like a couple thousand dollars.
I made sure that $2,000 went to science programs at the local high schools there.
jermey corbell
It's like dirty money.
He doesn't want to touch it.
bob lazar
I don't take any money from this stuff.
And as far as attention...
I hate fucking attention.
I don't like being on shows.
I just want to kind of hide in the corner and do my own thing.
I got enough hugs when I was a kid.
I don't need any attention.
If you think somehow we came up with this thing, then you've got to tell me why we did it.
joe rogan
Well, you've done a great job of making sure you have your bases covered in that regard, that you haven't profited off of this, and like you said, that you have donated whatever money that came your way to science programs.
I mean, it doesn't make any sense any other way.
I mean, what I've gotten out of here is what I thought I was going to get out of here when I watched the documentary, that what you're saying makes sense.
It doesn't make sense that it's bullshit.
bob lazar
That happened exactly like I said it did, Joe.
joe rogan
I believe you.
In closing, is there anything else you'd like to say?
bob lazar
No, I can't think of anything other than really don't come and try to visit me.
joe rogan
Well, I know that you have paid a huge personal cost to get this information out and I mean maybe you didn't understand what that cost would have been when you first initially came forward with the story but over the past 30 years it's been immense.
It's been great and I just want to thank you for that.
And thank you for all these people that would not have gotten this information and would not have really had this story any other way.
bob lazar
Oh, thanks, Joe.
joe rogan
Thank you.
And thank you, Jeremy.
And one more time, the documentary is available on Netflix right now.
jermey corbell
Yeah, it's called Bob Lazar, Area 51, and Flying Saucers.
joe rogan
All right.
That's it, folks.
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