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60 Bob Lazar, Area 51 Witness or Liar?

Science Behind the

Fiction: Can we believe

the Area 51 witness or was

he a liar?

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Lazar explains that gravity is variable near the
surface of the Earth and implies that these
variations in gravitational force makes flying
near the surface unwieldy in a way that isn’t so
when maneuvering through empty space.
It’s true that gravity is not wholly
constant throughout the whole of the planet.
Because of the world’s spheroid shape, the
effects of gravity differ depending on latitude.
There is also altitude to consider as well as the
density of nearby material.
Moving from the equator to one of the doubt Lazar’s claims, but not once has he
poles will result in roughly half a percent of ‘Bob Lazar: Area 51 &
produced a shred of hard proof. This makes his
change in the impact of gravity on an individual Flying Saucers’ fails to exasperation with the public’s non-belief
or object. Local changes based on material unusual. For the little it’s worth, many of the
density (the factor which would influence a discover truth or progress
investigators and newspeople interviewed in the
flying craft) account for less than a tenth of a
doc believe Lazar. So does Corbell, which
percent. It’s difficult to imagine beings capable proves problematic for his duty to find facts.
of traversing interstellar distances and being Director Jeremy Cordell fails to
Corbell essentially rehashes all of this
tripped up by something so trivial. And not just find anything honest in the information, with new interviews featuring
once or twice but all the time. Erratic perfect time and place to do so. Lazar, a handful of friends, his wife, and other
movements are a hallmark of UFO sightings.
associates, including Las Vegas newsman and
leading UFO adherent George Knapp. Yet at no
Conclusions by Kahron Spearman point does the film introduce any new ideas or
The Daily Dot evidence, instead becoming an odd character
We can’t prove a negative. Maybe Bob Lazar study of a man no one’s asked about. Instead of
really did work at a secret government facility in Jeremy Corbell’s awful misfire of a following up on Elizondo’s explosive new
Nevada, reverse engineering secret documentary, Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying claims, Corbell seems resolute in simply staring
extraterrestrial technology. Saucers, ventures to examine a dubious down Lazar in front of different backgrounds
Maybe the government has undertaken a character in Bob Lazar, a self-described with ominous music, questioning whether he’s
vast conspiracy to discredit him by erasing his “scientist” who in 1989 claimed to have worked “sure or sure-sure” about what he said 30 years
educational records. Maybe he is an unfortunate near Area 51, investigating alien tech that the ago.
genius caught up in the greatest scandal in all of United States was supposedly hiding from the Even worse, Corbell never digs directly
human history. public. Lazar has since become a totem for UFO into Lazar’s claims. His failure to locate any sort
Maybe the government has messed with enthusiasts and space-related conspiracy of authenticity proves to be the film’s worst
his mind, accounting for his inability to theorists, and Corbell believes that talking to feature, of many. For whatever reason, Corbell
remember clearly when he started working at S- him one more time might uncover the truth. The also employs actor Mickey Rourke to deliver a
4 or when he first encountered a craft from problem is, the director pursues the wrong comically dramatic performance as the film’s
another world, things the average person would enigmas, answering unnecessary questions that existentialist narrator, on top of Space Age/UFO
likely never forget. no one’s asked. archival footage. These attempts at
Among other things, Lazar claims to disorientation are completely nonsensical,
Maybe there’s a good explanation for why have worked at a U.S. government site named S- unrelated to literally anything that makes up the
beings from another star system should look so 4, near Papoose Lake in Nevada, on reverse meat of the documentary.
similar to human beings in body structure. engineering extraterrestrial aircraft that used In all, Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying
gravity wave propulsion. Per Lazar, these Saucers is a flop. Corbell fails to find anything
These are questions that will likely be the focus aircraft are powered by a stable version of honest over its course, even when presented a
of controversy for a long while yet. There are far element 115, or Moscovium, which had yet to be grand opportunity, time, and place to do so. []
more down-to-Earth explanations for UFO officially discovered when he made his claims.
sightings and tales of alien visitation. Of course, Lazar’s claims have been
What we can say for certain is the largely dismissed and relegated to fantastic film Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers
available evidence doesn’t support Lazar’s and TV concepts. Though Corbell produces
claim. Whether that means he’s lying, confused, enough evidence to show that Lazar did work
Rating: * - One Star
or the victim of an elaborate interplanetary for the government in some capacity around
conspiracy -- we’ll leave that up to you. [] Area 51, the institutions from which Lazar says Release Date: 12/4/2018
he graduated show no records of attendance. His
Director: Jeremy Corbell
1990 felony conviction, in connection with a
Streaming: Netflix
prostitution ring, further sullied his name. It
wasn’t until former Pentagon official Luis
Jeremy Cordell fails to find a sliver of truth in
Elizondo recently admitted his belief in
his documentary about self-described “scientist”
extraterrestrial life that UFO activity even
Bob Lazar, who revealed “information” about
seemed plausible and acknowledged as
extraterrestrial technology at Area 51 in 1989.
newsworthy in the mainstream.
There hasn’t been a specific reason to
Publisher’s Note: Watching was a waste of time.