10 Outrageous Claims By UFO Whistleblowers
3. Back Engineering At Area 51
Speculation about the mysterious Area 51 facility has raged on for many years. The many UFO conspiracy theories about it are only natural considering the U.S. didn't even admit to the existence of the base until 2013.
One of the claims about Area 51 that has generated some intense buzz about the possibility of the American connection with aliens comes from whistleblower Bob Lazar. For about two years in the late 1980s he claimed to have been recruited to help back-engineer technology found on several recovered alien aircrafts.
The work that Lazar contributed to happened at a nearby location called S-4. He worked on crafts that come from planets in the Zeta Reticuli solar system that were able to come to our planet thanks to gravitational manipulation using the then-undiscovered element 115.
Critics of Lazar claim that the current owner of United Nuclear Scientific Equipment and Supplies lacked the academic credentials to verify that he would've been recruited for this line of work. His defenders claim that his background has been doctored. Reporter George Knapp has viewed supporting news articles and phone books from the early 1980's verifying his scientific background.
Whether or not Lazar's claims were completely true, misguided, or flat out lies, none can deny his influence in linking UFOs with Area 51 in the zeitgeist of the world.