Lex Fridman: Is Bob Lazar telling the truth?

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Tim Dodd is host of the Everyday Astronaut YouTube channel, where he teaches about rocket engines and all things space travel.

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[LexClips]

Guest bio: Tim Dodd is host of the Everyday Astronaut YouTube channel, where he teaches about rocket engines and all things space travel.

[KaybeCA]

Bob Lazar is a weird and interesting tale. As Tim says, one's first reaction is to label him a crack. But it's just all the little things. Los Alamos, to this day, vehemently denies Lazar ever worked there, yet the office directory had his name in it and he walked around the place and knew everyone. Then someone inside says he was just a lowly tech, yet the guy built a jet car for fun, so he's clearly saavy when it comes to engineering. DND denies they ever used a specific hand scanner, but decades later admits they did in fact use it at Area 51 in the 80s for the stealth fighter program. At any time, either of those organizations could have simply said that yes, Bob Lazar worked for them and they deeply regret to hear of his degenerate mental state or something like that. But no, they still insist they don't know who he is despite all that. Why? Again, not saying he saw alien tech. Just saying there's too many shadowy coincidences here for me to be comfortably skeptic.

[maxpoulin]

Lex: Asking the question
Also Lex: Answering his question

[cabforwardooo]

Lazar described the rotation movement of these objects way before the Gimbal UFO was recorded by the Navy. There's only one way he could have known.

[derekrushe]

There are several things that Lazar said that was dismissed but turned out to be true

1. He worked at Los Alamos (confirmed)
2. He was recruited to S4 by a man called Mike Thinkpen at EG&G ( A Mike Thinkpen was a recruiter at EG&G)
3. Area S4 exists ( confirmed)
4. He had to pass through a hand scanner the navy used for classified projects ( confirmed)
5. Element 115 ( confirmed)

[klew]

Lazar is one of those stories I really wanna believe and there is so many weird things and coincidences that turned out to be true that it's really hard to just shake off as a normal conspiracy theory

[rLxJake]

Until someone can explain why they tried to cover up where he worked and went to school then I find it 22% plausible. Also why does the FBI and government go and raid him so often for almost meaningless things…. It’s almost like they have a vendetta against him and if he was just another crazy dude they wouldn’t bother.

[devivoman]

I watched a video shortly after Bob did the JRE interview and the guy was a body language expert and his channel was about showing how you can tell when people are lying or not and he ended the video blown away and stated if Bob was lying even he believed his own lie or he was acting on a level above professional.

[zacharylansing]

I wish more people were as inquisitive as Lex. I often find myself wanting to have conversations about a lot of the topics he discusses and the average person just isn’t interested.

[LS-nymr]

Lex & Lazar! Hell yeah! I’m down.. this has gotta happen. Sending Vibes…

[cyclops]

Bring Lazar on and give him so physics problems to solve.

[thebigdt]

Lex asked him such a great question and then steamrolled… also the point he made about discovering life contradicts his question about Bob Lazar. If Bob isn’t lying (which they both don’t know) that would mean we did find proof of alien life but instead of propelling us into a united front of exploration, we decided to cover the tracks, and compartmentalize the research to keep it from the public… stunting our growth.

[neorock]

Lazar's entire personality screams "introvert, " who wants to be left alone. Someone like that wants anything but attention.

[CrashoutsDaily]

The most interesting part to it about me is that there's an entire newspaper article from the school about him but the school denies that he ever went there

[utewbd]

I think he's either telling the truth or is a "government employee" whose job is either to muddy information waters or gauge public perception on such topics.

[funtertainment]

I appreciate Lex the way he don't wanna shun or reject or cancel any idea, thought process. It is about accepting others perspective and move on.

[GrippingLipsFishing]

I think Lazar told the truth. He literally took a news crew inside one of the places he worked, and new the place like the back of his hand.

[ral]

Lazar claimed he attended MIT and Caltech where he received masters degrees etc. When I learned that neither institute had any record of him attending, he lost all credability with me.

[mjjumps]

I live in Las Vegas and just had a sighting investigation done by MUFON. The Investigator told me that he met a guy that was Bob’s neighbor out here in the late 80’s/early 90’s. The guy said Bob is 100% legit and that their neighborhood was under 24/7/365 surveillance during the time he was at S4 and went public.

[ODMJ]

I tend to operate with skepticism on what everyone says. That being said I am extremely skeptical with anything involving the government.