Bob Lazar and His UFO Claims: Examining the Legitimacy

Bob Lazar (born 1959) is an American businessman who rose to fame in the late 1980s with sensational claims about UFOs and government secrets. In 1989, Lazar came forward alleging he had worked as a physicist on a top-secret program involving alien technology at a site near Area 51 in. Prior to these claims, Lazar had a background as a self-styled engineer and hobbyist: he built jet engines for his bicycles and cars and even constructed a particle accelerator at home, demonstrating a fascination with science and. However, his academic credentials are dubious – Lazar has claimed master’s degrees from MIT and Caltech, but both institutions state they have no record of. Public records indicate he attended Pierce Junior College in Los Angeles, and investigators found that a supposed Caltech professor he cited actually taught at Pierce. Lazar’s later life has included running a scientific supply company (United Nuclear Scientific) and involvement in legal troubles: he was convicted in 1990 for aiding a prostitution ring (pleading guilty to pandering) and again in 2006 for illegally selling. These aspects of his background have often been raised in discussions of his credibility.