Bob Lazar

Robert Scott Lazar () is an American businessman and conspiracy theorist who, since 1989, has claimed to have been part of a classified US government project concerned with the reverse engineering of extraterrestrial technology; he also purported to have read government briefing documents that described alien involvement in human affairs over the past 10,000 years. A self-proclaimed physicist, Lazar supposedly worked at a secret site near the United States Air Force facility popularly known as Area 51. His story brought additional public attention to the facility and spawned conspiracy theories regarding government knowledge of extraterrestrial life. Lazar has provided no evidence of alien life or technology, and his claims about his education and employment history are replete with fabrications. Lazar was also convicted in 1990 for his involvement in a Nevada prostitution ring, and his company was sentenced to probation in 2006 for violating laws prohibiting the sale of chemicals across state lines. As well as being dismissed by skeptics, Lazar has been denounced by some ufologists.