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MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: Standard inquiries have been made by George Knapp and Stanton Friedman and turned up nothing. Friedman informed me that he took the additional step of checking with the alumni office and at least the 1982 commencement list.
Glenn Campbell visited MIT in 1993 and searched through a number of the printed student records there. The idea behind this particular effort was that while elimination of computer records could be within the realm of possibility, it is essentially inconceivable that some agency would have the capability to change printed records that had widespread distribution.
Lazar, or any obvious misspellings of his name, was not listed in any MIT student directory between 1978 and 1990. Other publications checked included the MIT faculty/staff telephone directories from 1978-1990, the MIT “Degree List” from 1979-1990, and the 1989 “MIT Alumni/ae Register”.
- Vintage Testors Area S4 UFO Revealed 1:48 Scale Model Kit Of The Alien Space Craft Saucer That Crashed In Nevada
Ultra Rare Highly Sort After Vintage Model Kit.
- This fantastic vintage model kit was released by Tetsors in 1994, this 1:48 scale model kit features the Alien Space Craft allegedly hidden by the U.S. Government, As described by eyewitness and former government physicist, Bob Lazar.
- The model kit also includes a 16 page full colour book on the flying saucer.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
a reply to: Blue Shift
George Knapp moved down another notch on my respect scale, when he brought up Bob Lazar, and then said compare the Gimbal video rotating to how Lazar described flying saucers. Why should he lose respect for that?
Bob Lazar aside, the Gimbal rotation has been thoroughly explained as a result of the....are you ready for this....given the name of the video is Gimbal....as a result of the gimbal mechanism the camera is mounted to. If George Knapp was even a half-assed investigative reporter, he would be well aware of the gimbal explanation for the "UFO rotation". I always thought he was a good investigative reporter, so I think he knew, but just ignored reality to promote a story....sad.
This explains the rotation in the Gimbal video, without any reference to anything about Bob Lazar, and it has no relation to anything Bob Lazar ever said once you understand the UFO is not rotating, it's the gimbal mechanism.
NY Times UFO Explained , Feb 1 2018, made long before Knapp's article on May 16, 2019.
I am not commenting on 11 other things that weren't on the video, I'm talking about WHAT IS ON THE VIDEO!
originally posted by: Lucidparadox
The guy who said it was accompanied by 11 other craft that were spheres inside of cubes.
Again I can't comment on what I can't see. If he's misperceiving the part of the video we can see as rotation, he may be misperceiving many other things. Or lying?
He also said this recording is just a snippet of the full video.
Well we have thousands of other eyewitness accounts of lots of things with no video to back up what they say. Finally we have some videos but this video doesn't back up any of that. It makes him look foolish if he thinks it shows UFO rotation, when the gimbal video is named after the cause of the effect it shows.
He also said he and the other pilots saw these maneuvers, and the insane speed with their own eyes.
An eye witness who says things that the video does not support, we have thousands more eyewitnesses with no videos to back up their claims, so claiming things not on the video is nothing new. As for what's on the video, I hope he's lying as hawkguy suggests when he says it's rotating, because if he really believes the video shows rotation of the object when the video is named GIMBAL, how the heck can he not know the reason the video is named gimbal because of the gimbal? Is he that clueless? Or lying? I don't know but it's disturbing either way.
So you have eyewitnesses along with video.. and they both say.. not a bird.. not a jet.. but an object doing impossible things.
originally posted by: hawkguy
For NATIONAL SECURITY reasons we need you to play that up and start talking about it like you saw something spooky. Jazz it up a little bit, we need people wondering what we're flying around. Think you can do that? Thanks LT, you're really helping out your country."
The rotation is the only thing interesting in that video, and fine if pilots want to talk about seeing things accelerate but don't pretend like the video shows that, even UFOJoe can tell it doesn't. Unidentified TV show had just as much nonsense about the Gofast video which can be proven using high school trig is going less than 50 knots yet they say it's hauling ass at 2/3 the speed of sound, lies lies lies.
Luis Elizondo: “Ryan Graves is an aerospace engineer when he’s not a pilot. So, when Ryan is telling you that there is something up there that he doesn’t know how it works and it is not one of out aircraft, you need to listen.”
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Commander David Fravor: “This is important. Now we’re looking at something that can stay stationary over a geographic point, at 120 knots of wind, can rotate around and then can accelerate above supersonic.”
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(Nowhere on the video do we see the Gimbal accelerate at all. And definitely not above supersonic.
FOIA dug up this that the air force wasn't seeing what the Navy was even though they probably should have:
The Air Force attempted to answer our questions, but the DoD official in charge of UFO inquiries didn't share their findings or anything at all...
Here is what we are looking for on the ongoing UFO/UAP story with the Navy and the USAF's position and comment on the issue:
Navy Super Hornet pilots out of NAS Oceana had constant encounters with these objects in 2014-2015, especially on radar. It got so bad that by early 2015 Oceana filed NOTAMs warning aviators about the phenomenon in the warning areas off Virginia. We have talked to the crews directly about this and are in the process of obtaining those NOTAMs and the paper trail leading to their posting. Langley's F-22s, which have superior sensor capabilities in some respects to the Super Hornets, as well the base's T-38 aggressors, are based right next-door and use the exact same warning areas for training daily. Did Langley aircrews experience the same phenomenon? If so, to what extent? What about other USAF assets that use the same airspace for training?
Does the Air Force have similar electro-optical and infrared video of UAPs similar to what the Navy has, or other data for that matter?
Does the Air Force see this phenomenon as a national security threat? What is it doing to mitigate or better understand it?
Which is why we need videos.
originally posted by: hawkguy
Eyewitnesses are the least reliable evidence.
Quite possibly what we are dealing with here.
I'm 100% positive that nearly everyone with a clearance wouldn't need any coercion to participate in a hoax like this. They might even get a kick out of it.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
FOIA dug up this that the air force wasn't seeing what the Navy was even though they probably should have:
No not splitting hairs, you have a valid point, but there are many other FOIA images in that document I didn't copy and they are all coming up null so far, when I would have expected if the Navy is seeing a big flurry of radar activity off the coast, that the guys right next door with better radars allegedly might have seen something. So if your point is that it doesn't disprove the Navy claims, I agree, but neither do we have any indication yet that they can confirm.
originally posted by: FauxMulder
Maybe splitting hairs here but the airforce did not say they weren't seeing what they navy saw. They said "cannot confirm". That's a typical non answer.
originally posted by: Macenroe82
a reply to: NoCorruptionAllowed
Some people will revolve their entire opinion around a single, edited sound bite that was recorded when the person in question, got asked something while at a corner store lol.
When it comes to Bob, I think we can all agree that his story does have a few holes- when it comes to past education experience.
Personally, I believe the narrative that his education experience was wiped.
Regardless of the MIT dean or what not, saying that it's unlikely it could happen.
Of course he's going to say that.
What education establishment, is going to admit that one of their past students had their entire life history deleted from their database.
When Bob went to court for his past...dealings... The Justice Department couldn't even find any past history on Bob.
That's a clue right there that something shady is up.
There's no sense arguing about it with anyone,
Next thing you know, we will be arguing that Bob was bringing the crew out to film Cold birds flying around.
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Lazar worked as a radiation health monitor in the unsecured logistics contractor facility outside of Area-51, so he was never inside that site, and he never held security clearances because he didn’t need them to work in an unclassified area. Lazar made up his entire cockamamie story about the UFO that he saw in a building inside Area-51. He was never exposed to any classified information, facilities, or programs in his work area.”
www.ufojoe.net...
Please point out what in this physicist's critique of Bob makes you think he's jealous? I'm not seeing it.
originally posted by: NoCorruptionAllowed
Yes, I think a lot of the angst we are seeing here and those that defame Bob are actually quite jealous of him for his accomplishments in PHYSICS
After reading an account by Bob Lazar of the “physics” of his Area 51 UFO propulsion system, my conclusion is this: Mr. Lazar presents a scenario which, if it is correct, violates a whole handful of currently accepted physical theories. That in and of itself does not necessarily mean that his scenario is impossible. But the presentation of the scenario by Lazar is troubling from a scientific standpoint. Mr. Lazar on many occasions demonstrates an obvious lack of understanding of current physical theories. On no occasion does he acknowledge that his scenario violates physical laws as we understand them, and on no occasion does he offer up any hints of new theories which would make his mechanism possible. Mr. Lazar has a propensity for re-defining scientific terms, and using scientific language in a confusing and careless way. For these reasons, I don’t feel that Lazar’s pseudo-scientific ramblings are really worthy of any kind of serious consideration.
That really is the ultimate irony, isn't it?
originally posted by: mirageman
Biggesst irony here is how people are using a quote by Eric Davis that he gave a classified briefing to a Defense Department agency as recently as March about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this earth to vindicate Bob Lazar's lies.
originally posted by: hawkguy
a reply to: EnigmaChaser
What is confirmed about the video? What is confirmed regarding material? And please, let's not extrapolate or take people's word for things.
Why the HELL are we suddenly trusting spooks who have every motivation to muddy the waters on this? Oh right, it's because they're TELLING YOU WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR.
What happened to "question everything?" Oh that's right, I forgot it was changed to "believe who you want to believe with the furvor of the religious devout"
originally posted by: Diaspar
originally posted by: hawkguy
a reply to: EnigmaChaser
What is confirmed about the video? What is confirmed regarding material? And please, let's not extrapolate or take people's word for things.
Why the HELL are we suddenly trusting spooks who have every motivation to muddy the waters on this? Oh right, it's because they're TELLING YOU WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR.
What happened to "question everything?" Oh that's right, I forgot it was changed to "believe who you want to believe with the furvor of the religious devout"
Spot on
I am quite amazed at the number of posts i read here and elsewhere that say along the lines of:
"There are holes in his story, but i trust him. He's 100% legit"...and that's just on Bob Lazar.
There's the same old players, using the same old tried, trusted and successfully deployed playbook and people are lapping it up