June 6, 2002: Area 51 and UFOs - Bob Lazar

How Edward Teller put Lazar on the path to S4Lazar recounts how a Los Alamos Monitor front-page story about him and his jet car led to a chance meeting with Edward Teller, which he says triggered the EG&G call that brought him to the test site.

First sight of a disc on the hangar floor at S4On his second day at S4, Lazar steps off the bus to find a roughly 52-foot disc-shaped craft sitting on its belly on the concrete with no landing gear, initially mistaking it for an advanced US fighter because of a small American flag near the doorway.

Touching the gravity wave from the reactorLazar describes the basketball-sized reactor and the directional gravity field it produced, comparing the repulsion to pushing two like-pole magnets together and saying not even a high-speed object could penetrate the field.

The frozen candle flameLazar recalls a colleague firing up the gravity amplifier with a lit candle six feet behind the emitter, then watching the flame freeze into a motionless two-dimensional picture of fire that still emitted light.

Element 115, the island of stability, and the S4 sledgehammerLazar explains element 115 as the super-heavy reactor fuel, points to Darmstadt's heavy-ion lab climbing the periodic table toward it since 1989, and when Art asks if he smuggled some out, he declines comment but jokes a chunk would make a good sledgehammer.