S4- The Bob Lazar Story

 

I felt some urgency to watch this new documentary about Bob Lazar, S4- The Bob Lazar Story. I had already seen the interview by Patrick from Vetted with the director Luigi Vendittelli and I had to go away on Good Friday when the movie dropped. I returned on Easter Sunday knowing that social media would be infested with spoilers and I could only avoid them for so long; so I paid the rental late at night and watched it through after presenting The Gas Spanner. This is not the first film about Bob by any means. Another had come out a few years earlier directed by Jeremy Corbell that I reviewed at the time, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2018/12/bob-lazar-area-51-and-flying-saucers.html and: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2018/12/bob-lazar-movie-livestream.html. That one was mostly about Bob's personal life in the present day. Would this new one be any different? Although it does cover Bob's family and work briefly, it is mostly about his original story. It begins with his early life, developing a keen interest in science and engineering from childhood. He was a remarkably skilled designer and builder. In 1982 he converted his wife's Honda Civic hatchback into a jet-propelled car. He claims to have started working at the famous Los Alamos National Laboratory the same year, although this has been called into question and there is considerable evidence both for and against this part of his background. His recruitment to the flying saucer reverse-engineering project has often been cited as one of Bob's most incredulous assertions, but it is actually not that outlandish. The project is not unlike an espionage ring in its relationship to public government and industry, and we all have heard how spies are persuaded to join a cause through privately schmoozing them. It often does start with a simple conversation, like the one Bob had with Edward Teller; and sometimes the talent scout does simply think the contact "sounds like he has the right stuff." We've seen the same pattern with another case that has recently emerged, the Reddit scientist who studied alien bodies: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/02/catastrophic-d-on-reddit.html and: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/02/reddit-scientist-livestream.html. George Knapp also says the very fact that Bob has a personality that made him easy to discredit, if that needed to be done potentially, was an important qualification.

As somebody who has been fascinated with the chronicles of Bob Lazar for well over thirty years now, there was little in terms of narrative that I have not heard of before; yet this is the first time I have seen the annals being presented this way. It was announced at the beginning that the animation was all made "by hand", meaning without artificial intelligence; a necessary disclaimer in today's world. The figures, models and backgrounds were all designed by real animators; and it was done very well. Watching them made what I have already learned more vivid. Individuals Bob got to know in his adventures and has described before, like the doctor lady, "Dennis" and "Barry" are brought strikingly to life. Some are modelled by real actors. The effect of the whole reconstruction is very dramatic. Of course that is not new evidence, but it does make the original claim feel more real. There are some talking head scenes as well, interspersed with the reconstructions. These are full of somewhat obtrusive jump cuts which comes across as a bit amateurish. Despite it being a familiar story, there are some exclusives in this documentary. We discover that the Google Earth images of Papoose Lake have been doctored for some reason and older images show details that could support Bob's testimony. Other researchers have previously found other instances, for example: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2021/11/s4-entrance.html. Why is it necessary to keep renewing these satellite images if there's nothing there? We also hear for the first time how the Wednesday night test flight disk came very close to Bob and his friends when they went there as spectators; as if the pilot inside had detected and recognized Bob. That could explain how he was caught soon afterwards. Do I believe Bob Lazar? Every time I watch a good film promoting him, like this one, I say yes; but then something else comes up that calls my enthusiasm into question. Stanton T Friedman, one of the people in UFOlogy whose judgement I trust the most, always denounced Bob as a fantasist. I don't think there's anything wrong with saying I don't know. S4- The Bob Lazar Story can be bought or rented on all good streaming outlets. Source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt37605896/. It is much cheaper than some other recent releases. It's good we finally have a truly general release category arty cinematic documentary about Bob Lazar. All that is left to do now is the big screen Hollywood dramatization. I've always thought Cillian Murphy or Johnny Depp could play a good Bob.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.