In that time Lazar has been laughed at by hecklers, seen his professional life put through the wringer, and discovered his higher education credentials had been scrubbed away. You read that properly. A look into his claims to have studied at MIT and CalTech yield no student records, no yearbooks, and none of the professors recall him. However, there a few students that do remember him. Couple that along with his Los Alamos National Lab also being scrubbed from existence- with a telephone directory being one of the sole links to prove he worked there- and one is left with more questions than answers.
However, the most prominent question and the one at the heart of the documentary is if Lazar is telling the truth. In the almost 30 years since his original claims, many interesting things lined up, such as the official discovery of element 115 in the year 200. He took four different polygraph tests, each one stating that he was telling the truth. He underwent hypnosis and drew a rough sketch of what the craft looked like, with a few details thrown in which slipped his mind. Most importantly in all this though, are those who knew Bob Lazar before his claims. His parents, longtime friends, and his wife all claim he is not someone prone to lying and ask what does he gain by this being the thing he’ll lie about?
“…Bob Lazar is telling the truth.”
Also of note is how Lazar has made very little money off of his theories and that they have not changed over the years. Corbell realizes this, thus Bob Lazar: Area 52 & Flying Saucers takes a sympathetic approach towards its subject. This allows people who don’t believe in beings from another world (full disclosure: such as myself) to be able to listen without judgment.
However, the documentary does have one rather glaring issue named Mickey Rourke. The acclaimed actor narrates passages of the film that are meant to highlight the elusive nature of humans and their place in the universe, and ask if it is that preposterous to believe other beings exist on other planets? However, he mumbles so much that understanding what he is saying is quite a chore. It is infuriating, mainly because the rest of the movie is well made on a technical level.
By the end of the movie, I believe Bob Lazar is telling the truth. That is the best case for watching Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers I can think of it. Lazar worked on something so inexplicable that the only rationale his mind could comprehend is that of alien spacecraft. Given the technological and scientific breakthroughs he knew about years in advance, I see no evidence of his lying and see nothing he gains from doing so. The movie is well edited and moves at a brisk pace. But the narration by Mickey Rourke is poorly handled and brings the film down a bit.
Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers(2018) Directed by Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell. Written by Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell. Starring Bob Lazar, George Knapp, Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell, Mickey Rourke, Joy White, Phyllis Tucker, Layne Keck, Mario Santa Cruz, Zack Slizewski.
8 UFOs (out of 10)
I just watched the film and found it extremely interesting and provocative. I am by no means ignorant, and I am definitely not uneducated. The production quality was not good, the narrator’s words and his voice were irrelevant, infuriating and disruptive to the viewing experience as a whole. The information about the craft Lazar says he worked to reverse engineer, his description and illustration and its propulsion system’s use of a purportedly stabilized version of element 115 and gravity to alter space time and travel at impossible speeds — were absolutely mind blowing. If Lazar’s story is not true, then he is at the very least, one heck of a sci-fi storyteller.
I thought Stanton Friedman and Tom Mahood thoroughly debunked Bob Lazar 25-30 years ago when this all first came out.. I am amazed there are people who still believe Bob, let alone would waste their time making a film about him… Even more audacious is that they call it a “Documentary” while leaving out all the pertinent, conflicting, and negative information showing that Bob Lazar was nothing more than an attention seeking, jet-car driving, self-employed photo processor who only had a small contract with Los Alamos repairing Alpha Probes for the radiation health monitoring station every 6 weeks.. (Confirmed by John Lear’s testimony) Not to mention his lies about a stable “magic” isotope of Element 115 and all the misinformation going around about the science behind Element 115’s prediction and eventual discovery… This film was clearly made in effort to make money off of the uneducated and ignorant.
It is hard to take Cerena seriously. With trillions of possible planets in our Galaxy, and a group of aliens a billion years ahead of us, it is obvious that we’ve never been alone.
With Corso’s input and Jesse Marcell’s on the ground, witness testimony, you don’t stand an arguments chance in hell of defending yourself.
I’ve seen 4 that i have no explanation for….. The one at Burning man…. Wow.
So good luck with the civilisations the Black projects have on Mars man, it is already done sweetheart.
I couldn’t agree with you more on this review. This film was recommended to me and, with an open mind, concluded that this man is telling what he believes to be the truth and that there is a project that he worked on that strongly suggests was of extraterrestrial origin. However, it’s so hard to take the documentary seriously with Rourke narrating. I’m a huge fan, as I’m sure the director was, but his non coherent narration disables the validity of the film. Regardless, what is shared should be taken seriously and considered one of the most significant events in history.
What are the plans for this movie going forward? I just want to know if I can expect to see it come out on Netflix or Amazon or Direct Tv Cinema?