News report · KLAS-TV 8 Eyewitness News (I-Team) · November 1989
'Dennis' is Bob Lazar: the KLAS reveal
George Knapp's November 1989 KLAS-TV report names 'Dennis', the anonymous S-4 physicist from May, as Robert Lazar. Before naming him Knapp sets out the background: Soviet overflights, the NSA's admission that a Project Aquarius record exists, and the 1984 seizure of land around Groom Lake. Against Los Alamos's denial he shows the 1982 lab phone book listing Lazar, and he reports four polygraph examiners: two read truthful, one inconclusive, one dissenting.
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1972
Aquarius: craft flights begin in NevadaPer the disputed Aquarius document
Apr 1986
NSA confirms a Project Aquarius recordTOP SECRET, withheld under FOIA
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On the record (4)
A 1982 Los Alamos phone book lists Lazar among the lab's scientists and technicians.firsthandArea 51 and S-4 go publicLos Alamos National Laboratory
Two of four polygraph examiners read Lazar as truthful; one was inconclusive and one dissented; no final finding was issued.firsthandArea 51 and S-4 go public
The NSA confirms a Project Aquarius record but denies it concerns flying saucers.The 1986 FOIA letter confirms a TOP SECRET record, nothing about its subject.firsthandNSA confirms a TOP SECRET 'Aquarius' record (1986)
The Air Force took about 89,000 acres around Groom in 1984; Congress ratified it after the fact.PL 98-485, 89,600 acres.firsthandThe Groom land seizure
Witness testimony (1)
'Dennis' was his superior's name; the superior phoned with a threat after the broadcast.firsthandArea 51 and S-4 go public
Alleged / one person's word (1)
It's the easiest secret in the world to keep: nobody believes it.secondhandunnamed superiors → Bob Lazar → told itArea 51 and S-4 go public