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KLAS-TV 8 Eyewitness News (I-Team)

KLAS-TV logo: the Channel 8 numeral with the CBS eye (8 News Now, Las Vegas CBS affiliate). Current branding, not the 1989 on-air look. · CBS / Nexstar Media Group, via Wikimedia Commons (File:KLAS-TV logo.svg)

Las Vegas CBS affiliate whose I-Team, led by George Knapp, broke the Bob Lazar and Area 51 story in 1989. Here each report's claims are checked and its events laid on one timeline.

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Reports (1)

Nov 1989'Dennis' is Bob Lazar: the KLAS reveal

Timeline across the episodes

On the recordWitness testimonyAlleged / one person's word

People across the timeline · click a name or a dot

Click a person to follow their thread.

1955

Area 51 set up for the U-2Later SR-71, stealth

1972

Aquarius: craft flights begin in NevadaPer the disputed Aquarius document

Jun 1982

Los Alamos phone book and jet-car storyBoth list Lazar at the lab

1984

Air Force seizes 89,000 acres at GroomRatified by PL 98-485 in Oct 1984

1984

Seiberling asks by what authority'Much higher'; closed briefing only

Apr 1986

NSA confirms a Project Aquarius recordTOP SECRET, withheld under FOIA

1988–89

Work at S-4Posters: 'They're here'; nine craft

1989

Four polygraph examiners2 truthful, 1 inconclusive, 1 dissent

May 1989

'Dennis' in silhouetteRebroadcast in Europe and Japan

Nov 1989

Lazar named on KLASKnapp: 'I believe he's telling the truth'

Sources

KLAS-TV, November 1989: 'Dennis' is Bob Lazar ↗