Storm Area 51 - What REALLY Happened : WEAPONIZED FLASHBACK
125 min
•Jul 29, 20259 months agoSummary
Hosts Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp revisit the 2019 'Storm Area 51' cultural phenomenon, tracing its origins to Knapp's 1989 Bob Lazar interview, the subsequent Netflix documentary, Joe Rogan's podcast amplification, and a Facebook meme that went viral. They discuss the event's execution, government surveillance tactics against UFO researchers, and the release of newly obtained thermal imaging footage from an active conflict zone showing an unidentified aerial object with non-conventional propulsion signatures.
Insights
- Public interest in classified military facilities stems directly from excessive government secrecy and denial rather than transparency; acknowledging programs reduces curiosity
- Coordinated multi-agency raids on UFO researchers and website operators appear designed as intimidation tactics rather than legitimate law enforcement, undermining public trust
- Mainstream media coverage of UFO topics has historically used dismissive framing and comedic positioning to delegitimize serious researchers and witnesses
- The credibility of UFO witnesses increases dramatically among people closest to them (family, long-term associates) rather than the general public, suggesting personal integrity matters more than public perception
- Government transparency initiatives like AARO require proactive journalist engagement to function; without independent verification, classified information remains bottlenecked
Trends
Shift from government denial to limited acknowledgment of UAP/UFO programs creating public demand for transparency mechanismsIncreased federal surveillance and intimidation of independent UFO researchers and civilian documentation platformsMainstream media adoption of long-form investigative journalism on UFO topics (Rolling Stone, etc.) signaling legitimacy shiftGrassroots cultural movements (Storm Area 51) demonstrating sustained public interest in classified military programs despite media dismissalThermal imaging and military-sourced footage becoming primary evidence format for UFO documentation and analysisIndependent podcasts and alternative media becoming primary distribution channels for UFO testimony and classified informationGovernment agencies using multi-agency raids and asset seizure as deterrent against civilian UFO documentation and information sharingPublic skepticism of official explanations for unidentified objects increasing as military and government acknowledgment of UAP programs grows
Topics
Bob Lazar credibility assessment and witness testimony validationArea 51 government secrecy and public access restrictionsStorm Area 51 viral event organization and law enforcement responseFederal raids on UFO researchers and civilian documentation platformsThermal imaging analysis of unidentified aerial objectsGovernment transparency in UAP/UFO programs (AARO initiative)Media framing and dismissal of UFO topicsNon-conventional propulsion system signatures in thermal imagingMulti-agency surveillance of UFO researchersConflict zone UAP documentation and military protocolsFirst Amendment protections for UFO researchers and journalistsHypnotic regression techniques for witness testimonyReverse engineering allegations and classified aerospace programsPublic land sensor deployment and Fourth Amendment issuesUFO researcher intimidation and harassment patterns
Companies
Netflix
Distributed Corbell's 'Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers' documentary to global audience
Rolling Stone
Staff writer Stephen Roderick covered Storm Area 51 event with long-form investigative journalism
United Nuclear
Bob Lazar's legitimate business manufacturing scientific equipment, mischaracterized in media coverage
SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
Organization criticized for dismissing UAP evidence while searching for distant extraterrestrial signals
KLA-STV
Las Vegas news station where George Knapp works as investigative journalist covering Area 51
The Alien Research Center
Gift shop near Area 51 owned by George Harris that hosted Storm Area 51 event activities
The Little Alien
Rachel, Nevada business (formerly Rachel Bar and Grill) that benefited from UFO tourism after Lazar story
Quince
Clothing retailer sponsoring the podcast with premium sustainable fashion
GoDaddy Arrow
AI-powered business creation platform featured in podcast advertising
Betway Casino
Online gambling platform with podcast sponsorship and promotional offers
Microsoft 365
Enterprise software suite with AI Copilot assistant featured in podcast advertising
People
Bob Lazar
Central figure whose 1989 testimony about reverse-engineered alien spacecraft sparked decades of public interest
George Knapp
Broke Bob Lazar story in 1989 and continues investigating Area 51 and UFO phenomena
Jeremy Corbell
Created Netflix documentary on Bob Lazar and organized Storm Area 51 event coverage
Joe Rogan
Amplified Bob Lazar interview to massive audience, credited with reigniting public UFO interest
Stephen Roderick
Covered Storm Area 51 event with investigative journalism, critiqued for comedic framing of UFO topic
Chuck Clark
Discovered and documented military sensors on public land; subjected to FBI raid and asset seizure
Yorg
Ran Dreamlandresort.com for 20+ years; subjected to no-knock FBI raids on two properties
Lane Keck
Conducted hypnotic regression sessions with Bob Lazar to recall technical details from Area 51
Gene Huff
Long-time friend and credible witness to Lazar's character and testimony consistency
Dave Foley
Attended Storm Area 51 event and participated in Bob Lazar podcast interview
Paul Oakenfold
Performed at Storm Area 51 event without compensation to support UFO transparency movement
Pat Travis
Benefited from UFO tourism boom following Lazar story; witnessed decades of Area 51 interest
Seth Shostak
Criticized for dismissing UFO witnesses as seeking meaning to replace religion
Lou Elizondo
Interviewed by Rolling Stone journalist regarding government UFO programs and transparency
Tom DeLonge
Interviewed regarding government UFO programs and transparency initiatives
Ernie Cline
Visited Area 51 with Knapp and Corbell; author of Ready Player One
Matt Adams
Documented Area 51 investigations and Storm Area 51 event with George Knapp for 20+ years
Quotes
"People knew that at Area 51, there was this potential, this idea that Bob Lazar might be telling the truth and there's reverse engineering and exploitation of propulsion systems of alien spacecraft."
Jeremy Corbell•Early in episode
"The people that spend the most time with them, the people who know him as a person, people that know he doesn't make stuff up... Bob does not care about the outside world enough to where he'd make up some big elaborate lie."
George Knapp•Mid-episode
"Excessive secrecy breeds more public interest. If you didn't want the public to be focused on Area 51, you wouldn't have so much secrecy around it."
George Knapp•Late episode
"This is a matter of national responsibility to the citizens that employ you, the people that you represent."
Jeremy Corbell•Discussing government transparency
"You can't have secret places where the laws don't apply. You can't have a place like that where the Constitution is suspended."
George Knapp•Discussing government overreach
Full Transcript
Secrets, cover-ups, and strange phenomena. UFOs and ideas that challenge reality itself. All these mysteries, all this time. We're ever going to get to the bottom of these. My name is George Knapp. I dig into news stories that others can't or won't. I'm Jeremy Corbell, and for some reason people tell me things they probably shouldn't. And this is Weaponized. Welcome back. Yeah, it is. It is Weaponized again. Oh my gosh, backed by popular, but it's backed by unpopular demand. I thought maybe we might take a walk, a stroll down memory lane. And we're not talking about memories a millennia ago or decades ago. Something fairly recent that you and I were involved in that I think is probably about 90 percent your fault, 10 percent Joe Rogan's fault. Storm 51. Okay. Really, you want to do this right now? Okay. Storming Area 51, where conspiracy theorists think the government has aliens on ice. It appears the U.S. Air Force is taking these threats seriously. A Facebook post, an avowed fake designed to get likes, announced a plan to raid the Air Force base in Nevada, known as Area 51, which has been at the center of UFO and alien conspiracy theories for decades. More than one million people have signed up. It's been enough to spook the Air Force. Air Force officials don't want people to trespass on the base. They are worried some might be killed. Quote, any attempt to illegally access military installations or military training areas is dangerous. There has been renewed interest in UFO sightings since it was revealed earlier this year. The military has spent $22 million to research UFOs. It's not clear the 1.1 million Facebook followers who said they are going to storm Area 51 are real and not Russian bots. First of all, George Knapp. Storm Area 51 is your fault and it's Bob Lazar's fault. So I'm going to just step back and, okay, for our audience, check this out. Everybody should remember there was a big cultural event, a movement based upon the idea of storming Area 51, which is a horrible idea. And how that came into being in my understanding was that in 1989, you did an interview with Bob Lazar and told the world with Bob that there were UFOs at Area 51. But that is really why it got on the radar from my perspective and probably popular perspective that the storm thing happened. But there's a very specific story here how that occurred. So look, man, people knew that at Area 51, there was this potential, this idea that Bob Lazar might be telling the truth and there's reverse engineering and exploitation of propulsion systems of alien spacecraft. I mean, just wild, right? So what happens is, and I'm so tired today, so I'm just going to take this easy, okay? It's been a long month or so. What happened was in my perspective is that I released the film Bob Lazar, Area 51, and Flying Saucers. That was the first time, and that was the point of my film, was to allow people to see that Bob Lazar was a person that makes coffee, has dogs, and a wife, and is a human being, and they can't dehumanize somebody and dismiss what they've said. They should dismiss what they said based on the evidence of what they said. So I did the movie, which was not easy to make, and I was very happy and excited. And I remember coming to you and saying, I think I'm going to make this. I think I'm going to be able to make this movie. I need from you, because we've worked on this so much, but I need from you full attention. I need full clips. I need video. I need background. I need to find out if, I just wanted to know if Bob is telling the truth, but at this point, it was just, let's see who Bob really is. So I came to you and I have this picture, and it's in your living room. And it's all these images of scenes, like what I think, how I should lay this out. And thank you, because you were like, check it out, man. You're jumping ahead. You got to go back to the beginning so people can get caught up. So this is moving towards the Storm Mary 51 thing. Well, the seeds of Storm Mary 51 started, as you said, in 1989. We did unleash this series about UFOs, the best evidence, and the heart of that series was about Bob Lazar. His allegations, his outrageous stories, outrageous claims about what was hidden out there in the Nevada desert. And then they exploded like an atomic bomb. My fellow journalists, many of whom are still at this, picking and nitpicking and complaining about it 30-some years later, really hated it. The public ate it up. Public couldn't get enough of it. They wanted more, and I gave them more. But other reporters felt I was somehow bringing the profession into disrepute, somehow smearing their own credibility for taking this stuff seriously. I tried to approach it as just another news story. And it was an explosion. I mean, there had been one or two stories about Area 51 in the years since, but very few. I mean, KLS TV, a colleague, friend of mine, Richard Urie, had done a series about the history of the base. Bob Stodall and Ned Day had done some reporting on it and secret projects out there. But the public had no idea around the world. They had no idea that such a place existed. Once that story about Bob Lazar came out, the whole world beat a path to Area 51's door. And although, as I said, journalists gave me the worst time about it and were the most critical about it, every major news organization in the world beat a path to Area 51's door. To sit out there, to photograph and record on video cameras, whatever was flying around, to write stories, to make fun of crazy UFO people, it became world famous. A couple years later, the state of Nevada dedicated the world's only ET highway, extraterrestrial highway. The governor came out there, by the way, it was on my birthday in 1996. I thought, wow, it's a really nice birthday present. We flew in in a helicopter. They had the cast and crew, the director and producer of the movie Independence Day out there for the big ceremony. And they created the world's only extraterrestrial highway, which of course it was a big jolt to tourism out there. The little alien was born, the alien research center in Hicah was born. It was tremendous. And since then, in all the years since, tens of thousands of people have made that trek out there. Every single day you go out in the Nevada desert, there are people sitting there looking to see what's in the sky. That curiosity never went away. The interest in Bob Lazar's story waned after a while. Bob didn't want anything to do with it. The only time he'd come out and talk about it was an anniversary. And I went and twisted his arm and pulled him out of his house and made him go on camera. He would give me, because of our friendship, he'd give me an interview, but he wanted nothing to do with it. And it sort of nosedived until you came along. So I'm recalculating my math on whose fault Storm 51 is. I'll give 20% to Bob, 60% to you, and the other 20% to Joe Rogan. Okay, okay. But hold on. Whatever your math is, I'm not great at math, but we're going to recalculate this further. So you are admitting that the Storm Area 51 phenomenon, that that thing would not have occurred if you hadn't told people that there are people from within government coming out saying we're reverse engineering alien spacecraft. You admit this much that when you did that in 1989, that's when people fucking learned about it, right? It put it on the map and then it went away. Okay. And it was gone. Okay, so I'm just, okay, I'm personally curious. What did you think when I told you, I got it? Bob's agreed we're going to do it. Not a short clip, not a, because if something happened, we're going to tell this story in full feature film format, even though I'm not like a known filmmaker. He's agreed. What did you think? Well, I was initially skeptical because Bob has been so reluctant to fully commit to something like that. We've done a lot of stories over the years intermittently and he's tried to put it behind him. He is not a guy who lives off of this. He has a business and a life and a family and would like it to go away. So the idea that he would commit to opening up completely to you, I found that I'll believe it when I see it. The second part is the story is complicated. It's not simple. It's not a simple thing. I see people in social media even now who make up their minds. I believe Bob. I don't believe Bob. Here's why I believe him. Here's why I don't. And they know so little about what really has gone on, the undercurrents of the story, what it was like to be around then. I can understand people being skeptical about it. It's outrageous. It's off the charts. It's crazy. It's a lot less crazy now that people are talking about reverse engineering programs and legacy UFO programs, but back then it was right out of the blue and I could see people not believing it. But there was so much that happened that is hard to convey from back in those days, things that were going on behind the scenes, the terror that was real, the people that were following us around and messing with us and breaking into his homes and burglarizing his car and playing mind games with him and scaring the hell out of him. I mean, it was real stuff. It was really going on. So look, my aim, and there's so many funny things I could tell you about making the film, but my aim was finally after all these years, I just want people to see who he is. But it was so funny, man. I guess things had gone so wrong for you with trying to fully get his attention with this that it was like when finally I'm filming in his kitchen and he's making coffee, which I think I put that in the way I made sure to show there. Is it in there? I don't remember. Yeah, great. But it was just like this idea of just let's find out who he is. Like I wasn't making a film to go through point by point. Like is he telling truth? Just see who he is. We'll talk about all that later. I remember you're kind of skepticism. You kind of kept telling me like this other shoe is going to drop. Something's going to go wrong. He's going to get raided by, you know, you told me some crazy like something bad is going to happen. This is not going to happen for you. And I was like, just let's pretend it's going to happen. Right. Let's just keep moving. So I want to kind of thank you, first of all, because. Why I put you as a producer on there. I just want to be clear to everybody. It's not because like, you know, you're like had your hand in this movie. But people say crazy shit. It was just because I couldn't do this without you. I wouldn't make the mistakes of other people. Of course, we're working together all the time. I would never do it without, and I couldn't do it without you. So we sat down and every time I exported a clip and sometimes I was like, oh, no, this is messed up. Something's wrong here. And you're like, hold a second. Look a little deeper. We did an interview back here. Read it. Listen to it. So you ended up giving me like just so much access to things that because the Bob gave me total access, whatever you want, but he didn't know Lane Kek anymore. Lane Kek is the guy who did the hypnotic regression, hypnotic regression. Which so everybody knows, it's just so that you relax and can clear your mind and try to recall finite details. So you were like, well, I know Lane, you know, you know, he works here down at this place still, I think. So I called Lane and Lane would never let me in, except for the fact I said, I know George motherfucking now. So then he was like, okay. And boy, did he let me in. What you don't see in the film. I've never released this. Lane went through with me. His original handwritten in real time notes of what Bob was saying. And he thought Bob was saying desk. I'm in a room. There's a desk. But like Bob was saying disc and Lane had no idea why this guy wanted to remember a time of his life. So sitting back with Lane, watching and filming with him and seeing his handwritten notes and I photographed every single note on my iPhone that he had from that live session. He showed me this drawing and the thing is Bob drew it and we didn't know what it was and then he flipped it. It was a saucer. But the thing is if Bob's just kind of like drawing it. So Lane goes, oh my gosh, you did hypnosis to try to recall details from your employment and from the physics of what you learn. Is that correct? Yeah, that's correct with Lane Keck. Okay. And did you recall anything? Yeah, I did. I mean, specifics, things you might have missed. I basically wanted to try everything I could to prove what I was saying. So this is just another tool. You were familiar that hypnosis can work. Yeah. To recall. Yeah. And I had had it done to me before. So I had proven that. Yeah, this really does do something. Let's try and remember some fine details. Or you wanted to recall some physics that you learned there. Yeah, I wanted to recall as much as I possibly could. I mean, so much went through my mind. Just imagine all the things you were seeing and everyone is completely fascinating and something you haven't seen before. It's just data overload. So I was hoping that hypnosis would get me relaxed enough where maybe everything was packed so tight together, maybe I could just start thumbing through things and just pick up even a couple little more tidbits could paint a bigger picture. And I could, you know, possibly explain things better or, you know, possibly locate some of these other guys or anything, any of it information. So yeah, and it was pretty handy. So you did recall some things. Yeah, technically. Yeah, technical things and probably others too. More and more hypnosis is accepted. However, there's still a lot of misconceptions about it. Like what? Oh, they think that you go into a trance and the hypnotist does something and you don't remember it and all of a sudden your life changes. And that's not the case at all. There's no mind control happening. Take a nice, deep breath. Close your eyes and just think. Relaxation. Now just think about your head and relax your head. I don't know. That's bad. That's just really fascinating. But I think it is a shielding material. To the tips of your toes. Just relax completely. Pressure and confusion of everything. I mean, you said that could account for a lot. Oh, yes. You know, so I don't think that has anything to do with this magical weird stuff. Now we're going to count backwards from 100 to 96. Don't you relax with each other. One look at the like the lid on the reactor. Well, Tom, the lid, the actual curve basketball. Oh, what would it be? Yeah, I wonder if it's that stuff. I just like to stick to the technical stuff. And because that it fills in my picture a lot better and allows me to duplicate more things, get a better handle on stuff. What it all makes. Yeah, but I rather stick with that stuff than the spiritual stuff. No, I know that that's a big deal. But to the tips of your toes, just relax completely. Now, what I want you to do is to get as comfortable as you possibly can. Take a nice, deep breath. And just relax completely. Now double your relaxation and the number 100 will be there. One zero zero. Double your relaxation and the number 99 will come right on it. Just let all that tension disappear. Now just let your mind sweep through your whole being. Relaxing every muscle and every nerve in your body. Just relax completely. Bob, Bob, from this moment on, from this moment on, you will recall and remember the material that you seek and no one or nothing past, present, or future will stand in your way. Bob, Bob, Bob, you will remember because you desire to remember, to do remember. At one point, he was in hypnosis. I think it was drawing a reactor. He was trying to recall what was in the book. He saw it in the book and then I told him, well, you'll come up and open your eyes and you'll be able to draw. And he did, but it didn't mean anything to him. But it was a drawing that he drew this way. Oh no way. But it was this way. And so afterwards he looked at it and he came back over and sat down here for a while and oh that's because all I had to do is turn it. So that's the super conscious and literal. The subconscious takes things literal. Right. Like it's like the mind is absorbing all this stuff and then he discovers what his mind had absorbed. He's remembering. Yeah. I was writing so fast. I can't imagine what you were thinking too because you're discovering with them that kind of shock. What's the truth? Hypnosis is the best possible tool of getting to the truth. If a person makes things up normally, they can lie under hypnosis just as easily as out of hypnosis. But if they're really trying to get to and retrieve information, then it's the best tool that I know of. He came in to find out what he didn't know. We were able to go back, overcome the fear and bring forth those memories. So here's my point. Is that making this movie was really the start. If we're going to lead to who's at fault for Storm Area 51, you know, I would say that we've identified that it's your fault. We've identified that it's Bob's fault. And then we've identified that the movie sparked interest. And honestly, it was like to try to get, I'd love to tell you about Mickey Rourke and why he decided to narrate the film. But I don't think we're going to go into that today. But like, let's get to Storm. I think it was like, finally, because I knew as a fan, I wanted to know what is this guy actually like? What is he actually like? Well, that's the kind of thing that I could not do in the series that I produced about Bob, one in 1989 and then one in 1990 is, you know, I'm doing the basics. Here's where he says he went to school. Here's where the records. News. Going to Los Alamos. Was he really there? Talk to fellow employees. See if we can get some actual paper trail that proves he was there. And then the telling the basic story of him. But it wasn't really about Bob as a human being. I thought your idea of exposing him to the world about what he's really like and who he is was a brilliant idea because people who know Bob, people who know him the best, Yes. Who are closest to him are the ones that believe him the most. That's right. The people who are around him all the time. His wife, his mom. Gene Huff, Jim Tallyani, Joe, a guy we'll talk about at some other point. People have been around him a long time, but the ones that stand by him and know that he's not making this stuff up. So the idea was if you could get that, if you could show that side of Bob Lazar, that would be pretty awesome. And it turned out to be awesome. It was awesome. And you know, I did not expect that it would be, you know, picked up by Netflix. I remember the first movie was, but I felt like just like a lucky dude. It was like crazy. I'm not really, you know, established with what I'm doing yet. That's a whole other story. But I think, you know, the interesting thing here is that from my perspective is that you were so like, you thought there's no way it's going to go wrong. Bob does not want to retell. He's done. He has taken so much shit. The hook to Bob was that, look, dude, everybody's lying about you. Factually lying. So easy. They say, they put your name. They say Bob Lazar conspiracy theorists. They don't say Bob Lazar owner of United Nuclear, which is his company, right? Which he has passion for. It's, it's like Willy Wonka of science. When you're in there, which the feds were in there too, it turns out. We should talk about that. So, so because the feds rating Bob Lazar, I think created a pinpoint that helped the storm area 51 cultural movement that was going on occur. So we should get into the rate. But the main thing here is that you didn't think you thought something bad would happen that it just because he, you know, but the hook to him was everybody's lying about you. That's, I hear the lies. I know their lies. Other people don't. So either you tell your story again, word for word, your account, what happened? Or in history, it's going down is what other people say. And I, that took like a year, but you could feel it boiling. You're right. I need to tell people again, just word for word, what happened to me? Well, I mean, my predictions of doom were not entirely unfounded. I had gone to see Bob. He had moved to New Mexico after he left Las Vegas and he had a home there. It was a nice place. And it was an anniversary, maybe 20 years after the first series or something like that. And I went to go see him and he welcomed us in and he showed me around his place. He had built a, this is Bob Bazar, fake scientist had built a 30 foot long particle accelerator that went through a house in the back of his home that was producing hydrogen fuel. Okay. So hold on. So people all the time, scientists say that that's bullshit. You can't build a particle accelerator. Well, hold the fuck up. Like that's the thing. I should have him come and talk just about that. Like what he was doing was he was trying to create something very specific for a fuel cell that he was using. That's why he moved to Michigan because he got like, Well, this is before Michigan. This is in New Mexico. Right. But he ended up moving to Michigan because what he was creating, he thought the hydrogen car was going to be cool. It's going to be big. And he actually had operating hydrogen cars right there before it was like popular and all this shit before hydrogen is not the future and it's electric. But like people don't get that. Like it was there. You saw it. We you saw it function. I've talked to other scientists that help him work on that. It was to help create this specific element to I don't want to get my words weird, you know, not element 115. It was it was it was a very simple process. So we call it a part of accelerating because it was a particle accelerator. But what it was to perform a task, but it's just really cool with 30 feet tall. Yeah, it was it was right through a building and he would use that to create this high hydrogen fuel system. He had already installed this system in his two cars. Yeah, he ran a Corvette and it was two years at the point where I saw him. It had been running for two years with no gasoline. It was running on hydrogen. There's a video out there that one of his good friends who I've been in contact with a little bit, you know, kind of made this cool little YouTube video where he's showing him the cars. They're just a friend of his came by. It's on YouTube and he's showing them, you know, these hydrogen cars and people were like calling bullshit, whatever. I've seen that shit work. It's crazy. I mean, this is like, so anyway, here's the point. We get to the point where the film comes out and the world sees it on a scale that I did not anticipate. And that's truth. That's truth right there. I didn't know I spent fucking nine years trying to do it, you know, all this. And then I dumped all my own money into this. I had no idea that Netflix was going to pick it up. They picked up my first film, but you can't get guaranteed. So I was like, I need to do like one interview. So I got a few friends that could amplify this shit, but I didn't hear back from them. Right. So one interview was all I Bob promised me he'd do one interview, like, you know, on camera. So we got asked by Larry King. And that was such a cool interview because of Larry King's history with Area 51 and covering your stories. You did this big thing out there, right? So there I am. I go into Bob Larry King and Bob does not want to do this, but he's doing it for me. Like his wife, Joy, was like, you know, you could tell that he didn't want to do it, but he's doing it for me. And I'm so grateful because I want to get the movie out. I wanted people to see it. I made the fucking movie. Why does the government hide this? Well, so we all believe most people believe in extraterrestrials. Right. Most people. So what are they afraid of? We're living in a different world now since December of 2017 with Commander David Fravor, the Tic Tac UFO case, which I broke before the New York Times. I've reported on that twice. That case opened the door. So we now know the government did not stop studying UFOs in 1969. There's a program called ATIP. That program is now acknowledged. So what are what are they afraid of? I think they're afraid of weaponization. I think that's the issue here. And also you're right. We're not we're not alone in the universe. Well, I always said it's why don't they just release information that these events occurred and they can keep the technology secret. That I've never understood. So I'm with you on that. Why are they afraid of you? What are you going to tell us? Just what I did. The existence of the project. All right. Why? Why are they so afraid of that? Why? I don't you have to ask them that. Hey there weaponized listeners. 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He doesn't want to do it, man. And I wish I could. I can't do it. I just remember him being like, will you just ask him? And I was like, yeah, yeah, I can totally ask him. But I knew Bob wouldn't really understand that somebody that we don't know, you know, Joe's just going to attack him or whatever, like everybody else. You know, why would Bob want to do it? So I called Bob before we went to Michigan together, right? To seal the deal, you know, to try to get him. I was like, Bob, there's this guy named Joe Rogan. He's fucking awesome, dude. And I don't know what he wants to talk to you about, but he wants to talk to you about your experiences. Didn't Bob ask you, Joe Rogan, is he a disc jockey? He did. He did. He did. Oh my God, Bob does not. He did not know anything about like the outside kind of public publicity, you know, just kind of like the bigger world outside of his, you know, science that he loves. He did ask me that. So I had to translate. No. Well, Joe's a friend and he's a straightforward person and he's got a very direct way of kind of getting into things. And I was like, so disc jockey, I don't even know what that means, but no, he does a podcast and he is, you know, he's a comedian, you know, so we'll have some laughs. But, you know, it's a big platform. And I just think like, if we were to do anything, like if you really, really want to let people hear what happened to you, your experiences, no matter, you know, if he, like everybody else has trashed you up to here, you know, even if he does that, you'll at least be heard, you know. So he didn't really get it. And he's like, no. So then we're like, okay. So you and I decided we're going to go to Michigan anyway, by the way, because we wanted to just see Bob. There's a movie that's out about him, you know, like, let's just talk with him and hang out. We wanted to have a beer and just fucking hang out with Bob because it was just so much running and gunning, right? Which by the way, my movie, like I made, like it was like, I would have canceled it up to that second if it wasn't accurate and true in the eyes of the person that I am portraying. That's the promise you made to Lazar. That is the promise I made to Bob, which is that. That made me. I did make it to you too. Yeah, I did. And I got chills, man. So here's the deal. I would have killed the phone because when you let somebody into your private life and make it public on a Netflix documentary that ended up being wildly successful, you open yourself up personally and everybody's past that. Like Bob's past that. You're past that. I don't want problems in my life. We have good lives. But I was, I would have nuked the movie. So you and I went out to have a beer and just kind of hang out with the fam and the dogs and all this. But you're like, Bob, you really won't do this Joe Rogan thing. You're like, I think it might, it doesn't matter. If everybody hates you, whatever, it doesn't matter if they're going to come at you. Just say your piece. And he's so hesitant. And we go into one of his rooms and I remember calling Joe and being like, okay, here's Bob, you convince him because I've done my best. I took a photo of the call. You did. Three of us are on the phone. We're talking with Rogan and in the back there's a poster. I think John Lear is in the poster. It's you, John Lear and Bob Lazar that's an artist. I don't remember. I'll try to find that and put that out. But it's an artist that made this really cool 80s style poster of the three of you. But it was a cool phone call. Joe is, you know, he's a good dude and he's very persuasive and he knows how to sort of gently twist somebody's arm without making them intimidated. And it was a very persuasive call that ended up with a yes. Nobody could have got Bob Lazar on another broadcast, a visual film broadcast. Nobody on planet earth but Joe. Because just the way that he said, look, I just want to know. I just want to know. This is not about fucking trying to annihilate you. I just want to hear what you have to say. And that's what I really respected about it. And I think that's what, because he doesn't know who he is. Like Bob is so in his field of business and science and United Nuclear. But I remember that phone call and I remember afterwards he's like, I'll think about it. And he said, I'll think about it. And you and I know when Bob says that it's like he will think about it. So I don't remember when he said yes, but I remember calling Joe and being like, dude, let's fucking do it. You know, it's like a dad is so cool, man. Had you seen the film by that point, by the time he made that call? I can't remember. Joe had seen the film, I believe, by that time in the call because it had been out on iTunes. So he saw it. He saw it. So you'll recall, you know, there have been some interviews and programs that he has done where he's pretty harsh on UFOs. Yeah. Pretty harsh, too. He went through a big period and rightfully so. You and I have been through that. So there was a show, Joe Rogan questions everything. And I remember that time because we met up one time at this motion capture studio when he was filming that show. The thing was, was that a lot of the people that were coming at, they're crazy. You know that a lot of the UFO people are just fucking crazy. So if I was him, I would have had the same experience. I would have been like, this is bullshit, everything. So there was definitely a phase, I think, and Dave Foley, who's all of our common friend, he talks about that. Like the Joe was interested in UFOs. I mean, Joe will speak for himself on this. He does all the time. But like, but Dave Foley said then he was like, not into it because the show kind of just, this is fucking crazy. And you and I can relate to that. It's just sometimes it's so crazy. You're like, I want nothing to do with this. Everybody's insane. But I remember Dave Foley saying, he called up Joe and being like, you'd be very happy to know I am into UFOs again. And I think Joe was something like that bullshit. I don't know. It was something like that. But I think he watched the documentary and he did say to me a couple of times, I think on air to, it's your fault, Jeremy. I think he started an episode like that. I go, what, what, what, what specifically is my fault? And he's like, give me back into UFOs. I go, no, wasn't that Dave Foley the guy you back into UFOs? Because no, it was your movie. So I was like, okay. So I think he had watched it. And I think that he thought, I would love for him to speak for himself. But I think that he thought, hey, let's just hear what Bob has to say. Right. Because everybody knows Bob's story. From when you reported, everybody knows it. So like me, like everybody else on planet earth, I'd like to hear it. So it was just a rough road. And so Bob decided he would do the Joe Rogan experience. So we, you know, we went, we ended up, ended up going there. Right. So I was like, I just basically said, Bob, get on a plane. Let's go. I'll make it easy for you. You know, and then what happens is, oh, this is fun. So, so he gets, I don't even want to get in all this. So he gets, I have a migraine right now, just for sure. Everybody knows it's horrible. So Bob like gets a migraine right before the thing. Cause he's probably, well, first of all, I fed a McDonald's and joy. His wife was so mad at me that like, I fed him like horrible food right before the thing. Cause it causes migraines, whatever. So everybody was like, oh, he got a migraine on that chip. Hold on. Did he not answer every question? Like migraine or not? And he had a fucking migraine. Did he answer every question? Yeah, he did. So people that don't want to believe him will never believe him. And you and I were show over it. Like believe him, not believe him. I don't care. I know Bob is telling the truth. I don't, I don't think. Yeah. I passed that bar a long time ago. Yeah. You know, I don't care what people think anymore. Decide, don't decide. I don't care. Easy way to say it. Right there. I'm with you. Don't care. But look, man, I didn't know like, you know, how this thing was going to go. But what happened was it fucking blew up. I mean, it like the powerful Joe Rogan. I mean, he looked at me after the thing and he was all, don't read social media. And I'm like, why? And I'm thinking to myself, what did I say? You know what I mean? But it was just like, I think he was just a friend being like, other people's opinions don't matter. They should be focused on the information. He knew it was going to be a big show though, right? Yeah. Yeah. I think that he knew how rare it was for, I think he saw how hard I fought to get Bob on there. I know he did. I know he saw that. And so I think he knew that like it was a special moment where we could like look and see if it's bullshit or not. If we could look at it together, if he could look at it, that's what everybody wants. You have to meet somebody. And something you said here, come in with me here. I want to, something you said to me was that the people closest to Bob believe him the most. Now, that is so important, but what do you mean by that? Well, I mean, the people that spend the most time with them, the people who know him as a person, people that know he doesn't make stuff up, that's as Gene Huff is off his head. Bob does not care about the outside world enough to where he'd make up some big elaborate lie. It just doesn't care. He lives in Bob world. He does experiments. He builds things in his lab. He loves that kind of focusing on that part of his life and he does not care. He didn't know who Joe Rogan was. He doesn't watch television. Right. But you telling me that, I think it's so true and I think that you and I know that. And I kind of want people to at least hear it, which is that you and I, people have tried to lie to us many, many, actually on a daily basis, many, many times about UFO stuff, trying to entice us. When you find somebody like that, it's not like they have this perfect record of their life of being almost to a fault because of what Bob experienced, a truthful, honest, straightforward, precise with his words person. He became that a lot because of the damage that was caused by the people coming at him. But when we get people that come at us with bullshit, the closer you get to their inner circles, the more you hear that there are con artists that it's bullshit. So the important point that you made that I want to drive home is that the closer you get someone who's an honest person, the people closest to them will tell you that. His friends, I have interviews with just people that have known him for 20 years, 30 years. I've interviewed people that know him five years. Calm and thread. He's honest to a fault. So my math now is that it's 25% Bob Lazar's fault, 25% yours, maybe 30% Joe and 10% Dave Foley. Is that what you're thinking? You are completely bad at math and that's okay. We're going to have a calculation on Twitter where we ask who's at fault. So come full circle back to Storm 51. The film is a big hit. It starts a big dialogue. Joe blasts it out to the universe and it gets people talking about it. And suddenly this guy starts a meme on Facebook with a crazy idea. That's right. So I got these a barrage of texts that morning. Oh, shit, dude. Look what happened. And I'm like, what happened? And all of a sudden there's millions of people saying storm area 51. And some kid just threw that up. And the thing was it got so big, so quick. So first of all, I want to find out what happened. How did this happen? No one's storming area 51. You and I are not about breaching that kind of battery. We've talked about that a lot. What is going on? This is a cultural phenomenon. Now that phenomenon couldn't have started if there wasn't these precursors, but I'm like, what is going on? So I found the kid in Bakersfield, right? And I was able to obtain his cell phone number. So I just, I called it and then I texted it and I said, this is Jeremy Corbell. Can you please answer me? There have been no interviews, no nothing. Probably the smartest thing that kid did compared to other things that he did, which was call me back. So he had ghosted every major news outlet. When I texted him, this is Jeremy Corbell. I think I did a video, right? So like, hey, hey, hey, I'm not, you know, a fake number calls me back. I was like, why did you do this? And he's like, well, I know, I, this is cool, right? I mean, it's neat. I watched your movie, Bob Bizarre, everyone to one fly. So then I saw, you know, the podcast with, with, with Joe Rogan and Bob Bizarre and you and, man, I just thought it was funny, you know, I just thought it was funny, like Storm Air 51. I'm like, okay, there might be some blowback. I remember saying that, right? So next thing I know within this 24 hour period where I'm just like, oh, that's cool, man. Listen, let's not get people to storm Air 51. And instead, why don't you come on with me and I'll put up a little YouTube thing where we talk about it, where we're just trying to have fun and not storm a base. I don't think he understood the gravity of what had happened. Next thing I know, he's calling me from a bathroom and he's like, the FBI are going to my mom and they're looking for me. I'm working in a vape shop and I don't know what to do. And I'm like, okay, I know what to do. We're going to call the G-man. I called you up and I was like, look, I don't know what this is about. I'm not involved, but this is a big meme. And this kid has the FBI talking to his mom knocking on his home door, but he's at work right now. What does he do? And you're like, I've got a lawyer and he needs to have representation from the beginning. Two, you should, because I have some contacts that I can call within federal agencies, you should call and so do you, but you're like, I'll do that. You do this call and try to get that sorted. So I got the kid on the phone. I called central FBI. Then we routed directly to the office in Bakersfield where the people looking for him would be. And I on the phone with him, talk with the, it wasn't quite the agents that came in, but it was the people that knew they were TASA. And my question was this, is this real? Are they real federal agents? Can you confirm to me that so-and-so's name is a real federal agent? That's what you and I do every time. People always tell us they're FBI. Okay, well, that's fine now, right? Happens all the time. So I confirm through central line that they are. Okay. Whatever they want to talk about to my friend who's on the line right now, and they had heard about the movie, they had heard about the Joe Rogan podcast. This is the FBI. They had heard about the storm meme, obviously, and sent agents out. So there we are. You got the lawyer on deck ready to go. Turns out they just wanted to make sure the guy wasn't like serious or whatever, that it wasn't, he wasn't some extremist, you know, some terrorist domestic extremist group. And clearly the guy wasn't. So he had, the kid ended up talking to him at home. We didn't have to call him the big dogs is the point. So everything's fine. However, I'm like, George, this is so cool. Let's go out there. That'll be fun. And you're like, hold the fuck up. You're like, I'm a news reporter and I'm going to cover it. But if you want to be part of it, you shouldn't be planning nothing. I have their people out there that have businesses and they should do their own things. So explain the difference between the alien. What is that? What is the alien research center out there? And why we decided to kind of go to George's event, your buddy. Let's get out of control really fast. Suddenly you have something like two million people on Facebook saying, yes, we'll be there for an event September 20 out there in the desert around Area 51. And there are boasts being made of people saying, let's see them aliens, they can't stop all of us, we'll go across the line and storm the base and and kick in the doors and go see where the flying saucers are, which is absolutely preposterous. Over the years over the decades, I've had all kinds of people come to me and say, I want to sneak into Area 51. What's the best way I can go? Or let's all get a bunch of let's get 25 RVs and all drive across the border at the same time. They can't stop us. And my advice has always been yes, they can. Yes, they can. Yes, they can. Don't do it. It's a bad idea. I mean, there are legitimate national security programs that go on out there. It is a a jewel in our national security system. It's a very important facility even now. Don't mess with it. Yeah, we need it. We need it. This is this is part of what we need. So you're you're kind of laying it out for me because I'm kind of like sleep deprived. I'm watching a movie and you're like, hold up. So what is what is the Rachel Bar and Grill now named after Bob Lazar's event series with you explain what that is, explain what George's thing is. So Little Town of Rachel is pretty close to one of the entrances to Area 51. And in 1989, before we unleashed UFOs, the best evidence, the little business, the main business in town was called the Rachel Bar and Grill. Joe and Pat Travis ran it. There'd be cowboys in there, occasional people from Area 51, and then travelers on that highway who would need to stop for gas or food or something like that. It was the only business there. After that series aired, everything changed. It became the Little Alien. They changed the name of it. Suddenly they had tourists showing up, UFO hunters, they added rooms, they added trailers, they became a little motel there. Travel number of travelers increased greatly. They realized this is a way we can hang on. This business can survive out here. The mountains appear to float on dry lakebeds like spaceships from another world. They seem to ride on a viscous material channeled through empty space by heat that rises and separates. It vitrifies everything it contacts, like a green glass honey. A goddamn psychedelic liquid drowning the emptiness with imaginations This desert is pocked and punctuated by a thousand gaping holes created in a thousand atomic blasts that define an era. What are they building in the desert north of Las Vegas? What are they hiding? What are they hiding? Fuck are they hiding? I have actually watched the craft do maneuvers one night for about 20 minutes. Even today, ever seen anything that could really move as fast as possible. Don't open the door because then the bugs come in. Well get a few more goodies. My name is Pat Travis. I own the Little Alien in beautiful downtown Rachel, Nevada. The Little Alien started in 1988, actually in 1990, but my late husband and I have owned the Little Alien since 1988. We were newcomers to Rachel. Well, just after that the UFO activity started and it was like a gift that was put in our hands and we needed something for us. We had added a couple of motel rooms. So here we are with more and better now. Next time stay the night. Are we ready to roll again? We had tour groups earlier today and it's just you go in, you do what you have to do and then come out and mingle with everybody. That's what life's all about. This isn't work. This is fun. There are people that come here from every country in the world. And if you look at all the dollar bills that are signed on our ceiling, you'll see so many different countries. Every state in the United States people have been here from and it's awesome. This is really where things started, you know, and it's been something that keeps going on. The one question that everybody asks is how do I get to area 51? It just goes without saying. So we give them, we have a little map, we teach them directions and let them go. And we've had some that don't like to listen to us. You've got to pay attention. It is a high secure area. Every country in the world has this type, but ours is really well known. The world's best known secret base because of Bob Lazar. That's it. And when there are secrets, everybody wants to know a little bit about that secret. You know, when Bob Lazar and George Knapp, John Lear, Jean Huck, it was just a whole group that would continue to go. And it was all something that was brought here and given to us. And a lot of articles were written because of so many different sightings of so many different things that it's like a snowball and there's no end to this. People come here from around the world to talk about sightings. Do I believe all of them? Probably not, but there are many of them I do because when you talk to somebody, you know whether they're really projecting something or if it's kind of just a story. Do you believe Bob Lazar? Oh, without a doubt. If a man is going to tell a lie about something, it changes because you don't remember all those things. If you tell the truth about something, it always stays the same. Can I prove it? 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There's some ranches there about a guy named George Harris, Las Vegas businessman, created something called the Alien Research Center. It's a big gift shop. It's shaped like a big quonset hut. It's got a giant 50-foot tall alien robot that looks like Gort from the day the Earth stood still and he's making a go of it. And those two businesses, although they're rivals, they also get along a lot. So I think the guy from Facebook who had kicked this thing off made an agreement with a little alien, let's have an actual event. Let's have some people show up. Maybe we'll make some money and have some fun out there. And George Harris, the guy who owned the other place, saw some potential there too. But the overall concern that we had, it got serious real quick. It got serious really fast. If they're talking about two million people, no one really ever believed that that many would show up. But let's say you had 20,000 people show up. There's no bathrooms. There's no food. There's no restaurants out there to speak of. There's no porta-potties. There's no toilet paper, no water. The possibility for people getting out there, getting into trouble, getting lost, having their cars break down, dying out in the desert somewhere, a lot of things could go wrong. It's very real. Just that these big concerts people have. You have those problems even with those facilities. But there is nothing out there. And again, nobody thought two million people were coming. But all of a sudden, the Department of Defense, the DOD, they made an official statement that they later retracted. This is what happens to people in Stormwater 51. And it's like a bomber. And they ended up taking it off. But also, we got calls. And people were like, what's the intent here? We got nothing to do with this. What the fuck? You were like, this could go really bad. And I was trying to understand that. What did you mean? We broadcast stories that we felt were responsible as a warning to people who were unfamiliar with the area. Look, this is a really bad idea. If there's going to be that many people show up out there, it could be dangerous and troublesome in a whole bunch of different ways. So if you're going to come out there for this event, be prepared. And be prepared to be self-sufficient. And you should know where you can go and where you can't. And by God, by no means should you ever consider going across the border, the line, into Area 51. It's a bad idea. It's illegal. You could go to prison or you could get shot. That's right. And there are mechanisms in place that were amplified to such a high degree on that day. So I remember telling the kid, hey, man, let's do don't storm Area 51. Do an interview with me called don't storm Area 51. And let's try to at least divert a little bit of the negative. Look, what I was told by certain agencies is that there could be domestic terrorism groups that come in to utilize the event itself to do something bad when you guys are just doing something good. Now, we can't stop it. It's already happening. So they're like, I think, you know, what I told them, I was like, you know, I'm going to basically be there because I can't not be there. I want to make sure that we provide something fun. I want to be part of George Harris's event. And, you know, it can't be without the idea of the movie and being out there. So at that point, I was like, okay, I can't organize it. I can't be a part of it in that way. But what I can do is, you know, try to bring things that and you very smartly, you're like, if you focus your energy at George Harris's, you are miles from the gate and things like that. And we could actually have fun. It's his place. He owns everything. So I called them up with you and we were like, okay, look, Jeremy wants to try to provide some things, take it or leave it. Here you go. I did ask him, I said, just let me film in your compound. Let me be the only person that films in your compound because I'm going to bring a bunch of this is part of a developing story. So I thought that's like a documentary or whatever this is born from. You and Bob, making the film, Joe Rogan blowing everything up, and then this kid making the meme. Right. So he says, yeah, that sounds great. Who do you have? Because we don't, we need some help. Like, do you have like a musician or something? And I'm like, yeah, yeah, I got one. Okay, no problem. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know anybody. So funny story. I've never told it, but I called a friend of mine who he's just really wealthy. I just thought wealthy people, they might know somebody that knows a famous musician, right? But I'm musically stunted. My wife will constantly, you know, you've been giving me a musical education starting with the Beatles for the last seven years. I mean, it's like, I'm musically stunted. If it sounds good, it's good music. So I didn't know the name, but he goes, Oh, yeah, yeah, no problem. I got somebody that I'll put you in touch with his name is Paul. Okay, cool. You know, I'm like, we're like seven days out at this point. And I'm like, okay, cool. Big musical talent, Jeremy. I'm like, okay, great. No plays stadiums, Jeremy. I'm like, okay, great. I'm like, I don't know anything. I just need somebody because I wanted it to be fun. I wanted to attract people over there. So all of a sudden I get a call and it's, Hey, Jeremy, this is Paul. And I'm like, Hey, Paul, what's up? My name is Jeremy Corbin. I've got an event in seven days. I'm not running it, but I really want to support it. And here's the deal. Like we really need a musical person. I hear that you are very famous in your field. I don't know your music. I really apologize. I don't listen to music very much. And we can't pay you. Oh yeah. And by the way, we can't pay you, right? We can't pay you by the way. So he goes, Yeah, darling, I got you. This is sounds really exciting. I'm really excited about what you're doing. I'm like, cool. So what do I write down? He goes, Paul open fold. I'm like, okay, how do you spell it? Paul open fold. So I get back and I tell the people at the alien research center, Paul open fold has agreed to come out into the middle of a desert where there is a potential riot occurring, right to storm a military base and just play some music. Is that good? Can we do that? I hear he's popular. Oh my gosh, apparently this guy is one of the OGs in music. He plays stadiums. He's super famous for this. I can't believe he said yes. It must have been a good pitch. So anyway, the guy was a sweetheart. I remember telling our buddy Robbie Williams, Hey man, because we asked him first, we called him to try to see. He was on tour or doing something. And he goes, Oh, you got an OG. And I'm like, an OG, you know what I mean? Robbie says that, that obviously he's an OG. So now I kind of get it. I think, which is that, to have this guy, Paul open fold come out and play to, for no money in the middle of the desert, in an act of conflict zone, we'll put it that way, right? It was amazing. And it was just so cool. He did it. So Paul, I never talked to you, but once since then, thank you for playing to like 150 people and just crushing it. Because that was like, yeah, it was so gracious and so good natured about the whole thing. Did not face him one bit that it was too such a small crowd, put on a tremendous show as if that he was playing to 50,000 people. And it was, it was an amazing aspect of the whole weekend. You know, there was somebody else who came, who wrote a very detailed article based on what happened out there. Oh yeah, right. Writer from Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone, Stephen Roderick. Stephen Roderick, talented writer. Yeah. Has done some really big pieces for Rolling Stone. We were kind of thrilled that he was coming, that he was going to cover it. And he focused a lot on you. And, you know, we were all looking forward to what that piece would be for months after the event until it finally came out. What did you think after it came out? Well, okay, let me back up just one second. So I didn't know anything. I just got somebody called me and said, Hey, and I don't remember who called me. They're like, Rolling Stone wants to talk to you real quick. And I thought, okay, they want a quote about Storm. So I was like, they're called real quick. Stephen calls me and I'm thinking, I go, okay, you know, what do you want to know about? I'll give you a quote. And he goes, Oh, no, no, he goes, Hey, man, you know, is there like, is there like, are there like bathrooms out there? And I'm like, yeah, yeah, I think they're going to put bathrooms out there. Okay. So like in my SUV, in my car, is there a place I can pitch a tent? I go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold up. Are you coming to Storm? Eric is doing it goes, they didn't tell you. I go, tell me what? And he goes, I would like to follow you through this whole experience during it and after it and write a story. And I was like, what are you talking about? He's like, this is like hardcore. He goes, he has to introduce himself. He goes, I am a staff writer for Rolling Stone. My name is Stephen Roderick. I've written some big articles. You might have heard of them. And I didn't know. And I go back to look, it turns out he wrote that famous smash piece on Johnny Depp. Yeah, brutal. Brutal. We're just destroys Johnny Depp. So now I'm thinking after I look at that, what is this guy going to do? Like, is it going to be like every other parachute journalist on planet earth that jumps into the UFO topic that knows nothing about it and doesn't realize how serious it's getting and do some smash piece? Like, fuck no. And then I thought, you know what? If he agrees to stay in my RV, then he's really in. Then he's really in. So, so ended up calling him back, I think, just after I was like, here's the deal. Yeah, come cover the event. You want to stay in my RV? He's like, awesome. I was going to pitch a tent. And I'm like, awesome. Okay. So just to kind of back you up from what you said, what did I think about the article? What I thought was this is a hyper talented writer. And I liked him. He's like a good guy. And I was baffled at the fact that he wanted to follow us through the experience and then do something more like come to my house later. So I'm so it's like, it feels good. You're like, Oh, shit, you know, you got the rolling stone falling you felt rock and roll. But I was like, what is this guy up to? Is he really going to do a good article? It takes a seriously, I don't want to contribute to bullshit. I remember when I met him, I walked into your RV, and you and he are there, a couple of other people and it got silent, like, I just walked into a church or something. And then we the conversation started up again, and it got comfortable. And it was fun. And then Paul Okenfold came in, and then it got kind of rock us. And it was even more fun. It was a great little moment there. It was, I have footage of that. So so I was able to have my buddy, the same guy that flew from Mexico the first time. And just without knowing what he was doing, came and filmed with us for the first time on camera, Jay Stratton, right? Same dude, Niles Harrison, Niles Harrison, my mentor in cinematography, who knows that I don't even know how to focus aperture, but has helped me in all this stuff. And then Dave Foley was there too. And Dave Foley was there. But my point is we have the only footage of this, but we have footage of this. So in that RV that you're talking about, Dave Foley, Paul Okenfold, for the first time I've been meeting Steven Roderick, you, me, some other reporters, it was, it was, it was so crazy. And I want to show everybody that footage real quick so they can just see a moment of it. And you'll be pleased to know I've become obsessed with UFOs lately. At some level of empathetic toward, toward the issue. Good luck. How's my hair? Yeah, no, it's good. It's mine. You only need hours though. Thanks guys. Thank you. I was also impressed that Dave Foley came out because I think at that point we had never hung out in person. So I remember we had talked so much on that we had videoed, whatever, but I was like, Foley look come hang out with me and George in the desert. It might be a devastating riot, but, and there might be a ton of agencies and there'll be a rest and, and, but you can stay in my RV too. I got a couch in there. You know, someone's not using, there's a couple bunks. And he's like, I'm in. I go, what? He goes, I'm in. I'm like, that's when I knew I loved Dave Foley. Yeah. What a great guy. That was the first time I ever got to meet him. And you know, that friendship that you guys have and me to a lesser degree, that'll be forever. That was the first day that we really got to hang in physical capacity. It was just so cool, man. So finally, we're going to tell Dave the real plan. We're storming the gate of Eric 51 and Dave's leaving the charge. This was not bullshit. I kept saying this is so far it's bullshit. I figure we bring a comedian, you'll laugh them out of us, arresting us. They're not going to stop a celebrity. Right, right, right. Especially a funny one. A mid-level celebrity. He's been off TV for 20 years. Hey, well, look, in the nineties, you might have gotten a pass, but you better start working because you got to laugh us out of this man. Yeah. I mean, most people involved with military police are huge kids in the all fans because most of them are closet homosexuals. Well, that's the exact reason why we're bringing you, man. You can relate to them. Was your first time here? I've been before. It's my first time here. Yeah. That's your first time. I have not been to this gate before. The other gates. So what goes through your head just looking out at this great expense behind you? How cuddly Dave Foley is. Bob Lesar, Eric 51 and Life Saucers. So in my eyes, it's just this kind of neat thing where there's so much excitement about UFO. So let's now let's get to just this part, right? I just, I just thought this can be a good thing. Let's not let it be a bad thing. So we tried it. I tried to create that environment. I know you were just covering it as a news reporter, but we were worried and there was a massive federal and law enforcement presence. But what I realized was it was the craziest shit ever. You'd go up to the gate compared to every other time we've gone. When you're being surveilled, they don't let you see anybody. But the car last time we went up to Eric 51, they followed us. Me, you and Ernie Klein. Ernie Klein's the writer who wrote Ready Player One, which the Steven Spielberg movie is after. This is George's friend for those of you that don't know. And he's a good dude. We like Ernie. And we took him out to Eric 51 and the cars would, they followed us back last time just to kind of say, we see you guys. I mean, the security in Eric 51 is always pretty strong. You just don't always see it. There's cameras that ring many of the central access points. And there are personnel that will, camo dudes, they call them, that would sit up there in a Bronco on the hill when you get close to the gate. They have sensor systems on the roads to let you know that they're there. But this time for this event, it was way over the top. I mean, they were prepared for the worst of the worst. If in actuality, the two million people showed up and wanted to storm the base, they were ready for it. In between Heiko and Rachel on the highway, they had created this law enforcement camp. They had heavy equipment and armored personnel carriers and I don't know how many law enforcement from every agency in Nevada, state, federal, and then extra military folks inside the base, just in case things get out of control. Okay, let's go into things that have really gone wrong out there in a second. I want to go into things that really got wrong from the sensors that were dug up all the way to our buddy, York, right? But before that, my perspective was different, George. Like when I went up to the gate, now I know, because you and I actually have knowledge of the inside the gate, there were extra measures put up. But it, to me, they did such a great job. On site, it was like, Oh yeah, come up to the gate, take photo, you'll never see that again, never in your life. And in fact, some of the both federal and state individuals, they were like, Oh, hey, let's let's take a photo. I'm like, can I post that on social? They're like, Okay, I never, I never did. But they're like, it was so cool. It was like a PR thing. They're like, Come on up, everything's cool. USA Day, we're good. And honestly, everybody felt like that. Like, I'm, I know that there's those people watching in the crowds that you recognize some of them. You know, I know and you talked with them, I know that. But from the public standpoint, it felt like, Hey, okay, we're here. And we're going to shake your hand. Just don't cross the gate. That was the only thing. Well, I know people have written that it was a disaster. It was a terrible disappointment because 2 million people didn't show up. It was a great fun, great time. People that went out there had a great time. The crowd was a lot smaller at the HIKO part of it than anybody expected. But it was still a great, great fun. And then there were thousands of people who were over on the Rachel side of it, who were camped in the desert. I think they had a great time too. They're wearing goofy alien costumes. I think the larger message is that, that it touched the pulse of the public that event. I mean, there was an indication that the people really are, although they were there to have fun. They're also there because they're interested in this, that they want transparency. They want to know what's going on on the UFO issue. And if it's out there, Larry 51, which I seriously doubt anymore, then it's time for somebody to fess up about it. Yeah. And, you know, but here's the deal is like it was this kind of cool. But I did notice I want to really clearly state every single article that wrote about it, even though it wasn't as big as like, you know, the 2 million people and all that stuff, they diminished the number of people. Like I was there. I have the footage. There were thousands and thousands of people. I don't fully understand why publications would intentionally try to diminish the amount of people that came to attend, because there was a lot more that I actually thought there was going to be. And maybe I'm being naive, but independently, all these publications were like, ah, there was barely anybody there. Fucking not true. Not true at all. And that's in some of the footage. So why do why do you think it comes with a territory for this topic that journalists have been so used to diminishing it and dismissing it and and having derogatory comments about it. It goes with the territory. So Stephen Roderick's Rolling Stone article about UFOs, I think it's like loving the alien. I don't remember the title was something like that. What did I think about it? That's what you asked me where I got all fired up. So what I thought about it was, was that it was really cool that somebody of his stature would come in and spend the time, a deep dive into the UFO thing starting from zero to like what's going on in the media at that time. But he used me in that article, and I think he would admit it because it's true, is that he used me in that article as a vehicle, as almost a comedic, jester like vehicle where you should doubt everything I say because I do things like theatrically open my freezer. Now I open my freezer every fucking day and it's never theatrical. But if you want to say that, you can say that because maybe that's the way you see it. Or maybe he's just saying I got a charm and personality, I'll take it that way. But my takeaway to be honest with you, to be honest with everybody, is that it was an excellent article to be covered on this topic and it was fun to read. Like I had so much fun reading it. But I was used as a vehicle to try to say, hey, I went and did mushrooms with this guy or something like that. But I think the end note is that I'm really grateful. So Stephen, if you're listening to this buddy, I love you. I asked you before you went public with this on a Twitter, public Twitter, I said friend or subject. Like am I a friend or a subject? And he wrote back friend. And I hope that's true. And I think he could do a lot for this subject if he just spent his mental energy on it because we need voices like his. So the article was great. I just didn't like the fact that everything I said that was fact was portrayed as like a maybe about my own personal life. So right when it was going public, I went to the editor and gave them every piece of proof they need to say what I was saying was true. Whether I opened the fridge theatrically or not in his eyes. Right. So anyway, that's what I think about it. I really hope other massive journalists like him focus long form on this because man, you got to get in it. Well, he is a great writer and the article was it's a long piece and it was really well written. Some great stuff in there, funny observations. And he treated me pretty well. He called me, I think, the John the Baptist of the UFO movement or something like that, which I didn't understand. You know, so he treated me well. I have no complaint about it. The complaint I have is that and I called them after after it came out. I just said, I just thought you missed a great opportunity. There's some funny stuff in there. And I know he doesn't want to be the Hunter S. Thompson, the new Hunter S. Thompson, even though he writes for Rolling Stone and the style was very similar to it. And and he sort of embraced the whole environment, the event in ways that Hunter Thompson might came to my house and saw my wife, which is called the Yeti because no one sees her on mushrooms. I mean, it's like he did embrace it. We listen to music all night. But if you ask him about Hunter S. Thompson, he says, no, no, I'm not Hunter S. Thompson. Hunter S. Thompson made stuff up. I'm not him. The style, the writing style was similar. And it's a great article. And he did do some work. He went and met Lou Elizondo. He talked to Tom DeLong. He did some work beyond the event itself to have some context. But he missed a great opportunity. That's what I told him is that he starts the article early in by talking to Seth Shostak, this astronomer who works with the SETI program. And Seth explains that really these misguided UFO people, they're looking for some meaning in their life. And many of them who moved away from religion or Jesus and Santa Claus. And so they they need this to fill that gap, which is just preposterous. It's just not true that same argument has been made by journalists, lazy journalists for 75 years. And it's not true. People are interested in UFOs because they see them, because their government sees them, because there are our fighter pilots and ships and radar operators see them. They're interested in it because it's a genuine mystery, not because they don't want to believe in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny or Jesus. That kind of comment by somebody who's supposed to be a scientifically minded person tells more about that person than it does the UFO mystery. So I love it when people say shit like that, because then the public can see someone like this guy you're talking about whatever his name is, he he like, freaking tells the public who he is. That's his pain right there. That's his weirdness, because it's not fucking true. Seth Stostak is has worked for 25, 30 years with SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. They believe that there's life out there. And that we should look for it by using telescopes to find evidence. But they sure as hell don't want to say that there's any evidence of life being here, ET life coming here or non human intelligence being here, because that puts them out of work. If there's evidence that something is visiting us here, you don't really need telescopes to look way way out there. I mean, that just seems to me like a form of hubris as a science. If I was a scientist, how could I discount some some society more intelligent and more advanced technologically than me? And that just feels like beyond hubris. That feels like, dude, maybe that guy got abducted. Well, it'd be interesting to see what evidence SETI has come up with, that there's life out there, that there's intelligent life on other planets, because in the, I think it's probably more than 30 years that's existed, they've got squat. Okay. So I want to now get back towards how this storm thing happened. But first I want to say, look, I have been really like at this thing, which by the way, went off great. There were some weird things like I was approached by a group of clearly menacing individuals who appeared to me to be from an agency that were trying to see if I would say or provoke me into creating a riot, like as if when I got on stage that night with the microphone, that I would have incited people. They came at me, it was so fucking, you know, when that you get that feeling in your gut and you're like, oh, this is dangerous. So I came and right and told you right away and I got them booted from the place. They had built the campfire, got them booted. They were there and they told me for the violence. That's what they said. Now, I think these guys were plants because the way that they were, I've seen it every day of my life, you know, people that work in these capacities. But I am just publicly stating for the first time, I was approached by three men who told me their goal was to incite violence and they were trying to enroll me in that and it creeped the shit out of me. And I came and told you immediately, you told George and they were evacuated from the location. That freaked me out. And then you also in the audience, when Oak and Fold was playing and everybody was dancing with like laser beams, right? I have cool photos and video from that. You said to me that there were people in the audience that you had a longstanding friendship or relationship with within federal agencies, like you recognize faces. FBI. Okay. So what, so why were they there? I asked them, are you here to, are you working? Oh, no, we're just here to have fun. They had a beer in their hands, but I didn't see them actually drinking it. I saw them, I think they were there to keep an eye on things, to see it that things didn't get out of hand, but they were also enjoying themselves. They got that, they got a hell of a, had a hell of a good time out of it. And I hope they learned something about the, the crowd that follows this stuff about the subject matter and about how passionate people feel. And so on that, I want to kind of highlight a couple of artists that did some really cool stuff. The other artists that blew me away, right? So after my film comes out, a lot of these emails come in and this one artist, I'm going to pronounce things wrong, Soana, I believe, the title of the song is Black Hole, Bob Lazar, Black Hole, Soana. It was the coolest rap of taking clips out from the movie in your original interviews and playing them in a song. The song was so cool. And, and this female singer, our artist, she was in a foreign country at the time. I think it was Indonesia or it was, I'll probably get it wrong, but somewhere overseas. And I said, look, can you just get back to the US of A where she's from? And I'm like, we got a stage, you play your song, you know, this Bob Lazar song called Black Hole and what, why I was so, and she had a partner, another guy that was in it, that was just so great. And the reason I wanted to play it, because they got everything right. If you listen to the lyrics of this song in 1989, I mean, it starts off crazy. It starts off with what happened. Okay, I'm the whole thing. Yeah, I'm going to play the whole song and video that I made right here. A YAMAAMA AAMA flying saucers, flying discs of extraterrestrial origin. They're being test flown and basically just analyzed. Where did we get these saucers? How did they come into the hands of the government? I haven't the slightest idea and the information is very compartmentalized. If you're stuck on tabloids, I don't know what you heard but Bob Lazar's not telling a lie. Top secret facies with flying saucers fly. The government won't be forthcoming. He hasn't changed his story for 30 years running. ET species, advanced technology. They erase his identity at MIT. Field propulsion. Man, it's awesome if they got a craft that can really bend gravity. Back in 89, Bob had a particle accelerator hoping he don't wake up the day. But he had to walk away from S4 and take a pay cut. Pulling up in that little red corvette. Lazar's talking, clenching his documents and flight test. With suspicion, they said it's too much like science fiction. Well, turns out that's what you're thinking. This guy took his friends out to Papua's Lake. Saw some saucers and caught that shit on tape. You wanna sit here and say that Lazar is fake. Instead, let's get real. Blame, blame, blame, blame, blame, blame, blame, blame Bob Lazar's not telling a lie Hey, hey, hey, hey, yo, Mission Control Faking another U.S. file We can't just close down, I maintain control Gotta take a step forward, throw it in the black hole Black holes in the narrative we're given We want the answers, it feels like something's missing Lazar, bring the light, are you ready for disclosure, y'all? We disclose to disclosure, y'all Thank you, guys! Okay, now, check it out. So, so she was so great, came on stage and did this and I put a video of the guy in, because he couldn't come back to the U.S. It was just so neat to me to see these artists doing stuff and getting it right, getting it right with Bob reported, what you reported. I mean, it was so cool. But I do want to touch upon this idea that there has not always been a great relationship when it comes to Area 51 and journalists, and when it comes to Area 51 and the surrounding area, and the first thing I want you to tell us about is, from what I understand, you did a news report about a guy that found sensors on public land Can you tell us that story first and then I want to talk about yours? Sure. His name was Chuck Clark. He had written sort of a visitor's guide to Area 51 with some pretty good advice on what to do, what not to do, and how to prepare for a trip out there He spent a lot of his time at the Little Alien I think he lived in a trailer right next to the Little Alien for a number of years and he would be the unofficial expert. If people came to town and had questions, he would help them out. But Chuck was also a bit of a government watchdog and he admires the folks that worked out at Area 51 but he was, I think, upset when he learned that there were these sensors out on public land. So, you know, even if you get up to the very edge of Area 51 you're still 12, 15 miles from the base itself and you can't get in there, there's no way. But on the public lands leading up to it, for miles outside, on BLM land that is available to everyone they've planted these sensors that will alert them when someone's on the road and so Chuck found a way to dig them up, to isolate and identify them and he had built a little scanner in his car that would beep when there was one real nearby. So, he called me up and said, hey, come on out here, I've got to show you this. So, Matt Adams and I went out, Matt, my photographer, and got in the car with Chuck and drove around and we found like four or five of them. Oh, that shout out, shout out to Matt Adams. Matt Adams has been working side by side with George and that probably been a skin walker ranch more than anybody but George and the NIDS team and Matt Adams has been your tell us who Matt Adams is. Matt is the chief photographer for KLA STV. He's worked with me on the I-Team for more than 20 years now. All of the adventures we've had at Area 51 at Skinwalker Ranch. We've had our encounters with law enforcement. We've chased down terrorists. We've done a lot of stories together, won a lot of awards. He's a fearless guy and a very talented man and he was along on this assignment. And he's your CIA handler. Yeah, that's true. Okay, continue. So, we go out with Chuck. His little scanner is beeping. We find these things that are hidden under bushes. Are you filming it? Yeah, we record the whole thing, match out the whole thing. He gets a little brush out and brushes off the dirt and shows us where these things are. Did not disturb any of them, at least not while I was there. And then we put him back. He just covers him back up again and we go back and do a story. And I get a call from federal law enforcement that said, what were you doing out there? And so, well, I'm just, I'm on public land. I'm looking at these devices that are on public land and we're putting a story together on it. You shouldn't have done that. And it's kind of ominous, the warning that we got. But the next day, the Joint Terrorism Task Force goes, blasted in into Rachel, kicked in the door of Chuck's trailer, seized all of his computers, all of his cameras, all of his hard drives, all of his photographs, took it all, took everything away. And Chuck was in Colorado at the time. He didn't know this was going on. He found out a little bit later. But he never got that equipment back. And he was, he had the threat of federal charges over his head for, I think, the next two years. The allegation was he destroyed government property by messing with these things that were out on public land. Public land. Right. Okay. FBI agents have confirmed that a search warrant was served last night on the home of a self-described military watchdog in the tiny town of Rachel near the mysterious Area 51 military base. It's an exclusive story you will only see here. We've learned this action was initiated by the Joint Terrorism Task Force. The search warrant remains sealed and the FBI won't say what was seized from the home of Rachel resident Chuck Clark. We believe the action was taken because Chuck Clark escorted the I-Team on a tour of the road surrounding the base. During the visit, he showed us the location of military sensors hidden on public land. Here's our story. I found 31 or 32 of them so far. Retired astronomer and desert rat Chuck Clark has a new hobby. He's prowled the hills and deserts of Lincoln County for several years now. He's photographed exotic aircraft in the skies and keeps an eye on the top secret base known as Area 51. He's even written a book about the place. Over the past few months, he's discovered the military has been installing secret sensors on public land surrounding the base. Using a frequency counter, he can tell when his vehicle has tripped the sensor. When that happens, he looks for the hard to spot wire atop the device. This is our sensor right here. Then he digs them up, takes pictures and puts them back. There's your transmitter right there. And we'll come around here. And right here will be the time delay unit. And you'll see it's clearly marked U.S. government property. Clark isn't a terrorist or spy, but is angered that hikers, four-wheelers or photographers, anyone who uses the back country, is being monitored by the military on public land, miles from the boundary of the base, a boundary which is clearly marked by ominous signs. It's a little overkill in my opinion. They have about a 25-mile buffer zone out here, and it's all terrain like this. It gets rougher as you go. Why they have to put stuff outside the line? Really, it escapes me. During the I-teams visit last week, two sensors were located, and base security wrote down the plate numbers of our vehicles. We returned five days ago and drove to the rear entrance of Area 51. Three days after our visit, FBI agents working with Air Force Intelligence and the Joint Terrorism Task Force raided Clark's home in Rachel, seized photos, records and his computer. Is it legal for anyone to touch military sensors hidden on public land? The government doesn't think so, although Clark hasn't been charged with anything. Is the military trying to silence this outback gadfly? Sort of paranoid about this location, and I don't see why. We asked the BLM if it's legal for the military to put sensing devices out on public land, but a spokesman couldn't answer our question. Law enforcement sources say that by handling the sensors, the devices become disabled, so it amounts to a construction of government property. As we mentioned, Clark has not been charged. He was out of the state when the warrant was served. Our investigation of the issues involved will continue, and we should emphasize the involvement of the terrorism task force does not mean that terrorism in a classic sense is involved. It's just that these kinds of matters fall under the task force's purview. So, it was enough of an intimidation tactic that Chuck shut down his home in Rachel, shut down his watchdog activities, moved out of the state and never came back. The other thing I want to talk about is that this has happened in other realms, right? So we know, obviously, with Bob Lazar, and we're not going to get into all that now, but he had a multi-agency raid on his home in New Mexico. But when I was filming, too, by the way, because we talked about the movie, everybody said, oh, first, Jeremy hired people, it's a movie, he faked it. And then, of course, the local documents come out, I didn't fake it, there was a raid. They identified themselves as FBI, and they said, here, Bob Lazar, right? And then, you know, one of them got on the radio saying, yeah, he's here. Apparently, they also had my house taped out, and they were deciding whether or not to go there. The conveyor belt of vehicles and agents and police did not stop. The whole thing was like a Twilight Zone episode. They came in and then they said, there'll be a few other people coming here. Just got a couple questions to ask him. In a short time, the street filled up with vehicles and the building completely filled with agents. It was really something else. Did they identify themselves initially as? Yeah, it was FBI identified themselves, then came in state police and a few other agencies. I don't remember who, but there were a lot, an awful lot. Standing room only in the building, it was crazy. Yeah, they had like a forensic truck, they had a bunch of different agents, they gridded off the building. I mean, obviously, they're looking for something. Yeah, and what they said, they were looking for some paperwork and all the order from two years ago by the customer that ordered some potentially toxic material, which they could have called for. But this was certainly way over the top. I looked up to select the right key and they were right beside me. It was quite surprising considering you could see all around here and there were generally have to be a vehicle or something. But I just pulled up, got out, picked the key and then they started talking from behind me. I thought that was really strange. Of course, it got much stranger as the day went on. What got stranger about it? It was a sheer amount of people that came. Agency after agency. I mean, they had computer experts here going through all the computer equipment we had here. They had people sectioning off the building, labeling it in cubic meters so they can search each one. What they were looking for was just an ordered one. So very strange. Music You've been rated two times? Twice. By more agencies than I can really recall. The FDA, the NRC, the FBI, they usually come in mass and it's hard to pick out who's who. So this is beryllium? Yeah. And what is it used for again? It's used in aerospace. It's very lightweight, quite strong and high temperature. Do you think that you were shaken down to some degree you're being fucked with? I don't think they're just fucking with me. I'm convinced there's ulterior motives. I firmly suspect that there's a lot more to it than they're saying, that they're looking for something else. Music What they're supposed to do is tie you up, put you in the middle of the room, have everyone watching you so that you can collaborate a story or try to trick them or whatnot. So they just kept us all in separate rooms. There's bomb squad, computer squad. I think they have a biological hazard squad, hazmat squad. Ever really made the full gamut because they had no idea what we had in our shop or what we're capable of or are we going to retaliate or anything like that. So it was pretty much like the full Michigan FBI. They had the van, they had multiple cars lined up. I mean, in looking at Bob's life, there's always the suspicion that there's something more going on shaking him down because he had that experience before. So this is the second time that I know of that he's gotten rated. So he's always had this kind of knowledge that there's somebody watching, no matter what he does, there's always somebody watching you. And it does have to be related to the Area 51 stuff and all that. They kind of put him on a list. I think they do like telling him and keeping an eye on him. But I don't believe that it's like they're opening up a 30 year old file and they're like, alright, we're going to crack down on the Bob story and we're going to find out what he has, what information he's got. I don't think that they're necessarily doing that, but I do think that there's like a culture maybe within these agencies. They know who this guy is and they'll have, you know, they'll look for any reason that they can to kind of poke him with some thorns and make sure that he knows who's watching him. I believe that. It's too coincidental for it all to be just, you know, just some luck at the draw basically. Like there's something going on. We'll talk more about that later. So now we're at like the third time that I've seen in my experience, dude, these people get fucked with. At Betway Casino, Kelly Brooke is our casino ambassador and for all new customers, state 20 pounds and get 150 free spins. Download the Betway Casino app today. 18 plus T's and C's apply. Bet the responsible way. GambleAware.org. The world moves fast. You work day even faster pitching products, drafting reports, analyzing data. 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They take photos of F-117s that supposedly retired many years ago and then speculate about what else might be going on out there. And this is a friend of yours. This is somebody that you know for decades. Yeah. In fact, Yorg knew Chuck Clark. And I think when Chuck Clark got rated, I'm not entirely positive, but I believe Yorg was visited back then as well. And so he's got this website. He's very careful. He doesn't want to cross a line. In fact, when the storm 51 thing was going on, Yorg led the charge to don't come here. Leave us alone. We filmed at his house, if you remember, and he had put up this barbed wire fence, these spotlights. He's telling everybody, don't do anything up there. Don't they're very serious up there. This is a guy that has helped protect that line for decades. He has. We are right in Rachel Nevada. We're at Yorg's house. He's a prepping for the zombie apocalypse with lights that are like daylight surrounding his compound of a house, cleaning guns, fenced off with news trucks. Welcome to park on his property so that he could be protected for the zombie apocalypse. Pretty fucking crazy. I live real remote too. I would do the same goddamn thing. Fuck yeah. This is a small town community where people are literally invading it coming from somewhere where they're not going to be prepared for here. The house is prepped with daylight at night. This place is going to be like daylight. They got guns. They got lights. They got news trucks for protection. Fire is an issue. Some properties where they got big trees going, you've seen whole towns burn. So that's what this is about. And you know, they should protect their property. However, I think everybody's going to have a good time. It's going to be beautiful. Now I want to get the watch on crazy the situation is and whatever I can do to help with that. Do you personally feel responsible for what's going on here? No, I personally feel responsible for only what I do. I blame Bob Lazar really. Me and York, we are not going to storm here if you want. We are going to just check on what's going on. Yeah, he's warned all kinds of people when the storm 51 thing was percolating, don't come up here. It's a bad idea. Don't come up here. Stay away. It's a bad idea. But so he, you know, he is in a lot of ways a friend to the government. He's he would never expose secrets or endanger national security. He's a naturalized American citizen. He came here because he loved America. So the raid happens. They kick in his door at his house and Rachel came in with guns blazing and not blazing, but guns drawn. And so he's going to be in the house and he's going to be in the house. And see took him outside and threw him in a vehicle that he took all of his computers, cameras, photos, hard drives, cell phones, everything. So double no knock warrants on two properties, one in Las Vegas, one in Rachel in the middle, 6 a.m. in the morning. His his girlfriends in the Vegas one. He is in the one that is near Rachel and boom door kicks open. There's guns drawn. They take them into like a type of detainment and they take all of his computers and his hard drives. And we're not talking about like a journalist like us. We're talking about like a website guy, a guy that runs a website. And of course, as I said, he's always been really careful. He had said, look, if there's at least made it clear when people want to post things on his site, don't do something that's crossing the line. I don't want any secure classified programs being exposed here. Want to be careful about it. And he's told me, I mean, he gave me the first interview after this happened and said, look, if they just came to me and told me you got something on your site that shouldn't be there, I would have taken it down. They didn't. That's what Bob has always said, like, that's what you want is, you know, for agencies to come just talk with you. There's that there's no reason to do all this. Just come talk with people. So that's not what happened with York. And that really, that really made me upset. Well, he's not going to be charged with anything. They've made that clear. His lawyers have have done some inquiries and it's not that he's ever going to be charged with a crime. But at the same time, because they they wouldn't tell him what it was that he did wrong. They gave him a hint that there must have been an image on there that crossed the line, but they won't tell him what the image was. So he doesn't expect to ever be charged, but he's also never going to get a stuff back. They said it might be yours by the point by the time you get your stuff back, it will be so outmoded. It's not usable anymore. Right. So just the fact that you can go in, bust in a door from a multi agency raid and you can, you know, not give you the full warrant. I think it was like a 46 page warrant. They gave him one page of it. If I recall the numbers correctly, not tell you what they're looking for, not tell you if there are any charges. You're never going to be charged. Your stuff is taking your doors are broken. And by the way, we're not going to fix your doors, which that is wrong. Like I have heard from people that know that they should fix the doors at least, but not getting your stuff back. This is America. What is going on now? Now he's not a journalist with the same protections as us, let's say, but just as a citizen to do that. So unless there's something we don't know in these situations, right, which I don't think there is. It's got to be that's got to be something because that it's a 46 page warrant. Federal judge had to sign off on that. There has to be something in there that convinced them to kick in somebody's the doors at somebody's house, both houses and take all this stuff. They had to convince a judge that this was really serious. A matter of national security in order to cross that threshold. I would think, but what is it? But so we think so, unless this is an intimidation tactic, I don't want to believe because you and I, we know a lot of people who are We know a lot of personal friends that work in these agencies. They're good people. They are moral people. They have a compass and also the bureaucracy of it all to do something like this without taking a guy into custody. I mean, the people I know in law enforcement and at the federal level, like they're like very surprised by this case that there would never be a charge. Like, because to get that warrant is hard. So it's just messed up, man, because look, I think most people you go talk to them. So this feels like a message, but either way, I just want to say, we know a lot of people. We know the good guys. We know people like us curious in the UFO topic that are this seems like something else. And I don't know what that is. And I think it's just horrible. It happened and we got to find out what and they got to fix his door. Here's the thing is, you know, I understand the end. You need places where you can do secret stuff. You have to be able to have developing projects and platforms and technology where you don't have prying eyes where our adversaries can't see what's going on. And even to keep it away from the public as well, even the taxpayers who put the bill. But you can't have secret places where the laws don't apply. You know, you can't have a place like that where the Constitution is suspended, where, you know, your first amendment rights are invalid, where the public has no right to ask questions about it because those kinds of situations lead to trouble. When you have excessive secrecy like that, when you, for years, you know, they announced Area 51 right when they built it. And they said, it's just a little landing strip. We're going to be here a couple of months. We'll be gone. And I didn't exactly tell the truth about the facility that was out there. It was a NASA weather station or something. And then, you know, the base gets bigger and bigger. And in the 1970s, it disappeared from maps. It was on them and then it was gone. And how do you not, how do you expect the public to not be interested in a base that when you ask them straight out, do you have a base out there? They say no. They won't acknowledge it. It's disappeared from maps. Of course, the people are going to be curious about it. And then the seizure of 89,000 acres of land in 1985. One day it's public land. The next day it's armed guards there. You can't access it anymore. And only months later did they ask for permission, Air Force, ask for permission from Congress to take the land. Of course, the public is going to be interested in it. And the stories about exotic technology, the stories told by Bob Lazar. And then something like this, where you kick in the doors of a guy, take away his computer, shut down his website, and don't even tell him what it is that he's, what kind of transgressions he's done. Excessive secrecy breeds more public interest. If you didn't want the public to be focused on Area 51, you wouldn't have so much secrecy around it. That's right. And so kind of like our, or my personal aim right here is that with the new Arrow, all domain anomaly resolution office, which is the new UFO government program that is acknowledged and, you know, active, and that's the plan that is not going to become a Project Blue Book. It's going to be forward facing like our friend Jay Stratton really wanted it to be about the UFO topic. So that is the thing that this is a cultural thing now. This is a huge cultural thing. And I'll say it like this, the don't storm Area 51 event, right? That was a great symbol of interest of public. So I think, you know, kind of where we're getting to in this conversation is that that thing that happened, it was the sequence of events. And I think it's abundantly clear now that 80% of at fault is you and Bob Lazar. I think that is absolute perfect math. I think I'll say 10% to Joe Rogan or maybe even 15% and the rest remains to me. But 80% is what you need to accept. I'd go about 20% Bob, 10% me, 30% Joe and the rest of it is you with maybe 3% to Dave Foley too. Oh, yeah, yeah, we got a hit for sure. You know what? I hope people will, if they haven't read Stephen Roderick's Rolling Stone articles to go out and find it. It's a lot of fun to read. Yeah. I know there have been discussions about trying to resurrect a Area 51 party and they haven't happened so far. We had COVID in between. So maybe that'll happen again in a more controlled environment where nobody is threatening to go into the base itself. Yeah. But in the meantime, you know, I think it was an indication, an early indication of the public's great interest in UFOs and that topic in general. And that's one of the reasons we have weaponized underway here. And also, we want to be able to share images, secret stuff, new testimony, new witnesses, things of that sort. I think we owe our audience some new images, don't we? Okay, we don't owe anybody nothing to begin with. And I do want to end on the thing. Stephen Roderick, you told me you're my friend. I'm busting your balls because you said you're my friend. We need you, buddy, because you are a great voice. If you will dedicate some of your time to this, first of all, you got the greatest guys you can talk to about it, but I want you to be louder. And I want you to take it seriously. So that really, because he's my, he said he's my friend. I'm busting his balls. Well, we could show him some images, right? Okay, okay, well, not, let's show everybody. Just one. Hold on. Okay, hold on. I am not going to feel like beholden to put things out quickly and fastly. And I know you're not either, but let's give him two. How about three? How about four? I'll see your four and take your five. No, I'm going six. All right, let's see what he got. Ah, seven. What do you got? No, just fucking around. Okay, check it out. So we obtained some, there is a video from an active conflict zone and we are providing seven still images from that video. This is not classified. And in fact, it is not contained within any known to us classified documents. In fact, I'm not even sure. I am actually pretty sure that any UFO study programs run by our government has this, even though it's a military filmed piece of footage. UAB task force doesn't have this. You don't think Arrow has it. Can you say what kind of platform these images were? The images were captured from. Yes. So I want to be really clear to why, why are we releasing still images compared to a video? I obtained images. We went through it together to make sure and we have done full background. I'm not in the business of obtaining things that are sketchy. I know for sure that we can receive this together and we can put it out to the public. There is nothing in this that would even accidentally be harmful, but it is from a conflict zone again from Iraq. And this is an image and I'm not going to go into any of the details right now. I want the public to help us to engage these images because what we're seeing in this and the people we've spoken with about it. This is officially labeled UAP. This is not our asset that we know we are sure of that. It is not any foreign nations asset that is a known foreign nation, but it's fucking weird. And so we're just trying to see can the internet, can UFO Twitter, can the general world, can people with more experience help us out with this? Because right now our government who they've officially labeled it UAP, but it hasn't gone to the right places. And that's why you and I get contacted because there's this bottleneck of information from when something is being captured in a conflict zone and it needs to get to, I don't know, let's say central command sent com and really see hey, this is an issue. So this image what you're going to see I'll be very clear. Let me show it now. As you can see, this is a very skinny object compared to its length. If you look in the top left, you'll see that this was filmed in white hot, which means that the background is hotter than the image, which by the way, just so you know, I can confirm with 100% that this object flew under controlled flight with intelligent control across the screen from left to right. Kind of looks like a torpedo. Okay, rocket. So I'm going to put this in big bold letters on the screen, not a rocket. And let me explain that for a second. This is a conflict zone. Maybe it's a rocket. So it's not a torpedo because it's over land and everybody can just look in the air. It's in the air. And you know, from the video, obviously you see that, but we were able to obtain and release these images is what we're doing. It's not our job. I hope Arrow puts this out now. If they go find the video unless they're provided it by journalists, right? So here's the deal. You would see if this was a rocket, you would see white hot engine, you would see plume, you would see heat, you would see a, what they call signatures intelligence, you would see a signature. So what you're seeing here is interesting to me and others that came to me for very specific reasons. It does not show the traditional signatures of what you'd see for reactionary propulsion. What you're seeing is something that appears to have non-reactionary propulsion. Have we heard that before? I mean, it's an interesting thing, right? So I don't know what this is. It is a UFO, but it was something under controlled flight, under intelligent control that appears to have a propulsion system that is undefined yet by us. We don't understand it and the shape, no control surfaces, no flight surfaces. Now look, if we get a reasonable explanation, we'll be helping people out with that reasonable explanation. But damn, have we had some really sharp minds on this so far? And we are still stumped. So this is a UFO filmed over Iraq and it shows an object that passes through in video and we're providing seven images which somebody online will stitch together. Yeah, somebody can animate it for us. Yeah. And we're giving people today. What do you make of that looks like some kind of disturbance behind it in the air? Yeah, I really, this was like for like a long time I went through this. I went to so many people trying to figure out people we know, like we trust in the people that I don't know. It's not exhaust though. It's not. So it's a thermal imaging camera. So what you're seeing in that image is just, it's thermal, it's heat differential is what you're seeing. It leads us to a very interesting point that we should make. But what you're seeing is that line I think, I personally think, and I could be totally wrong, but I think that it is an artifact of the actual capturing system showing what I would call with layman's terms like a ghost image, like as it goes. But other people have more interesting theories about what you're seeing because it's a thermal camera. It's clearly not an engine or engine exhaust. So there's no comparable in anybody I talked with that could pull up right there. Comparables to rocket, comparables to even though it's overland, like a submarine wake or something like that. It'd be the closest. So it's some sort of wake or most like it's a digital artifact, but I don't know that it's a digital artifact. So I would love people to go after that and try to find out what is it? All right, UFO world, go to work. Yeah, yeah. I want you to think of this, animate it if you want to and help us figure out what the heck this is. Help our military figure out what it is because they don't know. Right. And so I think why we are releasing this, and I want to be real clear on why we are releasing it is because I think together between the abundance, the archive of people that trust us, that come to us and say, okay, this is supposed to go from here to here, but somehow it's going to you guys. And again, we do it in a way where it's like, I don't even know who specifically sent, but I was informed about it through numerous people. The reason why I think we should put this out, it's not just so that people can have another image, you know, they make cool means of, although I challenged them to do so. It's because I am trying and I think you speak for yourself, but I think we're trying to get our new program, Arrow, to be transparent and clear and like Susan go at the Pentagon to confirm some basic things about the Mosul or if she hasn't already by the time this airs, this is not a matter of national security. This is a matter of national responsibility to the citizens that employ you, the people that you represent. And so that's why I'm doing that. We've been promised transparency. That's the buzzword. We keep hearing out of Arrow and the people at the Pentagon who work with them. Let's see it. Let's see it in action. You know, we're going to provide these images now and hope people will take a look at them and help us figure out what they are. But also to encourage other people who are out there who've got something similar, who don't know quite what to do with it, we'll take a look at it if you want to. Oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely. We have an email. I don't remember, but I think it's like weaponizedpodcastatproton.me or something like that. It's on the website, but yeah, yeah, send away, baby, send away. Anyway, George, thank you so much for revisiting Storm Area 51 right now. I got my flight suit pants. And that's why in the desert, that was fun. I know it's been a hard few weeks, but man, I hope that everybody engages what we put out. Yeah, we're having fun. Oh, wait, wait. Last question. Last question. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What the fuck is this sweatshirt? Franklin yellow jacket. My high school. My sister, Kathy, got me this shirt a while back. Franklin yellow jackets. That was my high school. Where was the high school? Stockton, California. I just never seen you in a sweatshirt, so it's very interesting. Anyway, thanks so much, man. I appreciate it. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Never have so few, have so much to tell, but would say so little. Following this in a weaponized presentation of Jeremy Corbell, George Knapp, Dark Horse Entertainment, and Cayden's 13 Studios available now for free on the Odyssey app or wherever you get your shows.