People are always curious about the unknown;
small secrets, such as whether a celebrity has had surgery on their face, or
big secrets, for instance, if Elvis Presley really died. It’s natural to want
to know the truth. Conspiracy theories exist to fill in the missing holes of the
information given to us about strange happenings.
A
young couple is driving home after a long day with family, their small children
sleeping peacefully in the back. It’s dark and they’re the only people on the
road. A strange, yellow light appears beside the driver. It maintains the speed
of the car and the couple, baffled by its appearance, stares at it. After a few
minutes of hovering beside them, it flies away at lightning speed. The man claims to have seen a cigar-shaped
object that he thinks was a spaceship, while the woman only saw the lights. The
couple who experienced this strange event describes it as an encounter with an
extra-terrestrial.
Another woman, while working the
night shift at the clinic in her hometown, also claimed to have seen
cigar-shaped objects in the sky. She said they would hover in the sky for a
moment before zooming away. These encounters have one thing in common: they
happened a long time ago. This brings up the question on whether the objects
seen in the sky were tests the government were doing or an alien life simply
trying to say hello to the human people.
Many people have claimed to have
encounters with extra-terrestrial life, even now; aliens have communicated with
them in some way, they say, by creating crop circles in their backyard or
abducting them for one wild, crazy night. Bob Lazar was a young physicist, who
went public about his experiences on Area 51. Lazar claimed the area was used
to conduct experiences on alien-lifeforms and that humans were in contact with
other life. The only question is whether he was telling the truth. Do aliens
exist and, if so, are they here living among us on earth?
Character
The question isn’t whether aliens exist or
not; the real query is whether Lazar is a valid source to back his statements
up. There were no articles that indicated Lazar showed any signs of mental
illness. In fact, Lazar seems pretty normal. Since the alien scandal, he and
his wife have created a scientific business. He was interviewed again in 2014
and he still stands by his statement all those years ago, and doesn’t care who
believes him:
Look, I’m not out there giving UFO
lectures, producing tapes. This is not a business of mine. I am trying to run a
scientific business, and if I’m the UFO guy, it makes it really difficult, it
is to my benefit that people don’t believe the story. (McClellan)
Lazar
claims he was educated at Caltech and MIT but a source says it would have been
impossible. “Lazar was registered [in one of his Caltech courses] at the same
time Lazar was supposedly at MIT! Nobody who can go to MIT goes to Pierce JC,
not to mention the rather long commute between LA and Cambridge, Mass”
(Friedman). The source goes deeper into this conspiracy and researches Lazar’s
high school records. Lazar ranked 231 out of almost 400, making it nearly
impossible for him to have been accepted in to either school.
However, another source claims Lazar was
“fired for sharing information about his top secret job, and his records of his
employment of working as a scientist, as well as his education records were
erased” (Rojas). Lazar claims to have seen papers and analysis of alien
cadavers, but his purpose was to reverse engineer flying saucers. The flying
saucers he would have been working on, he claims, were very small, 9-12 m,
almost as if it were made for children.
Lazar worked at the S-4 base, a restricted
area near Area 51 grounds. A journalist named George Knapp was intrigued by
Lazar’s story and went down to Area 51 to investigate, but unfortunately it is
an extremely restricted area that only the government can enter. Nevertheless,
Knapp continued to investigate:
For
me the key issue is whether or not Lazar really did work at Los Alamos National
Lab. If he worked there in a scientific or technical position, if he had
security clearances, then, I think, that could justify the idea that he would
be hired to work at a place like Area 51. So that was always a central
question… [Los Alamos] denied he had records. This went back and forth for a
couple of years. I know he was there. We’ve interviewed people he worked with
before, none of them would come forward. We found his name in a [Los Alamos] phone
book. We found a newspaper article with him on the front page and a picture of
him saying he is a physicist out there. We know he was there. (Rojas)
Still, many seem skeptical. Many claim
“the phone book mentioned does not list the capacity in which lazar worked at
Los Alamos, and newspapers are easily fooled” (Rojas). Also, the fact that
Lazar’s coworkers haven’t spoken out publicly about the conspiracy has made
many doubt his credibility.
Description Main Idea
The belief in alien life forms is a complicated
subject to understand because there is no right answer yet. When asked whether
they believed in aliens in a survey, the list was split into two, where half
the people said they believed in alien life and the other half claimed aliens
do not exist, although more adults seemed to favor alien life while the
majority of the younger audience didn’t believe in the conspiracy.
The first conspiracy is the existence of
aliens. They are real and the government is hiding it from the American people.
It’s quite plausible for this to be true, considering the government is
notorious for keeping secrets, including failing to confess listening in on
individual’s Internet and phone conversations. In fact, as of February 2014, only
“twenty four percent of the American people say they trust the government”
(PewResearchCenter).
If the government is aware of
extraterrestrial life and is studying their technology, including their
spaceships, then it is possible the government is more advanced than the
American people know, or they are becoming more advanced. If this is so, it could
be possible that the inventions of the iPhone and the Internet are involved in
this alien conspiracy. However, this is unlikely, due to the fact that if the
government was using technological advances, the world would probably have
hover-boards and flying cars by now, based on Lazar’s claim that they were
already studying the aliens’ spaceships by the late 1980s.
Another theory is that aliens don’t
actually exist and was created only for a topic of conversation, and humans
have never communicated with other life. In the Bob Lazar case, there are many
holes in the information presented. He has no records of ever being educated in
the places he claimed to have studied at, and his high school scores are too
low to have been accepted into those schools.
Many people believe in this theory simply
because aliens are seen as fiction in today’s society. Movies like ET and Alien
make the existence of alien life almost seem laughable. When asked a follow
question to those who said aliens did not exist, individuals used their
knowledge of NASA’s space technology, or rather NASA’s lack of space
technology, as an excuse, claiming human’s technology is not yet advanced to
make contact with other life. Though this brings up the question on whether the
extra-terrestrial is the one using the advanced technology and communicating
with us.
Again, this is a very complicated
conspiracy where there is no right answer, and there will be no right answer
until the government, if they are truly hiding aliens from the people, speaks
honestly about it or a flying saucer lands on the roof of the White House and
the aliens present themselves to the people.
The
existence of aliens may never be proven, even if aliens reveal themselves,
because people will still think it’s fake. Aliens could exist and take the
president to their home world, take pictures of their home and come back with
souvenirs, and someone will still think it’s fake. Again, very few of the
American people believe in the government, and if the President told them
aliens existed, similar to when they put man on the moon, there would be some
skepticism. Because this conspiracy is so controversial, it’s up for the person
to decide what he or she believes.
Works Cited
McClellan, Jason.
“Bob Lazar Still Defends Area 51 UFO info 25 years later.” May 14, 2014. http://www.openminds.tv/bob-lazar-still-defends-area-51-ufo-info-25-years-later/27560.
Oct. 6, 2015.
Friedman, Stanton T. “THE BOB LAZAR FRAUD.” Stanton Friedman. Jan. 2011.
http://www.stantonfriedman.com/index.php?ptp=articles&fdt=2011.01.07. Oct.
1, 2015.
PewResearchCenter. Public Trust in Government:
1958-2014. Feb. 2014. http://www.people-press.org/2014/11/13/public-trust-in-government/. Nov. 19, 2015
Rojas,
Alejandro. “Physicist Claims Bob Lazar did work at Los Alamos.” June 30, 2015.
http://www.openminds.tv/physicist-claims-bob-lazar-did-work-at-los-alamos/34156.
Oct. 1, 2015.
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