S4 - THE ROBERT LAZAR STORY

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CALENDAR -- AUGUST 1988 THROUGH AUGUST 1989
(CONTINUATION OF TAPE 6 -- SIDE A)

SEPTEMBER 4, 1988
Tracy's 2nd solo cross-country flight. She was working on her pilot's license.

SEPTEMBER 7, 1988
Joe, the guy I knew and worked with in Los Alamos, came to visit. And left on the 10th.
[Groom Lake = 125 miles. This is just a mileage note. It doesn't occur on this date, it's a note to myself how far the drive was... that was one of my excursions up there. There will be some deceiving stuff on the calendar intentionally. We'll run into other stuff like this.]
SEPTEMBER 13, 1988
Testing some fireworks at the drylake about twenty minutes away. [As a side note, this is how I spent a lot of my thinking time, more or less, was just driving up there alone because it's totally isolated. There's no one there... there's absolutely no sound... and frankly it looks like a different planet. Why shooting off fireworks is relaxing, but it's just one of those things.]
Call Vinny, a guy that was doing some work for me on the body of the jetcar -- insignificant.
More insignificant stuff here -- ordering chemicals for Desert Blast.
UFO Film is a note to myself to get a film John Lear gave me out of the house. He gave me a bunch of documents, after I had first met him. Then I began to wonder how intelligent it was keeping that stuff around should there be another surprise visit, more or less.
OCTOBER 1, 1988
Tracy becomes a pilot. [I met Tracy in Los Alamos and she was basically doing nothing. She was just working at Pizza Huts and things like that... and didn't have many friends up there... nothing was really going on and she moved out here into a strange environment and we frequently went to air shows and she got a real kick out of that... so, I paid for her to take one of those trial flights and she fell in love with it... so, she started taking lessons. They let her work on the weekends, not as a secretary, but something there, to kind of work it off and she got away kind of easy. We got married here. After I left Los Alamos I was with my first wife.]
OCTOBER 4, 1988
John Lear at 8pm [What's happening here is, I'm trying to show that I knew John Lear from a long time ago. And I think you're going to see something really obvious, if I remember... I'll start calling John something else... well, let me just go through it, instead of looking ahead. Anyway... that has nothing to do with that date.]
Q: In this time period, here we are in the beginning of October, you're running your business.
L: Right, businesses are running fine.
Q: Making probes...
L: Making probes... doing the photo business and basically I was looking for something to do to give Tracy... so we could have two incomes... and Tracy would be working the photos and I would go off full time and work somewhere else and get something a little more mentally stimulating.
Where the World Series started.
OCTOBER 14, 1988
UFO Cover-up [This is actually on that date... at Shelly's with Jim. This was interesting... and Jim will recall this day... he came over... now, before this I didn't know who John Lear was and had an article in the paper about some guy who said the aliens are here and they're taking over and all that stuff and is giving lectures at the library and Jim brought it over and showed it to me and Jim was thinking about going there and wanted to know if I wanted to go with him and I told him he was crazy... and what a total waste of time. And he said, well, I'm going to go and I said, okay, fine... he said why don't you come over tonight cause the guy's going to be on TV. So, I think, this is the first time I saw anything and it was some special that was on TV about people being abducted and stuff like that and I don't remember exactly what was going on in there, but John was telling his normal UFO story and there were a couple of other people... you know... I've been abducted... so, that was the first time I'd seen John on TV.]
OCTOBER 15, 1988
Tracy's dad comes to visit. [Which is interesting, about a month later... there's something here about me sending resumes out -- mid- October.]
Q: Now Tracy's dad lives in Los Alamos.
L: Right.
Q: Works at the lab there or does something else?
L: No, he works at the lab... explosives.
OCTOBER 19, 1988
Jim to Tonapa. [Tracy's dad leaves and Jim is now working up at the test site on the Stealth... I don't know if that was the first time he'd been up there... but that's when he's starting his, more or less, secret work.]
There was something here I crossed out and then wrote John Lear at 4:30.
(AT THIS POINT THE DOORBELL RINGS AND GENE ARRIVES)
G: John Lear was on TV and we were making fun of him...
L: In fact I just found that day when he was on...
G: On "On The Record"?
L: Whatever it was.
G: He was on "On The Record" with George in August of '88, wasn't he?
L: Maybe? August isn't on here.
Q: So you were sitting around making fun of the guy talking about UFO's...
L: You can't believe the stuff this guy was saying...
G: Well, it was interesting... Lear comes off very respectable... he looks very distinguished... white hair... the guy's an airline captain, son of Bill Lear, who holds all these flying records, and he commands a measure of respect, so he can get people's attention initially, in fact, some of the first things that we checked out, for instance, Lear was talking about the U.S. government had this alien held hostage and he was called EBE-3, Extraterrestrial Biological Entity-3, and he said he was housed in a facility called YY-2 in Los Alamos, which was a facility with double-fairday (sp?) shielding... and since Bob had friends that worked down there he could check and see if this guy knew what he was talking about or not. And there was a YY-2 facility, but they weren't holding any aliens. It was a mail stop. I can't remember what else he said, so... it was a good avenue to see if this guy had anything going... also he said Jackie Gleason was a buddy of Richard Nixon's and was a major contributor to the Republican Party and that Nixon had gotten Gleason into CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia and shown Jackie Gleason an alien body they kept on ice there... so, all this stuff sounds feasible, in fact, this made Bob actually invent the terminology -- Learonym... as opposed to synonym... homonym... a Learonym sounds like it's something that could have happened, but didn't.
L: And John is familiar with this... but you're speaking of the stuff that is half-way reasonable...
G: Well, right, right... if you're an innocent by-stander and you see this guy on television, you would lend him your ear and then investigate... and there's some value to that... because people will go and investigate and find out he's crazy, but that maybe there is a body of information there they should examine so... did you tell him about some of Lear's outrageous stuff?
L: I couldn't remember...
Q: Tell me some of it.
G: Lear said there was a roof on Area 51... a five mile by five mile roof... it was a dome over this... how did the jets get through it anyway?
L: The remote control...
G: Yeah, the theory... see, some abductees... Whitley Striber, amongst others, said that these aliens would jam these needle-like things up their nose or back behind their ears and there were these little balls that they couldn't ascertain on x-ray whether there was anything in there or there were strange things in people's heads... and these were alleged receivers and transmitters, I guess, where aliens could communicate with the people without going through their outer ear.
Q: John actually believes this...
G: Not only that... but there were like a million people that had been abducted and tagged... they call that being tagged... and those that were tagged, at a specific future date, when the aliens wanted them to act a certain way, that they would be activated and then the aliens could control these people with a remote... TV remote controller device.
Q: That's interesting.
G: And the Stealth fighter... did you tell him about the Stealth fighter... This was before the Stealth was made public and Lear... when Lear first met Bob, also, he didn't know who Bob was and that Bob knew all this stuff and Lear was telling him a story that the way the Stealth fighter achieved its stealthness was that it had LCD all over the top and bottom and, say, if you were a jet flying above a Stealth fighter, there were cameras on the Stealth fighter that would look at the sky and the LCD's... no, excuse me, look at the ground... and the LCD's would then make the top of the Stealth fighter look like the ground... so if you're in the jet looking down, it would blend in with the ground beneath it and if you're in a jet looking up at it it will then exhibit the sky... and that's when Bob learned that LCD's were highly radar reflective. Bob was actually the first one who took exception to everything... literally everything... Lear said... and it was a great comedy show... cause this guy got away with murder prior to that.
L: He's a unique guy.
OCTOBER 23, 1988
Fly to Ballhead... oh, that's just flying with Tracy. [Who is listed on here as Jackie, by the way. Her name's Tracy Jacqueline.]
OCTOBER 25, 1988
EG&G -- okay this must be the first interview.
Q: I didn't see a Teller call.
L: No, Teller calls all the way down here. No, no this is me dropping the resume off. I dropped it off on the 25th of October. And like I said, there was going to be a place where I sent out resumes... they probably all went out around this day.
Q: Now, Bob, when you got a resume to EG&G, did you know what kind of work they were doing? Or did someone indicate to you.
L: No, I brought them everywhere. EG&G was here... so I hand delivered it there. But there was nothing special about it.
Q: What did you know about them?
L: Ahh, that they mainly dealt with high speed measurement is all I knew EG&G did... and that's how the company was started really... was just photographing high speed events. And, working at the test site, I thought they were just involved with high speed data recovery from nuclear devices... and I said, well, that's acceptable... I'll work there.
G: That's pretty common knowledge in the Las Vegas area... they're a major employer or a conduit to employment at the Nevada test site even though there's a lot of contractors out there... EG&G is the most well known, probably, to the Las Vegas general public, because of news broadcasts.
OCTOBER 27, 1988
Talk about stuff.
G: That's clear.
L: Like I said, this is even going to confuse me.
Q: That's okay... this is good.
Stu and Melissa come to visit again. They leave the day after.
NOVEMBER 1988
L: Now we're in November. There's another random John Lehr down. That's another one.
G: You're in November?
L: November... the beginning of November.
G: Because George did another "On The Record"... remember, he did a two-parter and then Lear did a two-parter with Bill Cooper.
Q: Geez... he does have a good memory. You can remember that? From '88. You ask me where I was in '88, I'd have to sit and think a minute.
G: Well, I had gone through this before... were you aware there was a movie deal before this?
Q: Yes.
G: Okay... and a screenwriter before... in fact, I understand that it's illegal or improper, but when you get all this done and everything and you're done and everything is totally proper... we'd love you to read this great screenplay this other guy wrote...
Q: I appreciate the fact that you know I can't read it now...
G: But someday you can... and when you can...
Q: Someday I can...
G: And when you can, I would like you to reflect and say how did this guy get this story out of this...
Q: Well, I'll simply say that Bob told him the story... that it was all Bob's idea.
L: Carol's birthday... oh, my sister... okay.
G: I saw that, too, and I thought, boy is that strange.
NOVEMBER 17, 1988
L: See, I wonder if I'm screwing myself up here with my own...
Q: It's okay... it's absolutely okay...
L: Linda Howe... I didn't know about Linda Howe for... on the 17th of November...
Q: Who was Linda Howe?
G: Cattle mutilation queen... on a video called "The Strange Harvest" back in '79 or '80...
Q: Oh, I have that book... I believe I have that...
G: "The Strange Harvest" was the video that was much better than the book.
L: Oh, move into large bedroom...
G: You talk about recording an insignificant event on your calendar... oh, is that when you disassembled the lab in the master bedroom and made a bedroom.
NOVEMBER 29, 1988
L: Okay, Teller called the 29th.
Q: Tell me what he said again? It was a short call, evidently.
L: It was a short call. He recalled our meeting in Los Alamos and basically said, there might be someone who might be interested in you and...
G: You want me to add if I remember anything?
L: Yes.
Q: Chime in.
L: 'Cause Gene was around at that time...
G: When Edward Teller called, I said, who's Edward Teller... but Teller said that he was no longer active and only now worked in a chief consultant capacity.
L: Right. This is great.
G: And so he couldn't directly give you a job... but he could give you the number of a guy you could get in contact with here in Las Vegas... and he gave you a number. And I don't know what else you talked about...
L: That's better than I remembered it... yet it happened to me.
Q: Did you call the guy?
L: Yeah.
Q: Evidently. Did you call him right away or did you wait...
L: Yeah, I called him right away and that's why a couple of days later on... December 1, Thursday, I already had an interview.
Q: Okay, now, here's an important question... when you called the fellow at EG&G... you called whom?
L: I don't remember the guy's name... he wasn't a player.
Q: Was he one of the gentlemen in the meeting on the panel... when you went in there?
L: Yeah.
Q: Did he know you when you called?
L: Yes. Teller had already spoken to him.
Q: So he said, thank you very much for calling...
G: Were you aware that this guy actually worked for EG&G?
L: No, I called EG&G because that's where the phone rang and that's where we met... but they talked so lowly about the EG&G people and personnel... I have a hard time believing that anyone had anything to do with EG&G.
Q: So, this guy said come on in on December 1st.
L: Right.
Q: So this was your first interview there.
L: That's right.
DECEMBER 1, 1988
First interview EG&G.
Q: And this is where he said, you're over-qualified... we don't have anything.
L: Right. But we might have something in the near future. Which was probably a day or two after. Okay, I went out... that's where the other interview was... now why that's not written down, I don't know. Unless something is written here, which is scribbled out... cause that's about where it should have happened. It was about a day after.
Q: They called you back and said would you come in that day?
L: Right. And that's when the big interview was... wait, that's a Saturday... that's impossible.
Q: Well, that's okay... we'll say a day or two later.
L: It might have been Monday the 5th... and the only reason it's not written down is cause we thought Tracy was pregnant that day... That's a PRG=1.
G: Oh, Preg One, that's right.
L: Then there's doctor stuff, so... and the day doesn't seem to start till three o'clock, so that makes sense to me.
Q: Now, would they have called you that morning and asked if you could come in that day.
L: Yeah... that's exactly the way everything operated there... just like with the phone calls.
Q: Okay.
DECEMBER 6, 1988
L: The following day the 6th was another short interview... meeting people and then finally going up there.
Q: This is the day they flew you up there... the sixth... one day after the panel?
L: That doesn't make sense. This is the day that I went there. I remember writing "Trip to Nowhere" on there.
G: That's when you went to S4 the first time.
L: Yeah, this is the first trip to Area 51.
G: Are you sure... where was the EG&G...
L: Here.
G: That's EG&G at four... where's the EG&G over here?
L: Here.
G: Wow... that had to be dropping the resume off.
L: Yeah, I know... that's when the resume...
G: Well, what was this on the 28th?
L: See, I don't know.
G: Looks like you scribbled out EG&G.
L: It was always the day before Teller called, though.
Q: Well, this will still work... you can wrestle with your memories and say... was that right or wrong... no one's going to really be too interested in...
L: Well, obviously this is the day I went up... this was the day of the first interview... the second interview was somewhere in there...
Q: Trip to Nowhere is December 6th... and that's about a four o'clock flight up there?
L: Right.
Q: And they called you at two... three?
L: Right before two o'clock.
Q: Okay. Now, you had no idea they were going to call you, right?
L: Right. I had no idea at all.
Q: Okay. Did you take anything or just your two shoes... you just went down to the airport and...
L: Just went there...
Q: And they told you to get on the airplane and...
L: Well, no, that was what part of the time was at EG&G... they said your job's going to take place mainly at a remote area up within the confines of a test site... you'll go up there and we'll show you around... it didn't seem like anything unusual to me.
Q: Were you the only person who was giving that little briefing?
L: Yeah, there was no... Dennis came with me. That was the first meeting...
Q: You and Dennis and the person giving you the briefing?
L: Right.
Q: And you and Dennis got on the airplane and there were some others on the airplane?
L: Right.
Q: Okay. Now, that was the second time you were with Dennis?
L: Right. Aside from the big interview... that was the first time I went anywhere with Dennis. People visiting... Tracy's not pregnant.
DECEMBER 11, 1988
Fireworks show... in the middle of December.
G: An unusual fireworks show.
L: Boy, that's odd.
G: But that's true... because remember you and Tracy and I went up on one (UNCLEAR)... so you were preparing for something, but I don't know what it was.
DECEMBER 14, 1988
L: Black and white Groom Lake photo done. I think this is when I blew up a photo of Groom Lake to see...
G: That was that old photo of Groom Lake from the '60's or something... wasn't it?
L: Right... I had just gotten back from there about a week ago...
Q: And you wanted to see what?
L: If it had changed...
Q: Well, it sounds to me like you were interested in seeing where you were up there?
L: Right.
Q: Where did that photograph come from that you blew up? That negative?
L: Where did that come from?
Q: That's okay... that's interesting... so you were in the darkroom taking a look at where you were.
G: I think you made a negative from another photo and enlarged that negative of that photo... you know what I mean... I don't think you had access to a negative...
L: No...
G: I think we had gotten another picture from somewhere and he made a negative and then enlarged that...
L: I was trying to look for the building that I went in...
Q: Okay. Was it there?
L: I couldn't tell. It was just too big.
Q: When you got off the airplane up there, what did they do... did they just drop you on an airstrip and you walk off into a receiving area...
L: No... there's like a little electric... not a golf cart thing... but one that seats several people... like a tour bus type of thing... but all open and that just takes you from the strip to the last couple of buildings on the end...
Q: People get off at different points...
L: No, they all pile on that and you go into this big cafeteria type area...
Q: Where there machines that... candy machines...
L: Yeah... there were machines, but there's also a buffet type thing.
DECEMBER 20, 1988
L: The Alpha Probe Contract was renewed on the 20th. Tracy's dad visits on the 23rd... her sister comes in on the 26th... Robin... this is when, now that I have my job, I'm training Wayne's wife, 'cause Tracy decided she no longer wanted to do photos... training Wayne's wife how to do photos... so...
DECEMBER 26-30, 1988
L: Within the 26th through the 30th is when Thigpen showed up. Cause Robin was here and so was Kris... Robin and Kris were here the day Thigpen showed up... so within those five days is when Thigpen showed up and before this... somewhere... was another surprise visit from those guys that was never recorded.
Q: Before Thigpen.
L: Right.
G: You already know Thigpen was with the OFI, right?
Q: No, you say OFI... I'm familiar with the OSI... but what is the OFI?
G: The Office of Federal Investigations... which is not something you can look up in the phonebook... it's not a public access like the FBI or CIA... and I'm not totally... George Knapp might be able to help you out a little more there... but they apparently... they do background checks for people that need clearance... they do the background checks and they are a division of the Office of Personnel Management... OPM... which is headquartered in Pennsylvania... and OFI is something almost nobody's ever heard of...
Q: I had never heard of them... background investigations that I was familiar with were done by the Defense Investigative Service... DIS... and sometimes the FBI would get involved... so this is a new one for me and OSI... is Office of Special Investigations...
G: This was definitely OFI... they have an office here in town...
L: Yeah, George Knapp managed to track them down...
G: And he had written down the name of Mike Thigpen and a phone number and gave it to me and I lost the piece of paper, but I remembered Thigpen's name... I told George Knapp... George Knapp found out Thigpen worked for the OFI... we then told Knapp, because we didn't have the phone number, that John Andrews, of Testor, the one doing the disc... John is kind of a hub for a lot of information... John found out that it was the OFI here in town and that they were a division of the Office of Personnel Management in Pennsylvania and gave us the number of Thigpen and his boss' name and... John Andrews was also the guy... we were talking about John Lear before, just to let you know how Andrews fits in and the background... is even... by the time we ever heard of Lear... and Lear had already gone off the deep end... he was probably right about the deep end, actually, but, anyway, Lear, himself, in the mid-'80's, I guess, was a disbeliever and kind of pooh-poohing UFO's and John Andrews is the guy who scooped in the models for the Stealth Fighter and the SR71 and U2 and these guys were always out trying to glance glimpses of it, proto-type aircraft, and Andrews knew Lear from somewhere... and Andrews heard Lear making fun of that and said, hey, there's something to this and you ought to check it out. And John Andrews was actually the guy that got John Lear on the trail and Andrews, subsequently, he wanted the disc model to be his coup de grace and he wanted to do this and then retire...
L: I never knew that.
JANUARY 1, 1989
Q: I appreciate you chiming in like this...
L: I'm already calling you GUFON, here... and right up there, you're Gene... so...
G: 'Cause I had been reading all that UFO stuff.
L: Yeah... I told them the GUFON...
G: Okay... we were just making fun of MUFON...
L: So before this... before January 1st is when they came in with the transcript to the door... with a conversation between Gene and I and had outlined various things we were talking about... I thought that happened much further on... but it must have happened...
G: Are you sure you're not thinking of the one with Jim... because they did one with Jim before the one with you and I.
L: Huh?
G: I thought that's how I remembered it... the first time...
L: What's screwing me up is I purposely wrote stuff out of order on here...
G: Yeah... he's stealth himself...
L: But it's not suppose to backfire on me...
G: But I remember them questioning you about a conversation with you and Jim... 'cause Jim was working up at TTR and the... Slim Jim... all that stuff... calling Slim Jim...
L: Right... oh, right.
G: That happened before you and I.
L: I forgot all about that.
Q: What happened there?
L: It was almost an identical situation that happened to Gene and again they came in and, at that time, now Jim and I are talking cause he's working up at Tonapa... that's a secure area... and I'm working where I am... and we say very little on the phone, because Jim is working on his clearance and I really don't remember how the conversation got started, but it was, again, I think it was the use of a nickname, right...
G: I wasn't involved in that... I just remember talking about it...
L: That got it started and I never did call him Jim during the conversation and that brought them right over to the house afterwards.
Q: So they came over with the transcript?
L: Yeah.
Q: And said, who were you talking to and what is this about?
L: Right... who's the guy, Slim, I think is what was said...
G: You guys might have chirped on the phone...
L: Boy, yeah, that makes a lot of sense...
Q: What?
G: I don't even know where it...
L: I have no idea how it started... this is years ago... because Jim and I have known each other for a long time, but, when Jim called... or if I called there and Vicky answered the phone... instead of saying, hi, hello... he always makes a bird chirp noise and I do the same thing.
G: You know how people do stupid things... when they chirped to each other... instead of saying hi, this is Bob...
L: Oh, I know exactly what it was... we did something like that and said something like... what's up Slim... and then it was... nothing I can talk about on the phone... remember that? And he said, okay, I'll see you later. So, they came over right away thinking that this was a plan to set up a meeting between us two and exchange information in person.
Q: Now, you had been to Trip to Nowhere one time...
L: No, no... I've gone there twice...
Q: So, you've been up there twice... so you've actually been to S4?
L: Yeah, now I was already at S4 when...
Q: When they came over with the transcript... the chirp script...
G: What did you go to S4 twice in December, right?
L: No... S4 once... Groom Lake once.
G: Oh... okay.
L: And I went before Christmas. So before the 23rd...
G: Because they broke for Christmas, didn't they...
L: Yes, before the 23rd is the second trip there and I don't know where that occurred.
Q: Did the fellows with the transcript come over before Thigpen or after? Or do you remember?
L: The fellows with the transcript came over after Thigpen... that's why this would make a lot more sense if this was Jim... this calendar's doing exactly the opposite of what it's suppose to...
Q: Confusing the enemy...
L: Right... whatever it is it's effective... anyway, you know about those events and they did occur and they occurred after January 1st.
Q: Now, if they're going to shut down... aerospace and defense companies normally shut down for that entire week... did they? From Christmas until New Years? You know... the whole government operations... being dead in the water...
L: Okay... hold on... no... cause this is the day...
JANUARY 7th, 1989
L: Okay, no, that's right... that's right... and this is the day that they had done the allergen test up here...
Q: The allergen test was the 23rd of December?
L: Well, I'm saying before that date... I went on the second trip to S4... where I drank the pine fluid and here it is the 7th when I said there was lots of blood in my urine and I collapsed... and so on and so forth... and on the following Monday I went to the doctor.
(PHONE RINGS. MACHINE TURNED OFF AND BACK ON.)
JANUARY 9th, 1989
Q: Let me repeat that... that was the 9th of January and that's when you went to the doctor and you got a shot of Demerol and what happened?
G: Well, it was just fine because I called and he was high... he had never done any drugs in his whole life and I gave him a shot of Demerol and he was slurring his words and everything and I didn't know what was wrong.
(START OF TAPE 6 -- SIDE B)
JANUARY 12, 1989
L: That looks like a trip to Los Alamos on the 12th of January.
Q: Is this probe related?
L: Yeah.
Q: Okay.
L: Leaving the next day. Buy the first 6" shell on Sunday.
JANUARY 16, 1989
L: Work at 4pm -- here's another trip.
Q: Okay, that's 16 -- January.
L: Right. Now Lear is written at the top here and I don't know why -- looks like it was written in after the date was written, but I can't be sure.
Q: Just so that you're anchoring with regards to these trips... is this a trip in which you were exposed to files?
L: Oh, yeah, all of them were.
Q: Okay.
L: Unfortunately, they're not all going to be listed here... and
Q: Is this a trip in which you... had you seen the spacecraft ... the disc? At this point.
L: At this point, yes, probably so.
Q: Okay.
L: Yes, because we had one... this is probably the first time I saw it.
Q: 16, January.
L: Right. Sitting outside... because this would have been the third trip there... and I remember the third trip was when I came in the side entrance.
G: And you started acting a lot more secretive and wierd in January...
Q: Now, Gene, how did he start to act... secretive and wierd... give me an example...
G: He compartmentalizes information, anyway... he wasn't paranoid in the classic sense of the word... but, he wouldn't talk about anything that even skirted the issue... I mean, there's nothing wrong with one of your friends saying, how's your new job. But, it would be a big deal to him.
Q: You asked him... what did he say?
G: Probably in sign (?)... you know, something unbelievable... some dirty (?) answer... but, I mean, but he had worked at Los Alamos... he worked on secret things before... so, you would just think that he's working on something he can't talk about... you wouldn't go... well, I bet he's working on flying saucers... but, he was a little more defensive than you would think he would be if he was working on some type of bomb or missile, which the average person wouldn't care about anyway... or understand... he was a little defensive and you got the... my perception from his attitude was... let's just stay off that subject... and then he'd also talk... not about the job... but about the security check... I mean, I knew Thigpen had come by and these guys would drop by his house and so, in all probability, his phone was tapped and who knew if they had come back or whatever... so, it was... you just couldn't talk about it... you could make small talk about anything, except anything about what he'd been up to lately as far as his new job. And it's a strange job... he gets a job and he's leaving at four in the evening and coming home at random times at night...
Q: What did you think about that? Did you comment to anybody that this was kind of a wierd situation?
G: No, because I didn't really know enough about... I'm not a scientist, or anything, I've never worked in a scientific program, or a government program, and that could be normal. A lot of people here... for instance guys... there're a lot of people working at the test site here in town and the test site will provide small studio type apartments for these guys so they can pay some nominal fee and go up and stay all week, rather than take a bus out and back every day and be beat at the end of the week. A lot of guys without kids... or single guys... I think it was something crazy like seven bucks a day or eleven bucks a day or something to rent these apartments and stay up there all week... so that type of activity isn't unusual.
Q: January 16th... now you said something about coming in the side door and you saw it outside or something...
L: Coming in the hangar door instead of going around the back into the office entrance...
Q: Okay.
L: Umm...
Q: That's the time when you really thought it was something we were building...
(DOORBELL RINGS.)
L: Right.
(MACHINE TURNED OFF AND BACK ON)
JANUARY 19, 1989
L: Another Los Alamos trip on the 19th... stayed at my friend Joe's out there.
Q: You and Joe talk about what... anything about your new job? Did he know you had a new job?
L: Yeah... I think... no... he knew I had a new job... and I was still just being secretive about everything.
Q: Okay. Now... critical point... you've seen a disc... you are reading files... have the files, at this point, indicated to you that that disc isn't one of ours...
L: Yes.
Q: So, at this point you really know that...
L: Oh, yeah, I know what's going on now.
Q: Okay.
JANUARY 24, 1989
L: And, in fact, when I get back from Los Alamos on the 24th... I go out again...
Q: 24th... of January.
L: Right.
Q: Okay. Is that always listed as "Trip to Nowhere"?
L: No... it's "go to work" here... "go to work" back here... my birthday's on the 26th...
JANUARY 26, 1989
Q: What did you do on your birthday?
L: Went out with GUFON and his wife to Alpine Village... a Swedish restaurant... that was the first time I ate rabbit, I think.
G: Or was it duck?
L: No, rabbit.
JANUARY 28, 1989
L: Tracy's sister comes out.
Q: Tracy's sister's name is...
L: Kris...
Q: Kris... and this is... she's studying to be a lawyer.
L: Right.
G: She switched vocations, didn't she... she was going to take Japanese or Chinese or be an interpreter... or was it a Chinese speaking lawyer...?
L: Who knows.
G: She was a nut, though. I don't think she ever did anything, do you?
L: I don't know. By the way, just a side question here, don't they, if they're... I imagine Tracy's got to be part of the screenplay in some respect...
Q: Um hmm... but real or in a fictional scene... it depends on how we eventually work it out... because what you may want to say is... I don't really want this is there like that... because it has to do with my private life... let's just fictionalize this person...
L: Well, that's what I was wondering was if they're going to be represented in a movie, don't you need their permission? Because the last time Guber Peters asked her... she said no.
(MACHINE TURNED OFF AND BACK ON)
L: Well, however, that's going to be... it's going to be difficult to get her permission for anything.
FEBRUARY 1989
Q: Now where are you making... where are you manufacturing the probes at this point?
L: Los Alamos.
Q: You're doing it all there.
L: In a friend's house, yeah.
Q: Okay.
G: You didn't shave your beard off until February?
L: Yeah, I was shocked... that's the most shocking thing...
G: I thought you shaved your beard off when you went to the EG&G interview... because you were looking very business-like.
L: That's certainly nothing I would have purposely put somewhere else... that's really strange. I wonder what prompted me to do that?
G: Here's another thing for the missing days there, when he just put an 'X" in it and didn't write that he went to work... keep in mind now the security guys are dropping by randomly and can look at his calendar... so he can't put down... worked at S4...
Q: Now, Bob, when you're doing this calendar... was there any particular reason for having done a calendar like this?
L: Oh, I'd done it for years... I got in that habit all the way back... I've got... I think I've got fifteen years of calendars... it's just total, complete habit... I can't not do it... it's cause I've got such a terrible memory, it's the only thing were I can... and it saved me a lot of times... on different things... when did I get insurance and so on and so forth... there's always been one up somewhere. So, it's habit, I guess.
G: Aren't there just big blotches of days where you just "X" out days and don't write anything... any of those can be work days?
L: Yeah, I was just looking for something that might look... There's nothing in February... well, I went to work in there somewhere. Where I don't know... I don't see anything...
Q: Once a week?
L: No, not always... there should have been a couple of trips during that month.
Q: Okay. You're in the lab now?
L: Umm hmm.
Q: Gene, are you noticing a change in his behavior as he gets deeper and deeper into this program?
G: Yeah, that he wasn't any fun anymore.
(LAUGHTER)
G: I mean he really wasn't. I mean we have fun now, even after he told us... even after... you know, it's easy to relax and make fun and have laughs about things in the past, but at that time it was a (UNCLEAR)... because Bob wouldn't talk about anything, he would be very abrupt and discreet on the phone because he presumed they were listening to him... and he was right, you know... and, so, you couldn't hardly talk about anything and it was just kind of a drag.
L: Okay...
Q: How often did you see him... once a week... twice a week?
G: About once. His photo lab was still doing the photos... so he was involved with that... but later I see him five days a week, sometimes... but, you know, there were other things going on... remember, we were... that's when we got the small business innovative research program... which is a big government (UNCLEAR) by different agencies for companies of 400 people or less... they put up funding and they need innovative research in different levels... level 1, 2, 3... for instance, the guys who fly the F15's or this or that, they need a cooling system to go inside their flight suits to keep them cool... for instance if it's level three, you can get all the information, they go... here's where we're at and here's where our problem is... what is your idea to solve it and, if you come up with some ideas, then they'll fund... give you money... and then, if you further the idea, make a working model, they can be manufactured... like even the defense contract can buy it from you... and this is to keep all the big, giant companies from getting all the business.
MARCH 22, 1989
L: March 22nd I have written down -- "go to there"... now, I have a feeling that that wasn't a trip to work. Because on the...
MARCH 29, 1989
L: Jim, GUFON and Jackie go fishing...
G: ... which is... fishing is Groom Lake...
L: Right. So "go to there"...
Q: Wait a minute, fishing is Groom Lake... tell me that a different way... when, you say...
L: "Go fishing" is the code meaning...
G: Groom Lake is the drylake bed... Area 51... so "going fishing" was when he took us up to...
L: When I knew the test schedule...
Q: So, this is a Wednesday...
L: Oh, yeah, it is a Wednesday... and this is a Wednesday, too... good point... so these are two dates when we're out spying...
Q: Okay, what are the dates?
L: Wednesday the 22nd of March and Wednesday the 29th of March. Now the 22nd of March must've been the first time that we ever went.
G: My son was born March 15th and I had a little baby and my in-laws were still in town... so here's the whole family at the house and Bob and his wife drop by and...
Q: Now, you didn't know anything about this before...
G: Oh, yeah, he had told us now...
Q: Okay, wait... step me back... to the first time he comes to tell you.
G: I don't know what date it was but we were driving down Alta Street in my car and I don't know where we were going and I said something... I said, you don't think my car's bugged, do you? He said, no, I said, well...
Q: Why'd you say that?
G: Well, because I knew about the security check, I knew he was generally paranoid, I knew whatever he was doing at work, he wouldn't talk about... and I said, you ever going to tell me what you're doing at work... because I thought he would if he got a chance... and that's when he told me he was working on this disc...
Q: What did he say?
G: He said... "they've got 'em."
L: That's right.
G: Now, I had seen programs with John Lear and stuff on TV saying there were flying saucers out there... but I didn't necessarily believe him...
Q: So he said, "they've got 'em."
G: "They've got 'em."
Q: Did you know...
G: I knew right away... they've got flying saucers that're called discs and he proceeded to tell me about them and I was shocked...
Q: What did you feel when he said "they've got 'em"?
G: Exhilarated, because I knew then... now in hindsight... it was dominos all the way down the line... this is why his personality changed... in other words, the personality changes and his activities now made sense and, also, it reinforced, even at this point, that I knew this guy was telling the truth... because, even if it's your friend, you've got to be apprehensive... I mean this changes everything... this means everything... and he told me that they had 'em... they had discs... they had nine of them... there were nine hangars... he was in the lab... he told me there were all different shapes... one was a Sportsmodel...
Q: This is as you're driving down the street?
G: Yeah... we're driving down the street and then he also told me... I remember... that the one looked like they had put it up on the edge and shot a projectile through it... because there was a hole in it as though they had tested the skin's integrity and that's when he first started teaching me about space/time distortion, because I said, well, maybe they shot it down... because remember now I'm reflecting on bullshit that I've heard John Lear and others say on television and read in Omni and things like that... and he explained space/time distortion and how impractical it would be that any jet fighter of ours could ever catch one of those things... much less get a missle to shoot through it.
Q: Where were you going in the car?
G: I don't know.
Q: What did you say when you got home?
L: Did you tell Mary when you got home?
G: I don't think I told her at first, cause you told me not to tell anybody and stuff like that and I knew I couldn't trust her to not accidentally act like she knew if we were out...
Q: So when did you tell her?
G: When did I tell her?
Q: Do you remember?
G: After the baby was born. Because remember now... she gave birth on March 15th and... though she's not very Catholic anymore, she was raised Catholic and would be more reluctant...
Q: How did you tell her?
G: I just told her... once I knew he had told Jim... now, remember, after he told me, I didn't know if he told Jim... you know what I mean, in other words...
Q: But he hadn't.
G: I don't know... maybe he had... although I'm friends with Jim, we don't call each other and hang out together. He and Bob have that relationship. So once I knew Jim knew, however I knew that, I told Mary and she was thrilled... But she had seen all the Lear stuff and everything on TV and I had been an open-minded guy to this, I mean from "Journey to the Gods" back in the mid-70's and all of that stuff... so we certainly entertained the possibility and, remember, Lear was a pretty convincing guy. He was throwing around CIA headquarters and Jackie Gleason and Richard Nixon and Jackie Gleason apparently had a house that was shaped like a disc and had one of the biggest occult libraries of anybody in the world... so these were Learonyms... these were believable stories and so we were pretty open-minded about the possibility... we were actually amazed that we knew somebody who got into the program.
Q: So, the baby's born and then Bob says, do you want to come out and see a test flight?
L: That was seven days afterwards.
G: Well, about five days afterwards, or something, and again, he had already told us at this point, I knew what he was working on and stuff, and I started reading... getting books... I appraised Lear's house in exchange to get a bunch of tapes from Lear... all kinds of UFO information, which were taped terribly, but was really good. It was all kinds of UFO stuff and, so anyway, what had happened was, we couldn't speak in Bob's house, so we went out in the driveway and, this was after they didn't call him to work for a few weeks, I guess, so I told him I was reading about all this UFO information and they talk about the Roswell crash in '47 and the alledged Russian landings in the '50's and the (UNCLEAR) in the '60's and I said, well, if all this is going on... there must be something going on somewhere now... if there are aliens here and they're flying around and whatever there venue is... they must be here now... that's where I want to be. And he said... what are you doing Wednesday night.
L: That's right. That's exactly right.
G: I said, what did you have in mind. And then he tells me. That he knows the disc schedule and stuff and he's going to take us out there then to watch the disc... which was one of the most thrilling...
Q: Tell me about this... there was the three of you... this was the first time...
L: It was Jim, also.
Q: Oh, Jim... wasn't Jim up at Tonapa...
L: Yeah, but he came down sporadically...
G: He'd have to work five and seven day stretches, but it wasn't always Monday through Friday...
L: Right. So it was me, Gene, Jim and Tracy. Right? I have to check it with you. No, no, no... that was the second time... the first night was...
G: Lear... no, Lear was the last night.
L: I know you and I were there... it must have been Lear, because we had the telescope...
G: Yeah, we invited Lear, because Lear's got an eight inch Selectron (sp?) and he knew, I didn't know... I'd never been out there, but he knew we were going to be a long way away... over a mountain range and so we had met Lear by then and Lear had a telescope and it was me, you, Lear and Tracy.
L: Okay.
Q: What car?
G: It was Lear's RV.
L: Okay.
Q: You're driving up there. Everybody was... was this light-hearted conversation... was this deadly serious... were you afraid?
L: I remember...
G: Here's a guy telling me I'm going to get to see an extraterrestrial vehicle tested... you know...
L: And, as we're coming up the mountain, which goes down... now the thing is going to take off... I forget at what time... 9:15 or 8:15... we're coming up the hill and the transmission gives out on the motor home and we're stuck in the middle of the road on a hill in the middle of the desert...
G: So I hitchhike with a guy coming from either Area 51 or (UNCLEAR), I get in his truck and he's going to take me all the way down the hill to get some transmission fluid at the gas station down there... and on the way down, and this guy's drinking beer, you know, guys drive through central Nevada and they pick up a six-pack for safe driving on the way home... and we're going down and I start talking with his guy about Area 51 and, though he wouldn't really open up, he was a complete stranger, he (UNCLEAR) working at Area 51 and that you do have to get clearance to get anywhere in there and he had worked with a man who had had a heart attack and they called an ambulance and the ambulance didn't have clearance to get inside the gate... so they had to bring the guy from inside there to the gate and it took too long and the guy died... and had he gotten to the ambulance he would have lived... but just by virture of security clearance, they held the ambulance at the gate and made the guy be brought out to the gate and the guy died... this is the story from this complete stranger. He takes me down there to get transmission fluid... I buy him another six-pack of beer to thank him and he takes me back out...
Q: Oh, he drove you back up?
G: He drove me back up... I was going to have to hitchhike back up again...
Q: So you were still going up the grade... and is this on the way to what is now Alien Inn?
G: No... Alie-Inn is past there... it's thirty miles past there...
L: Actually that heart attack story I thought came from Dennis... but it didn't... now I remember where the origin of that story was...
G: Oh, yeah...
Q: So you get the transmission fluid back in...
G: We go back up, we put the transmission fluid in... we turn out the lights... sneak down the road... set up the telescope...
Q: This was a paved road, though?
L: No, dirt road.
G: Gravel road.
L: While you're talking, let me just try and find "The Day After" on tape...
Q: Gene... tie this one off for me... you went up, parked, set up the telescope... what happened?
G: Well, after dark, a light appeared up in the sky... started jumping around... pretty thrilling... now, listen, it was really thrilling that day... but the reason I'm playing it down was because the next week, when Jim was with us... not Lear...
Q: What did Lear say when he saw the light?
G: He knew it.
L: He was excited...
G: He knew they were out there... it just confirmed it.
L: It was more like... "I told you."
G: Right.
Q: Now, you were looking at it through the telescope?
L: No, I wasn't... because I thought I'd let them see what was going on.
G: Yeah, we got to see it through a telescope and it was still far away through the telescope... you could see an elliptical light and it jumped around and danced around in the air...
Q: Could you see it with the naked eye?
G: Oh, yeah, you could. When we got the best shot of it... Lear got his eye on the eyepiece... and when we got the best shot of it... he's getting out of the way and he kicks the tripod and moves the telescope. And, if you think it's easy, it is tough to get that thing on that telescope... and the next week...
L: We really hated him...
G: Yeah, we really hated him after that.
Q: It was approximately how many miles away?
L: Thirteen, I would guess.
Q: Okay.
G: But the next week, we rented a Lincoln, because we all had small cars and...
Q: Now this is the second time?
G: This is the second time.
L: Which was on...
G: April 29th...
L: No, wait... March...
G: March 29th...
Q: Now, were you excited that week, knowing that the next week you were going to go out and look at this again?
G: I felt so privileged... I felt like the luckiest son of a bitch in the world... he's a physicist and was in the program and stuff... I'm getting this free of charge... nobody wants to kill me... I realized how lucky we all were... as a writer, don't you feel fortunate to jump on... this is the best story... imagine if Jesus was here... it's got... infidelity... it's got government cover-up... it's got... isn't this great?
(LAUGHTER)
Q: You're in the Lincoln... take me out...
G: Okay, we rent a Lincoln cause we've all got small cars...
Q: Who signed on the dotted line for the Lincoln?
G: I did... I was the only one who had a charge card I think...
L: No, no, no, wait... wasn't that Kristin...
G: No...
L: He remembers better than I do...
G: There was a Lincoln... I rented it... Budget Rent A Car and so Jim and I... we're going up... Jim and I are in the front... Bob and Tracy are in the back... Bob's got a video camera... I think Bob was also explaining space/time distortion to Tracy in the back seat, if I remember right and the funny thing was, we're going up and Jim's looking out the window and it looks like these two F15's are following us. And Jim's looking out the window and we said, what're you looking at and he says, I know this is an optical illusion but it seems like these F15's are folllowing us... as though we'd be important enough... and, so as a joke, I said, that's okay, I'll get rid of them, I've seen 'Top Gun" and I started backing the car... back and forth on the highway...
L: He did that...
G: But then we got up there... we got up and turned the lights out... we snuck down the road and waited about...
Q: Same place... you're going to the same place.
G: About four and a half...
Q: Now, you've got no telescope this time...
G: Yeah, we've got a telescope... it's a small telescope, video camera, which is what I think he's cueing up there... yeah, this is the actual sound from that night, isn't it?
L: Yeah, this is the whole thing... I even have the tape of us in the car, joking around.
Q: Who's running the camera? Bob, are you running the camera?
G: Yeah. He's in the back seat...
L: Probably, yeah.
G: He and Tracy are in the back seat. So, anyway, we went down the road to the same place... we set up the telescope and stuff and Bob is screwing with the telescope, because the mountain and the skies are starting to blend together, it's getting dark, and I can't see shit.
Q: Now, are you just kind of standing there? Are you drinking beer? Or...
G: I'm sure Jim was drinking beer.
L: Jim always drinks beer.
G: We were probably drinking soft drinks, or something. Not that I'm opposed to beer, but I wouldn't have been drinking it then, because I would have had to work the next morning. So then, Bob is screwing around with the telescope and video camera... Jim's looking through binoculars... no, he's screwing with the telescope, Tracy's on the video camera... cause we know where to look now... we had seen this thing before... but Jim hadn't... Jim's looking with binoculars...
Q: It came up over the top of the mountain...
G: So we're looking around and, without looking exactly at it, a small light passed above the mountains and I go, Bob, look at that. And he goes... that's probably just a star. Period. That's generally the place it pops up in the sky. It's not moving or anything... so he goes back to the telescope... and so then I'm just looking with binoculars, watching it... now Cereus jumps up and jumps three or four, five miles to the west. And Jim says, holy shit, did you see that? And I said, hey, Bob... and he said, what, and I said, Cereus just jumped about three miles to the west and he looked up and that was the night... it jumped up and did the step moves all around and, even though all of this is in hindsight now, it's still very hard to believe it happened, but it did. It came so far up the mountain range toward us and glowed so brightly, again we left the trunk of the Lincoln open, because we got the telescope and everything out of there... and we actually backed up to get behind the trunk. Now, as I reflect back on that, it's hard to believe...
Q: It was just a light.
G: Right, but it glowed so brightly... I think your mind can only take so much before it starts an explosion... in other words, whatever your mind's eye is used to seeing, it's hard to describe, when this thing came down the mountain range... it's not as though it's a car on the highway or a train on the railroad track approaching you and you say, yeah, it'll be here in a few minutes, it'll be there and you'll say something to somebody and turn around and it's a lot closer and you didn't see it come and you might blink and it's a lot closer... I guess that's by virtue of the way it travels... and it's alarming cause you don't see it coming... you can't judge it... it's like boom... boom... it's actually that fast... and, according to Bob's information, the more highly energized it is, the more brightly it glows... the more of a charge you're going to see around the disc and so when it dropped down near to where we were, it was glowing so brightly, it was like a small sun...
Q: Was it illuminating the car?
(PHONE RINGS. MACHINE TURNED OFF AND BACK ON)
Q: So you stepped back behind the car?
G: We stepped back behind the trunk and the thing glowed back down...
Q: What did Jim say?
L: Oh, look, this is April 5th.
G: That's the final night when we got busted without seeing any disc...
L: Okay, that's the car that she rented then.
G: That's the car she rented.
L: I had the two days blended together.
Q: What did Jim say when he saw the disc coming towards you?
G: Well, you can probably hear it if he finds...
L: No, this is the third night... Well, you can finish the second night and when the third night comes up, we've got the tape.
G: What did Jim say... "holy shit!"
L: Right.
G: Jim's not a man of many words... he wouldn't say a big soliloquy about it.
Q: No, Jim's got a clearance... Jim's worked...
L: No, he never did get his clearance...
Q: Ah...
L: But he was working on it...
G: Because he knew Bob Lazar.
L: Yeah.
Q: Okay.
G: But that was a thrilling night. That was the best night we ever got.
Q: So the disc left.
G: The disc went back down the mountain range... did a few more moves... sat there right above the mountain where it came up and then very slowly just went right back down... the show's over...
Q: Five minutes, roughly... three minutes...
G: I don't know... I was thrilled and I wasn't... It was the longest one I saw... it was minutes... it wasn't just a few seconds.
Q: You drove back... what did anybody say in the car when you drove back? Was it quiet, was it noisy?
G: It was noisy... although, it's a drive from hell on the way home when it's dark, so it gets quiet cause everybody's falling asleep. But I was thrilled. I think Jim and I were... we were in the front seat... we had music on... I don't even know what Tracy and Bob...
Q: Bob, did anybody tell you that you should tell more people that night?
L: I don't remember. I actually remember very little about that night. Other than just the major events.
G: Now, listen, he's not kicked out of the program yet... so, everybody who knows him knows how ludicrous it would be... in other words, you were thankful that Bob let you in... you would never go... why don't we bring all of us inside... you were thrilled to be... honored... to be in that group and nobody would have suggested that... because his life and security clearance and everything else were really on the line.
Q: So you drove back. That was the...
L: That was the 29th.
Q: What happens in the next few days before the next test flight. Anything?
G: Well, Kris comes to town... that's one thing.
APRIL 4th, 1989
L: Kris comes to town on the 4th. Oh here it is...
APRIL 5th, 1989
L: "Bad day at Groom" is what's written on the 5th. So that's the day we got caught. And here it is...
APRIL 6th, 1989
L: Debriefing on the 6th.
Q: That's Indian Springs. Let's take a look at that day at Groom.
[VIDEO TAPE OF THE 3RD VISIT TO GROOM LAKE BEGINS TO RUN IN THE B.G. A BIT HARD AT TIMES TO DISTINGUISH INTERVIEW FROM THAT B.G. DIALOGUE.]
Q: So who's in the car now?
L: This is Kris driving. There's John Lear. No, you didn't want John to come.
G: We never wanted John to come. He was too big an asshole. He acts like he's in charge. How this happened was... you know the tests ran on a regular basis and Lear called and wanted to go up to Groom and Bob goes, Nah, I don't think we're going to go tonight... and blows him off and Lear says, well, I'm going out there anyway and so Bob calls me and says...
L: Didn't he just show up in front of the house?
G: He might have called you from his cellphone... I remember that you did call me and I go... well, I don't know... cause Lear and I never got along terribly well... so Lear shows up within twenty minutes...
[GENE AND BOB SPEAKING SIMULTANEOUSLY]
L: There's everyone there... that's Tracy there...
G: There's a car rented... and Lear doesn't even think for a second that he wasn't invited he thinks that in twenty minutes we ran out, rented a car, and got ready to go to Groom Lake.
L: Tracy's standing on the center line saying, here comes a car. We're trying to decide on the best vantage point.
Q: It's a paved highway.
L: Yeah, this is the highway, we haven't taken the road down there yet.
Q: What does his hat say?
L: Special Forces or something.
G: That's John Lear with a regular .35 mm camera... he's going to take a picture of a light in the sky fifteen miles away.
Q: Let me ask Gene about that... we actually talked about that quite at length. Gene, tell me from your perspective what happened that night? About when you were caught.
G: Actually what happened was we were up there... you saw us there... we were looking over the valley... now, what that didn't show, was there all kinds of four-wheel drive vehicles sweeping the road.
Q: Sweeping the dirt road.
G: These are dirt roads that ranchers can use to go in and get their cattle, cause this is open range. But all the security vehicles were sweeping these roads to make sure no one was on them.
Q: Now, you knew they were security vehicles?
L: Right. We were waiting for them to disappear.
G: That's what we could see through those binoculars, although it wasn't on any of the video. We could see what kind of vehicles they were. Besides the ranchers drive old trucks with big trailers on them.
Q: So you were waiting for them to leave.
G: Get done in the area and then once it started getting dark with no lights on, we snuck... no, did you get out of the car first?
L: No... that was the story... that was the story we had talked about on the phone. If anyone asks, I got out at the... that was the stop sign story...
G: We go down the road and we're going further and further and we're deciding well, should we stop here, no... let's go in further... no lights on or anything and eventually, I don't know why, Kris hit the brakes...
L: No, we stopped by slamming into park... but we forgot that when we opened the door the dome light goes on...
G: That's right... that's right. Yeah, because we were going to try to sneak out and she hit the brakes on the way out. But anyway, the dome light comes on so and I guess it's dark now...
L: Yeah, cause when the dome light came on...
G: The dome light comes on and Blazers and Broncos start coming out from the security base out there all over the roads... and you can see dust kicking up in the air and all these vehicles running all over the place. And this is when you got out, isn't it?
L: We actually drove up the road a bit and saw that they were already up in front of us...
G: Right because they had gone up the other road and gone to the highway and they're coming on the highway and there's no way we can beat them to the highway... so we were going up the road and we were going to try and sneak out... but Tracy had to hit the brakes a few times... and then once... now they've got headlights on... he gets out and takes the gun in case of rattlesnakes cause he can't get caught with us. We go further up the road... oh, that's it... now, he's out... he's going over and hiding in the desert... we look up the road and the security vehicles behind us stop, so we stop... cause they aren't going to chase us... we aren't going to leave... and so then they start up again and we start up again... and then we stop because they've got us in both directions... interesting... the two guys that came in the vehicle down from the road were two Indians... Indian looking guys... I mean, thin, thirty, thirty-five years old and they were Indians... which I found really strange... cause that's not Indian reservation...
L: I never saw that.
Q: But they were in uniforms?
G: No, no... they were in plainclothes and they were in a Blazer... I remember it was a Chevy and they were in a Blazer and they were Indians and the only reason I thought they were in it was because the guys who came up behind us were in uniforms and the Indian guys pulled over and the main head guy, who was very big, muscular guy and bald headed, went over and they spoke... we were just up the way, but I couldn't hear what they said or anything, but they knew each other... they were involved in coming around the highway... I don't know... I don't know... and then there were two vehicles behind us and then the head guy -- bald headed -- they had automatic weapons, but they saw that we weren't any threat and they put the automatic weapons back in their vehicles and the bald headed, big, muscular guy -- the head security guy -- and then another guy, who was even bigger, like they could have beat the shit out of us... they weren't worried about having to use weapons on us... and he said, what are you doing out here. Now genius Lear says, "What did we do, break up a drug bust or something?" I don't know where that came from, but these guys have machine guns... we're out here... and so anyway... oh, when we stopped... we stopped and set up the telescope again real fast... and we said, we're just watching the stars... so the head guy radioed back and said, they say they're out here watching the stars... and we didn't hear what the response was, but I'm sure they said, get 'em out of there. And so he hands us this sheet and says...
L: Oh, really... this is the first I heard of that.
G: Yeah, he hands us this sheet and says...
Q: What sheet?
G: It's a handout they give showing the Nevada revised statutes regarding that military installation and, if you enter the military installation, or you are out there with any... binoculars... video equipment...
L: It's a crime actually to sketch the mountain range...
G: So, legally even if you take a picture of the outside of the moutain, they can charge you a thousand dollar fine and put you in jail for a year. So, he hands us a sheet of paper saying that... and says, well, whether you know it or not, there's a military installation on the other side of the mountain range... we want you to get back up on the highway if you're just watching stars... we don't know why you're in the middle of Nevada watching stars anyway... cause the stars can be seen from a lot of places... so Lear says something. I was quiet, cause I didn't want... Lear says, well, this is (UNCLEAR) land, or something, and they said, yeah, and we can't force you to get off here, but we'd prefer that you get back up on the highway. So they got back in their vehicles and just sat there, waiting for us... So eventually, we went back up toward the highway and he had moved up in the dark and was going up that way and so we weren't on the highway, we were up by the highway and Bob came walking back over, put the gun in the trunk, and we told him what had happened...
L: Wait, you're leaving out a good part of the story... about me and you joking around...
G: Right... that's what I'm getting to now... and then we started joking about what if we had guys surrounding the guards... is that what you're talking about?
L: Yeah.
Q: How did that happen?
L: Well, we didn't know they were right there...
G: Right. And we had pulled up by the highway and it's dark now and we don't know they're there and we start goofing around saying, wouldn't they have been surprised if, when they pulled up and started out, we had people with guns surrounding them... and blah, blah, blah, and we're standing there talking and, I don't remember exactly, I know me and Tracy... did you see the green light drop also...
L: Yeah.
G: Okay... me and Bob and Tracy are standing there talking and we see a green light back down the road go... like that... and I guess that's kind of what... those green scopes... well, apparently, they had been watching us through that and dropped it and we all saw the green light drop and realized these guys were there, so they saw Bob come walking back over to the car and then we left and went back up on the highway and made a left... went towards Alie-Inn cause we were going to still stay out there... and...
Q: The Alie-Inn was further down the road?
G: Right.
L: At that time it was the Rachel Bar and Grill.
Q: It was further away...
G: From Las Vegas... right. And we went down there and sat awhile and...
L: What? I don't remember any of that... I thought we...
G: No, we went down there in the car... not too far... and we sat on the highway for a few minutes and decided we weren't going to see anything, whipped a U, and headed back toward Las Vegas, and, as soon as we did, that's when (UNCLEAR) pulled us over...
L: Okay, I thought he was there when we got up to the road...
G: It's not like we were trying to memorize the situation... so then the cop pulled us over... Kris is driving. He gets out and tells us... he's not in a very good mood, and he tells us he's got a problem... and the problem is that when the security pulled this vehicle over there were four people in it and now he pulls us over and there are five. Can anybody explain that to him? You got any weapons in this car? No remember... the guards probably saw him put that gun in the trunk... got any weapons in this car? Bob says no... So then Kris is the one who rented this car and he starts asking her... will you give me permission to search this vehicle... and we couldn't even look at her and give her a signal or anything, but she was very strong and obstinate and she just said, no, she would not let them...
L: Well, she was going to legal school at the time and was really up on it...
G: She wouldn't let him search the car... so he wanted ID's from all of us and it was Lear, wasn't it?
L: Oh, yeah.
G: So he frisks us... because I had a little bit of bronchial asthma... I didn't hear him... so he frisked us and asked for ID from everybody... and I didn't have any ID cause I wasn't driving... so I gave him my social security number and stuff and Lear, instead of saying, I didn't bring my ID, just like I did before him... says my ID's in the trunk. So he gets the keys and opens up the trunk and there's a movie camera and a telescope and binoculars, a Gieger counter, everything you're not suppose to have is there in the trunk and the Sheriff's looking at this. And then Lear gives him his ID and so he goes back to the cop car and we know this, I guess in hindsight, but then... we didn't know that the Sheriff was in with the security people and he radios all of our names and social security numbers and he comes back and says... look, I've detained you fifty-five minutes now, I can only detain you one hour without taking you in... according to law... so I'm going to let you go, but you're out here outside this military installation with all this stuff inside your trunk playing hide and go seek with the guards and stuff and saying you're not up to anything, I suggest you get out of here and don't let me catch you around here anymore... so that was it... and we can only...
L: Well, don't forget... you did leave out a couple points... one was... that had nothing to do with anything, was right before he said I've detained you for so long and I'm going to let you go, I was trying to interrupt him talking to that other cop to tell him we did have a gun in the car...
G: Oh, that's right... you were going to confess. Yeah, cause we were getting scared... we did have a gun in the car...
L: Well, they were going to tow the car... and the tow truck came out...
G: Right... and so Bob was going to confess, but he let us go and so then, after we got in the car, and talked about what a big dickhead the Sheriff was... you know, typical talk about the Sheriff and I remember on the way home, Bob wouldn't back me up, I remember Kris, his sister-in-law... now it seems obvious that we must have been let go because Bob was with us and they didn't know what Bob told us or anything... because there's no reason they should have let some people who were out there on a Wednesday night with all this illegal equipment, taking movies... just let us go and not taken our car and searched it... and so I was in an argument with Kris, cause she thought that Bob being with us had nothing to do with it... we were just lucky and they let us go. And I said, you mean you think we were out there with all this stuff and we were just let go... so, that's all I remember on the way home, cause Bob wouldn't take my side in the argument. So, anyway, then I remember silence. Everybody was beat.
Q: Next day... Indian Springs.
APRIL 6th, 1989
L: Indian Springs.
Q: We went down to EG&G and picked up Dennis.
L: Right and then we drove to Indian Springs in my car.
Q: When you drove into Indian Springs, did you comment that, I thought this base was closed up... it's all boarded up, right?
L: I really had never been up to Indian Springs before that. It's not boarded up... it's there, but just deserted.
G: It's just a little, rural base and the Thunderbirds land out there once in awhile, don't they? It's just a little base designed to watch the perimeter of the bombing range...
L: But it's a big area...
G: But its' nothing.
L: It's not like multitudes of buildings or anything.
G: Right... you go by it on the highway... it's not even that far to drive out and look at it if you'd like to see it.
Q: But the gate actually has a guard there?
L: Yeah. And it says, "Auxiliary Air Force Base", or something.
G: And isn't their water tank painted with red and white checkers?
Q: When you went onto the base, did the guards stop you and ask for someone's ID or did you just go right through the gate?
L: No, he stopped us and Dennis said something and the guy checked a list and we went in. So that was all the priliminary stuff... Dennis knew right where to go. He told me to go up to this building... we walked inside and it was a small office with... I don't know how many guys were there... I know eventually the guards came down... but I think it was me and Dennis riding up in the car... the guy that was there and someone else.
Q: People you'd never seen before?
L: Right. People I'd never seen before.
Q: Ever saw them again?
L: No... definitely never saw them again. I might have seen them before... I don't think so.
Q: Came back from Indian Springs -- did you say anything to Gene when you came back?
L: I know I told him about what had happened.
G: Yeah, the next day... not that night. You went out there... I didn't know anything about that until the next day.
Q: What did Bob say?
G: How happy they were... that when he was driving out with Dennis... that he asked him what we were going out there for and Dennis turned to him and said, you know, Bob, you weren't supposed to bring all your friends out there to watch the discs fly. And that was kind of it. He said it was a solemn drive.
L: It was just quiet.
G: And he said that they put guns to his head and debriefed him... the one guy had a blue windbreaker on that said "FBI" on the back... right?
L: No, I don't remember that.
G: I'm pretty sure that's what you said, because that was the first... because you said you didn't even know if he was "FBI", but that he had a blue windbreaker on that said that. They put guns to his head, hollered at him, screamed at him, and that's the night when they showed you the transcript of Tracy and her boyfriend talking on the phone...
L: Right.
Q: Now when you say, that's the night... you were up there during the night also.
L: Whatever... it was late... it was a late... we left late and... I got back and it was dark, so...
G: When you left EG&G it was already like four or something and so you thought you were flying out... and you and Dennis had to go on a sixty or seventy-five mile drive... and it was winter, so it was dark the whole time, right?
Q: When you saw the transcripts, that was a complete surprise to you? Or was it?
L: Yeah.
Q: Bob say anything about the transcripts that he saw.
L: I must have, if I told you about everything else.
G: Yeah, right... he... well, you already knew about Tracy, right? You did before you went...
L: No, that was the first I heard...
G: Oh, that's it... see, I don't want to (UNCLEAR) here, as I remember, now just correct me if I'm wrong, I could be wrong, but I thought the reason they decided to show them to you... and tell you that, was because Tracy called her mom in Minnesota and told her mom she had an affair...
L: No, that's when I came back and told Tracy they told me... and so purposely made the call...
G: Oh, okay... all right...
L: I was trying to show them an end to... to show them that everyone knew what was going on and it's over... I was trying to display an end... I even think her mom knew about it... I'm not sure about that... but she purposely made a phone call to her mom in Minnesota, telling her I told Bob about how everything happened, he knows about everything, and so on and so forth... I don't remember how that ended or...
G: And you had her do that to what... show them there wasn't any emotional instability, or what?
L: Beats the hell out of me... I remember doing that... but I can't...
G: I remember talking to him about this subject... cause he was (UNCLEAR) mad right now... so I wasn't going... well, what did he say? And what did she say? I mean, he wasn't in the mood for that.
L: See now the story doesn't fit together right... something... I'm getting something wrong... I remember, I made Tracy make that phone call to tell her Mom cause I knew they were listening and, for some reason, I was... okay, well go ahead...
G: I don't know... that was your and Tracy's personal life, the way I remembered... and it could be wrong... you were the one that was there... again, I wasn't jumping in to their personal business, cause this was a touchy situation at this point and time... I didn't know... all I knew was Tracy, maybe at your request, called her Mom and told her Mom that she had had an affair and that she told you... I thought after that is when you went to Indian Springs... because now the guys who were listening on your phone knew that you knew... because they had had transcripts of her and her boyfriend for a long time and they weren't going to break the news to Bob... I thought, once they heard her confess to her Mom that you knew, know they knew you knew and stuck it in your eye and said, ha, ha we've known and this is why we're yanking your clearance...
L: Why wouldn't I remember this? This is a significant point.
G: Well, what else makes sense though...
L: Well, it's easy to find out, because...
Q: Let me ask you, one of the salient points here is at Indian Springs was it definitive that you were not going to get your clearance?
L: No, I still wasn't sure...
Q: Good.
L: No, I actually thought that I was still coming back, because they really never did do anything... and, in fact, later on down the road, they asked me to come back... I refused then, but... no one said, that's it... we want nothing to do with you anymore... or anything along those lines. At one point, they said... emotional instability and something about six months... you remember anything about that... reapply in six months?
G: Yeah, but they said they were going to yank your clearance, because you were a sure candidate for emotional instability... you can reapply in six to nine months... Now, I was under the impression, all this shit went down the same night as Indian Springs... but I could be wrong.
L: No, that's why I'm questioning... was that on Indian Springs night?
G: I thought on Indian Springs night... cause you never went back again... they called you back, but you thought it was because they wanted to put you in jail or kill you... not because of work and that's why you refused to go back...
L: Right...
G: So if you refused to go back... that means you never talked to these people ever again other than Dennis on the phone or... that means it had to have happened that night...
L: See, they had to have told me first because, here's the debriefing on the 6th... on the...
APRIL 10th, 1989
L: is "life equals zero".
G: That's when you knew Tracy had an affair...
L: Right... so that is the way.
G: So they were the ones that told you about Tracy's affair?
(START OF TAPE SEVEN -- SIDE A)
(PHONE RINGS)
Q: Bob, help me with this... why is "life equals zero"...
L: I think that's because when Tracy told me about everything about the affair...
Q: But you saw the transcripts on the 6th... so you knew about it?
L: Right.
G: See... Bob's a very live and let live guy... so Bob... now keep in mind, he's been involved in the most important scientific program in the world, he's been busy... he's been neglecting Tracy... he doesn't even tell her what he's doing... and stuff like this... so Bob was willing to try and work it out. See a counselor... forgive and forget. I think by the time it was "life equals zero" , you just thought she had had a sexual fling... she told you she actually had some feelings for Chris and that's when you said... that's what hurt you. You didn't care that she had sex on the side...
L: Right...
G: You bottomed out when you found out...
(PHONE RINGS)
G: See I don't like talking about this in front of Bob...
L: I don't like hearing about it either.
(MACHINE TURNED OFF AND BACK ON)
Q: Okay, "Life equals zero" April 10th... where do we go from there? This is great, by the way, we're...
L: You know, I even had a feeling that what I read was not true...
Q: On the 6th...
L: But the hell with that... it doesn't matter... 'cause after the 10th nothing really mattered.
Q: Did you show her this when you came home? Did you show her the transcript?
L: I... it's a blur... I really don't remember.
G: You didn't get the transcript, did you?
L: No... they didn't give me it. They never gave me any transcripts.
APRIL 12, 1989
L: Oh, counselor... Dr. John... two days after.
Q: Who made the call to Dr. John?
L: Tracy. And then a trip to Los Alamos. See I'm in a bad mood already...
G: I didn't want to...
Q: Bob, this is important...
L: Yeah, I know...
G: It's like... here's the worst day of your life now... what happened...
L: Exactly what happened next? Okay, here's his last name... LaClose?
G: Did you tell him what happened with Dr. John?
L: Yes... that he fired us.
Q: Can you walk through how you phrased that to him?
L: Ahh...
Q: I mean, how did it come up in the conversation?
L: Well, cause he's trying to lay out... well, what's all the stress you guys keep talking about? And I said, well, we have a lot of external stress and other things influencing our life... he said, well, I can't iron things out... now this is over several visits... he said, I really can't iron things out... why don't we lay everything out on the table... and then Tracy and I now are playing off of each other and we're laughing... saying... we keep beating around the bush and we finally say... okay, this is it. And we lay everything out... and I remember him sitting there with a pencil in his mouth and he keeps taking it out and tapping it and then he goes over a recap of what we've just told him and it sounds...
Q: Step through the recap...
L: He said... and it sounds just as ridiculous to us... so, you were working on alien flying saucers for the government...
G: It sounds funny now, too...
L: And I can't remember how it was stated... and now that you're not working there... they might be after you to kill you or your wife because you went and showed your friends and your phone is tapped... everything you do is being monitored... so on and so forth... and at the end... we said, yeah, that's about it... and he just told us... look, I don't think I'm going to be able to see you guys anymore... so... that's it and we left and...
G: They got fired...
L: Right. And then we had a great laugh coming back. That was... if anything that actually did help, because we talked about that for days. Okay, that was here, so we went the first time to the counselor... everything happened on the 10th... the 12th we went to the counselor... then we went again on the 18th and the 25th is when we got fired.
Q: What's the next date, Bob?
L: Well... Tracy and I are still living together... and still working together... so... she goes to Los Alamos and I'm here... huh? Well... Dr. John at 6 p.m.... maybe that was the last day.
JUNE 1, 1989
L: So... that, I guess, is the last day. But this is a surprising entry on June 1st... it says... told Trac secret... what secret could that possibly be? Obviously, she knew about all the flying saucer stuff. What was left that I could probably... is it something that's going to depress me?
G: Nothing I'm going to tell you. I don't know what that would be... but didn't you go on TV in silhouette in May... didn't they start chasing you...
L: Oh, oh, oh... maybe that's it. Yeah, cause we were caught...
G: April 5th... debriefed April 6th and I think you were on TV in May in silhouette that was when you were trying to get them to leave you alone so you came forward.
Q: What happened in that period, as best you recall, when Bob was... felt like he was in danger? Did you feel like you were in danger, also?
G: Yeah... I was a little paranoid because once he told me about the transcript of Tracy on the phone, I knew for sure his phone was tapped and, by that time, we had relaxed somewhat and talked about stuff on the phone... where if someone really was listening, they knew I knew... and they knew Jim knew... and they even would know I had called other people and told them... but I always felt they were after him... I mean, I was paranoid... although some of it was being paranoid for him more so than me... although I always thought... actually I remember me and you and Tracy talking about staying quiet about it... certainly more for him... I'm just saying that I can remember the three of us talking about... that even Tracy and I felt that like we were carrying a weight... because now we knew... he had taken us out... shown us the disc... we believed him... we knew there had been life here from another source and the rest of the entire world, including people older than us... younger than us... everybody didn't know... and it was almost like a burden... I don't know if he can relate to that or not... but it was... I don't know how to describe it... but it was like carrying a heavy weight because then I was really... and even Tracy... started to read everything we could... we had viewed all those tapes from Lear and I was reading stuff... the library had a good selection of stuff here... books written in the decade prior to that... tried to see if anybody knew anything that paralleled what Bob had seen... so we really became students of Ufology, as they call it... to see if anybody knew anything... and paranoid... I remember one time... then the strange things started happening... I remember he went to work out at the gym with Shelley and Mario and came out and his car had been broken into to and the one time the doors... he had his Uzi and his wallet in there and the doors were standing open and he came back to the car and no one had stolen the Uzi or the wallet, which means whoever broke in and opened the doors left them open to say... ha, ha we were here... then with Mario a similar thing happened, didn't it? Didn't you go work out with Mario...
L: Right... you kind of have the story wierd... that happened with Mario, twice, and with Shelley I went to work out with her and her car was in the driveway... when we came back to the house, her car was open... all the seats were back... everything was gone through, but nothing was taken.
G: And then another time... now we were paranoid, so he had his Uzi and he loaned me a .44 Magnum 'cause I didn't even own a handgun... I'm not a hunter or killer or anything like that... I own a gun now... so I borrowed his .44 Magnum and so he was being followed by unknown cars. It wasn't general paranoia because he doesn't do drugs or anything against the law generally speaking, you know... so I remember one day I was in my office, I've got the .44 Magnum in there and he comes walking in...
L: Oh, yeah...
G: And ah... he goes... give me the gun and I picked it up and I gave it to him and he doesn't say anything, just walks back out and then he goes chasing somebody, somebody had been following him down Charleston towards my office and he stopped at my office and got a gun and then wanted to go chase the car that had been following him, but I guess they lost you or something. Now he didn't know if this was the government or who it was, but somebody was following him...
Q: This was roughly what time period? Roughly.
G: Must have been in April, huh?
Q: And this is before you went on TV?
L: This is after April 7th...
G: It was before you went on TV though?
L: Yeah.
Q: And before the time that someone took a shot at you?
L: Right. Right.
JUNE 20, 1989
L: And just to update us, right here... it says "Dr. John drops us" on the 20th of June... so, I guess there were a lot more visits than I had imagined to him... but that's when that event actually does happen.
G: Also, even though it's not any place on the calendar, before Tracy moved out, he got his paycheck... now remember he was on call and so he might work one week... you know, five working days... over the course of a month or a month and a half... depending what time frame he was in... he got his paycheck... and he was going to skim the paycheck and not tell Tracy, because he had some electronic equipment he wanted to buy... so he got his paycheck and he showed me... and it was like nine hundred and fifty or nine hundred and seventy bucks... because I presumed a senior staff physicist would make more than that... wouldn't you? You know, you've got to go to school a long time... do a lot of things... and this guy isn't even making a grand a week as a senior staff physicist and I remember being curious about that and so that is when he received his paycheck and it was in one of those envelopes like... remember now... this wasn't critical because nobody knew he was going to get kicked out of the program... he thought there'd be many more paychecks... so it's not like I said, please, let me see the envelope and memorize it... but if I remember right, wasn't it like one of those brown Department of Treasury type envelopes?
L: It was a big check... I remember that... I don't remember what the...
G: (UNCLEAR)... the golf tournament...
L: Yeah...
G: But he did get a paycheck during that time... I mean, I didn't really look at it... all I remember is musing about the amount, cause I thought he'd be making more money.
Q: What did you think when he was shot at?
G: I thought it was big trouble... naturally... he had left my office and, in the mean time, I had left my office... I got home and there was this message on my answering machine in this real neurotic... nervous... scared voice...
Q: He was on his way over to John Lear's?
G: I don't know... why would you be going to John Lear's?
L: To do the interview with George? To do the satellite link-up with George.
G: Yeah, but I met you up... we went over to Lear's together... because, well, Tracy was at Lear's. Me and Tracy sat outside the van...
L: Oh, really?
G: We just used Lear's parking lot... was Lear even there?
L: This is such a blur to me...
G: Lear's got like a commercial parking lot in front of his house... I recall Marilee (sp?) being there... I don't recall John being there. Because here's the thing, Tracy, as you saw, is a very attractive young woman and she was trying to get into some modeling... she's too short... too much of a Munchkin to be a classic model... but certainly a great looking face... and Marilee Lear... she's a casting agent for bit parts is what she does now... for Lear Casting for movies that are shot here in Nevada... then, or she probably still does, she helped people get into modeling... she was like an agent... wasn't she?
L: Right...
G: So she... Tracy was using Marilee to try and get some photographic modeling jobs... for face shots and stuff like that... and I don't even recall John being there... but I do remember Jan Jones was there... who's now the mayor of Las Vegas... Jan Jones was there because...
L: She was going to buy their horse...
G: She was into horses and Marilee was showing Jan Jones a horse and Frank was the camera man in that van... I don't even recall John being there. And Frank and you were in the van and Tracy and I stood outside of the van while you did the silhouette thing...
L: That's right...
G: So somehow... however that went down... you and Tracy and I ended up back here together and went to Lear's parking lot together. Because it had to be a remote place, you know.
Q: Take me back a day or two before that... to the shooting incident.
G: I mean, I don't recall much about it, other than he was getting on the highway...
Q: Was it the same day as...
JUNE 21, 1989
L: I believe that was on June 21st.
G: It wasn't the same day... was it? Did you get shot and interviewed the same day?
Q: You went to the hotel after you were shot.
L: Yeah, I think... didn't I? Didn't that happen the same day?
G: I don't remember.
L: It was only four years ago...
G: Five years ago now...
Q: There was a message on your machine...
G: With him saying that they had shot his tire out and then you did disappear for a while... did you go to a hotel then, is that what happened?
L: Yeah.
G: Well, then I don't think you went on TV the same day your tire was shot out... cause somehow you and Tracy and I got together and went to Lear's parking lot.
L: Where was I going then?
G: When... what do you mean when?
L: When I got shot...
G: You were probably coming from my office and heading back on...
L: I know... but that is not the normal trip back... there was something specific that was happening just that day.
G: Right... cause you got on going north.
L: Right.
G: But that wouldn't have been to Lear's house... from my office to Lear's house you would have gone east.
L: That's right.
G: And you had to meet up with me and Tracy somewhere. So I don't know where you were going. You're right... you wouldn't normally get on 15 north... because you'd be begging for a traffic jam...
L: Unless I was going to meet you guys back here?
G: That might have been it.
L: 'Cause that's the way I would've gone.
G: Because the tire was shattered... there were no slugs or anything... I mean, later, right about that time was when we learned about (UNCLEAR) safety slugs... remember?
L: Right.
G: But again, I remember as a third party, but things were still a little wierd with him and Tracy. Cause even now I know she had an affair and they're going to a counselor and so I wasn't trying to dig into their personal lives... I was just trying to be a friend on the light side of things... and I was also trying to learn and have Bob tell me more UFO stuff...
Q: But he was shot at...
G: Right.
Q: Did you tell him to go to the police?
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L: I don't think anyone did... I think the only person that did was...
G: Because if there wasn't a slug in the tire or anything, you could never convince the cops... that's not a normal thing... you could never convince the cops you didn't have a blow out... then what are you going to tell them? Well, would anyone have an occasion to shoot at you? Yeah. Who? Well, you see I worked on flying saucers and secret agents are chasing me... so it was literally that more than...
Q: So, shortly after that you went on TV.
L: Yeah, whatever date that was.
G: Now, backing up a bit... did you tell him about the time you and Dennis went to the police station?
Q: Nope, haven't heard about that.
L: No.
Q: Time frame for that incident is...?
L: Oh, boy...
G: Well, you said the police... I presume you're wondering could there be a record of any of this stuff. And he did go to the police station with Dennis Marrianni (sp?) one time.
L: That's when I was still going there... so we're talking a time frame... this is back, right after the Russians left.
G: That's not on there... cause when I did the wh