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erm society. the cake. 204 REVELATIONS a mere innocuous fluctuation in the psychosociological storms of mod- As weird as it is, all this is happening in the real world. These people exist, or at least their attorneys do, and the games they play are serious, dangerous games. The reader had to be convinced of this fact before I could take him to the next step, which was my interview with John Lear's now famous informant, Dennis, the man who had convinced Lear that alien scientists were working along with humans at Area 51. Although John Lear had refused to reveal the source of his informa- tion, a little detective work soon identified him as Robert Lazar, a technical contractor with the base. George Knapp, a television reporter in Las Vegas, actually interviewed Lazar late in 1989, yet the man remained steadfastly aloof from UFO researchers. I had the opportunity to meet with Robert Lazar for several hours in March 1990. What he told me was surprising and tantalizing and it added another layer of frosting to the mystery cake. Unfortunately, it did not provide any new information on what, if anything, was inside The Knapp interview of Robert Lazar had exploded like a bomb among the ranks of American Virologists. Here was a clean-cut, articu- late, educated young man who knew physics and who casually claimed to have seen nine flying saucers inside hangars at Area S-4 in the vicinity of Groom Lake and Area 51. Not only had he seen them, but he had touched them and he had been hired to reverse-engineer their propul- sion system, which was based on antigravity and used a stable super- heavy element—specifically, element 115—as part of its fuel. Lazar had handled element 115 and even had a piece of it at his house for a while. There were rumors that someone had tried to kill Lazar because of these revelations, and all kinds of bizarre speculation circulated about those advanced disks in Air Force hangars. At night the local folks .gathered on the road that runs along the northern edge of Nellis Air Force Base to watch some lights in the sky which might be simple tests with missiles or drones, or actual experimental flights of captured flying saucers. At the Rachel Cafe old-timers sitting at the bar and the local cowboys shooting pool swapped breathless stories of strange objects