Whats with the UFOS?
This area has long been rich in UFO lore. Whatever you can imagine–captured aliens, underground bases, alien-government collusion–it’s all been claimed at Groom Lake. One of the more restrained and interesting stories is the claim by a Las Vegan, Bob Lazar, that he worked with extraterrestrial flying saucers at an installation at Papoose Lake, south of Groom Lake, in an area he calls “S-4.” He says he helped “reverse engineer” one of the craft, but that he saw no aliens himself. There seems to be no way to confirm or directly refute this claim, although Lazar’s claimed educational credentials certainly are not real. Since Lazar first made his claims in televised interviews, many tourists have been coming to the public lands closest to the base to try to catch glimpses of alien craft in flight. Many believe that they have seen UFOs here, but there are so many UFO-like natural and military phenomena on display here that its hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. Many people have li
