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Share this: Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Flipboard Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Click to copy URL Copy Zeta Reticuli, Ancient Aliens and More: 9 Things We Learned from Bob Lazar’s Joe Rogan Interview By Brett White Twitter @brettwhite Published June 27, 2019, 12:11 p.m. ET Photo: Joe Rogan Experience Where to Stream: Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers Powered by Reelgood More On: Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Trainwreck: Storm Area 51’ on Netflix, the Ridiculous Saga of a Meme That Almost Became a Fiasco Best Stoner Movies on Netflix in Honor of 420 The Pentagon UFO Videos Are Only the Beginning: 8 UFO Docs to Watch Happy 4/20! 10 Stoner Masterpieces to Stream on Netflix Right Now Hey indie directors: if you want to promote your movie hitting Netflix, go on Joe Rogan’s podcast. After controversial UFOlogy figure Bob Lazar appeared on the show last week, interest in Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers has skyrocketed. The doc, which was just added to Netflix in mid-June, details the story of Bob Lazar, a man who claims to have worked at a branch of Area 51 known as S4. His job: reverse engineer the propulsion system powering one of nine flying saucers kept on the base. Whether or not Lazar is telling the truth is something you have to decide for yourself. It’s hard to separate fact from fiction in even the most boring subjects nowadays, let alone one that would reframe everything humanity knows about the nature of existence. The mild-mannered Lazar has a lot of stories to tell, though, and not even one feature length documentary can contain all of them. Lazar and documentary director Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell appeared on Rogan’s podcast and, over the course of a two-hour conversation, got into way more than could be covered in any one film. Below you’ll find nine bits of intel that either didn’t make it into the doc or should’ve been elb 1. Bob Lazar touched the first UFO he ever saw: He took the gig at S4 not really knowing what he was getting into. In fact, he thought the UFO that he was assigned wasn’t actually a UFO when he first saw it. “This time that I went in, there were hangar doors open. I went in through the hangar door and in the hangar door was the disc, the flying saucer that I worked on. I saw it sitting there and we walked by it. It had a little American flag stuck on the side and I thought, ‘Oh my god, this finally explains all the flying saucer stories. This is just an advanced fighter and this is fucking hilarious.’ So I went by, I slid my hand along side it. I got reprimanded immediately for touching the thing. There was an armed guard that followed us in and said, ‘Keep your eyes forward and your hands at your side and just walk in the door.'” 2. Bob Lazar replaced a dead guy: How does a job open up at S4? It’s not pretty! “I was replacing somebody that [Lazar’s lab partner] Barry worked with prior to me and I think there was some horrific accident that I didn’t have a whole lot of information on. Barry alluded to that… where somebody died.” Lazar says that he thinks the accident involved the scientists trying to cut into the saucer’s reactor. “This must have been a very desperate attempt because it’s not a very scientific process to analyze something that way, but it looked like they used a plasma cutter or something into an operating reactor.” 3. The flying saucers came from Zeta Reticuli: “There was some paperwork that indicated that this [UFO] was from the Zeta Reticuli star system. How they obtained that, I haven’t the slightest idea. It wasn’t just from the Zeta Reticuli star system, it was what they called ZR3. It was the third planet in that star system. There was no other information about it, other than that’s supposedly where the craft came from.” Photo: Netflix Zeta Reticuli might sound familiar as it’s been part of modern UFO lore almost since the beginning, dating back to the first reported alien abduction case. Barney and Betty Hill claimed they were abducted by aliens in fall 1961 and Betty, under hypnosis, drew a star map of where they were taken. An amateur astronomer named Marjorie Fish spent years analyzing the map and concluded that it was a map of the Zeta Reticuli system. Whether or not it is has been debate, with Carl Sagan coming out against it in an episode of Cosmos in 1980. 4. Here’s what the inside of a UFO looks like: “It’s a very ominous feeling because everything is one color. It’s like a dark pewter color. There are no right angles anywhere. It’s as if somebody took a model and fashioned it out of wax and then heated it just for a short time so everything melted. Everything looks like it’s fused together. Everything has a radius, a curvature where two items meet. It’s a really weird looking thing. There was almost nothing, other than a small foldable hatchway, that looked recognizable. Ever...