Every figure in the model, the words it came from, and how sure we can be. Tap a row to fly to it.
A reconstruction from Bob Lazar's own account
In May 1989 a man in silhouette told a Las Vegas television audience that the government kept nine flying discs at a site called S-4, near Papoose Lake in Nevada, and that he had been hired to work out how one of them flew. Months later he showed his face and gave his name: Bob Lazar. The disc he studied was the smallest and sleekest of the nine, so he called it the Sport Model.
Nobody has independently confirmed the craft, the S-4 programme or his part in it. His education and employment records have not been confirmed either, and the contractor he named said it had no record of him. Lazar has told the same core story for more than thirty years. This model takes that story at its word, as an exercise. It turns what he described into a shape you can measure, so you can test whether the details hold together.
It draws only on his own descriptions: the 1989 KLAS-TV interviews with George Knapp, his 1991 video, his own site and sketches, the 2018 film by Jeremy Corbell, his 2019 interview with Joe Rogan and his 2019 book Dreamland. No artist's impression set any dimension.
Where Lazar gave a figure, you will see it with his words and where he said them. Where he gave two figures, you can switch between them. Where he said nothing, we had to choose something to make a solid object, and every one of those choices is marked Inferred. Turn on Confidence colours to see them on the model.
The upper level is left empty on purpose. He says he was never allowed in.
Keyboard
1–5 views · arrows turn or walk · WASD walk inside · +/− zoom · M distance · G angle · C cut · X x-ray · I confidence · H hangar · Esc cancel
Credits
Rendering: three.js (MIT licence), served from this site. All textures and the reflection environments are generated in your browser; no photographs or downloaded images are used. The interior lights and the soft reactor glow are ours, added so you can see inside: Lazar does not describe how the interior was lit or say that the reactor glowed. The blue flight-test glow comes from one emitter, as he describes it. The hangar is an illustration based on Lazar's description of a typical aircraft hangar with doors angled at about 60 degrees.
