The UFO Mechanic

File: UFO223

Teleplay Adaptation by David Stager

This teleplay of Robert Lazar's appearance on the syndicated television program INSIDE REPORT was originally broadcast on June 1, 1990. It is not intended to infringe on the rights of the applicable copyright holder. All Commercial Rights Reserved.

This transcript is for UFO research purposes only as allowed pursuant to the "Fair Use Doctrine" exception to the prohibited duplication of copyrighted materials.

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INT. - STUDIO DESK - SET

EFX: A still photo of Lazar is inset upper right, and then is replaced by another still photo of Lazar with flying saucer image in BG.

FEMALE ANCHOR

... a scientist who says he will no longer hide the truth. Bob Lazar claims our government captured alien spaceships -- Ufos, and keeps them in a secret warehouse. And that's not all. Bob says Uncle Sam hired him to figure out how they fly. If you're skeptical, you have plenty of company. Lazar has been questioned and criticized -- he even had to take a lie detector test, and that's when some people started believing him. Dan Hausle (pronounced: HOW'S LEE) has the INSIDE REPORT on the man who wants to blow the lid off what could be the greatest story never told, and the people who seem to be trying to stop him.

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EXT. LAS VEGAS SKYLINE - EARLY EVENING

We SEE home video footage of bobbing lights hovering and weaving over the Las Vegas skyline. Space music warbles loud, then fades as...

REPORTER: HAUSLE(V/O)

Strange lights over Las Vegas, within view of tourists and gamblers along the city's casino row. What are the odds that these are alien spacecraft out for an evening spin? Or would you bet they're simply standard aircraft? Or worse yet, some kind of hoax. Before you decide, take a look at another shot on this home video where one does appear to be an aircraft, strays into view along with the lights.

A slower moving light progresses in a straight line from right to left across the screen while the moving points of light continue to move erratically in the same pattern as seen before.

HAUSLE(V/O) - CONT'D

Strange things like this have been appearing over the Nevada desert for years.

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EXT. DESERT TERRAIN - DAY

HAUSLE(V/O)

The answer to the mystery may lie in the sprawling Nevada nuclear test site, just north of the city...

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MEDIUM CLOSE UP ON MAP OF AREA 51 & SITE 4

HAUSLE(V/O) - CONT'D

...in a place called Area 51.

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CLOSE UP ON MAP OF AREA 51

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B&W still photos. INTERCUT exterior views of Area 51 buildings, hangers, satellite dishes, planes etc. as...

HAUSLE(V/O) - CONT'D

Area 51 is known by other names: Groom Lake, Dreamland, The Skunk Works. It's an isolated military facility, where the U.S. develops its most top secret projects...

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EXT. FILM FOOTAGE OF U2 TAKE-OFF - DAY

HAUSLE(V/O) - CONT'D

The U2 spy plane was developed here...

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EXT. FILM FOOTAGE OF SR-71 - DAY

We SEE the plane in flight, banking right at low altitude, then...

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An overhead circular pan of the SR-71 in flight, finally...

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The SR-71 comes in for a landing, all as...

HAUSLE(V/O) - CONT'D

...so was its replacement, the high flying Blackbird, along with the current Stealth aircraft, and Star Wars. But there are some who believe these formerly secret projects are nothing compared to what's currently under wraps.

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EXT. DESERT - NEVADA STATE HIGHWAY 375 - DAY

Reporter Dan Hausle is walking down a deserted stretch of road.

HAUSLE

(He walks from left to right closer and closer into frame)

Not too many people live out here in the remote sections of the Nevada Desert, far from the lights of Las Vegas. But here, on the edge of the secret U.S. Government test facilities, people have been seeing strange things for years. Some of them talk about it, a lot of them don't.

Camera begins to slowly ZOOM closer on Hausle.

SUPER: "DAN HAUSLE" - LOWER LEFT

HAUSLE - CONT'D

But no one who has actually worked on the test site has ever talked about what goes on there. No one that is, until now.

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INT. - LAZAR'S LIVING ROOM

LAZAR

They are actively, and have in their possession, alien spacecraft and they are actively undergoing analysis.

HAUSLE(O/S)

And flying them?

LAZAR

And flying them.

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INT. - LAZAR'S LIVING ROOM - TWO SHOT

Hausle and Lazar are sitting on a sofa with a coffee table in front of them. A large, white in color, official looking GOVERNMENT REPORT is centered on the table.

HAUSLE(V/O)

Bob Lazar is an engineer and physicist who says he worked on flying saucers for the U.S. Government at Area 51. He drew these sketches...

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EFX: CGI - LAZAR'S HAND SKETCH OF "SPORT MODEL" FLYING SAUCER

SUPER: "Original Sketch by Bob Lazar"

HAUSLE(V/O) - CONT'D

...of one of nine different saucers he says the government has in a secret warehouse.

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INT. SITE 4 WAREHOUSE/HANGAR MOCK-UP

SUPER: "Videotape Courtesy: NIPPON TELEVISION"

INTERCUT through V/O showing video tape of "Sport Model" mock-up, PAN right to "Top Hat" mock-up, PAN right to "Jello Mold" mock- up.

The "Sport Model" saucer is silver in color, sleek, symmetrical classic saucer shape with a tall and thin cone shaped projection on the top center. The "Top Hat" saucer appears to be a titanium white color and resembles a circular shaped flat clothes pressing iron. Similar to the "Hangar 18" movie saucer, it has a flat- bottom base and a raised platform style flat ridge around the circumference, like the rim of a hat. In a triangle pattern around the platform's upper surface are three projections sticking out. One protrusion is a half-sphere shape, one is a half-barrel shape, and another rectangular. In the center of these is what looks like a half of a handle -- reminiscent of the curved electrode on an automotive spark plug. The "Jello Mold" craft looks just like its namesake. The metallic exterior has slight blue tinge to it. It's taller than the other craft and not as wide with adjacent rounded vertical ridges surrounding a general cone-slice shape.

HAUSLE(V/O) - CONT'D

Lazar gave the saucers each names according to their various shapes, "Top Hat," the "Sport Model", the "Jello Mold."

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EFX: CGI - LAZAR'S HAND SKETCH OF "SPORT MODEL" FLYING SAUCER

SUPER: "Original Sketch by Bob Lazar"; "Waveguide" (arrow pointing to top center); "Reactor" with arrow pointing low center); "Gravity Amplifiers" with three arrows pointing to bottom surface)

HAUSLE(V/O) - CONT'D

Called in to help figure out how they work, Lazar says the saucers are powered by an anti-matter generator...

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INT. LAZAR'S LIVING ROOM - TABLE TOP

CLOSE UP on disc of ELEMENT 115. The metal disc has flexible plastic fasteners looped through holes on opposite sides as if for handles.

HAUSLE(V/O) - CONT'D

...fueled with an element which he says could only have come from another planet.

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SFX: COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGE of "Sport Model" Flying Saucer

SFX: Animation of three Gravity Amplifiers emitting blue wave forms downwardly. Amplifiers look like undulating elongated track lights pointing straight down, sweeping right and left in independent patterns of motion.

LAZAR(V/O)

They set up and produce their own gravitational field. Just as the Earth holds all matter down, they produce that same field, but out of phase and it repels itself.

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SFX: CGI - Animation of Saucer fly-by -- (re-enactment of test flight inside hanger.)

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INT. LAZAR'S LIVING ROOM

LAZAR

The effects that can cause the way in which everything operates is by all intents and purposes, magic. I mean it is so far beyond our level of technology.

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WIDE ANGLE TWO SHOT - HAUSLE and LAZAR in BG

Even larger stack of GOVERNMENT REPORTS and OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS now visible on coffee table.

HAUSLE(V/O)

Now before you toss Lazar on the pile with all the other UFO wackos...

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INT. TABERNETTI'S OFFICE

LAZAR hooked up to lie detector with POLYGRAPH EXAMINER in FG

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LAZAR

Seated on examiner's chair. Blood pressure cup on left arm.

HAUSLE(V/O) - CONT'D

...understand that he willingly agreed to take a lie detector test...

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TABERNETTI

Spreads out polygraph charts on tabletop.

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CHARTS - CLOSE UP - TABLETOP

HAUSLE(V/O) - CONT'D

...requested and independently arranged by a Las Vegas reporter.

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TABERNETTI

He is sitting down, away from the table with charts.

HAUSLE(V/O) - CONT'D

Terry Tabernetti is the ex-cop who administered the test.

TABERNETTI

If he's lying, he ought to be in Hollywood. Because he gave absolutely no physiological indications of attempting deception.

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INT. LAZAR'S LABORATORY

Lazar picks up a glass lab item and places it on the desk near some calibration equipment.

HAUSLE(V/O)

Lazar says he was referred to his government job by Dr. Edward Teller, the renowned scientist who helped develop the atomic bomb.

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INT. EDWARD TELLER INTERVIEW ROOM

We SEE video of Teller talking, but Teller's actual words are not heard. PULL BACK to SEE that Teller is seated, he gestures with eyeglasses in hand as...

HAUSLE(V/O) - CONT'D

But in a rare interview with INDISE REPORT, Teller insisted he doesn't know Lazar, or at least, doesn't remember him.

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INT. KNAPP's OFFICE

Cluttered desk; manual typewriter; and walls covered with photos.

KNAPP

I think it appears that someone's trying to wipe him out.

HAUSLE(V/O)

George Knapp is the Las Vegas TV reporter who first aired Bob Lazar's amazing claims. He says he ran into unusual problems just trying to look into Lazar's background.

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EXTREME CLOSE UP - LOS ALAMOS PHONE DIRECTORY COVER

HAUSLE(V/O) - CONT'D

Though Lazar claimed to have once worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, government officials denied they knew anything about him.

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EXTREME CLOSE UP - PAGE IN LOS ALAMOS PHONE DIRECTORY

"LAZAR ROBERT" listed in alphabetical order on printed phone listing - We SEE (SFX) Bright white outline around LAZAR ROBERT. The rest of the page is subdued in gray tones.

HAUSLE(V/O) - CONT'D

But when Knapp came up with a phone directory listing Lazar's name, Los Alamos grudgingly admitted he had spent some time there.

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INT. LAZAR'S LIVING ROOM - TWO SHOT

HAUSLE(V/O) - CONT'D

Officials at the hospital where Lazar was born even denied the simple fact that he was born there, until Knapp tracked down the doctor who delivered Lazar.

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INT. KNAPP'S OFFICE

KNAPP

I find Bob to be credible and the main reason is because the story hasn't changed. It's stayed from the beginning; it's been the same. It hasn't expanded like some of these UFO tales you hear; it's been the same. And we've been through a lot of different interview sessions, many on camera, many more off camera, and it's stayed exactly the same; consistent.

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B&W PHOTO OF LAZAR

Lazar is pointing to a chart on chalkboard with a chalk holder pencil.

HAUSLE(V/O)

But even inside the community of UFO believers...

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CLOSE UP - B&W PHOTO OF LAZAR

Lazar's face from chalkboard photo.

HAUSLE(V/O) - CONT'D

...there are many who are skeptical of Bob Lazar's claims.

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INT. - FRIEDMAN INTERVIEW ROOM

Friedman is seated. INTERCUT with shots of Lazar working in lab setting.

HAUSLE(V/O) - CONT'D

Nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman says Lazar may indeed be the real thing. But he says he can also believe Lazar might be a hoaxter -- or worse yet, a government agent spreading false stories designed to cover more important secrets.

FRIEDMAN

I find Bob Lazar as somebody who isn't silly, who doesn't say totally stupid things. He comes across well. But I certainly -- until I get verification cannot endorse the legitimacy of what he is saying.

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INT. LAZAR'S LIVING ROOM - TWO SHOT

HAUSLE(V/O)

Bob Lazar says he quit his job working on the government saucers when his bosses began harassing him, because he was letting others in on the big secret.

PAN DOWN to document on table. White Paper Government Report Labeled: "The Department of Defense - Program Solicitation 90.2, Closing Date 2 July 1990."

INTERCUT more shots of Japanese TV mock-up of "Sport Model," We SEE a top view, a side view, a cut-away of saucer interior, then a transparent mock-up showing layout of saucer interior, configuration of waveguide, anti-matter reactor, and gravity amplifiers relative to overall view of saucer. Multiple DISSOLVES to mock-up of gravity drive system only; mock-up tilts up to give top view, then angled view to show relief.

HAUSLE(V/O) - CONT'D

But now that others are greeting his claims with skepticism and outright hostility, he says he wishes he'd just kept his big mouth shut. Lazar says he never took the idea of breaking security lightly. He just wanted to let the world in on a story he says we all should have been told.

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EXT. LAS VEGAS SKYLINE - EARLY EVENING

Home video of moving lights in Las Vegas sky - as seen in opening.

LAZAR(V/O)

Why keep a secret about probably one of the most important events in history that there's been contact from an alien civilization? It's a significant event in history. More significant than anything.

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INT. - STUDIO DESK - SET

FEMALE ANCHOR

Could be. We'll see.

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