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A recently located 1954 Army projector manual appears to have been used as a template for the Majestic-12 SOM1-01 Special Operations Manual, the purported manual for recovering extraterrestrial craft and biological remains. SOM1-01 surfaced in 1994 as photographs on an anonymously mailed roll of film. Some UFO researchers, including Stanton Friedman, have argued that it is likely an authentic government document. The Army manual, TM 11-2323, shares SOM1’s issue date, packaging artwork and references, and more. Its Air Force Technical Order number and Army printing reference each differ from SOM1’s by a single digit. Link to the full article in the post below.

Bob's close friend Joe Vaninetti, who was with Bob when he went to a casino to meet with the man Bob claims was his supervisor at S4 (Dennis Mariani) briefly mentions the related project in his diary - though "AIDS" had been misinterpreted as "HIDS" and went thus went unnoticed. "August 30, 1989 Dennis called Bob back. He sounded angry and threatening. Told Bob "they" weren't going to allow Bob to complete his project (AIDS). Bob volenteered to go public and retract all that he has said. Dennis's response to this was "It's too late for that. We're going to kill you. He then hung up the phone."

When speaking about information he read in the briefing documents he claims to have been exposed to while working on a crash retrieval program in 1988 and 1989, Bob Lazar told author Michael Lindemann in 1991: “I have no reason to suspect it was disinformation.” In 1993, Timothy Good said of Lazar’s statements on the subject: “He did not deny the possibility, but pointed out that everything he saw on paper pertaining to his own specialized field turned out to be factual, so he assumes therefore that everything else he read could have been equally valid.” These statements are similar to many statements Lazar has made since 1989. Earlier this year, however, in Luigi Venditelli’s documentary S4, Bob Lazar began taking a different stance on whether the information in the documents were likely to be accurate. “The main reason is because when Barry and I did discuss about their reports, he said, 'Take everything with a grain of salt because they'll intentionally inject ridiculous things in there. So if anything ever gets out, they know exactly who to track it back to.'" Bob made similar statements in his interviews with Chris Ramsay and Jesse Michels, telling Ramsay: “I really didn't put much credence in it at all. So, I just brushed it off.” This raises the question of why Bob would seek to downplay the claims that he read in the briefings and his earlier opinion on their possible veracity. One reason may be a set of claims from the briefings that very few are aware of, likely because the only public statements made about them were from John Lear - that the briefings had information about the origin of the AIDS virus and contained the formula for the cure for HIV. Lear: “AIDS was invented by a Navy surgeon named R.M. Donner, and when Bob read the, read the briefing up at S-4... It was developed you know, to get rid of a certain segment of, or number of human, but it was developed by R.M. Donner and it has the exact cure for AIDS and it has to do with the acucumber, Trichosanthes kirilowii, which is only grown in China. We tried to get it out of China... But I'll read you the exact cure and how it works." In 1996 usenet newsgroup post, Tom Mahood, a researcher who uncovered much of the information known today about Lazar’s life and background, posed the following question to Gene Huff: “I have heard several very strange rumors that a while back Lazar was working on an AIDS cure, based upon info he had come across at S-4. From some of your postings, I have the impression that you possess more than layperson level knowledge of the subject. What's the story here? Any substance to the rumors?” Huff’s response: “I guess that remains to be seen.” While most may have disregarded Lear’s statement as too wild to be believed, Lear's claims are accurate. It is, in fact, true that Bob claimed the cure for HIV was contained in the briefings he read, and that he had apparently been able to memorize it. There is more to the story of what Bob did with the information about the purported cure that will be published in the future.

Oddly, I have never come across a version of Bob Lazar's original May 15th 1989 "Dennis" interview that contains the entire interview. All of the clips across TV shows, documentaries, etc have some (often significant) portion missing from them. As a result, many have never seen the complete interview. This is the entire interview in a single clip, cut together from two separate sources. Transcript in post below.

Bob claims to have been doing CGI for commercials as well as aerospace simulations. See first image. Second image is exceprt from an interview I did with a friend he’d known since childhood.

There is a lot of interesting information on this early site, including claims regarding the specs of a "supercomputer" Bob owned at the time (the specs of which may lack plausibility) and the related line of work Bob claims to have been in.

David Grusch's FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Defense has its first joint status report. Grusch's FOIA request seeks records submitted to the Office of the Senior Intelligence Oversight Official between April 1, 2023 and December 31, 2023 concerning unauthorized disclosure complaints related to Grusch, as well as unauthorized disclosure complaints containing the terms “unidentified aerial phenomenon,” “unidentified anomalous phenomenon,” and/or the acronyms “UAP” or “UFO.” On April 7, the parties jointly moved for a 90-day stay to give the DoD additional time to finish processing the request. The court granted the stay the same day and ordered the parties to file status reports every 30 days. At the time the 90 day stay was requested, DoD had apparently located 30-40 potentially responsive pages on unclassified systems. The DoD has now completed its search of its classified systems and says it found no records responsive to Grusch's request on those systems. Regarding the 30-40 pages that were previously located on the DoD's unclassified servers, they have now determined 39 pages to be responsive. Those pages are undergoing “final coordination and review”, and the DoD anticipates releasing some or all of the 39 pages within the next few weeks. The next status report is due June 8, 2026. Case documents are in the post below.

In the new Chris Ramsay interview with Bob Lazar, Bob suggests that Dennis John Mariani (born in 1940) is the man he worked with at S4. While Dennis John Mariani's gravestone is shown on screen, Bob says: "It looked like Dennis Mariani died... I had pictures of a gravestone and, you know, people seem to - this guy, it connects all the dots. This looks like it was the guy." I published an article about this Dennis Mariani last month, and it is highly implausible that he worked at a classified facility in Nevada at the time of Bob's story. He was a longtime pool salesman who was living in Texas in 1989, and had been convicted of a felony in 1987. He would go on to be convicted of another crime in 2002. Link to the full article is in the post below.

It is highly implausible that Dennis John Mariani, the person whose gravestone is shown in the clip, worked at S4. He was a long time pool salesman who lived in Texas at the time of Bob's story and had been convicted of a felony in 1987. Full article on him: medium.com/@signalsintellige…

I appreciate the reply, and thank you! Reading the first section of your article, it seems to have three main points (putting aside Lazar's role at Los Alamos National Laboratory and his educational claims). 1) The existence of Area 51. 2) The Janet flights. 3) The claim that crash retrievals were fringe and "The involvement of the U.S. Navy in such matters was not part of the discourse at all." I addressed point 1 and 2 in the previous reply. Regarding point 3: There were previous intact crash retrieval stories (Frank Scully/Aztec, Kingman), but more importantly, John Lear had spoken about intact craft being tested at Area 51 in the year before Lazar claimed to have gotten the job. bibliotecapleyades.net/bb/le… "Within the Aquarius program was project "Snowbird", a project to test-fly a recovered alien aircraft at Groom Lake, Nevada. This project continues today at that location." A later August 1988 revision of the statement added another claimed instance of an intact craft being taken there. Additionally, "UFO Cover-up?: Live!", a TV program which aired October 14 1988, which Lazar watched and thought important enough to mark on his personal calendar, included claims of intact craft piloted by military pilots and an operational base at Area 51. youtu.be/sA5GpKcJ3zc?t=2130 Regarding Navy involvement: "UFO Cover-up?: Live!" also included claims of the Navy involvement. "The MJ-12 policy is headquartered at the Naval Observatory in Washington DC. The United States Navy has the primary operational responsibilities of field activities relating to the MJ-12 policies. All information gathered in the field, not necessarily by Navy personnel, is transmitted to the Navy for analysis." youtu.be/sA5GpKcJ3zc?t=3726 It also included the attached chart, identifying the Office of Naval Intelligence as one of the organizations involved. What do you make of all of these facts?