Dreamland

An Autobiography

By: Bob Lazar, George Knapp - foreword

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins

Publisher's summary

Bob Lazar was a brilliant young physicist that found himself employed at a top-secret facility in the middle of the desert outside Las Vegas. Under the watchful eye of the government elite, he is tasked with understanding an exotic propulsion system being used by an advanced aerospace vehicle he is told came from outer space.

The stressful work and long, odd hours start to wear on Bob and he becomes concerned for his safety. He tells his wife and a couple close friends about what he's doing in the desert, and his employers find out and are furious. When they station goons outside his house, Bob seeks help from wealthy UFOlogist, John Lear, who encourages Bob to take his story to award-winning investigative journalist George Knapp at KLAS-TV, a CBS affiliate.

To prove he's telling the truth, Bob takes a group of people out into the desert to watch a test flight of the "flying saucer." On the way home, they are stopped by the police, who notify the base, and Bob loses his job. In a series of interviews with CBS TV, Bob Lazar then blows the lid off "Area 51", blows the whistle on the effort to conceal this craft from the American people, and blows up his career as a top physicist.

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Great summary of Bob Lazar's story

This man is a living legend: he physically handled, dismantled, and reverse-engineered gravity controlling alien technology, turned a whistle-blower, had several close calls with the rogue agents running the program to silence him, and yet ultimately lived to tell his amazing story!!!

I'm a long-time Bob Lazar fan. I've read his account in-depth and watched/listened to practically every video and interview he's done in the last ~30 years -- I'm talking Art Bell back in the day. I even owned the Estes kit of the Sport model UFO back in the early 90's. So let me assure you that this book is entirely consistent with the previously released details from Bob throughout the years. While many, many of Bob's statements and specific details have been proven true over the last three decades, what has been one of the most powerful aspects of his story has been his unwavering consistency over all these years. This book continues that quality of consistency.

However, there were a few minor but interesting details missing, but they did not alter or detract from the story:
- After he drank the 'pine sol' liquid as part of the health screen, it gave him an adverse reaction shortly afterwards and his kidneys were in terrific pain. I believe his friend Gene Huff drove him to the hospital because he couldn't drive himself. The symptoms later cleared up with no other effects.
- When he was inside the Sport model craft (the first and only time), he said that he felt an oppressive sense of fear, like humans didn't belong inside there. This has always intrigued me, and although he's mentioned this before in interviews, I always wanted him to elaborate more on this, and was hoping he would address it more in his book, but it didn't get a mention.
- Bob has had mixed feelings towards John Lear over the years -- some of the tape transcripts from the early 90's (outline for a movie script that never happened) tell a humorous, strained relationship Bob and Gene had with John. Maybe his feelings have changed over the years and he has chosen to keep those views to himself now.
- The immediate aftermath of him coming out public with his story -- he did hypnotic regression to recall specific details, he was approached more than a few times for movie deals, etc.
- Probably most important missing detail was the samples of element 115 that allegedly went missing between Los Alamos and S4, but there's probably VERY good reasons why that was completely skipped over. This may come back into public awareness 40 years from now after Bob Lazar passes away...

There were a few new details for me, such as the tragic loss of his first wife, and some of the anecdotes from his childhood and playing with chemistry sets.

I really would have liked if Bob had included more about the years after this whole story broke his life apart. I know he's a fairly private person and doesn't want attention, so I can understand that. But I would have liked if he could've included a few meaningful paragraphs about his life in New Mexico, and then later moving up to Michigan, and maybe even get into the whole Jeremy Korbell documentary project and what that stirred up.

The world of freedom-loving, independent-thinking people owe Bob Lazar a huge debt of gratitude for sharing his story.

Where’s element 115?

Bob, where’s element 115?

That drink you drank before meeting Barry was that some sort of lsd fusioned with dmt?

Did you killed your first wife to pay the bills? How many times have you been on bankruptcy?

for bob Lazar fans

I was on the fence when in came to bob's story , not anymore

Finally his whole story

loved it, so glad Bob decided to tell the whole story, I enjoyed his writing style and it kept my interest.

I’ve followed this story for years

My god, I’ve followed the Bob Lazar story since the original broadcast in 1989. Even after YouTube came out it was hard finding material on the story. With the recent resurgence of it, this book is exactly what I was hoping for, the story in his own words in great detail. I have so much empathy for this man, what a tragic thing to live through.

revealing

Bob is so humble. Filled in some missing pieces for me.
Learned some new details about the events

bob lazar is a hero

the author is a fascinating human relaying fascinating, irrefutable facts and emotion. unfortunately the narrator makes it hard to listen to.. like an old clear eyes commercial. im afraid the audio delivery will make many people unable to listen, therefore missing out on the intriguing, first hand information put forth by bob lazar lost in translation. knowing this was a terrifying and courageous story to tell, im grateful he made the decision to break the silence and greatly respect for his reason for doing so.

Enjoyable story

I was familiar with the overall story of Bob and this gave me more insights that I had never heard before.

Our Family Was Impacted

Bob Lazars book is an important account of the very same challenges our family was met with. I praise him for getting it down in written form as our family story is very much the same. My father worked in the aircraft development industry as early as 1943 and into the Cold War Years .. Praises to Bob Lazar for getting memoirs completed published and on audio as well for all to hear.. with gratitude
Sheila Claybourn

Bob are you really that stupid?

This story was interesting to me throughout. Bob’s credibility seems extremely questionable to me. There are some glaring issues with some aviation related parts of the story that causes me to question anything that Bob says here.
Ultimately he has to be an idiot to screwup so profoundly in his professional and personal lives.
Bob’s a Duffuss.