Bob Lazar on bob lazar: what the evidence says · JRE #1315
SUBJECT: BOB LAZAR
The short answer
Lazar claims S4 used a specific hand-geometry access-control scanner, a glass plate with alignment pins that measured finger-bone length via light, to grant entry and print security badges. Biometric hand/finger-geometry identification technology matching this general description is real and predates Lazar's claimed 1988-1989 employment: U.S. Patent 3,576,538, filed in 1969 and granted in 1971 to Robert P. Miller, describes an identification system in which a person's fingers are positioned against a pin-guided plate apparatus and compared to prerecorded dimensions on a card, and FBI Criminal Justice Information Services materials describe commercial hand-geometry units in which a hand is placed palm-down on a plate and guided into position by pegs, with such devices reaching the commercial market by the mid-to-late 1980s.
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
So what it was was a device that had a little picture of a hand on a glass plate with pins in it, so you could jam your hand in there.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
Lazar describes an S4 access-control device consisting of a glass plate with alignment pins that measured hand or finger geometry to grant entry and generate ID badges. Biometric hand/finger-geometry identification technology matching this general description is real and predates Lazar's claimed 1988-1989 employment: U.S. Patent 3,576,538, filed in 1969 and granted in 1971 to Robert P. Miller, describes an identification system in which a person's fingers are positioned against a pin-guided plate apparatus and compared to prerecorded dimensions on a card, and FBI Criminal Justice Information Services materials describe commercial hand-geometry units in which a hand is placed palm-down on a plate and guided into position by pegs, with such devices reaching the commercial market by the mid-to-late 1980s. The mechanism Lazar describes is therefore technologically plausible for the period rather than anachronistic. No primary government record (Department of Energy, national laboratory, or personnel documentation) is publicly available to confirm Lazar's personal employment at S4 or his specific use of such a device there, so the existence and design of this class of technology is well-supported while his personal account of encountering it at S4 remains unverifiable.