Area 51 on the Joe Rogan Experience

4 fact-checked claims across 2 episodes · Jun 2019 to Apr 2026 · updated Jul 29, 2026

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  1. 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.

    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.

  2. In fact, you need 223 grams machined into a wedge like this. The program out at S-4 consisted of three projects, Project Galileo, Project Sidekick, and Projec…

    Lazar states 223 grams of element 115 were needed as reactor fuel and names three specific project codenames (Galileo, Sidekick, Looking Glass) run out of S-4.

  3. That map is the oldest map of Papus Lake known in the hands of the government that is public domain. That map, and everybody's going to be listening to this, …

    Vendittelli claims a public-domain 1941 U.S. Department of the Interior map shows a road running directly into the site where Bob Lazar said S-4 is located.

  4. like he's one of the best i've ever seen his name is scott mitchell and he says there are pictures that were taken in 2020 and they ironically those pictures …

    Vendittelli says a researcher named Scott Mitchell obtained aerial photos of Papoose Lake taken by a private pilot on December 25, 2020, showing what Vendittelli identifies as camouflaged hangar bay doors.