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.
FADE IN:
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.
DISSOLVE TO:
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.
DISSOLVE TO:
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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