S-4 / Papoose Lake

What is claimed

• Michels narrates Lazar's 1989 account: that he worked at a secret facility called S-4, just south of Area 51 in the Nevada desert, where his job was to reverse engineer craft.

  FACT contested Jesse Michels journalist 2026

  • 0:00:01 A Weekend With Bob Lazar: Inside Area51's UFOs · Jesse Michels ▶

    He said that he had worked at a secret government facility called S-4, just south of Area 51 in the Nevada desert, where his job, his actual job, was to reverse engineer the

• Lazar says two jobs were on offer and he was placed in the second, at S-4 in the Papoose Lake area.

  FACT contested Bob Lazar contractor 2026

  • 0:36:01 A Weekend With Bob Lazar: Inside Area51's UFOs · Bob Lazar ▶

    and the second one was S-4 out at the Papoose Lake area. And what what were they

• Lazar says S-4 had nine hangars, large enough to explain the long corridors he walked.

  FACT contested Bob Lazar contractor 2026

  • 0:42:23 A Weekend With Bob Lazar: Inside Area51's UFOs · Bob Lazar ▶

    And there were nine hangars, so and they're fairly big, so that explains why the corridors were so long.

• Lazar says the briefings at S-4 covered Project Galileo, the one he was assigned to, and also Looking Glass and Sidekick.

  FACT contested Bob Lazar contractor 2026

  • 0:42:54 A Weekend With Bob Lazar: Inside Area51's UFOs · Bob Lazar ▶

    Project Galileo was the first uh You know. the first briefing on there. And so that was your project. >> Yeah. And then but you had other briefings as well. Yeah, yeah. And and and that was project looking glass.

• Lazar says he saw an American flag on the "sport model" craft on his first day at S-4 and that, as he understands it, the Navy got that craft.

  SPECULATION contested Bob Lazar contractor 2026

  • 1:10:45 A Weekend With Bob Lazar: Inside Area51's UFOs · Bob Lazar ▶

    on this sport model they I saw that like the first day that I went in. Okay. Was there any talk of how these crafts were retrieved? Uh I know I mean I know the Navy Mhm. got the sport model.

• Michels narrates that S-4's existence is still officially denied, and that a researcher used Google Earth's historical imagery to find a 2022 view of the area before it was blurred.

  INFERENCE thin Jesse Michels journalist 2026

  • 1:27:42 A Weekend With Bob Lazar: Inside Area51's UFOs · Jesse Michels ▶

    And to this day, S4's existence is still denied. It's not supposed to exist. But Luigi used Google Earth's historical imagery to go back in time and found a 2022 version of the area surrounding S4 that was not yet

• Michels narrates that the USGS map of Papoose Lake was altered eight days after Lazar went public in his first anonymous interview, which he presents as circumstantial support for S-4.

  INFERENCE thin Jesse Michels journalist 2026

  • 1:28:46 A Weekend With Bob Lazar: Inside Area51's UFOs · Jesse Michels ▶

    the map of Papoose Lake [music] was literally altered eight days after Bob Lazar went public in his first anonymous video. You heard me right.

• EG&G was a real Nevada Test Site / Area 51 support contractor; Lazar's claimed EG&G path into S-4 remains unverified.

  FACT contested Jesse Michels journalist 2025

  • 1:10:20 NASA Doctor: “I Saw This UFO In A Secret Hangar!” (Ft. Greg Rogers) · Jesse Michels ▶

    he specifically gets a job with EGNG. And EG pops up elsewhere in 1997. You have Admiral Thomas Wilson, who's head of J2 Joint Chiefs, who is, you know, under his purview is all, you know, technical capabilities of, you know, US military. And he's meeting with Dr.