My name is George Knapp and for 30 years, I've been an investigative reporter. Ask me anything.

I just wanted to say: I apologize in advance for how much heat you will likely take here because of John Lear and Bob Lazar. Some people realize the best truths are often sandwiched between two lies, and some people are in capable of grasping that. There are a lot of smart people with open minds here, however.

Thanks for answering our questions

Hey George. Thanks for being here.
In all your investigations on UFO's, are you now any the wiser, on how
they may propel or navigate themselves?

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Hello George and thank you for coming and answering our questions here today.

My question is pretty straightforward and pretty general. Do you believe that "UFOs" are our own and man made craft or do you believe they are of some "alien" origin?

Thanks for your time looking forward to the response.

-SAP-

Welcome Mr Knapp thanks for taking the time to visit ATS

One Question : are Bob Lazar and yourself friends ?

Thanks BB

Hi George and many thanks for participating on ATS's AMA. You are obviously a very busy man, so to take the time to do this is much appreciated.

What percentage of sightings do you think are 'ours' as opposed to 'E.T'? The reason I ask is that I have seen 2 U.F.O's in my life, both over the Bristol area in the U.K, both in broad daylight. What chances the military testing out new technology over a large city during the day?

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Hello Mr. Knapp,

Thank you for taking the time to stop in and answer some questions. I am sure many of my fellow members will ask a questions covering most of the popular topics, so I would like to simply ask you this; In your opinion, what criteria will need to be met for any kind of disclosure regarding the paranormal?

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Welcome here Mr Knapp,

I recently read Colonel Corso's book The Day After Roswell...Was glad to see you had some contact with him. What is your take on the book or on Corso's statements? Did you find him believable?

Thanks for coming on here and no hurry or dont feel obligated to answer...I know you are a busy feller and you have the support of the ATS community no matter which questions you do answer!!!

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Hello, Mr. Knapp, it's an absolute honor to have you amongst us here on ATS and I thank you for your time and all your hard work over the years. The only question I have for you would be one that others have already asked. That being, at any point of your career were you ever approached by any element of the government and "encouraged" in any form to cease and desist any certain line of investigation? If so, what was the subject of that investigation and did you comply? Thanks in advance!

Hi George, love listening to your work on Coast2Coast!

Okay let's get to the meat and potatoes! George you've interviewed tons of great guests on your show some are intriguing, some exciting and some are captivating. However on the flip side I'm sure you've gotten your fair share of shady guests. How do you manage to keep a straight face, when you know deep down inside the guest(s) you're interviewing is full of baloney. Have you ever called a guests bluff?

Thanks for givings us an outlet to sit back and fathom the world we live in.

I'll take my answer off the air!

Why has KLAS never done a segment on Base Camp? When you did the investigation on the newly discovered oil deposit near Tybo, the base was shown in the video but never mentioned. Yet Base Camp has had documented CIA aircraft photographed there, not to mention the Groom Lake "Ghost Squadron" security helicopters. It has a runway in fine condition but with yellow Xs to indicate it is not suitable for aircraft. It has a VOR. It even a windsock. Clearly it is an airport. Yet it is not listed in any FAA document. It even uses the same radio system as Groom Lake.

Mind you this is a base the USAF claims is for recreation, and the CIA of course doesn't mention it at all. Base Camp ranks pretty high on my suspicious activity meter.

How did Philip Schneider really die? And, oh I could think up a bunch of stuff, but for now, who or what killed Philip Schneider?

Hi, George, good to hear your voice on the recent guest host mike on c2cam.

You are very familiar with Russian and Chinese UFO reports. How many of them do you think reflect 'pseudo-UFOs' caused by their own missile and space activities? You know that's one of my specialties, do you think those databases are badly polluted with solvable-but-unrecognized prosaic space/missile events?

Hi George Knapp

Have you investigated the Black Night Satellite?

If so, what, if any, conclusions have you come to?

Is it a UPJ (Unidentified Piece of Junk)?

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I am reluctant to say much about the ranch because of all the trouble that has been caused by the book and by my original articles. So many jerks and dickheads have traveled to the ranch because of the stuff we wrote that the owner asked me to scale back on further coverage. Every single day, hordes of UFO enthusiasts, monster hunters, drunks, and all-around knuckleheads show up at the ranch. They drink beer, toss trash onto the ground, trespass onto the property, take flash pictures at night as they peer into the house where the caretakers live, and commit pretty serious vandalism (such as ripping the front gate off its hinges..) Some of the "journalists" and investigators who have shown up to film their own TV specials or online blogs have been among the worst offenders.

I will put it this way--activity in the Uintah Basin continues. People who live there have been seeing weird stuff for a long time, and still do, including recent UFO sightings and animal mutilations. The unexplained activity has always been basin-wide phenomena, and--for years, the epicenter of the activity was the ranch. I know there have been some weird events in the general vicinity of the ranch, but the activity on the Bigelow property itself is nothing like what it once was...not even close. As we reported in the Skinwalker book, the relationship between the "entity" and the humans on the ranch changed during the NIDS study. Whatever "it" is, it didn't seem to like being stalked or hunted so it largely went underground. There have been occasional isolated flare ups, but still, nothing at all like it was back in the late 90's.

I am often amused by the trumped up accounts I read online about strange happenings on the property. They mostly come from people who went to the ranch to see weird stuff, and lo and behold, they do. I think most of this is wishful thinking, exaggerations, or outright lies created to drum up interest in a blog or a TV show or something like that. I urge people to take it all with a grain of salt...which is good advice for the entire paranormal field anyway. And I include my own reporting in that warning. being skeptical is a good thing. It is possible to be both skeptical and open minded, which is the lien I try to walk.

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Welcome to ATS. I am a former Northern Nevadian, who moved out of the state when the economy took a fall. I previously worked for many of the Northern Nevada casino's in management capacities and witnessed first hand the corruption that occurs. Although, I probably only saw the tip of the ice-berg it was enough for me to leave the area. Such corruption was using employees to attend public forums to create an impression to city counsel members of overwhelming support for casino initiatives; eliminating American worker jobs, reclassifying the positions duties and using foreign exchange students to fill those roles; and using undocumented workers through independent companies with the knowledge that these workers were in fact undocumented. These are just a small portion of the unethical business dealings I observed.

I have no questions for you, but just wanted to acknowledge and thank you for showing up and answering some questions.

Welcome to the ATS community Mr. Knapp.

I don't have a single question that won't be asked by other members. So I'll just take this space to say thank you for stopping by and giving us your thoughts and perspectives on the UFO/Alien phenomenon.

Blessings,
Cirque

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I don't mind taking heat. I am not thin skinned. And I understand there are good reasons for people to raise questions about Lear and Lazar, though, I would point out, those two people are not joined at the hip and do not see eye to eye on a vast range of things that are likely to be mentioned here. those who know Bob well find it almost hilarious that folks allege Bob is a puppet of Lear's or that they cooked up this story together or that they agree about the core story told by Lear. The questions of credibility are certainly fair game but it would be a mistake to lump the two of them together and to assume that the same questions apply to both. They are very different people.

Im a long time Coast listener, and Ive wanted to ask you, John B or Noorey this for a long time.

Ive heard rumors and theories that it was our tech that has caused UFO's to crash. Disrupting the gravity, magnetics or something. Has anyone tried to duplicate this? I wouldn't have a clue about how to find out what equipment (radar etc.) was used at the time of the various crashes. And the most complicated thing I can make is a pie. But, there could be a correlation and some old equipment could be in a surplus junque pile.

If these beings are the shadow Govt, I am sure they got rid of this equipment ASAP. I would be curious about what equipment was discontinued after these crashes. Again, I don't have a clue, about how to look that up.

I started thinking about this when I bought an electro magnetic pulse induction Metal Detector. I keep the Detector handy just in case. hehe

Thanks

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Hello Mr. Knapp, Welcome to ATS!!

I don't have a question at this time, I would just like to say Thank You for taking the time out of your busy schedule for this Q&A, it's a great honor to have you here.

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Base Camp is on my list of things to do because it is an interesting place, but I have never moved it to the top of the list because I do not have an inside source who can spill the beans on what goes on there. The info that is available in the public arena is simply not all that compelling, and I have always had other, more pressing stories to pursue.
We did shoot a lot of video of the facility during our trips up to work on the oil story because I anticipate doing something about the place one of these days. I am all ears, is someone out there has the inside skinny.