Reading this book as science fiction it is subpar, poorly written, boringly tangential about himself in a grandioseway. The whole story is dragging, implausible, and often inconsistent throughout. maybe like slightly better than what the average high schooler would come up with. Lazar’s explanations of the “alien technology” he is working with show a very lacking understanding pretty much all the scientific phenomena and theories he relates. It is comically bad. What the book does demonstrate however, none of his many claims, but tha he is an insecure narcissist. He was taking photos and he says that a client told him “you’re a scientist, wow. Why didn’t you say something?” Lazar’s supposed answer “Idk I’m not like that man.” Like what?? This is super implausible and also barely coheres to a somewhat realistic story. Also his story about Tracy, his girlfriend, just being cool with him having to work more is a non-technical lie that every man can easily spot as being completely unrealistic. He says the fbi and cops are always raiding him and bugging him bc he knows so much top secret info. But in the next line he says he has a .44 which he sort of has a license for and owns an automatic Uzi submachine gun…. Maybe owning a machine gun and writing weird self aggrandizing alien manifestos and constantly knocking real gov officials is why local law enforcement may have interviewed you or been concerned.
Regarding his recounting of the science, apparently he had every single great idea and his partner Barry never knew anything and didn’t even understand combustion engines somehow but was enlisted to work as a “physicist” at Los Alamos. His science is so farcical, like for instance how the first time he saw Barry, the designated idiot by Lazar who is there to contrast sharply Lazar’s own purported brilliance, he just knew it had to be gravitational waves, yet obviously electromagnetic repulsion and emission would have been much more likely but he says he knew this just from one single visual observation lol. What Lazar described looks cinematic — and if he truly saw something, it was almost certainly an optical or electromagnetic effect, not gravity.
Real gravitational fields of that intensity could not exist harmlessly in a hangar — they’d crush, stretch, and vaporize everything nearby.
Lazar uses real terms but just completely misstates them, miscomprehends, and misuses them. In real physics (General Relativity), strong gravity does bend light — that’s called gravitational lensing.
But the effects are only noticeable near extremely massive objects (e.g. stars, galaxies, or black holes).
Even Earth’s entire mass bends light by such a tiny angle that the effect is practically unobservable without extremely sensitive instruments.
He said when the craft’s “gravity amplifiers” were powered on and aimed at a target, you could see a black circular region — like an absence of light — forming in the air. He claimed this was where the “gravity wave” bent light so strongly that none came through.
In real gravitational lensing, light bends around a strong gravitational field.
If gravity were intense enough to prevent any light from passing through a region, that’s not lensing anymore — that’s a black hole.
To produce a visible black disk from gravitational distortion:
• You’d need a gravitational potential comparable to at least a neutron star’s surface gravity.
• That means mass-energy densities trillions of times greater than anything that could exist in a small reactor or craft.
• The tidal forces (differential gravity across just a few meters) would tear apart any nearby structure or person instantly.
This is a contradiction Lazar never resolved.
Gravity, in general relativity, isn’t just a force — it’s the curvature of spacetime caused by energy and mass.
If something generates enough curvature to bend light visibly, it inherently possesses enormous energy density, which must correspond to enormous gravitational mass. Violates energy-mass equivalence.
Lazar also said the gravitational waves shimmered in the air like heat off of the pavement. But…….
• Heat shimmer comes from air density gradients caused by temperature differences, which bend light slightly.
• Gravity bends light continuously through spacetime curvature — but even near massive objects, the gradient is smooth, not wavy or shimmering.
So if gravity waves or fields were somehow present at a small scale:
• You wouldn’t see a shimmering effect like heat.
• You’d see light smoothly distorted — distant objects might appear displaced or magnified, not rippling. This just isn’t even plausible because gravity doesn’t behave that way optically even if it were reduced to this relatively microscopic scale he says it was at.