Well then you have George Knapp who is also showing support for Lazar,
@Dean has questioned Knapp on this many times...
The day the Director of National Intelligence's UAP report was issued, George Knapp did a report on it KLAS-TV in Las Vegas. He presented the DNI public report as a long-overdue acknowledgment by the military that there is a legitimate mystery, and "if we're ever going to figure it out, we have to assign it to someone, establish a framework for that," etc.
But how does this square with George Knapp having spent 32 years promoting, enhancing, and defending the tales of Bob Lazar? In the Lazar-Knapp alternate universe, the government
in 1988 [and according to Lazar, years before that] already had a program to study 9 intact, captive alien spacecraft-- at least one of which they were flying around. If the Lazar tale were true, then what the Director of National Intelligence is now telling the American people -- and telling Congress and the White House -- would be at bottom a grotesque web of lies, either perpetrated by or on the DNI. In that alternate universe, there would be no great mystery, and any claim that the government was taking dramatic new steps to investigate would be a sham, because the U.S. government possessed intact, operating alien technology decades ago.
Remember, Lazar even claimed even to have pilfered a sample of an alien isotope of Element 115 that could defeat gravity, create sun-like power, and create force fields-- this was one of the ludicrous Lazar claims promoted in a lucrative 2018 "documentary" film, directed by Knapp's protege Jeremy Corbell, and produced by Knapp.
In reality, Bob Lazar was a fake scientist (even Knapp said he doesn't believe Lazar ever attended MIT or Caltech as claimed), a real felon, a smart-aleck kid who made up stories. Lazar has told contradictory stories for decades. None of Lazar's remarkable claims have been truly corroborated; many or his statements and accounts have been disproved by public records or contradicted by Lazar himself. Yet Knapp continues to defend the Lazar tales, and to polish them. Indeed, both Lazar and Corbell have both suggested, in the recent past, that recent revelations about UFOs contain vindication for Lazar's claims, although it should be patently obvious that the converse is the case.
It boils down to this: If the Lazar story promoted by Knapp for 32 years is true (it's not), then at least some officials high in the government must now be parties to an enormous new deception of Congress and the American people. Y
et rather than screaming bloody murder about what would be a highly newsworthy outrage, Knapp instead is celebrating the DNI-Pentagon's new attitude towards the UFO "mystery."
You see, Knapp wants to have it both ways-- but that won't wash.
UAP Report Released – George Knapp reports on KLAS-TV – Mystery Wire
As to questioning Knapp: A couple of years ago, I began by politely asking some fairly basic questions of Knapp. He did not deign to respond. However, I found that ample information was available for those who look behind the original Lazar-Knapp narrative, or behind the key Knapp-Corbell marketing talking points (e.g., that this or that development vindicates Lazar, that Lazar has always told the same story, that Lazar has never profited, etc.-- none of withstand critical scrutiny). After awhile, I became a bit less polite and somewhat more insistent in raising certain points. Knapp and his acolyte, J.K.L. Corbell, then did respond-- by blocking me on Twitter.
It doesn't matter. I no longer have many questions for Knapp on matters pertaining to the Lazar saga. I have reconstructed enough of the history to have a good grasp of Knapp's role in the entire affair, and the manner in which he has employed his craft--and on this matter, the craft of which I speak is a far cry from journalism. It is more akin to the work of the manager of a mid-level, trouble-prone rock star-- sometimes a headache, but still the golden boy. The Lazar legend owes as much or more to Knapp as it does to Lazar.
Knapp, Corbell, and Lazar himself are careful only to subject themselves to prolonged questioning by acolytes or others poorly equipped to press them on any of the innumerable weak spots in the Lazar house of cards. In my opinion, the Lazar narrative would come apart like wet cardboard in two hours of questioning by a competent and well-informed journalist, or in a debate run by standard neutral rules-- or under oath with enforceable penalties for perjury and compulsory production of documents.