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Journalist or investigator

George Knapp

1989-05-01what this date marks is not recorded

KLAS-TV (8 News Now, Las Vegas) and NewsNation investigative reporter; winner of multiple Peabody and Emmy awards. First broke the Bob Lazar / Area 51 story (1989), later broke the Bigelow / AAWSAP funding story, and co-hosts "Weaponized" with Jeremy Corbell.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 3 September 2026 by reading this entity's record. The deciding phrase is this entity's own: "First broke the Bob Lazar / Area 51 story". An editorial classification of which thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to.

11 of 25 connections resolve to a document you can open. 1 carries no citation at all.

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  • frequent UFO-podcast collaborators
  • testified
    same document as the row above
  • testified about his AAWSAP program and its unreleased findings
    same document as the row above
    printed p. 29  ·  PDF p. 33 checked against the page
  • testified he negotiated with Lockheed Martin executives for retrieved material
    same document as the row above
    printed p. 11 checked against the page
  • interviewed him about the Ministry of Defense program he ran
    same document as the row above
    printed p. 11  ·  PDF p. 15 checked against the page
  • reported his Area 51 / S-4 account in 1989
    same document as the row above
    printed p. 10 checked against the page
  • co-wrote two books with him
    same document as the row above
    printed p. 29 checked against the page
    Caveat Claim: Knapp co-authored Skinwalkers at the Pentagon with Lacatski. The testimony has him saying he co-wrote two books with Lacatski; only the TITLE comes from elsewhere.scope: scoped · reviewed 2026-08-21
  • named him at the Sept 2025 UAP hearing, in answer to a question about whether a UAP classification guide exists
    same document as the row above
    printed p. 40 checked against the page
    Caveat The transcript supports the naming exactly: at turn 300 Knapp answers Rep. Begich's question about who holds UAP classification authority with 'Glenn Gaffney, CIA.' The alleged blocked transfer is nowhere in the transcript, so the motive clause is dropped. The reworded claim is both sourced and more informative than the original. Operator decision, 2026-08-21.scope: scoped · reviewed 2026-08-21 · decided by the operator
  • named him in oral testimony at the Sept 2025 House UAP hearing, in answer to a question asking for specific individuals
    same document as the row above
    printed p. 40 checked against the page
  • testified that Sokolov described 40 incidents in which Russian warplanes were sent to intercept UFOs and were ordered to fire on them
    same document as the row above
    printed p. 46  ·  PDF p. 50 checked against the page
    Caveat Claim: Knapp interviewed Sokolov in Moscow and Sokolov described intercepts. Both are in the testimony. The caution corrects a NUMBER (40, not 45) that appears in secondary accounts, not in our claim.scope: scoped · reviewed 2026-08-21
  • AAWSAP
    gave his Soviet Ministry of Defence material to its principals and testified to what the programme was and what it withheld
    same document as the row above
    printed p. 34  ·  PDF p. 38
  • Harry Reid names a source we do not hold
    published his letter
    George Knapp, Statement to Congress, House Oversight (HHRG-118-GO06), Jul 26 2023
  • Brandon Fugal names a source we do not hold
    extensively covered his ownership and research
    Skinwalker Ranch / NIDS research history; Kelleher & Knapp
  • Eric Davis names a source we do not hold
    Knapp said publicly that the memo is not a hoax and accurately records a real 2002 meeting
    George Knapp, Mystery Wire podcast, 19 June 2020, and a written statement to Joe Murgia; both reproduced at ufojoe.net, "Knapp: Wilson/Davis Is Not A Hoax". Read by this project only as a fetch-tool transcription of that
    Caveat THREE THINGS A READER NEEDS AND THE OLD WORDING DID NOT GIVE. (1) SCOPE: Knapp vouches that the memo genuinely records a meeting that took place in Las Vegas in October 2002 - "It is not a hoax, not an exaggeration, not work of fiction or a screenplay." He does NOT vouch that the crash-retrieval programmes described inside the memo exist, and the old wording, "vouched for the memo's authenticity", let a reader take the second from a source that supports only the first. (2) THE OTHER SIDE, in the same broadcast: "Admiral Wilson denies it." The officer the memo is about denies the meeting happened. (3) SOURCE STRENGTH: this is the weakest grade this project recognises - a fetch tool's reading of a third party's blog, which reproduces a transcript and an email nobody else has published. No file is held and none is bound, so this link is not counted as sourced. The operator supplied an 8newsnow.com address for the same story; it returns HTTP 403 to this project's fetch tool and has not been read.scope: scoped
  • Travis Taylor names a source we do not hold
    Knapp broke the story identifying him as the task force's scientist
    KLAS-TV/Knapp reporting, 2023
  • James Lacatski names a source we do not hold
    co-appeared on Weaponized Podcast
    Lacatski, Kelleher & Knapp, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021)
  • Sleeping Dog (2026 documentary) names a source we do not hold
    documents his long partnership with Corbell
    Sleeping Dog documentary (2026)
  • Eric Burlison names a source we do not hold
    co-interviewed him on Weaponized about his classified site visit
    Weaponized podcast (Corbell & Knapp)
  • Soviet/Russian UFO Study names a source we do not hold
    traveled to Moscow (1993) and documented the Soviet/Russian military's decade-long UFO study for KLAS
    George Knapp, Statement to Congress, House Oversight (HHRG-118-GO06), Jul 26 2023
  • Jim Bilbray names a source we do not hold
    the former Nevada Congressman who helped arrange Knapp's 1993 Moscow research trip
    George Knapp, Statement to Congress, House Oversight (HHRG-118-GO06), Jul 26 2023
  • TD Barnes names a source we do not hold
    close personal friends despite opposite conclusions on UFOs
    TD Barnes interview (Danny Jones podcast, 2026)
  • Colm Kelleher names a source we do not hold
    co-authored Hunt for the Skinwalker and Skinwalkers at the Pentagon with him
    Knapp & Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker (2005); Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021)
  • Robert Bigelow names a source we do not hold
    reported on his ranch research and co-wrote a book about it with Colm Kelleher
    Colm A. Kelleher and George Knapp, "Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah", ISBN 9781416505211. Bibliographic record only - the book is a commercial third-party work, is NOT
    Caveat The 2025 hearing names neither NIDS nor Skinwalker Ranch nor the book. It supports none of this claim. Bind withdrawn; the claim was corrected separately on the co-author.scope: unsupported · reviewed 2026-08-21 · decided by the operator
  • Matthew Brown names a source we do not hold
    came forward on camera as the report's author on Corbell & Knapp's "WEAPONIZED" (Apr 2025)
    WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp, Apr 2025
  • John Alexander nothing behind it
    frequent Coast to Coast AM guest interviewed by him

1 correction to this record

Generated from the record, not written by hand. Every change keeps what the map used to say, because a correction nobody can see is indistinguishable from never having been wrong.

George Knapp → Eric Davis
Knapp publicly vouched for the memo's authenticity
Knapp said publicly that the memo is not a hoax and accurately records a real 2002 meeting