Issac
I read "Isaac's" explanation of his Bob Lazar-like claim to have been part of a government alien tech reverse engineering program and came away with many more doubts than I had going in. I'll mention a few 'concerns', and leave the many more lesser problems aside:
1) To support his claim that he worked at a top secret, high security government technical lab, Isaac states that security was intense, with security guards holding machine guns everywhere -enough security "to invade Poland" in his words. So how did he get such sensitive documents -proof of alien technologies and human study of same, no less -out of the facility? He stuffed them down his pants. I think this is, well, bullshit.
2) To support the feasibility of his claim to have stolen what would be among the most top secret and most sensitive documents anywhere in the US government, Isaac claims that because he was 'in management' and more trusted, security became lax where he is concerned, while it remained high on rank and file employees. This too is bullshit, the opposite of how security is done. It is Basic Security 101 that you focus the greatest security on personnel with the greatest access to sensitive documents.
3) Isaac mentions his concern for the obvious danger in revealing what he has revealed and mentions having his life threatened by the military while being briefed at the beginning of his CARET involvement. He says he feels he has been sufficiently circumspect and evasive enough in what he says about himself to leave only a pool of 40-50 people as suspects. He feels like this is sufficient to prevent military intelligence from identifying him specifically. This is an absolute howler of an error. Presented with a pool of 40-50 suspects, military intelligence would identify him in about, oh, ten minutes. Given the sheer enormity of his claims -the revelation of the existence of aliens on Earth, of capture of their technology, and of the US government's ongoing reverse engineering of such alien technology -one could make a case that the government would simply kill all 40-50 if they couldn't identify a specific suspect as 'Isaac'. Police departments across the country routinely identify criminals from suspect pools of 40-50 people. This happens all day, every day. But, according to Isaac, the combined resources of the US government could not do the same to catch him. Bullshit.
4) By revealing supposed top secret material and information, Isaac is admitting to treason. Do we really believe the government could not identify, locate, and capture him?
5) At one point in his account, Isaac states that the DoD wanted to create a lab atmosphere that most closely resembled that of private sector high tech industries so as to increase productivity to match the private sector's record of tech achievement, a record he spends some time establishing, and which he states far exceeds the record of military high tech labs. He includes himself as among those drafted from the private sector, among those the military is trying to put at ease with the more relaxed atmosphere of the private sector-style high tech labs. However, earlier in his account he describes himself as having completed graduate and post graduate work in his field, as having "taken the scenic route" among several private employers, and then to have been offered work with the DoD with whom he worked "for a long time". He makes it very clear early on that his career was almost exclusively with the military, the DoD. Why then does he include himself among those whom the CARET military hierarchy are trying to put at ease by mimicking the atmosphere of private high tech labs? Which is it? Perhaps hoaxers ought to employ copy editors as readily as they do CGI artists.
6) Read Isaac's account again. does this really sound like a Masters or PhD level electrical engineer with 25 years or more of experience and training in high level private and military technological research and development? It is poorly written, poorly organized, and for just one example, the section where he tries to explain the 'language' as self-executing software/hardware is essentially incoherent gobbledygook. Here's the operative paragraph:
"Here's an example of how complex the process is. Imagine I ask you to incrementally add random words to a list such that no two words use any of the same letters, and you must perform this exercise entirely in your head, so you can't rely on a computer or even a pen and paper. If the first in the list was, say, "fox", the second item excludes all words with the letters F, O and X. If the next word you choose is "tree", then the third word in the list can't have the letters F, O, X, T, R, or E in it. As you can imagine, coming up with even a third word might start to get just a bit tricky, especially since you can't easily visualize the excluded letters by writing down the words. By the time you get to the fourth, fifth and sixth words, the problem has spiraled out of control. Now imagine trying to add the billionth word to the list (imagine also that we're working with an infinite alphabet so you don't run out of letters) and you can imagine how difficult it is for even a computer to keep up. Needless to say, writing this kind of thing "by hand" is orders of magnitude beyond the capabilities of the brain."
Actually, if you have an 'infinite' alphabet, it becomes easy to avoid replicating already used letters. I'm no computer geek, but I'll bet there's a computer expert somewhere on FT who knows of an algorithm to apply here. No matter, the point is this: are these the words and the explanatory style and power of someone who claims the education, training, and top secret, alien tech career that Isaac claims for himself?
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Bob Lazar, move over. Hoax.