George Knapp – MUFON-LA
MUFON-LA, June 2008
George Knapp, the award-winning journalist who broke the Bob Lazar/Area 51 story, joins us at MUFON-LA to catch us up on his latest investigations. From Area 51 to government secrecy, from Soviet UFOs to Col. Corso, this lively presenter will touch on many of UFOs hottest topics in an informative and engaging way.
Since he first covered stories about the goings-on at Area 51 in 1989, George Knapp has been fearless in going where the news was—even though his willingness to explore UFO subjects has earned him ridicule from some of his mainstream media colleagues. Engineer Bob Lazar chose to reveal what he claimed to know about back-engineering of alien space vehicles to George, who treated the story like any other newsworthy topic—with journalistic integrity. When George Knapp last spoke for MUFON-LA, he revealed information about UFO investigations given to him during a trip to post-Soviet Russia.
Most recently, with co-author Colm Kelleher, George penned the riveting book, Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Utah Ranch. Long kept under wraps, the strange events witnessed at a familys ranch, later purchased by millionaire Bob Bigelow for scientific study, include everything from cattle mutilations, mysterious creatures and UFOs. Now George will share with MUFON-LA some of what he learned during his investigation of the Skinwalker Ranch.
George Knapp is a 14-time Emmy Award-winning journalist whose reporting on Nevadas infamous Area 51 military base was selected by UPI as Best Individual Achievement by a Reporter (1989). Other awards include the Associated Presss Mark Twain Award for news writing and the Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting. George is an anchor and reporter for the CBS affiliate KLAS-TV in Las Vegas and he also writes a weekly column for a Las Vegas newspaper.
