Did Ben Rich indirectly confirm Lazar’s claims about advanced propulsion?

I recently watched the Bob Lazar documentary and had a question I can’t shake. Back in 1993, former Lockheed Skunk Works director Ben Rich reportedly said during a UCLA lecture: “We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects.” That got me thinking… If Lazar’s story has any truth to it, especially the part about the “sport model” craft being fully operational, could Rich have been referring to technology like that or that technology...