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OrgMedia OutletKLAS-TV is the Nexstar-owned CBS station in Las Vegas, branded 8 News Now, where George Knapp's 1989 Bob Lazar interviews began decades of UFO and Area 51 reporting.
KLAS-TV is the Nexstar-owned CBS station in Las Vegas, branded 8 News Now, where George Knapp's 1989 Bob Lazar interviews began decades of UFO and Area 51 reporting.
KLAS-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station on channel 8 in Las Vegas, Nevada, with studios in unincorporated Winchester. Its newscasts have used the 8 News Now name since late 2009. The station went on the air on July 22, 1953, as Nevada's first television station, owned by Las Vegas Television Inc. under Las Vegas Sun publisher Hank Greenspun. Howard Hughes's Hughes Tool Company bought it in 1968; after Hughes's death it was held in trust until Landmark Communications bought it in 1978, and Nexstar completed a $145 million purchase in February 2015. It has carried CBS programming since it signed on, and its newsroom has won more than 100 awards, including for investigative documentaries about the American Mafia and UFOs.
The station's UFO record runs through George Knapp, who joined KLAS as a reporter and anchor in 1981 and has worked as an anchor, a member of its I-Team investigative unit and host of "Street Talk." In May 1989 KLAS aired Knapp's interview with a man called "Dennis," his face hidden, who said he had worked on recovered flying saucers at a site called S-4 near Area 51. In November 1989 the same man appeared unmasked as Bob Lazar. His account remains disputed: the schools he named said they had never heard of him, and the contractor EG&G reported having no records on him. Knapp's nine-part 1989 series on Area 51 drew international attention, and a 2020 Desert Companion profile credited his reporting with making the government's refusal to acknowledge the base untenable.
Knapp left the station in 1991 and returned in 1995, and his stories for the station on cattle mutilations, crop circles and Area 51 kept anomalous subjects a regular part of its newsroom's output. By 2020 he was leading Mystery Wire, a station-backed archive of his past reports and full interviews that was expected to draw on Nexstar's other stations; it later grew into a regular program. Knapp has described the subject as a news story rather than a belief.
The station remained an active UAP outlet in 2026. In April it aired an exclusive interview with James Lacatski, who designed and directed the Defense Intelligence Agency's AAWSAP program, about a new book on its work, and Knapp also interviewed Lazar about the film S4: The Bob Lazar Story. In August KLAS reported that aerospace businessman Robert Bigelow said he had encouraged President Trump toward UFO disclosure. As with the Lazar broadcasts, such segments present the interviewees' own accounts.
KLAS is a rare commercial local station whose newsroom has treated UFOs as a continuing investigative beat for more than three decades. The 1989 Lazar broadcasts it aired remain among the most cited and most disputed reports in UFO history, and its archive is a primary record of how Area 51 entered public consciousness.
Former Lockheed executive James Ryder negotiated a deal to transfer UFO crash material to Robert Bigelow, until the CIA found out and killed it. 45 minutes ago, George Knapp recounts what happened on @8NewsNow https://t.co/Nb29JXFi7R
Week of Oct 12–19 in review: DIA reportedly locates AAWSAP records, IDF says the Galilee object was likely a balloon, NASA's "all released" claim challenged, and Jay Stratton's memoir Every week I go through the news on this topic and keep only what can be traced back to a primary or first-hand source. Here's what held up between October 12 and 19. Original sources first, my notes in between. 1. DIA has reportedly located the AAWSAP records and plans to prepare them for release On his podcast...
I’m fairly certain that the decision to ignore Avi and Jay’s decisions to ignore other media outlets are separate issues. The one with Avi comes from an unsavor [Quoted] so on points 1 and 2. he wasnt too busy for fox, people, KLAS or a phenomecon conference panel. i called him multiple times on his personal cell, emailed and texted, backchanneled, and spoke to people in person. I know others that did too. I know for a fact its his real number. ignoring me, other journalists, and the UAP Scie...
Joe Murgia shares an interview in which Jacques Vallée recounts Gilbert’s alleged psychic communication with a nonhuman being. Vallée says Gilbert felt the being was a volunteer rather than a prisoner; the account remains alleged.
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A new book coming soon from one of the top researchers of mysterious phenomena in the world is expected to bring explosive new details to light as Jay Stratton’s “Out of the Shadows: Revealing the Truth About Non-Human Intelligent Life” will release in mid-October. George Knapp was able to get an interview with Stratton at a UAP conference in Alabama, the video of which is embedded in this article. Stratton is a major force behind many secret projects focused on numerous un...
Has anyone been watching George Knapp interview Robert Bigelow on BigelowPodcast on YT or 8 news now on YT ?? 3 episodes with Bigelow & the 4th has just dropped with Bigelow & Brandon Fugal, I find it all very interesting & I think right now, it is the best podcast for this topic, it may help some people come to terms with this subject, the truth & the ontological shock some others may have too
RT @8NewsNow: A woman called 911 and said she was being chased around her home by a man with a blow torch who was attempting to set her on…
RT @g_knapp: UFO research benefactor Bigelow encouraged Trump toward alien disclosure | 8 News Now https://t.co/ATBhhdvMzY
Not exactly accurate. For four months, Mark, repeatedly, said things like this... "This speech by Trump is REAL and will happen imminently." The date kept changing. On August 4th, he was still saying things like that. It was never accurate. Bigelow said that, in February, he advised Trump on what to say (a few lines), and where to say it, IF he ever decided to disclose. And Knapp disclosed (on @8NewsNow) that someone DID write some sort of a Disclosure speech for Trump - again, if he ever dec...
