Bob Lazar Passes Lie Detector Test - By Terry Tavernetti 1990

30 years ago, at the end of April, 1990, KLAS-TV began an 8 part investigative series about the weird world of UFO conspiracies. One of the featured interviews was with a polygraph expert named Terry Tavernetti, who conducted a test on UFO whistleblower Bob lazar. Recently, Mystery Wire tracked down Tavernetti to see if his opinion has changed.

His name is Terry Tavernetti, who spent years as a cop in Southern California, then worked in corporate security for a major Las Vegas hotel property. He conducted thousands of polygraph tests to screen casino employees and was considered one of the best in the business.

Then he tested a man named Bob Lazar, who told a strange story about working on flying saucers at a secret facility called S-4, adjacent to Area 51. Tavernetti still has the charts and the machine from that test 30 years later.

We asked him recently if he thinks Lazar was really telling the truth. Tavernetti’s answer was simple and said with conviction, “Yeah.”

Tavernetti doesn’t use his gleaming polygraph machine any more. He told us he had no idea he and his lie detector might be drawn into one of the most controversial UFO cases of all time. Bob Lazar first told his story publicly in 1989. Lazar’s claims about working on flying saucers at a hidden facility near Area 51 set off a UFO stampede that continues to this day.

At the request of KLAS TV, Lazar agreed to a polygraph test. The first test proved inconclusive. The examiner, (not Terry Tavernetti) thought Lazar was so nervous that it was difficult to get an accurate read on him. This is when Tavernetti was recommended. He questioned Lazar about the central allegations; that he had seen a flying disc at a base called S-4 and that the craft was powered by an antimatter reactor and generated its own gravity. To Tavernetti’s surprise, Lazar passed.

My personal thoughts, the pretest interview of three and a half hours, the test itself, the post-test interview, showed absolutely nothing to detour my thought that Bob was always truthful.

TERRY TAVERNETTI – POLYGRAPH EXAMINER (1990 INTERVIEW)