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John Lear

1. Contact
2. Works by Lear
   • Aliens at Area 51. Lear's famous 1987 posting claiming aliens were at a vast underground installation at Groom Lake and that they were eating humans. This claim was made before he met Bob Lazar. (43K)
     • Original Statement. Dec. 29, 1987
     • Revised Statement. Aug. 25, 1988
     • Update by Lear. May 14, 1990
     • Rebuttal by Craig McCann, Jan. 31, 1988
   • The O.H. Krill Papers are said to be the fiction work of John Lear and John Grace. Confirmation needed.
   • Lear Letter about Greys describing his theory in Dec. 1987.
3. Articles about Lear
   • UFO's, Aliens and "Ex"-intelligence Agents: Who's Fooling Whom. Conspiracy buff Lars Hansson "exposes" Lear, Bill Cooper and the JFK assassination in a lengthy document. [Part 1 (149k) | Part 2 (202k)]
     • In newsgroup posting Lear calls affidavit "50% B.S." [source]
   • From UFO Cover-up and Theories Page...
     • Mentioned in Cosmic Grand Deception.
     • Mentioned in The Government and the Greys
     • Mentioned in And There was War in Heaven
4. Relationships
   • Opponents and Critics
     • Bill Cooper. Although once allies, they had a falling out. Unconfirmed anecnote: Lear says that he invented the "O.H. Krill" papers as a joke, but was disturbed when Cooper started citing them as truth.
     • Lars Hansson. Lived in Lear's house for a short time, then wrote conspiracy treatise against him (above).
   • Associates and Allies
     • Bob Lazar. Knew Lazar before Lazar's alleged employment at "Area S-4." Accompanied Lazar is early saucer-watching expedition. Lazar says: "Well, John Lear's a nice guy. I like him, but he does have the tendency to add about fifteen percent color to stories, and if a story goes through him twice, it's thirty percent, and it doesn't stop."
5. Positions
   • "My father disinherited me because I was critical of the design of the LearFan. I felt there were a number of major design flaws and I told him so. He died in 1978 and the LearFan Corporation filed bankruptcy in 1984 with debts totaling 492 million dollars." [source]
6. Reviews
   • Gene Huff: "John has no level of skepticism, no problem solving capability, and no memory. He commands respect because he's a pilot and he's Bill Lear's son." [source] -- For Lear evaluations of Huff, see Gene Huff page.
7. Events & Exchanges
   • Gene Huff calls Lear many nasty names on alt.conspiracy.area51, Jan/Feb 1996. [source]
8. Photos
   • Lear as a younger airline pilot. From video UFO: Secrets of the Black World.
   • Lear reading Playboy. Posted to alt.conspiracy.area51 by Gene Huff, 2/1/96, with caption: "You know the funny is, is that Lear isn't even looking at a picture..."
9. Miscellaneous
   • Profile of William Lear, Lear Jet founder and father of John.
10. Claims
    • In his speeches, Lear says there are 80 different species of aliens visiting earth.
    • Lear is generally pessimistic about the future, suggesting that the alien presence is sinister and that there is little chance that the government will reveal its UFO knowledge.
    • Lear appears to have backed off from the his earlier "aliens are eating humans at Area 51" claims and now sticks fairly close to the Lazar gospel. However, his Lazar stories tend to include more personal interpretation than Lazar's own telling.
11. Skeptic's View
    • Lear endorses nearly every UFO claim as real, no matter how loony, thus his judgement is unreliable.
12. Supporter's View
    • Lear does tend to go overboard at times, but his sources of information, including Bob Lazar, are basically sound.

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